Concert | Pamelia Stickney
September 9, 2016 | 7:30 - 11:30 pm

Pamelia Stickney has become one of the most sought-after artists of the theremin, performing and recording worldwide with diverse artists such as David Byrne, Simone Dinnerstein, Yoko Ono, Grace Jones, Otto Lechner, Arthur Blythe and most recently with the Cape Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jung-Ho Pak.

On September 9, 2016, Pamelia will play amongst other artists at the Sonic Circuits, a Washington DC festival for experimental music.

Pamelia's background with string instruments and as a jazz bass player influenced her signature playing techniques, expanding the expressive possibilities of the instrument as displayed in her TED TALK.

In 2003, she began to perform her solo “theremin orchestral” pieces in which she composes and/or improvises using looping pedals, which led to her debut solo album “Thinking Out Loud” released on John Zorn's Tzadik label. In 2005, she moved to Vienna where she recently cofounded the band Blueblut with whom she also tours extensively and has released two further albums to date. 

When: Friday, September 9, 2016 | 7:30 - 11:30 pm
Where: Logan Fringe Arts Space, 1358 Florida Ave NE, Washington, DC, 20002

Tickets: General admission is $20.00 and can be purchased using the following link: https://www.capitalfringe.org/events/838-sonic-circuits-festival-fringe-music

Credits: David Visnjic, Pamelia Stickney

Concert | Steven Scheschareg

September 22, 2016 | 7:30 pm

The Alexander Zemlinsky Fund and the ACFDC present a concert by Steven Scheschareg, reciting songs of exiled Viennese composers.

Program
Song recital with Lieder by Alexander Zemlinsky
Tonal works by Franz Schreker, Arnold Schönberg and Karl Weigl
Accompanied on piano by Mitchell Cirker

The Austrian-American bass-baritone Steven Scheschareg has gained widespread acclaim for his striking stage presence, strong voice and his wide-ranging artistic capabilities. He is also the winner of the prestigious George London Prize of the Vienna State Opera.

As son of Austrian immigrants, he was born in Brooklyn, New York which is why music from exile componists is a project personally important to him.

His career started at the Landestheater in Linz and the Neue Oper Vienna and since then, he has been invited to sing in theaters in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, and China. He is currently engaged at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim and the Vienna Volksoper. As a concert singer, he performs regularly in Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and has also sung in the Musikverein Vienna, New York’s Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Munich’s Am Gasteig, as well as the Musikhalle in Hamburg. 

When: Thursday, September 22, 2016 | 7:30 pm
Where: Austrian Cultural Forum, 3524 International Court, NW, Washington, DC, 20008

Tickets: General admission is free and open to the public. Please reserve your ticket at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/concert-steven-scheschareg-tickets-27392353266 

Credits: Steven Scheschareg

Reading & Discussion | Maja Haderlap: Angel of Oblivion
September 28, 2016 | 12 pm
September 28, 2016 | 7 pm

A prize-winning Austrian-Slovene novelist, poet, playwright, and translator, Maja Haderlap will discuss her novel Angel of Oblivion, recently translated into English by Tess Lewis and published by Archipelago Books. The novel won the highly prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize in 2011 and, in 2015, France’s Prix du Premier Roman.

Angel of Oblivion (Angel pozabe in Slovenian, Engel des Vergessens in German) is inspired by the experiences of Maja Haderlap’s family and the Slovenian-speaking minority in southern Austria, many of whom fought as partisans against the Nazis during the Second World War. The story centers around a young girl learning to navigate the terrain between two hostile communities and two extremely burdened languages: Slovenian, a language of heroic resistance and continued humiliation; and German, an escape from her stifling rural upbringing but also the language of the camps which her grandmother barely survived and many other family members did not. Engaging with themes of tolerance and integration, the weight of history, the effects of conflicts on survivors and their children, and language’s role in shaping identity, Haderlap’s novel strikes at problems of paramount importance to our world today. 

When: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 | 12 pm
Where: European Division conference room, LJ-250, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC, 20540 (2nd floor, Thomas Jefferson Building) 
Tickets: General admission is free and open to the public. There is no registration required.
Further information: https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/calendar/calendar.html
The event is presented in cooperation with the European Division of the Library of Congress and the Embassy of Slovenia.

When: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 | 7 pm
Where: Austrian Cultural Forum, 3524 International Court, NW, Washington, DC, 20008
Tickets: General admission is free and open to the public. Please reserve your ticket at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-discussion-maja-haderlap-angel-of-oblivion-tickets-27438007820
The event is presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Slovenia and followed by a reception featuring a selection of Austrian and Slovenian wines and pastries.

Credits: Maja Haderlap

September 17, 2016 | 7:30 pm

The PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez, the Washington Ballet Studio Company and a new choreography by Igal Perry await the audience.

“It seemed to me that I had heard a voice of God,” says Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, remembering his first, bewildering encounter with the genius of Mozart. The music to which he was responding, “stumbling into the street, gasping for life,” was the hypnotically sublime slow movement of the “Gran Partita” – Mozart’s Wind Serenade in B-flat major. This most famous of all such serenades, for 13 instruments, is the centerpiece of “Mozart, Amadeus, and the Gran Partita,” a one-of-a-kind program including an actor, a wind ensemble, a courtly minuet, and new choreography by Igal Perry.

When: Saturday, September 17, 2016 | 7:30 pm
Where: Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC, 20004
Tickets and further information: 
http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/mozart/#