Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello, Noreen Polera, piano. Illustrated talk by John Brewer. Program: Beethoven — Seven Variations on a theme from Mozart’s The Magic Flute Grieg — Solveig’s Song Chopin — Polonaise brillante in C major, Op.3 Fauré — Apres un rêve Popper — Dance of the Elves Grieg — Cello Sonata While magic, myth and fairy tales have proved rich…
The Brooklyn Rail and Albertine Books team up and explore the underworld in an evening celebrating the newly released Vice, Crime, and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa and Eugene Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris new serialized translation. Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of…
This documentary tells the story of the life and death of Wassyl Slipak, an opera singer with a worldwide reputation and a unique voice, who left his career in Europe and joined the ranks of volunteers when the war came to his native Ukraine. Wassyl “Myth” Slipak heroically died from a sniper bullet. ‘MYTH’ – the new film by the…