Attend: Music & Film

  • 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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  • Film: “Beauty and the Beast”

    July 1, 2013 - 6:30pm - 7:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    This 1991 animated musical romantic fantasy film tells the story of Belle, a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial town and a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. Part of the Groundbreaking Movies Series. 1 hour, 24 minutes. Community Room

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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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  • Film: “Lincoln”

    July 5, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    This 2012 American historical drama, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, stars Daniel Day-Lewis in his Academy Award-winning performance as President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. Part of the Hot Summer Friday Night Flicks series. 2 hours, 30 minutes. Community Room

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  • Film: “Jurassic Park”

    July 8, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    This 1993 adventure film based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name tells the story of what happens when a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs suffers a power breakdown that allows the dinosaurs to escape. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film is regarded as a landmark in the use of computer-generated imagery. Part of the...

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