Wagner Birthday Musicale
Principals: Adrienne Dugger (soprano), Emile Fath (baritone); Joseph Smith, piano.
Past Events
12 events found.
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.
Three-Week Ring Festival
Society Group attendance at a series of concerts by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Zdenek Macal, Music Director and Conductor.
The Ring Seminar
Our 19th annual seminar
Three-Week Ring Festival
Society Group attendance at a series of concerts by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Zdenek Macal, Music Director and Conductor.
Oren Brown Reception
Noted voice teacher Oren Brown with some of his pupils and Society Members
Behind the Scenes at the Met Library
Lecture by John Grande, Chief Librarian, the Metropolitan Opera
Talk with Eike Wilm Schulte
Interview, recital, and reception. Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone and Herald in Met Lohengrin) interviewed by Anthony Coggi (Verena Kossodo, translator). Mr. Schulte also performed several selections; Mrs. Kossodo, pianist.