Natasza Kurpios, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Choreographer Ephrat Asherie brings a high-energy, hybrid work that layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue. In their second collaboration together, Asherie teams up with her brother, jazz pianist Ehud Asherie. In a command encore performance of Odeon, the duo reimagines signature compositions of 20th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, noted for melding classical music with Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Featuring a group of dynamic dancers accompanied by live music, Odeon creates an entirely original world, bringing together the extended family of street and club dances, and challenging them to inhabit new spatial contexts. Available through April 28, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
Voices of Freedom is an education video series that explores the role of art as a vehicle for social change through the lens of Louis Armstrong. Students (high school and up) are invited to create new works while learning about the process and techniques employed by world-class artists. Available through June 1, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
From its inception, Global Arts Corps has brought together performing artists from opposite sides of cultural, religious, national, and racial divides to create theatrical platforms for people to hear stories of those they have learned to hate and fear. In this short documentary, Joel Plotch contrasts young people’s perspectives on the pandemic, as well as their concerns and insights about the world around them—and how we define hope at this transitional global moment. Available through April 20, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
Grand Central Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) by Lauryn Hill. We are offering a bi-weekly music club (1PM, 5PM, & 6PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP Club!--and for us to get to know one…
Enter the world of Dmitri Shostakovich—one of the most brilliant and fascinating composers of the 20th century—in this documentary by filmmaker Reiner Moritz. With British actor John Hurt as narrator, Moritz examines Shostakovich’s resilient career that testifies to the power of art in the face of a dictatorial terror regime. Highlights include extensive interviews with Shostakovich-specialist Valery Gergiev and excerpted performances by the Mariinsky Orchestra, Borodin Quartet, and the composer himself. Available through May 31, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
Grand Central Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) by Lauryn Hill. We are offering a bi-weekly music club (1PM, 5PM, & 6PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP Club!--and for us to get to know one…
Grand Central Library is continuing our successful remote music series in collaboration with the Library for the Performing Arts. This disc discussion will focus on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) by Lauryn Hill. We are offering a bi-weekly music club (1PM, 5PM, & 6PM options) via Google Hangouts/Meetup selecting and focusing on a classic album with a distinct cultural impact. To give the club an intimate feel--Like a book club for music. An LP Club!--and for us to get to know one…
Out of the ongoing struggle led by Native Hawaiian people to protect Mauna a Wakea (Maunakea), a movement was born and cultivated by families and cultural practitioners who have lived in relationship to this sacred land for generations. To honor these protectors and organizers, and their expression and practice of Aloha ‘Aina (“love of the land”), we highlight some of the creativity that has been inspired by this movement, and which, in turn, has inspired the kia‘i devoted to the ongoing protection of our ‘aina. Featuring Pua Case, Hawane Rios, Kapulei Flores, Kaumaka‘iwa Kanaka‘ole, Punahele Kutzen, Ihilani Lasconia, Zachary Lum, Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Kay Osorio, and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, we offer our mele and our aloha to Mauna a Wakea with the intention to continue to protect her so long as she is threatened. Part of: Voices of Hope
In difficult times, most of us are at a loss for words. Writers? They seem to find them. Their real-life stories bring perspective and surprising insight to the everyday and the extraordinary. Each night of the Voices of Hope festival, Read650 showcases individual, five-minute performances of writers reading their own essays of resilience and renewal. Part of: Voices of Hope
Throughout his career, Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli has been keenly interested in the variety of voices in American classical music. In this recital, he focuses on selections by Black and Native American composers whose works represent an amalgam of different experiences and traditions. From the spiritual-inspired “Troubled Water” by Margaret Bonds and Arthur Cunningham’s jazz-infused Harlem Suite to contemporary works by Michael Begay and Brent Michael Davids, Arciuli showcases the diversity of voices that collectively add to the American music landscape. Part of: Voices of Hope
The powerful voice of a 20th-century symphonic master is showcased by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Having been savaged in the Soviet-run press for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and warned about composing music in a similar style, Shostakovich cancelled the premiere of his Symphony No. 4 in 1936 and placed it in his desk until it was finally performed in 1961. Scored for 125 players, the symphony’s edgy intensity, sardonic humor, and heartbreaking melancholy make for a riveting emotional journey. Available through May 31, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
Drawn from the art collection of the Leo Baeck Institute, the works included in this exhibit were created in exile by German-speaking Jews and other targets of Nazi persecution. Showcasing a range of painting styles from the 20th century, it tells the stories of creative individuals uprooted from their homelands, often while suffering many personal challenges. Some artists never again found success after their exile, painting in obscurity for the rest of their lives. In other cases, forced migration spurred artistic creativity and led to new audiences. Part of: Voices of Hope
Different Strokes / Different Folks is a virtual exhibition that incorporates the works of selected LGBTQ+ BIPOC artists to explore the intersections of gender and queerness, and the interplay of race, class, ability, religion, sex, and sexuality—all against the backdrop of an organization that was founded at the height of, and in response to, the AIDS epidemic. The exhibition seeks to unite BIPOC artists who identify on any part of the queer spectrum, challenging static notions of who is “allowed” to claim the queer identity as well as what it means to be an LGBTQ+ BIPOC artist producing work today. Artists are invited to consider topics that create space to recontextualize history, the present, and the not-so-distant future for LGBTQ+ communities and spaces. Available through June 30, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
