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Book Tour: Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw And a City Transfixed, By Michal Murawski

Columbia International Affairs Building 420 W. 118th St., New York

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in everyday life as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a "Palace of Culture complex." In his book that takes this “complex” as its title,…

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

A Conversation with Loretta Di Franco The sixth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features soprano Loretta Di Franco, who has had one of the longest careers in Metropolitan Opera history with 929 performances there between 1961 and 1995. She continues to work for the Met as an Italian-language diction coach. She and Fred Plotkin will discuss her…

(Un)forgotten Neighbors: Memorial Stones in Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

Reinhard Pester and Mario Dittrich will talk about Stolpersteine artist Gunter Demnig, present the work of the Initiative Stolpersteine Wittenberg and relay some of the exemplary stories behind these memorial stones. Since the 1990s, artist Gunter Demnig has been embedding Stolpersteine (literally stumbling stones) into the sidewalks in front of the last known addresses of Holocaust victims. These small, brass…

Julia Den Boer, piano

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

Music of Giulia Lorusso, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, and Claudia Jane Scroccaro (a world premiere) Giacinto Scelsi., Action Music IV, VI, VII and Aitsi Giulia Lorusso, Deserts (2018) Claudia Jane Scroccaro, (S)toccata (2019) Luigi Nono, ...Sofferte Onde Serene... French-American pianist Julia Den Boer is a strong advocate of contemporary music. Based in New York city, she performs internationally as a…