Attend: Music & Film

  • Princeton Festival Preview

    June 13, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    A preview of The Princeton Festival’s production of Wagner’s “Der fliegende Hollander”  (“The Flying Dutchman”) includes scenes from the opera and a discussion with the artistic team. Community Room

    Co-sponsored by the library and The Princeton Festival.

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  • Lecture: “Music for Stormy Seas and Souls”

    June 17, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

    Timothy Urban, professor of music at Rider University, discusses the details of Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Hollander” and the precedents it set forth for subsequent operas. With no passports, fleeing from creditors with his pregnant wife, Wagner took passage on a ship sailing from Riga to London. High seas and stormy...

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  • “Downton Abbey” Tea Time

    June 18, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for tea and two episodes of “Downton Abbey,” the acclaimed British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who live in the fictional Yorkshire country estate. The series has played for three seasons as part of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS. This event will continue weekly...

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  • Film: “Citizen Kane”

    June 24, 2013 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
    Location: Community Room

    Critics have called this 1941 drama starring and directed by Orson Welles the greatest film ever made.  Told in flashbacks as reporters try to discover the meaning of the final utterance of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, the film examines the life and legacy of the character that was loosely based on William Randolph Hearst...

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  • “Downton Abbey” Tea Time

    June 25, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for tea and two episodes of “Downton Abbey,” the acclaimed British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who live in the fictional Yorkshire country estate. The series has played for three seasons as part of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS. This event will continue weekly...

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  • Film: “Hotel Transylvania”

    June 29, 2013 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teenage daughter. Community Room

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  • Lecture: “Stormy Soul: How did Wagner Find His Muse?”

    June 30, 2013 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Jeffrey Swann, professor of piano studies, NYU-Steinhardt, explores how and why Richard Wagner made the enormous leap forward from “Rienzi” to “Der fliegende Holländer.” Swann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and Wagner expert who presents lecture-recitals worldwide. He will illustrate his...

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  • “Downton Abbey” Tea Time

    July 2, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for tea and two episodes of “Downton Abbey,” the acclaimed British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who live in the fictional Yorkshire country estate. The series has played for three seasons as part of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS. This event will continue weekly...

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  • “Downton Abbey” Tea Time

    July 9, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for tea and two episodes of “Downton Abbey,” the acclaimed British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who live in the fictional Yorkshire country estate. The series has played for three seasons as part of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS. This event will continue weekly...

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  • “Downton Abbey” Tea Time

    July 16, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for tea and two episodes of “Downton Abbey,” the acclaimed British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who live in the fictional Yorkshire country estate. The series has played for three seasons as part of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS. This event will continue weekly...

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