Morgan Library Visit
Wolfgang and Gudrun Wagner visit the Morgan Library to view its Wagner holdings. Special presentation hosted by Rigbie Turner, Music Curator and Society member. Lunch at the Morgan.
Past Events
12 events found.
Wagner Day
Interview and question period with Wolfgang Wagner on the occasion of his and Frau Gudrun Wagner’s five-day visit to New York City
Tristan und Isolde Seminar
20th Annual Seminar
Talk with Inge Borkh and Blanche Thebom
Reception and Interview with Met divas Inge Borkh and Blanche Thebom; Lew Granville, interviewer. With slides from their Met performances.
Perspectives on the Amsterdam Ring
Slides of the production, videotaped interview with Pierre Audi (director) and panel discussion with Amsterdam Ring attendees
Annual Meeting
Annual Business Meeting
Wagner Birthday Musicale
Principals: Adrienne Dugger (soprano), Emile Fath (baritone); Joseph Smith, piano.
Wagner and the Quest for the Autonomous Musical Voice
Lecture by Prof. Lydia Goehr, Dept. of Philosophy, Columbia University, and book signing for her book The Quest for Voice.
Band in Berlin
Society group attendance at a play starring The Hudson Shad, recreating the style of the German Comedian Harmonists, a sextet widely popular in the early 1920s-30s. Disbanded by Hitler, the group was re-formed outside Germany with three new members.
A Music Drama Russian Style: Mussorgsky’s Khovanschina
Lecture by Prof. Boris Gasparov, Dept. of Slavic Languages, Columbia University.
Wagnerian? Weberian! Sources of Wagner’s Style in Weber’s Euryanthe
Lecture with musical demosntrations by Joseph Smith, pianist and scholar, assisted by Judith Donham (soprano), Madeline Kristoffersson (soprano), and Duncan Hartman (baritone).
Three-Week Ring Festival
Society Group attendance at a series of concerts by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Zdenek Macal, Music Director and Conductor.