Silence and Explosion

A Salon Event on Politics and the Arts
Saturday, 23 February 2008, 2:30-5:00 p.m.
Sweeney Hall M015, Simon Music Building

An afternoon of workshop readings of segments of several contemporary artistic works with an accompanying panel discussion highlighting expressive interactions of politics and the arts.

Featuring segments from:

*Ainadamar, an opera by Osvaldo Golijov, on the murder of Federico García Lorca by the Fascists and the issue of artistic freedom of expression;

* Mother's aria "O Sorrow," with chorus, from William Grant Still's choral ballad And They Lynched Him On a Tree;

* An American Ma(u)l, a satire by Robert O'Hara on the tenuous state of racial harmony in America today;

* The Garden of Earthly Delights and Frontierlandia, film segments by Rubén Ortiz-Torres, with music by guest composer Gabriela Ortiz.