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New York, October 25th: Tzvi Avni's Song Cycle 'If This Is a Man' Opens the International Symposium on Primo Levi
(November 7, 2009)A video message by Tzvi Avni before the symposium
Starts on October 25th, with a performance by Israeli composer Tzvi Avni, the International Symposium "New Voices on Primo Levi." Three days of academic discussions, film presentations and music will be the defining event of the Fall program of the Primo Levi Center in New York.
For the first time this year the International Symposium "New Voices on Primo Levi" will be opened by a concert featuring works on Primo Levi by contemporary composers.
The inaugural concert on October 25th at the Center for Jewish History in New York will feature the song cycle If This Is a Man, that the Israeli composer Tzvi Avni based on five poems by Primo Levi.
The piece was initially composed for orchestra and soprano and has been recorded by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. That version premiered in New York in 1999 as part of the Interfaith Concert of Remembrance. The version for piano and soprano, featuring German virtuoso Rainer Ambrust and the prodigious Israeli soprano Sharon Rorstorf-Zamir, was created for this event.
Before the concert, Prof. Andrew Viterbi, scientist, inventor, educator, and philanthropist will open the symposium at the Center for Jewish History on October 25 with a personal reflection on Primo Levi, his cousin and friend.
Following the concert Tzvi Avni will be in conversation with Juilliard faculty Samuel Adler.
"New Voices on Primo Levi" is one of the main international windows on the work of the Italian writer and scientist, held by Centro P4rimo Levi in collaboration with the New York University and the CUNY Graduate Center.
FULL PROGRAM
Introduction: Aoibheann Sweeney (Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center); Stefano Albertini (Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marim˜ New York University), Mustapha Tlili (NYU Center for Dialogues-Islamic World-U.S.-the West)
Opening remarks: Andrew Viterbi (University of California, San Diego)
Concert: Featuring: Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (soprano) and Rainer Ambrust (piano).
Post-concert talk: Samuel Adler (Juilliard School of Music) in conversation with Tzvi Avni
Reception .gif) 5:00 pm | Primo Levi: Anthropologist of Normality
7:00 pm | Levi, Agamben, and the Era of Witness
(in collaboration with RAI Corporation and RAI Teche) - La bella addormentata nel frigo, RAI, 1978 (Sleeping beauty in the fridge) - Primo Levi in TV, 1958-1974, RAI, 1998 - Primo Levi 1919-1987, BBC, 1992 - Il filo del lavoro, RAI, 1985 (The thread of labor) 5:00 pm | Quest and Judgment: Reading Primo Levi in German Franco Baldasso (New York University), Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown University), Ernestine Bradley (The New School), Ernesto Ferrero (author of Primo Levi and former editor in chief of the Einaudi publishing house) coffee break 8:00 pm | In Arabic and Farsi: The Universality of Suffering Boualem Sansal (author, The German Mujahid, Algeria); Abraham Radkin (Aladdin Project, France); Salem Joubran (writer; translator of If This Is a Man) (invited); Clifford Chanin (The Legacy Project, co-editor of Blooming through the Ashes); Moderator: Talal Asad (CUNY Graduate Center); Respondent: Ammiel Alcalay (CUNY Graduate Center)
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    .png) .png)   The reception is sponsored by: Tony May and San Domenico, New York
Sentieri Ebraici Fine Wines, Bottarga Sardegna Lavazza USA |
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