Bach-Festival in Philadelphia on April 28 to May 5

From April 28 till May 5 the Bach-Festival is taking place in different locations in Philadelphia.
The Festival opens with “MATTHEW GLANDORF: BACH AND THE ART OF IMPROVISATION”.
The audience may look forward to a one-of-a-kind, entirely improvisational organ recital, showcasing the rare skills of the Festival’s Artistic Director Matthew Glandorf on St. Mark’s spectacular Aeolian-Skinner organ.
“Taking [...]

New German-language literature comes to New York and New Haven

From February 11 to 13, 2011, the second “Festival Neue Literatur” brings six of the “best up-and-coming German-language authors” to New York, where they will join U.S. authors Francine Prose and Rivka Galchan in a series of conversations and readings.
This year’s German-language participants are: Dorothee Elmiger(Switzerland), Andrea Grill (Austria), Julia Schoch (Germany), Antje Rávic Strubel (Germany), [...]

To Save and Project Films at MOMA

Included in the 8th Annual International Festival of Film Preservation at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art were numerous “newly restored masterworks and rediscoveries” by European filmmakers such as Patrice Chéreau, Abel Gance, Volker Schlöndorff, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Luchino Visconti. The latter’s 1963 masterpiece, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard,), opened the showcase in [...]

Mahler auf der Couch in LA

Als Gala der 16. Ausgabe des von Film Independent (FIND) organisierten Los Angeles Film Festivals feierte “Mahler on the Couch” am 24. Juni noch for dem deutschen Kinostart (bundesweit am 7. Juli, dem 150. Geburtstags Gustav Mahlers) in Downtown LA die festliche Weltpremiere feiern. Felix und Percy Adlon (siehe Foto) verfassten das Drehbuch und führten [...]