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Festivals Vienna: City of Dreams Chronological Listing of Events February 21 – March 16, 2014 FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Wednesday, January 15 to Monday, March 31, 2014 JEWISH VIENNA: OPPORTUNITIES AND INNOVATIONS Leo Baeck Institute, the foremost library and archives of Leo Baeck Institute German-speaking Jews, mounts an exhibit called Jewish Katherine and Clifford H. Goldsmith Vienna: Opportunities and Innovations, documenting Jewish Gallery contributions to Vienna’s history and reputation. On display Center for Jewish History will be memoirs, photos, scores, artwork, letters, and books. 15 West 16th Street lbi.org | 212-744-6400 Presented by Leo Baeck Institute. FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Friday, February 21, 2014 at 8:00 PM 59TH VIENNESE OPERA BALL IN NEW YORK The 59th Viennese Opera Ball in New York, a white-tie charity The Waldorf Astoria, Grand Ballroom gala held under the auspices of the US-Austrian Chamber of 301 Park Avenue Commerce, is an annual international social landmark that exemplifies Vienna’s cultural legacy, elegance, and glamour. vienneseoperaball.us | 212-207-6769 Presented by Viennese Opera Ball in New York. FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Monday, February 24, 2014 at 6:00 PM VIENNA 1860 TO 1914: CREATIVITY, Eric Kandel CULTURE, SCIENCE, AND POLITICS Andreas Mailath-Pokorny The Paley Center for Media Christian Meyer 25 West 52nd Street Dominique Meyer Helga Rabl-Stadler Franz Welser-Möst Carol Off, Moderator PANEL DISCUSSION Fin de siècle Vienna was creative, cosmopolitan, and modern, as well as a hothouse of political ferment. How did arts and politics intermingle and influence a city’s and country's destiny? A panel of leaders in arts and science discusses creativity as well as historic and contemporary examples of the arts as both a political tool and healing mechanism. chumirethicsfoundation.ca Presented by the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. Organized with the help of the University of Vienna and the City of Vienna. 881 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 | tel: 212-903-9750 | [email protected] | carnegiehall.org/vienna Vienna: City of Dreams, Chronological Listing of Events, Page 2 of 14 VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 8:00 PM VIENNA STATE OPERA Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Vienna State Opera Carnegie Hall Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor Ricarda Merbeth, Soprano Zoryana Kushpler, Mezzo-Soprano Peter Seiffert, Tenor Günther Groissböck, Bass New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, Chorus Director ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Friede auf Erden for Chorus and Instruments ad lib, Op. 13 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 6:00 PM VIENNA COMPLEX Austrian Cultural Forum New York February 27–May 25, 2014 11 East 52nd Street Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 6 PM This exhibition takes a look at the ways in which the transformative psychoanalytic momentum of Vienna around 1900 has influenced the culture of self-improvement that permeates all spheres of society today. The exhibition features contemporary artistic reflections on the phenomenon of our modern meritocracy. acfny.org | 212-319-5300, ext. 46 Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 8:00 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Carnegie Hall Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200 JOHANNES MARIA STAUD On Comparative Meteorology ANTON BRUCKNER Symphony No. 6 in A Major Funding for the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast series is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Thursday, February 27 to April 20, 2014 VIENNA UNVEILED: A CITY IN CINEMA The Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 11 West 53rd Street Austrian Film Museum with a major collaborative exhibition that explores Vienna throughout the history of cinema as a city both real and mythic. Presented with additional, significant contributions from the Filmarchiv Austria, the exhibition centers on Austrian and German Jewish émigrés looking back on the city they left behind, as well as an international array of contemporary filmmakers and artists whose own visions of Vienna reveal the powerful hold the city continues to exert over our collective unconscious. Organized by Alexander Horwath, Director, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, and Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. moma.org | 212-708-9400 Vienna: City of Dreams, Chronological Listing of Events, Page 3 of 14 FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: AUSTRIA: Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 5:30 PM COMING TO TERMS WITH A TROUBLED Stuart Eizenstat HISTORY Clemens Hellsberg The Paley Center for Media Oliver Rathkolb 25 West 52nd Street Alexandra Starr Morley Safer, Moderator PANEL DISCUSSION Vienna’s creative, cultured, and open society deteriorated in the years leading to the 1938 Anschluss. Why did it happen and why did Austria take so long to recognize the horrors of the Holocaust? A panel explores a new generation’s constructive efforts at remembrance and reconciliation. chumirethicsfoundation.ca