Visions&Voices Fall 2015

   
Silver Creek by Ian Sang

Theme Guides to selected programs from the Fall 2015 Visions & Voices program were created in partnership with USC Libraries faculty and staff.
Look for recommended books and readings on the people, performances and topics covered by these events.
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Photo: Ian Sang from Oregon, USA, "Silver Creek", CC BY 2.0

Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Online Theme Guide: Research Guide) / (Theme Guide: Research Guide - PDF) / (Theme Guide: Resource Guide - PDF)
September 18, 2015
MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Luis Alfaro offerst this reexamination of the Greek classic Mojada, a reimagining of Euripides’s Medea transported to East Los Angeles.
Additional topics in guide: Getty Villa, TimeScape room; Guide creator: John Juricek. Stacy Williams.
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Dudamel conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Online Theme Guide: Research Guide) / (Theme Guide: Research Guide - PDF)
October 4, 2015
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the L. A. Philharmonic with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Additional topics in guide: Choral symphony, The Ninth; Guide creator: Ross Scimeca.
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The Sound of Music (Online Theme Guide: Research Guide) / (Theme Guide: Research Guide - PDF)
October 7, 2015
Jack O’Brien and the Center Theatre Group brings this new production to Los Angeles’s Ahmanson Theatre.
Additional topics in guide: Synopsis, Kerstin Anderson, Ben Davis, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mary Martin ; Guide creator: Anthony Anderson.
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Frank Gehry (Online Theme Guide: Research Guide) / (Theme Guide: Research Guide - PDF) / (Theme Guide: Resource Guide - PDF)
November 14, 2015 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Frank Gehry retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from the Walt Disney Concert Hall to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
Additional topics in guide: Timeline, Pritzker Architecture Prize, LACMA; Guide creator: Stacy Williams.
Antigone (Online Theme Guide: Research Guide) / (Theme Guide: Research Guide - PDF) / (Theme Guide: Resource Guide - PDF)
November 19, 2015
This reimagining of Sophocles’s Antigone was written by Jean Anouilh and adapted and translated by Robertson Dean.
Additional topics in guide: A Noise Within, Genevieve Bujold; Guide creator: Anthony Anderson.
Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company: Straight White Men (Online Theme Guide: Research Guide) / (Theme Guide: Research Guide - PDF)
December 2, 2015
Writer and director Young Jean Lee presesnts Ed and his family.
Additional topic in guide: Reviews; Guide creator: Melandee Vicedo
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