In its American premiere, London opera star Loré Lixenberg headlines a performance adaptation of Carl Djerassi's genre-bending book Four Jews on Parnassus-a Conversation, featuring the imagined posthumous conversations of Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem and Theodor Adorno, as well as songs by Schoenberg, some rap music, and the art of Paul Klee.
This production, directed by Vienna-based Isabella Gregor, features Equity actors Gerry Hiken, Kay Kostopolous, Rush Rehm, Ken Sonkin, and Bill Wolak.
Patron and Circle of Friends members will have access to VIP RESERVED SEATING sections at this special event.
- Venue: Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Date: Sun February 7, 2010 2:00pm
- City: San Francisco
- Price Range: $30-35
- Tickets: (415) 655-7881
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January 25, 2010
[The sound of Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei is heard, starting with the full sound of the cello, as Arnold Schoenberg and Theodor Adorno listen.]Schoenberg: “Stop! Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement when Kol Nidre is played. But why always Max Bruch’s? At least up here, on Parnassus, let’s hear my version for a change. Without the cello sentimentality of the Bruch. It needs words ... not just music!”
[Schoenberg’s Kol Nidre (Op. 39) is heard through the musical introduction, the male singer reciting the text.]
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