Presented by the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. Organized with the help of the University of Vienna and the City of Vienna. FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 6:30 PM JAMES L. WEINBERG DISTINGUISHED Dr. Eric Kandel, Speaker LECTURE: DR. ERIC KANDEL The Jewish Museum presents a talk by Nobel Prize–winning The Jewish Museum neuroscientist Dr. Eric Kandel, author of The Age of Insight: The Quest to 1109 Fifth Avenue Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present. thejewishmuseum.org | 212-423-3337 Presented by The Jewish Museum. KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 7:30 PM Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall Kristian Bezuidenhout, Fortepiano C.P.E. BACH Rondo in C Minor, Wq. 59, No. 4 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Suite in C Major, K. 399 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Minuet in D Major, K. 355 C.P.E. BACH Sonata in E Minor, Wq. 59, No. 1 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Gigue, K. 574 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Prelude and Fugue in C Major, K. 394 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Sonata in A Major, K. 331 FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 7:30 PM BORN TO BE SCHORN Matthias Schorn, Clarinet Austrian Cultural Forum New York 11 East 52nd Street Matthias Schorn, principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, performs compositions for solo clarinet written for and dedicated to him by Austrian composers. acfny.org | 212-319-5300, ext. 46 Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Vienna: City of Dreams, Chronological Listing of Events, Page 4 of 14 FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 8:00 PM AXIOM ENSEMBLE AXIOM Ensemble Alice Tully Hall Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor 1941 Broadway OLIVER KNUSSEN Two Organa, Op. 27 LOUIS ANDRIESSEN Zilver DAVID LANG cheating, lying, stealing GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS Monodie juilliard.edu/axiom | 212-769-7406 Presented by The Juilliard School. FESTIVAL PARTNER EVENT: Friday, February 28, 2014 at 12:00 PM LESSONS FROM HISTORY: THE SEARCH Louise Arbour FOR A GLOBAL ETHIC Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff The Paley Center for Media Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Moderator 25 West 52nd Street Additional participants to be announced PANEL DISCUSSION With the experience of past conflicts and an examination of contemporary problems and risks, how does an increasingly globalized and interdependent world deal with ongoing issues and tensions? A panel of diplomatic and crisis-response experts debates whether the world is doing enough to avoid moral atrocities and advance ethical behavior. chumirethicsfoundation.ca Presented by the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. Organized with the help of the University of Vienna and the City of Vienna. Vienna: City of Dreams, Chronological Listing of Events, Page 5 of 14 ENSEMBLE ACJW Friday, February 28, 2014 at 7:30 PM The Academy - a program of Carnegie Hall, Ensemble ACJW The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music ·· Stuart Breczinski, Oboe Institute in partnership with the New York City ·· Liam Burke, Clarinet Department of Education ·· Nanci Belmont, Bassoon Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall ·· Laura Weiner, Horn ·· Tyler Wottrich, Piano ·· Grace Park, Violin ·· Clara Lyon, Violin ·· John Stulz, Viola ·· Megan Griffin, Viola ·· Alice Yoo, Cello ·· Hannah Collins, Cello WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452 GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS New Work (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall) ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 Lead support for Carnegie Hall commissions is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Major funding for Ensemble ACJW—The Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education—has been provided by The Diller–von Furstenberg Family Foundation, Susan and Edward C. Forst and Goldman Sachs Gives, the Max H. Gluck Foundation, The Irving Harris Foundation, The Kovner Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse Jr. Additional support has been provided by The Bodman Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Nicola Bulgari, The Edwin Caplin Foundation, Leslie and Tom Maheras, and Phyllis and Charles Rosenthal. Public support is provided, in part, by the New York City Department of Education. VIENNA STATE OPERA Friday, February 28, 2014 at 8:00 PM VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Vienna State Opera Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Carnegie Hall Daniele Gatti, Conductor Matthias Goerne, Baritone (Wozzeck) Evelyn Herlitzius, Soprano (Marie) Monika Bohinec, Mezzo-Soprano (Margret) Herbert Lippert, Tenor (Drum Major) Norbert Ernst, Tenor (Andres) Wolfgang Bankl, Bass (Doctor) Herwig Pecoraro, Tenor (Captain) Andreas Hörl, Bass (First Apprentice) Clemens Unterreiner, Baritone (Second Apprentice) Peter Jelosits, Tenor (Madman) Franz Gruber, Tenor (Soldier) Vienna State Opera Chorus Members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Dianne Berkun-Menaker, Artistic Director ALBAN BERG Wozzeck, Op.