Giacomo Puccini named three criteria of Italian music: clarity, spontaneity, and simplicity. In this meeting we explore the music of Giuseppe Sarti -- favored in courts from Copenhagen to St Petersburg -- attending particularly to his strong dynamic contrasts. Puccini would have noticed the expressive clarity this creates. "What Makes It Italian?": According to Puccini is a music listening and discussion…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation among Volker Heins, Nandita Sharma, and Gabriella Etmektsoglou on "A Necessary Utopia: Rethinking Borders" focusing on the recent books by Volker Heins, Offene Grenzen für Alle: Eine notwendige Utopie (Hoffmann und Campe, 2020) and Nandita Sharma, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants(Duke University Press, 2020). In today’s interconnected…
“Where Do We Go from Here?” Revisiting Black Irish Relations and Responding to a Transnational Moment Conveners: Kim McClain DaCosta (NYU) and Miriam Nyhan Grey (NYU) Online Conference at New York University November 5, 12 and 19 People of Irish and African descent have lived in the United States for more than four centuries. Their respective trajectories -- marked by…
