Mahler Project - Germanic Creative Expression
Update - February 2009
What follows is an outline of where we find ourselves with enlisting participation for the Mahler Project, which will occur primarily during the fall of 2009. It is worth noting that some participants will present their events during the spring of 2009 and the winter of 2010.
9/19/09
(Rain date 9/26); Time TBA; field available at 4:30; on hold; Free
In addition to the analysis of movement and his dance experimentations, Rudolf Laban was also a proponent of dance for the
masses. Toward this end, Laban developed the art of "movement choir", wherein large numbers of people move together in
some choreographed manner, but that can include
personal expression. Rehearsal 9/12, time TBA.
2/12-13/10; Time TBA; CMH; $ TBA
Choreography
hopefully to include some by or influenced by choreographers of the topic
era.
*Butler Theater
John Green
will present a full season of German plays - DIE TRUMMERFRAUEN: The Trummerfrauen was the collective name given to
the German women who cleared the debris, piece by piece, in the German cities that were raised to the ground in the
allied bombings of World War ll. As their contribution to the Mahler Project, Butler Theatre is staging the work of three writers
who helped reclaim and rebuild German theatre culture from the rubble.
* Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucausian Chalk Circle" ("Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis")
Oct 7-11, 2009;
Time TBA; LH168; $ TBA; Directed by Owen Schaub
Borrowing from an old Chinese tale, Brecht argues, in this exemplar of his epic theatre concept, for the principle that
resources, especially the lives of children, should go to those who will make the most of them.
*Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek and Savage Messiah text by George Steiner, adapted by John Green
Nov 11-15, 2009; TIME TBA; LH168; $TBA; Directed by John Green
Jackie: So there is Jackie Kennedy Onassis: all calculation, a very smart, educated woman, talented too; with this total focus
on having the right husband. The regional premiere of one of the Princess Plays by Elfriede Jelinek, the 2004 Nobel laureate
for literature.
Savage Messiah:
Was there some crazed level at which Hitler thought of himself as a
Jew? Is there a sense in which
is Hitlers legacy, in which the Holocaust and the world of political terror we have known since were acts of the long-awaited
false Messiah?
These are the questions that drive George Steiners novel The
are explored in this multi-media performance.
* Offending the Audience by Peter Handke
Feb 24-28, 2010;
Time TBA; LH168; $ TBA; Directed by Michael Bachman;
The Austrian playwright Peter Handkes
1966 play Offending The Audience is an hour-long analysis of the theatre,
taking place in a theatre, that tries to be as unlike the
theatre we know as it possibly can be.
9/24/09,
7:30pm; RBJR (not confirmed);
Free
Buried Treasures: Recovering German Heritage Through Poetry and Music. Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf will recite
his German roots poems and his American English translations of early Rainer Maria Rilke poems to the accompaniment of
original and traditional music, including jazz, by his pianist collaborator Monika Herzig and Friends. Claudia Grossmann, like
Monika,
a native of Southern Germany, will read the Rilke
poems in the original German.
9/20/09 3:00pm
CMH Free
10/11/09 3:00pm
CMH Free
Symphony No. 4 with Nancy Davis Booth, soprano. "Adagietto" from Symphony No. 5.
11/8/09 TBA
CMH TBA
Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection")
with the
4/11/10 3:00pm
CMH TBA
Program TBA but may include: Kurt Weill "Kleine Dreigroschenmusik" (Littler Threepenny
Music, 1929); Suite from "Die Dreigroschenoper"
arranged for wind orchestra. Berthold Goldschmidt
"March Militaire, Ops 20" (1932).
Ervin Schulhoff "Concerto for String
Quartet and Wind Orchestra". All these composers represent what the Nazi's
called "Entartete Musik"
or "Decadent Music". Any
music written by Jews or Blacks, or anything that smacked of jazz,
was mocked and banned by the Nazi's.
Frank Felice will offer a fall 2009 graduate course on Mahler Symphonies.
Leadership Through the Arts Forum will reserve two slots for visiting scholars whose lectures will be on related topics.
4/2/09 7:30pm
EDRH Free
German song in the 19th century; her most recent book is Heinrich
Heine and the Lied (
will offer a team-taught course on collaboration fall 2009.
Media
Arts Ken Creech
will offer an honors course on German Expressionist Film in fall 2009.
Other
Peter Alexander will offer an honors course on selected topics in German and Austrian music, art, and architecture from 1880-1940 in fall 2009.
The
American Pianists Association Joel Harrison
Lecture
4/1/09 4:30pm
EDRH Free
A lecture by Dr. Susan Youens, who will
discuss Lieder in its social and artistic context during turn-of-the-twentieth-century
German-Style Dinner
4/1/09 6:00pm
FS $25
A German-Style Dinner. $25 per person; reservations required prior to March 27. 940-9943
Lieder Recital
4/1/09 7:30pm
EDRH $20; students $5
American Pianists Association Classical Fellowship Award Finalists accompany soprano Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg and baritone Alan Dunbar in a concert of German art songs by Alban Berg, Richard Strauss, Mahler and Hugo Wolf. A pre-concert talk begins at 7:00.
Ariadne auf
9/30/09
7:00pm CMH $7; must pre-register
Music by Richard Strauss; Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Performed in German with English supertitles. With singers Angela Brown, Jane Dutton, Rachele Gilmore and Arnold Rawls accompanied by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Caraher.
Ariadne auf
10/2/09
at 8:00pm and 10/4/09 at 2:00 CMH $
Music by Richard Strauss;
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Performed in German with English
supertitles. With singers Angela Brown, Jane Dutton, Rachele Gilmore and Arnold Rawls accompanied by the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Caraher. Pre-performance lecture begins at 7:15/1:15
in the Krannert Room.
The
Films at the IMA Rosanne Winings, Ken Creech, Linda Duke
Free
but tickets are required and can be obtained at the door prior to the film/day
of event.
The
10/29/09 7:00pm
Nosferatu (1922,
dir. F.W. Murnau, 94 mins,
NR)
11/5/09 7:00pm
Metropolis (1927, dir. Fritz Lang, 153
mins, NR)
11/12/09 7:00pm
Coffee & Cigarettes (2003, dir. Jim
Jarmusch, 95 mins, R)
2/???/10 TBA
The Rape of Europa?. Robert Edsel or someone lecture one night.
WFYI Richard Miles
Broadcast of films and documentary videos that are topic relevant.
The
Indiana Repertory Theatre
considering doing a reading of a closely aligned work using professional and student actors.
The
considering how it might participate; conversations have occurred with Simon Crookall. Additionally, ISO Education Director Beth Outland will assist with marketing and communication.
The
will present a lecture on the influence of German immigrants in 20th Century American culture at IUPUI
TBA
Other dates of note for which events may be planned:
20th Anniversary of the Fall of the
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust
Remembrance Day) 4/12/10
150th Anniversary of the Birth of Gustav
Mahler July 7, 1860 - May 18, 1911
American Pianists Association Joel Harrison
Family and Child Services; German Consulate Sven Schumacher
WFYI Radio Richard Miles
Dance Michelle Jarvis, Cynthia Pratt
Leadership Through the Arts Forum Peter Alexander, Kathy Lang
Media Arts Ken Creech
Media Relations, Publications Marcia Dowell, Marc Allan, Sally Cutler
Music Dan Bolin, Bob Grechesky, Richard Clark
Theatre John Green, Owen Schaub, Diane Timmerman
Modern Foreign Languages TBA