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Art Exhibitions || Music
and Art Lectures || Special
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Music Lectures || Art Lectures
The Athenaeum presents various series of art and music lectures, including topics in classical music and jazz, visual art, art history, and architecture, with speakers from San Diego and beyond.
Dialogues in Art & Architecture 2009-10
Perspectives on Art, Architectural Design, Urban Planning and Our Changing Ecology
Free
In our daily lives, whether we are aware of it or not, we experience the consequences of a changing natural environmen. In our eighteenth season of Dialogues in Art and Architecture we will find out how this affects us. We will also look at how economic and bureaucratic decisions about art, architecture, and public land use impact our lives. Panelists will address our potential to be effective participants in shaping our social and cultural realm.
The series is coordinated by the Athenaeum and artist and environmental sculptor Joyce Cutler-Shaw. The programs are co-sponsored by the San Diego New School of Architecture (affiliated with the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, promoting links between neuroscience research and human responses to the built environment) as well as the San Diego Council of Design Professionals and the San Diego Architectural Foundation.
The next lectures in this series will take place in March 4 and 11, 2010. Details will be available soon.
Book Arts Lecture
Roberta Lavadour: A Hands-On History of the Book
March 12, 7:30 PM
Free
Roberta Lavadour will trace the development of the book from clay tokens through contemporary artists’ books using a set of historical models she has created as an important component of her own book arts education. Guests will have a rare opportunity to explore each piece in the collection as well as Lavadour's own bindings and artists’ books. Presented with San Diego Book Arts.
Art History Lecture Series
Masterworks of Baroque Art & Architecture with James Grebl, Ph.D.
Thursdays, April 1, 8, 15 & 22, 7:30 PM
Series: $40/60; individual lectures: $12/17
Art historian James Grebl, Ph.D., will explore the dynamic, dramatic and diverse art and architecture of Europe from the Baroque era of the 17th and early 18th centuries in a richly illustrated series of four lectures featuring selected masterworks of Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, France, England, Austria and Germany. Information about the creators, patrons, and functions of these remarkable works will help to place them in their historical and cultural contexts.
Music Lecture/Performance Series
The Incredible Power of Music with Jacquelyne Silver
Sundays, March 7, 14 & 21, 2 PM
Series: Members $84/nonmembers $99
Single: Members $30/nonmembers $35
She’s back! By popular request, dynamic pianist Jacquelyne Silver returns to the Athenaeum with The Incredible Power of Music. Miss Silver will perform and take you through an extraordinary journey of some of the world’s greatest composers, from the Classical World through the magical world of Broadway and Ragtime. Jacquelyne Silver has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and has worked with such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein and Marilyn Horne. She is director of Silver Pathways to Music and will be producing a show for children this fall entitled, “History Alive Through Music”. Her spirited style, sense of humor and deep insights into the music she plays will have you listening to music as you never have before!
Music Lecture/Performance Series
Broadway--An American Invention with Bruno Leone
Tuesdays, March 9, 16 & 23, 7:30 PM
Series: Members $30/nonmembers $45
Single: Members $12/nonmembers $17
Join popular speaker and performer Bruno Leone for this Broadway extravaganza. Through an engaging odyssey of songs and stories, pianist and storyteller Bruno Leone will trace the development of musical comedy from that small beginning, through Broadway’s “Golden Age” to the grandiose musicals that largely define contemporary Broadway.
Music Lecture Series
Crossover Composers with Erica Miner and David Amos
Mondays, April 5, 12 and 19, 7:30 PM
Series: Members $30/nonmembers $45
Single: Members $12/nonmembers $17
David Amos and Erica Miner, on-air personalities for classical radio station XLNC1, will present a series of lectures at the Athenaeum in April on “crossover composers.” These two experts will examine the different genres in which Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky worked.
April 5 – Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven composed only one opera, but the music in Fidelio is arguably as sublime as any of his orchestral and chamber repertoire. David and Erica examine the Leonore Overture #3 and Florestan’s Act Two aria as well as symphonic and chamber works with similar “heroic” themes.
April 12 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart set the standard for all genres of music, but his operas tower majestically over his other works. Erica compares the Don Giovanni Overture with similar music in the Commendatore scene, while David contrasts piano and orchestral works of both dark and light character.
April 19 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky’s ballets and orchestral works may be more popular than his operas, but the dance music and poignant arias in Eugene Onegin are every bit as compelling as his symphonies, tone poems and chamber works. David and Erica provide examples both familiar and not so familiar.
Meccas of Music and Art in the 20th Century
Presented by art historian and concert violinist Victoria Martino, accompanied by James Lent, piano
Tuesdays, April 27, May, 4, May 11, May 18, and May 27; 7:30 PM
Series: $60/85; individual lectures: $14/19
