Presented with the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
music
Art + Invention Speaker Series (2):
Steve Reich and Beryl Korot
Steve Reich and Beryl Korot with Vered Shemtov and Mark Gonnerman
Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 7:30pm | Pigott Theater | Free and Open to All. Limited seating: arrive early.
From his early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain
(1965) and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot's digital video
opera Three Tales (2002), composer Steve Reich's path has embraced not only
aspects of Western classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms
of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. Beryl Korot is a pioneer of video
installation art and has exhibited works in museums in Europe, the U.S. and
Japan since 1974. Her recent collaborations with her husband, Steve Reich, have
brought video installation art into the context of contemporary music
theater. In this second
conversation in our Art + Invention series, we will explore two works produced
by this creative husband and wife couple: The Cave (1990-93), a music theater video piece exploring the Biblical
story of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac and Three Tales, which
presents three parables of technology run amok: the crash of the German airship
Hindenburg, the testing of atomic bombs on Bikini Atoll, and a preview of a
catastrophe to come in the birth of artificial intelligence and cloning.
An Evening with Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass
Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass with Alan Acosta
Monday, October 8, 2007 | 7:30 - 9:00pm | Memorial Auditorium | Free and Ticketed
The Beatles on the Brain
Daniel Levitin and Nick Bromell with Jonathan Beger
Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 7:30 – 9:00pm | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All
Forty years have passed since the Beatles released The White Album,
introducing "Blackbird," "Rocky Raccoon," "Sexy Sadie," "Helter
Skelter" and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" into the cultural lexicon. Please
join us for a conversation with three Stanford alums whose research
explores the musical and cultural innovations that made the Beatles a
powerful force for innovation in society and the arts.
Related Themes: art, music, social change
Director's Notes
Post by Mark Gonnerman
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
New Art+Invention Speaker Series
The Aurora Forum is pleased to join with Stanford Lively Arts and the Stanford Institute on Creativity and the Arts to present a series of conversations on "Art+Invention" with artists who are in residence or visiting the Stanford Campus. Our guests in this series are people who contribute to and illuminate various cultures, expand awareness through new technologies, and probe philosophical questions that are at the heart of humanistic inquiry. This will be fun! Click here for an overview of this exciting new venture.
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