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A concert by Contemporary Composer Maurizio Mastrini
Composer Maurizio Mastrini, on tour from Umbria, presents to the NewYork stage “Contrario”, sound paintings connected to the richness of nature.The audience will get involved in a fantasy of sounds, each creative with obsessive attention and care.A mix of jazz, sensual bolero, steamy tango, soulful melodies. Emotive minimalistic works: complex pieces that sound like an entire orchestra.Admission: $ 10 and a minimum of two drinks Tickets: 212 255 5438

Theatrical reading of Primo Levi's scientific text. Featuring John Turturro and Joan Acocella.Soundscape by composer and virtuoso Marco Cappelli. Text selection by Domenico Scarpa.
Co-presented with Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi and Teatro Stabile, Turin. English premiere.

Admission: $ 20, $15 MJH, CPL members
Box office: 646.437.4202

Meeting with Umberto Eco, author of the International Bestseller " The Prague Cemetery".New York Public Library with Paul Holdengraber
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 7 p.m.
476 Fifth Avenue, enter on 42nd St.
$25 general $15 seniors and students

Barnes amp; Noble Union Square
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m.
33 East 17th Street

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Film Screening: Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge, RAI, 1979, based on Primo Levi's short story and co-directed by the writer for the Italian television. Italian w/English subtitles (16 min.)Paola Mieli (psychoanalyst, Après-Coup,New York, Paris), Gérard Haddad (psychoanalyst, Paris. Author of "Lumière des astres éteints", Grasset 2011), Daniela Schiller (neuroscientist, Mount Sinai, New York)

Claudio Magris resumes and reinvents the timeless story of the ancient and mysterious myth of Orfeo and Euridice in a contemporary way, exploring the deep meaning of the love of Orfeo with his lost lover, Euridice, prisoner of the realm of the dead.
Story involves Euridice being admitted to a nursing home and ruled by an invisible President. As the story unfolds, Orfeo gains permission to take her away with him, provided he does not turn around to look at her before they came out in the open air.

Nov. 15, 7:00 pmBooked! Crime Scene: EuropeCzech Center, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, NYJoin the kick-off event with writers Caryl Férey, Zygmunt Miloszewski, Ana Maria Sandu, Stefan Slupetzky, José Carlos Somoza, and Jan Costin Wagner reading from their featured novels. The readings will be followed by a reception.Nov. 16, 6:30 pmThe Shifting SceneCenter for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street, New York, NYFestival writers in conversation with Dan Fesperman, moderated by Professor B. J. Rahn (Hunter College)Nov.

Nov. 18, 7:00 pmPOLAND: Entanglement (wiklanie), dir. Jacek Bromski, 2011Adaptation of the novel Entanglement by Zygmunt Miloszewski.Author Zygmunt Miloszewski in person.Nov. 19, 2:00 pmAUSTRIA: Stolen Identity, dir. Emile E. Reinert, 1953After themes of the novel Ich war jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia.Nov. 19, 4:30 pmGERMANY: The Silence (Das letzte Schweigen), dir. Baran bo Odar, 2010Author Jan Costin Wagner in person.Nov. 19, 7:00 pmROMANIA: Aurora, dir. Cristi Pulu, 1949Original script by Cristi Pulu.Nov. 20, 2:00 pmCZECH: Conscience (Svedomi), dir.

The Collegiate Chorale presents Moïse et Pharaon, by Gioacchino Rossini, to celebrate their 70th Anniversary Season , November 30, 2011 at 8:00 PM at Carnegie Hall.

The Chamber Orchestra of New York presents the concert Baroque Garden of Roses, Saturday December 3, 2011 at 8 pm at Church of St. Jean Baptist (Lexington Avenue 76th Street).
The performance will be enhanced by two U.S. premieres: a rediscovered Baroque Oratorio by Alessandro Scarlatti, Il Giardino di Rose performed by Kyler Brown, The Virgin Consort together with Chamber Orchestra and Maestro Di Vittorio and Ottorino Respighi's rediscovered Suite for Organ and strings by Mr. Brown.

Scholars discuss concepts of realism in contemporary art, providing a context for verisimilitude as a central aesthetic and conceptual strategy in Maurizio Cattelan’s work and its role in his critical practice. Participants include Dorothea von Hantelmann (Assistant Professor, Freie Universität, Berlin), Valerie Hillings (Associate Curator, Abu Dhabi Project, Guggenheim Museum), Alexander Potts (Max Loehr Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); and moderator, Nancy Spector (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum).