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SUMMARY:Art & Social Transformation
DESCRIPTION:New York University Professor Larry Wolff joins us to discuss Wagner’s convictions of “Art and Social Transformation.” Quite beyond Wagner’s revolutionary fervor of 1848-49\, he had a deep conviction that art\, by its very nature\, had the power to clarify\, incite\, and advance our society. \nAn in-person talk\, followed by a social hour with refreshments\, and livestreamed (viewable up to 36 hours from the start of the program). WSNY Members will receive livestream link automatically by e-mail; no need to register in advance. \nAbout the speaker: Larry Wolff is the Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University. He received his A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. At NYU he has previously served as Executive Director of the Remarque Institute and as Co-Director of  NYU Florence at Villa La Pietra. His newest book is The Shadow of the Empress:  Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy (2023).  He is also the author of Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe (2020) and Disunion within the Union: The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland (2019)\, The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to  the Age of Napoleon (2016)\, Paolina’s Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova’s Venice (2012)\, The Idea of Galicia:  History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture (2010)\,  Venice and the Slavs:  The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (2001)\,  Inventing Eastern Europe:  The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (1994)\, The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the Partitions (1988)\, and Postcards from the End of the World:  Child Abuse in Freud’s Vienna (1988). He writes frequently about opera\, publishing essays and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement\, the New York Review of Books\, the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and the Hudson Review. He has received Fulbright\, American Council of Learned Societies\, and Guggenheim fellowships\, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nAccessibility: The Opera America building has ground-level entry with elevators to the 7th floor.  Wheelchair accessible; modular seating will be arranged to accommodate wheelchairs and walkers. Handicap-accessible restrooms are available on the same floor. The venue is located on the west side of 7th Avenue between 28th-29th Streets\, closer to 29th Street. Sidewalk curb cuts at the 29th Street corner are uneven; for easier access and tactile paving enter from the 28th Street corner (at the downtown #1 subway station).
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/art-and-social-transformation/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T183000
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SUMMARY:“Long Live America!”: Wagner and the New World
DESCRIPTION:Scholar Hans Vaget returns to offer thoughts on Wagner’s relationship with America. This lecture offers a condensed English version of Prof. Vaget’s recent book\, Richard Wagners Amerika. Eine Ausgrabung (2022). Examining Wagner’s repeatedly stated intention to emigrate to America\, and drawing on the privately printed Reminiscences of his American dentist\, N.S. Jenkins\, we can now reassess the role of America in Wagner’s imagination. Dr. Jenkins was a much sought-after cutting edge dentist who treated Wagner and became a friend. Prof. Vaget highlights the lasting\, though largely obscured attachment of the creator of The Ring to the revolutionary heritage of the United States. He shines a light on the prominent role of American dentistry in Europe\, and illuminates a little-known but surprisingly revealing aspect of German American cultural relations in the Nineteenth Century. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n"The creator of The Ring was driven to deception by the well-founded fear that the legacy he wished to bequeath to the German nation - the annual festival at Bayreuth - was far from being secured. ... [King Ludwig's] generosity regularly needed to be reanimated; if all else should fail\, by threats of immigration."\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"Even after the idea of immigration had shed its semblance of seriousness\, Richard Wagner and Cosima kept talking about America as a dream destination. In the Summer of 1880\, still in Naples\, Cosima noted on July 12 'America constantly in our conversations.' Two days later: 'and again and again America'. Wagner in an almost giddy mood\, fantasizing about a voyage to America 'in order to make his fortune\, visions of us all arriving in California in a royal carriage'. This is why Cosima's diary is so delicious: because you get lots of details like that." \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHans Vaget on Wagner & America\, February 2024\n\n\n\n\n\nIn-person\, followed by a social hour with refreshments\, and livestreamed (viewable up to 36 hours after the start of the event). WSNY Members receive livestream link automatically by e-mail; no need to pre-register. \nAbout the speaker: Hans Rudolf Vaget\, a native of Marienbad (Czechoslovakia)\, received his academic training at the universities of Munich\, Tuebingen\, Cardiff (Wales)\, and Columbia University\, New York\, where he earned a PhD in German literature. From 1967 to 2004 he taught German Studies and Comparative Literature at Smith College. He is the author of books on Goethe\, Thomas Mann\, and Wagner; most recently (2022): Richard Wagners Amerika. Eine Ausgrabung (Excavating Wagner’s America). Associated with the WSNY since the 1980s\, he served\, from 2005 to 2013\, as co-editor of wagnerspectrum\, the first independent journal of Wagner Studies; he also contributes regularly to The Wagner Journal and Wagner Notes. He first visited the Bayreuth Festival in 1959 and returned frequently.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/long-live-america-wagner-and-the-new-world/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Talk with Metropolitan Opera Concertmaster David Chan
