FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 7:00PM
MOVIE NIGHT @ CINEMATHEQUE: THE MAGIC FLUTE
MOVIE NIGHT @ CINEMATHEQUE: THE MAGIC FLUTE
11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH 44106 [ VIEW MAP ]
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Join us for a night out at the movies as Cinematheque celebrates “Sacred + Profane” with a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s THE MAGIC FLUTE (TROLLFLÖJTEN). This 1974 film is one of the director’s most beguiling works—and mostly devoid of the torment and suffering prevalent in his other films. Håkan Hagegård stars in this colorful, magical, musical fantasy—in which the minions of light, love, and life vie with the forces of darkness, despair, and death when a princess is kidnaped by a sorcerer. Swedish with subtitles. DCP. 134 min.
Shown in partnership with The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. ChamberFest 2024 ticket holders receive a discounted admission of $10. Thank you to John Ewing for arranging this special screening!
FRIDAY NIGHT INSIGHTS
FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 6:30PM (HARKNESS CHAPEL)
PRELUDE TALK WITH JAMES WILDING
Professor of Composition & Theory, University of Akron
Praised by the Cape Times as ‘highly original,’ South African composer JAMES WILDING’s work has been enthusiastically championed in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Senegal, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Britain, Canada, South Africa, and the USA, by such groups as the Stow Symphony Orchestra, the New York Middletown Wind Ensemble, the Harburger Orchester Akademie, the TEMPO ensemble, and the Chamber Music Society of Ohio. He has received commissions from Bayerischer Rundfunk, the South African Music Rights Organization, the Tuesday Musical Association, and the Orange County School of the Arts. His music has been prescribed for the UNISA-Transnet International Piano Competition and the Hennie Joubert Piano Competition, and he has won the Oude Meester Prize and Potchefstroom University’s Chancellor’s Trust Prize. Wilding is Professor of Instruction and Co-Chair in Composition and Theory at the University of Akron, and studied at the University of Cape Town and Kent State University.
PRELUDE TALK WITH JAMES WILDING
Professor of Composition & Theory, University of Akron
Praised by the Cape Times as ‘highly original,’ South African composer JAMES WILDING’s work has been enthusiastically championed in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Senegal, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Britain, Canada, South Africa, and the USA, by such groups as the Stow Symphony Orchestra, the New York Middletown Wind Ensemble, the Harburger Orchester Akademie, the TEMPO ensemble, and the Chamber Music Society of Ohio. He has received commissions from Bayerischer Rundfunk, the South African Music Rights Organization, the Tuesday Musical Association, and the Orange County School of the Arts. His music has been prescribed for the UNISA-Transnet International Piano Competition and the Hennie Joubert Piano Competition, and he has won the Oude Meester Prize and Potchefstroom University’s Chancellor’s Trust Prize. Wilding is Professor of Instruction and Co-Chair in Composition and Theory at the University of Akron, and studied at the University of Cape Town and Kent State University.
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 6:30PM (MIXON HALL)
PRELUDE TALK WITH DAVID J. ROTHENBERG
Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University
Music historian DAVID J. ROTHENBERG is Professor of Music and outgoing chair of the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University. A specialist in European music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, he is author of The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Oxford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Liturgy, Sources, Symbolism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and the Oxford Anthology of Western Music, Volume One: The Earliest Notations to the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition forthcoming). He is a regular pre-concert lecturer for The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Chamber Music Society.
PRELUDE TALK WITH DAVID J. ROTHENBERG
Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University
Music historian DAVID J. ROTHENBERG is Professor of Music and outgoing chair of the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University. A specialist in European music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, he is author of The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Oxford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Liturgy, Sources, Symbolism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and the Oxford Anthology of Western Music, Volume One: The Earliest Notations to the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition forthcoming). He is a regular pre-concert lecturer for The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Chamber Music Society.
FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 6:30PM (DISCIPLES CHURCH)
PRELUDE TALK WITH ALBERTO RAMOS CORDERO
Co-Founder, The Cleveland Tango School
ALBERTO RAMOS CORDERO is the co-founder of The Cleveland Tango School. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, he has found success at some of the largest Tango Festivals in North America and worked for years in the dance studios of New York City. Based out of New York and the Caribbean before moving to Cleveland, Ramos Cordero and his partner Micaela Colleen Barrett taught at the Hunter College Tango Club, Oberlin University, New York’s You Should Be Dancing studios, and the Piel Canela Dance Company, and collaborated on projects with the modern dance company “The Movement Project”. Other engagements include the Toronto Tango Experience, Pittsburgh Tango Week, Windy City Tango Festival, Detroit’s Mini-Tango Fest, among others. Launched in 2015, The Cleveland Tango School is a cultural organization dedicated to preserving the beauty, codes, and traditions of Argentine Tango in the Greater Cleveland area. Through group classes, seminars, workshops, and performances the school works to foment the growth of the Cleveland Tango community and inspire a whole new generation of dancers.
PRELUDE TALK WITH ALBERTO RAMOS CORDERO
Co-Founder, The Cleveland Tango School
ALBERTO RAMOS CORDERO is the co-founder of The Cleveland Tango School. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, he has found success at some of the largest Tango Festivals in North America and worked for years in the dance studios of New York City. Based out of New York and the Caribbean before moving to Cleveland, Ramos Cordero and his partner Micaela Colleen Barrett taught at the Hunter College Tango Club, Oberlin University, New York’s You Should Be Dancing studios, and the Piel Canela Dance Company, and collaborated on projects with the modern dance company “The Movement Project”. Other engagements include the Toronto Tango Experience, Pittsburgh Tango Week, Windy City Tango Festival, Detroit’s Mini-Tango Fest, among others. Launched in 2015, The Cleveland Tango School is a cultural organization dedicated to preserving the beauty, codes, and traditions of Argentine Tango in the Greater Cleveland area. Through group classes, seminars, workshops, and performances the school works to foment the growth of the Cleveland Tango community and inspire a whole new generation of dancers.
CLOSING NIGHT CONVERSATION
SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 6:30PM (MALTZ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER)
PRELUDE CONVERSATION WITH RABBI ROGER C. KLEIN (The Temple-Tifereth Israel)
AND JAMES O’LEARY (Oberlin College and Conservatory)
RABBI ROGER C. KLEIN received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on Plato. He was ordained by The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where he also received a Master of Hebrew Letters degree. He studied for a year at The University of Tubingen in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and for a year at The Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Rabbi Klein has served congregations in Indiana and Columbus, Ohio and has taught at The University of Kentucky, Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and at The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem. He has lectured widely at synagogues, churches and universities around the country on Bible, Jewish Thought, Jewish Philosophy and Jewish History, Christian-Jewish Relations, Jewish Humor, and Music. He also presents pre-concert talks for The Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and The Cleveland Chamber Music Society.
JAMES O’LEARY is the Frederick R. Selch Associate Professor of Musicology at Oberlin Conservatory. His book The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America will be published by Oxford University Press in Fall 2024. His research has been supported by the John Kluge Fellowship from the Library of Congress and the Virgil Thomson Fellowship of the Society for American Music, and his writing on Kurt Weill received the Transnational Opera Studies Conference award for best paper in 2017. He has been a regular lecturer for the Cleveland Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera. He is currently researching the music of Duke Ellington and co-editing the Cambridge Companion to Stephen Sondheim.