LIVE from NYPL: Julian Barnes | Bruce Adolphe

Date and Time
May 25, 2016
Event Details

Julian Barnes focuses his literary talents on Dmitri Shostakovich in his latest novel The Noise of Time, creating a fictionalized account of the Russian composer's struggle between Soviet values and musical integrity. He is joined by composer, educator, and performer Bruce Adolphe. 

JULIAN BARNES is the author of twenty previous books, for which he has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina; in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature; and in 2004 he was named Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in London.

BRUCE ADOPLHE’s music has been performed by Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Brentano Quartet, Washington National Opera, Metropolitan Opera Guild, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe, and over 60 orchestras worldwide. Recent recordings include Einstein’s Light on Sony Classical, featuring Joshua Bell and Marija Stroke, and Chopin Dreams on Naxos American Masters, featuring Carlo Grante. Adolphe is the resident lecturer and director of family concerts for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; composer-in-residence at the Brain and Creativity Institute in LA; artistic director of Off the Hook Arts Festival in Colorado; and creative director of Learning Maestros. A Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, he has taught at Yale, Juilliard, and NYU.  Adolphe is the author of three books on music: The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination; What to Listen for in the World ; and Of Mozart, Parrots, and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind.  Adolphe is a contributor to the forthcoming book Secrets of Creativity, and is currently writing an opera with novelist Richard Powers. 

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