[NJARC] The Theremin

Wed Apr 25 20:35:32 EDT 2018

Hi Everyone

As you know, the RTM has a working Theremin. 

I just got a note from the Austrian Cultural Foundation 
In New York that they are going to have a Theremin concert in May. 
You can see more about it in the note below. 
You may want to go and see the concert. It might just  incent you to take up the Theremin. 

For your info, there is also a very good restaurant right across from the Foundation on 52nd street. It’s called the Fig and the Olive. Great food and Atmosphere if you are looking to eat before the concert. 

Best wishes. 
Bob

Sent from Bob's iPhone

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> From: |austrian cultural forum| <newsletteradmin at acfny.org>
> Date: April 25, 2018 at 7:16:05 PM EDT
> To: Retevis at comcast.net
> Subject: MAY AT THE ACFNY
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> MAY AT THE ACFNY
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> WORKSHOP AND BOOK LAUNCH
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> SOCIAL DESIGN & SOCIAL IMPACT
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> THURSDAY MAY 03, 06:00 PM
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> The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is hosting a workshop for creatives and entrepreneurs, celebrating the launching of Doris Rothauer's book Vision & Strategy - Strategic Thinking for Creative and Social Entrepreneurs (Birkhäuser, 2018). In his groundbreaking 1970s book Design for the Real World, the Austrian designer Victor Papanek, who emigrated to the United States in 1939, argued for the designer´s responsibility in shaping our economy and society by designing for the good. His claim for social and ecological awareness is more topical than ever. Designers and other creatives are an important part of the "Change Maker" movement who can contribute with impactful strategies to a better world. But how to develop these strategies and, at the same time, make it work as a business and for business? Topics covered in the workshop include best practice examples of social design, introduction into strategic thinking based on visions, and tools & methods from social entrepreneurship and impact business modelling. Participation is free, however, due to a maximum of 20 participants, priority will be given to designers, creatives, and industry representatives.
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> ACFNY SUPPORTED | CONCERT TOUR
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> PAMELIA STICKNEY ON TOUR
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> WEDNESDAY MAY 09 - SUNDAY MAY 20
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> This May, the world-renowned American-Austrian Thereminist Pamelia Stickney will be back on tour in the US! You can see her perform solo as well as together with other inspiring local artists in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other east coast cities. "The Theremin isn't an instrument that lends itself to hero worship, but ever since we saw Pamelia pluck an astonishing walking bass line out of thin air in the documentary Moog, we've been genuflecting with reckless abandon. Novelty value aside, [her] gift on her wonky instrument is profound and generous. She's based in Vienna now, so you won't want to miss this relatively rare local date." (TimeOut New York)
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> ACFNY SUPPORTED | FILM SCREENING
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> PANORAMA EUROPE FILM FESTIVAL: "THE DREAMED ONES"
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> SUNDAY MAY 13, 07:00 PM
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> As a part of the 10th anniversary of the Panorama Europe Film Festival 2018, we are pleased to present the screening of THE DREAMED ONES (Die Geträumten) directed by Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann at the Museum of the Moving Image. A passionate, doomed literary love affair is brought to life in this inventive, one-of-a-kind meta-romance. Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan were two giants of postwar German-language poetry whose unlikely affair (he was the son of Jewish Holocaust victims, she the daughter of a Nazi) lasted only months but sparked hundreds of letters exchanged over the course of decades-documents of two brilliant minds working through heady questions of art, postwar guilt, and politics, as well as their own complex feelings for one another. Their soul-baring correspondence is related via two magnetic actors who, in channeling the writers, discover their own spark of attraction---a continuation of a love story that resonates across decades.
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> CONCERT
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> CONNECTIONS | AUSTRIAN & AMERICAN COMPOSERS PART 1: SOLO WORKS
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> WEDNESDAY MAY 16, 07:30 PM
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> The ACFNY is presenting New York-based ensemble mise-en performing world and US premieres of three Austrian and three Korean-American composers as part of their CONNECTIONS concert series. The two concerts will showcase solo and ensemble works by the composers Sungji Hong (Korea/Texas), Mirela Ivičević (Croatia/Austria), Peter Jakober (Austria), Seong Ae Kim (Korea/NYC), Matthias Kranebitter (Austria) and Sojin Yoon (Korea). The first night features works written for solo instrumentation accompanied by electronics and includes a public talk with the musicians and composers. 
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> CONCERT
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> CONNECTIONS | AUSTRIAN & AMERICAN COMPOSERS PART 2: WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE
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> THURSDAY MAY 17, 08:00 PM
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> CONNECTIONS will continue on May 17 with New York-based contemporary music collective ensemble mise-en performing ensemble compositions -- all either world or US premieres -- of the same six composers that were featured on the first evening of the concert series: Sungji Hong (Korea/Texas), Mirela Ivičević (Croatia/Austria), Peter Jakober (Austria), Seong Ae Kim (Korea/NYC), Matthias Kranebitter (Austria) and Sojin Yoon (Korea).
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> EXHIBITION OPENING
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> MANFRED BOCKELMANN: DRAWING AGAINST OBLIVION
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> WEDNESDAY MAY 23, 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
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> The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is pleased to announce its upcoming special exhibition Drawing Against Oblivion in the framework of the Austrian Commemoration Year 2018. From May 23 to June 15, Austrian artist Manfred Bockelmann shows a selection of his large-scale charcoal portraits of children and adolescents who fell victim to Nazi terror. With these works, Bockelmann seeks to create "signposts against forgetting." He desires to "give faces to at least a few names and numbers, lifting a few individuals out of the anonymity of statistics." The exhibition opening features a screening of the documentary Drawing Against Oblivion (2015), which narrates the development of the not-for-profit exhibition project. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the artist and remarks by Dr. Carol Rittner, Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita & the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust Studies Emerita at Stockton University (New Jersey, USA).
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> ACFNY SUPPORTED | FILM SCREENING
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> AASFF WINNERS 2018 @ MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
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> SUNDAY MAY 27, 04:00 PM
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> Following this year's Austrian American Short Film Festival at the ACFNY, MOMI will host this special program showcasing the winning films, as selected by the international jury headed by celebrated Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert. Join the Q&A afterwards with curator Stefanie Falkeis and some of the winning filmmakers.
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> Museum of the Moving Image
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> PERFORMANCE
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> PRESS PLAY BACKWARDS
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> WEDNESDAY MAY 30, 07:30 PM
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> Press Play Backwards is a cross-disciplinary music theatre piece written by Irish vocalist Lauren Kinsella in collaboration with the Austrian, Brooklyn-based pianist Elias Stemeseder. This opera for two improvisers, inspired by the ancient Greeks concept of time and the writings of the late Irish poet John O'Donohue, uses sung and spoken text, original composition, and stage movement directed by the New York-based artist, choreographer and dancer K.J Holmes. Join us for the premiere on May 30!
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> ACFNY SUPPORTED | CONFERENCE
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> AUSTRIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018
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> WEDNESDAY MAY 30 - FRIDAY JUN 01
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> The 2018 Conference of the Austrian Studies Association will focus on Austria's rich and complex relationship with the East throughout its history. The presentations will offer an interdisciplinary view of the cultural, political, and social exchanges between Austria and the East-Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, the Middle East and the Far East. "Eastern Europe" also includes the crownlands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and all their later incarnations (e.g. as Czechoslovakia and as the Czech Republic and Slovakia; as Yugoslavia and as Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia). The ACFNY supports the conference with travel grants for young scholars of Austrian studies.
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> Admission to exhibitions, concerts, and other events at the Austrian Cultural Forum is free.
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