Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?
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UMS Programming Director Michael Kondziolka and UMS Technical Director Jeff Beyersdorf discuss the technical challenges of producing an epic-scale work like Einstein on the Beach.
On Saturday, January 21, Einstein on the Beach composer Philip Glass will join a panel of special guests to ponder the cultural significance of Albert Einstein at Saturday Morning Physics. Guests and physicists Sean Carroll and Michael Turner on what it means to be a “renegade” in the sciences, the influence of Albert Einstein, and his cultural impact.
The next installment from inside Einstein on the Beach. Lindsay Kesselman, member of Phillip Glass Ensemble for the duration of the 2012-2013 international tour of Einstein on the Beach, guest blogs: “Every night in New York we left rehearsal feeling drained, mentally and physically, without an ounce more energy to give. And…it felt fantastic.”
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