Organized by the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, this special exhibition highlights legendary performer Bob Hope and his unique role entertaining troops overseas during World War II. Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Service Organizations (USO), the exhibition features approximately 50 artifacts, including rare and unpublished photographs; a World War II–era aircraft fragment, mess kit, and other relics engraved to Hope; videos of his traveling wartime troupe; and Hollywood Victory Caravan programs and scrapbooks. Available through September 5, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
This companion exhibition to So Ready for Laughter: Bob Hope and World War II blends fact and works of fiction to illustrate Hope’s wide-ranging career and influence on the generations of comedians that followed. Highlights on view include an honorary Oscar presented to Hope for “his contribution to the laughter of the world,” mementos from his later USO tours, and other awards and memorabilia. Available through September 5, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
Directed by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, this 90-minute documentary follows Gustavo Dudamel as he prepares the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela for its concert at the 2007 Beethovenfest in Bonn, Germany. Highlighting stories of several of the young musicians, the film is a testament to classical music’s ability to change lives and inspire hope. Also featured are comments by such distinguished musicians as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Available for viewing in the United States only through May 31, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATES OF THE PERFORMANCES HAVE CHANGED** Directed by Rebecca Aparicio Saturday, April 17th at 2:00pm EST Saturday, April 17th at 7:30pm EST Sunday, April 18th at 6:00pm EST Ticket sales will end on the following dates: For Saturday 4/17 matinee: ticket sales will end Thursday 4/15 at 2:00pm EST For Saturday 4/17 evening: ticket sales will end Thursday 4/15 at 7:30pm EST For Sunday 4/18 evening: ticket sales will end Friday 4/16 at 6:00pm EST IMPORTANT DETAILS to know prior to purchasing your tickets: -This Virtual Production will be taking place online through Zoom Webinar. -You MUST purchase your tickets under the name and email that you will use to sign in to the Virtual Production. -Only one device per ticket will be allowed to join the Virtual Production. -We will not be able to issue refunds due to ticket buyers' poor internet connection. -In addition to the confirmation email from Brown Paper Tickets, you will receive reminder emails one week, one day, and one hour prior to the Virtual Production. -In the email sent ONE WEEK prior, you will be sent the...
Three poets from across the Americas offer their poems to musicians, songwriters, and visual artists to weave a dialogue of hope and freedom. Josefina Báez (Dominican Republic / US), Norma Cantú (Mexico/US), and Margarita Drago (Argentina/US) read and discuss each other’s creative processes, as their poems in turn converse with the work of artists and musicians from Argentina, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the US. Through these creative exchanges, the poets engage in dialogue to generate a series of braided interdisciplinary works. Part of: Voices of Hope
In difficult times, most of us are at a loss for words. Writers? They seem to find them. Their real-life stories bring perspective and surprising insight to the everyday and the extraordinary. Each night of the Voices of Hope festival, Read650 showcases individual, five-minute performances of writers reading their own essays of resilience and renewal. Part of: Voices of Hope
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATES OF THE PERFORMANCES HAVE CHANGED** Directed by Rebecca Aparicio Saturday, April 17th at 2:00pm EST Saturday, April 17th at 7:30pm EST Sunday, April 18th at 6:00pm EST Ticket sales will end on the following dates: For Saturday 4/17 matinee: ticket sales will end Thursday 4/15 at 2:00pm EST For Saturday 4/17 evening: ticket sales will end Thursday 4/15 at 7:30pm EST For Sunday 4/18 evening: ticket sales will end Friday 4/16 at 6:00pm EST IMPORTANT DETAILS to know prior to purchasing your tickets: -This Virtual Production will be taking place online through Zoom Webinar. -You MUST purchase your tickets under the name and email that you will use to sign in to the Virtual Production. -Only one device per ticket will be allowed to join the Virtual Production. -We will not be able to issue refunds due to ticket buyers' poor internet connection. -In addition to the confirmation email from Brown Paper Tickets, you will receive reminder emails one week, one day, and one hour prior to the Virtual Production. -In the email sent ONE WEEK prior, you will be sent the...
Hear the “Dreamers,” artists who kept the hopes of the oppressed alive with their music and poetry. Vocalist Magos Herrera and the always daring Brooklyn Rider perform treasures from the Ibero-American songbook set to texts by such literary giants as Octavio Paz, Federico García Lorca, and others who suffered under repressive regimes. These songs are reimagined in brilliant new arrangements that uplift and inspire. Available through May 31, 2021.
In a small town in southern Italy, a quiet but determined hero has brought to life an entire history of forgotten music. For more than 20 years, pianist Francesco Lotoro has scoured Europe to discover and record music composed secretly in World War II camps. Aided by his wife and a handful of friends, he has archived over 4,000 scores, including symphonies, operas, folk songs, liturgical works, and also swing and gypsy music. From Prague to Krakow, from Rome to Paris, this is the astonishing story of a race against oblivion, where each note sounds like a challenge to the oppressor. Available for viewing in the United States only through May 16, 2021. Part of: Voices of Hope
This collaboration between Second Nature Outdoor and storyteller Rachael Harrington will connect you to nature and your family! Join us in celebration of Earth Day as we hike Inwood Hill Park, taking time to stop at three unique story/forest spots where you'll hear fresh spins on nature-inspired traditional tales and then get exploration time with your kid(s) to be one with the beautiful rocks, birds, soil and trees of Inwood Hill Park. $20/family. In order to follow Covid precautions, audience is limited to 6 socially distant families. Masks require for all audience members ages 3 and up.