30. November 2009 by admin.

 Fixing a Hole… Being for the Benefit of Villa Aurora… Money Can Buy Some Repairs…

Palisadian Post  November 25th 2009

UCLA Organist Christoph Bull Unites with Action Painter Norton Wisdom for John Lennon Tribute

2009-11-25′Get back to where you once belonged” go some lyrics from a Beatles song. Apply them to the Villa Aurora’s 1928 Artcraft theater organ, which is currently under restoration for its December 2010 return. UCLA organist Christoph Bull will perform at a Beatles-themed benefit concert at ‘John Lennon Tribute: A Happening,’ to take place on Tuesday, December 8 at the Villa on Paseo Miramar. Proceeds will go toward the organ’s restoration.Bull and artist Norton Wisdom, billed as an ‘action painter,’ will pay tribute to late musician Lennon, one of the Beatles and one of the most important songwriters of all time. Lennon was fatally shot 29 years before the date of the Villa’s event.Among the 29 selections from Lennon’s Beatles and solo songbooks are: ‘In My Life,’ ‘Norwegian Wood,’ ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ and ‘Imagine.’Bull, who hails from Manheim, Germany, has been the university organist and organ professor at UCLA since 2002. He is also the principal organist at First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica. He has performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall, the Whisky a Go Go and the Viper Room. He has also opened in concert for pop singer Cindy Lauper, and has worked with funk legends George Clinton and Bootsy Collins of Parliament Funkadelic.Since 1979, the artist Wisdom has worked as a performance painter with musical ensembles, spontaneously painting images at the Monterey Jazz Fest 2005, the Winter Olympics 2002, the opening of the Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas, and with Cirque Du Soleil, Las Vegas. The Santa Barbara Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, San Diego Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, and Orange County Museum of Art are among the California institutions, where he has contributed his art.Guests of honor at the benefit will include Mechthild Borries-Knopp, the Villa Aurora’s executive director, and the organ builders currently working to restore the Villa’s organ in time for its comeback concert: Ed Burnside, Ken Kukuk and Greg Rister (recently featured in the October 22 article ‘A New Life for Villa’s Organ,’ at the PalisadesPost.com archives).

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24. November 2009 by admin.

Edgar F. on the religious and cultural values of Lion’s parents. Minute 15.30 -16.30 of:

SWR2 ZeitgenossenEdgar Feuchtwanger, Historiker,

im Gespräch mit Alfred Schmit

Edgar Feuchtwanger, Neffe des Schriftstellers Lion Feuchtwanger, wuchs in Adolf Hitlers Nachbarschaft auf. Aus der Münchner Wohnung der Familie war das gegenüberliegende Haus, in dem Hitler 1933 wohnte, gut zu sehen. Sechs Jahre später floh die Familie Feuchtwangers nach England, Edgar kam als Teenager mit einem Kindertransport über Holland ins englische Winchester. Dort ging er zur Schule, anschließend zum Studium nach Cambridge, und wurde Professor für Geschichte an der Universität Southampton. Mittlerweile ist Edgar Feuchtwanger 85 Jahre alt und hat sich erst jetzt entschlossen, seine Autobiografie zu schreiben.

Alle Sendetermine:

21.11.2009, 17.05 Uhr, SWR2 Zeitgenossen, SWR2

Listen to entire program at:www.feuchtwanger.com/Family.html > Edgar > Recent Articles and Appearances

Addendum:

Generations of Feuchtwangers: Edgar F.’s Englands deutsches Königshaus at the Duncker & Humblot stand at the Leipzig Book Fair, March 2010. On the shelf in the background Ludwig F. looks on (pink cover, Gesammelte Aufsätze).

June 2010: Berlin Literaturhaus launch of Englands deutsches Königshaus, moderated by Marta F. biographer Manfred Fluegge (big thanks to Drs. Simon junior and senior of D&H and all of their team for pulling everything together!)

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7. November 2009 by admin.

Many thanks to Barbara von der Lühe for the recent opportunity to talk on LF to faculty and students at the Institute of German Studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and for soldiering bravely on despite her ruptured Achilles tendon!ankundigung_feuchtwanger.DOC

Ian, Barbara, and Adrian with students and faculty of the German department, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou

IFS president Ian Wallace kicked off with a talk on the philosophical and historical-cultural background to LF’s work; this was followed by Adrian F. with an introduction to LF and his work and his significance within the context of Vergangenheitsbewältigung.  Ian is staying on in Hangzhou for several weeks and continuing to lecture on aspects of LF and exile literature.

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