DESCRIPTION:Description: \nOur guest speaker\, Maestro David Chan\, in his 24th season as concertmaster of New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra\, which performs almost daily under a constantly changing series of conductors.  Mr. Chan discussed those challenges\, as well as his experiences as an orchestral conductor in the United States and in Europe. \nMr. Chan is a member of the faculty of the Juilliard School and serves as Head of the Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music.  Mr. Chan also recently served as Music Director of the APEX Ensemble and Camerata Notturna. He has conducted the Mainly Mozart’s All-Star Orchestra\, the combined musicians of the LA Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony\, as well as the Met Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. Recent conducting engagements have included Belgium’s l’Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège\, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra\, and l’Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne in France\, the Grant Park and Classical Tahoe summer festivals\, the Juilliard Orchestra and Manhattan School of Music in New York City\, and the Apollo Orchestra in Washington\, D.C. He is co-founder of Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot festival in the Burgundy region of France\, which pairs wine tastings with music. \nThe event was followed by a social hour with refreshments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I have a very different tolerance of mistakes as well\, as a player and as a conductor”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I’m much more interested in the structure of a movement. So I’ve marked off 4-bar phrases here: two bars of introduction and then 4 bars / 4 bars / 4 bars / 4 bars … what I’ve found is\, if I understand how a house is built – and Bruckner’s symphonies are built like cathedrals – it’s all about numbers … he actually put in the period numbering that he was going to use for structure in his score before he wrote any melody. He’s the only composer who did that. And it shows the importance of structure.” – David Chan on Mahler’s Symphony No. 4.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I had a Soviet-trained teacher […] his training was based around going to the major international competitions and striving to become a soloist. So it was that type of training I did. I owe the technical facility and the physical foundation I have for making music to that.”\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: \nThe National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, New York\, NY. \nPricing: \nFree for members\, $15 for non-members\, live in-person or online (video stream available 48 hours after start of program). \nLivestream: \nWSNY members will receive the livestream link automatically by email; the event is viewable until 48 hours after it begins. \nAccessibility: \nThe Opera America building has ground-level entry with elevators to the 7th floor.  Wheelchair accessible; modular seating will be arranged to accommodate wheelchairs and walkers. Handicap-accessible restrooms are available on the same floor. The venue is located on the west side of 7th Avenue between 28th-29th Streets\, closer to 29th Street. Sidewalk curb cuts at the 29th Street corner are uneven; for easier access and tactile paving enter from the 28th Street corner (at the downtown #1 subway station). \n 
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/talk-with-metropolitan-opera-concertmaster-david-chan/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Recent Wagner Productions
DESCRIPTION:Description:  \nOur well-traveled Society members reported on productions of Wagner operas in the U.S. and abroad\, including Opera Atlanta’s Das Rheingold\, the Bayreuth Festival’s Parsifal\, and Ring Cycles in Budapest and Vienna. We also had a presentation by bass-baritone Joseph Parrish\, our 2023 Bayreuth stipendiat\, and a talk with two young WSNY members about their first Bayreuth experience. After the presentations we hosted a social hour with refreshments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSocial hour at the National Opera Center\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBass-Baritone Joseph Parrish discusses his experience visiting Bayreuth as a WSNY stipendiat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaroline Couch and Ethan Osman discuss their first visit to the green hill\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBruce Patrick discusses the Augmented Reality implementation for Parsifal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Salinger discusses Parsifal at Bayreuth\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Shengold discusses the Santa Fe production of Der fliegende Holländer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nF. Peter Philips introduces the Recent Wagner Productions program\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/test-event-2/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the Annual Meeting is to elect the 2023-24 Board of Directors and to hear reports of the 2022-23 Officers and Committees\, and to conduct any other business that may be properly raised.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/annual-meeting/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Business Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230607T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230607T183000
