The Catalan Center at New York University will host several special events this winter, including a talk by the Honorable Jordi Pujol, former president of the government of Catalonia, on Wed., March 3 at 6:30 p.m. The events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8255 or visit www.thecatalancenter.org.
The Catalan Center at New York University will host several special events this winter, including a talk by the Honorable Jordi Pujol, former president of the government of Catalonia, on Wed., March 3 at 6:30 p.m. The events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8255 or visit www.thecatalancenter.org.
Mon., Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m.
Reading: Award-winning Catalan author Jaume Cabré reads from Winter Journey, a collection of stories that is the first book from Cabré to be published in English (Swan Isle Press, 2009). In this staged reading by actress Hillary Spector, strains of Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle resound in a text that portrays characters torn between passion and melancholy. Co-sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull, in collaboration with Càtedra Coromines, University of Chicago. Note venue: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South.
Wed., Feb. 24, 7 p.m.
Salon performance: To celebrate the New York debut of contemporary Catalan composer Benet Casablancas, “Little Night Music: A Composer’s Salon with Benet Casablancas,” will present in conversation the composer himself; CUNY musicologist, Antoni Pizà; flutist and artistic director of Perspectives Ensemble, Sato Moughalian; and director of the Miller Theatre, Melissa Smey. The evening will include a performance of Casablancas’s “Petita Música Nocturna,” by the Perspectives Ensemble, and a discussion of the composer’s musical oeuvre in the context of modernist traditions. In collaboration with the Miller Theater at Columbia University. Note venue: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 24 West 12th Street.
Wed., March 3, 6:30 p.m.
Talk: Honorable Jordi Pujol, president of the government of Catalonia from 1980-2003 and one of the privileged actors and witnesses to contemporary Catalan history and policy, delivers a talk on “Europe and the United States in Today’s World,” co-sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society of Princeton University; the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU; the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the United States; and the Institut Ramon Llull. Note venue: King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South.
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