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Spring 2003 Science and the Arts Einstein Events at the American Museum of Natural History and The Graduate Center, CUNY More Info & Buy Tickets for AMNH events: http://www.amnh.org/programs/einstein/
Program Code: EP012303
Enjoy this special concert performance of Einstein’s Dreams, an enchanting new musical inspired by the best-selling 1993 novel of the same title by Alan Lightman. The work explores the concept of time as expressed in the fictional dreams of young Albert Einstein. Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum, the authors of the cult hit musical Fermat’s Last Tango, weave Lightman’s ingenious fantasies about the nature of time into a musical tapestry that revolves around Einstein himself and the beautiful but elusive woman who haunts his dreams.
Free and open to the public. A lecture by the acclaimed Macedonian Theatre Director and Professor of Acting and Directing Slobodan Unkovski (see Slavic and East European Performance Vol 21, Winter 2001). Professor Unkovski will discuss his adaptation of Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams for the National Theatre in Greece in preparations for a workshop in February 2003. Presented in collaboration with the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.
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Code: EP021403 Featuring Joanne Sydney Lessner and Michael McCoy with Joshua Rosenblum at the piano. Joanne and Joshua, authors of the musicals Einstein's Dreams and Fermat's Last Tango, will present a light-hearted Valentine's Day evening of songs on the theme of Love and Science. They will be joined by baritone Michael McCoy, from the Broadway production of "Phantom of the Opera." Featuring gems by such diverse songwriters as Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Stephen Sondheim, Tom Lehrer, Bolcom & Weinstein, Gilbert & Sullivan and Maltby & Shire, as well as selections by Lessner and Rosenblum from their two musicals, the evening is guaranteed to enlighten and entertain in equal doses.
Free with Museum admission Cosmic
Cabaret is a mixed-media vaudeville act created especially for a family audience
incorporating the latest research and theories in contemporary physics. On stage
is Einstein-inspired magician and science instructor, Bob Friedhoffer. His
science related “magic tricks” demonstrate principles of quantum theory,
time travel, and cosmology. He has performed and lectured at the New York Hall
of Science, the American Physical Society, and the White House.
In a handful of observatories around the world, scientists are waiting and listening to be the first to detect gravitational waves, infinitesimal quakes that stretch and compress space-time, and that could add a brand-new dimension to our universal knowledge. Author Marcia Bartusiak reveals all in Einstein's Unfinished Symphony. A New York Times Notable Book and winner of the 2001 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Bartusiak's work has been called "delightful and clearly written" by Science and "elegant, straightforward, and clear" by Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams. Produced by Brian Schwartz, The Graduate Center Back to the CUNY Science and the Arts home page. last modified 01/10/2005 by Adrienne Klein |