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SUMMARY:Maestro Thomas Guggeis on Conducting Wagner
DESCRIPTION:Maestro Thomas Guggeis shared his insights into the challenges of conducting the Ring in Berlin and Der fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera\, with particular emphasis on the influence of bel canto tradition in Wagner’s vocal writing. \nThomas Guggeis created an international stir in March 2018 when he was tapped to take over a highly acclaimed new production of Salome from Christoph von Dohnányi at the Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin\, where he was subsequently named Staatskapellmeister for the 2019/20 to 2022/23 seasons. In 2022\, Maestro Guggeis conducted the second Ring cycle in place of Daniel Barenboim. In October 2021 he was named Music Director-designate of the Oper Frankfurt as of 2023/24\, where he will also assume artistic leadership of the Frankfurt Museumskonzerte. At the time of our event\, Guggeis was making his debuts at the Metropolitan Opera and the Santa Fe Opera with Der fliegende Holländer. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nConductor Thomas Guggeis demonstrates motifs from Der fliegende Holländer.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaestro Thomas Guggeis speaks with Prof. John J. H. Muller IV and members and guests of the Wagner Society of New York.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaestro Guggeis takes some time to talk with WSNY members before the evening's performance.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/maestro-thomas-guggeis-on-conducting-wagner/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230417T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230417T203000
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SUMMARY:Wagner & German Nationalism with Prof. Michael P. Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:Description: \nProf. Michael P. Steinberg of Brown University and co-curator of the recent exhibit in Berlin’s German Historical Museum explained the influence of Wagner on German nationalism in the mid-19th century and its lasting impact on German self-identity. As Prof. Steinberg explained to The New York Times\, “You can’t have a naïve and beautiful production of a Wagner opera in Germany. It’s impossible.” The presentation took place at the National Opera Center in New York City\, followed by a social hour with refreshments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“In Germany... every production of Wagner has to take the history of Wagner\, the political history of Wagner\, the history of German taste into account. There is no way to be innocent about Wagner in Germany.” – Prof. Michael P. Steinberg (Brown University) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMembers & guests socialize after the presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nF. Peter Philips welcomes members and guests to the evening’s presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMembers & guests socialize after the presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMembers & guests socialize after the presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nYouTube Link:
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/wagner-german-nationalism-with-prof-michael-p-steinberg/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T183000
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SUMMARY:Wagner's Music in Classic Hollywood Cartoons
DESCRIPTION:Description:  \nScholarship met fun in this delightful evening. Prof. Goldmark opened our eyes to the pervasive presence of Richard Wagner in the popular American culture of the mid 20th Century. Profusely illustrated by clips of hilarious cartoons such as the classic What’s Opera\, Doc? which is the source of the immortal lines\, “Kill the wabbit” and “Oh Bwunhilde you’re so lovely.” \nProf. Daniel Goldmark\, Director of Popular Music Studies\, Case Western Reserve University. Prof. Daniel Goldmark works on American popular music\, film and cartoon music\, the history of the music industry\, and popular music in Cleveland. He is the author of Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (California\, 2005). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Goldmark presents the characterization of classical music in the golden age of Hollywood cartoons.\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/wagners-music-in-classic-hollywood-cartoons/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211108T143000
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SUMMARY:Maestro Pappano on Meistersinger
DESCRIPTION:Sir Antonio Pappano\, conductor of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Met and Music director of the Royal Opera House\, was interviewed by Fred Cohn at this exclusive WSNY event\, which took place live at the National Opera Center in New York City. \n 
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/maestro-pappano-on-meistersinger/
LOCATION:National Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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