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Curated by Torsten Wiesel, this performance celebrates the occasion of his centennial birthday. In this program, Dr. Wiesel shares his diverse musical taste from the baroque era to the present day. The evening features a world premiere of a commissioned work written by Mike McGinnis, inspired by the essays and ideas of Seneca culture

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Torsten Wiesel 100th Birthday Celebration

Carnegie Hall

Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo had one guideline when she began painting The Rose in 1958: to create “an idea that had a center.” Her sole focus for eight years, it bloomed into a 12.7 x 8 foot, one foot-thick mixed-media monument, weighing over a ton. Due to its unwieldy proportions and structural fragility, DeFeo was unable to find The Rose a home, and the painting languished in the basement of the San Francisco Institute of Art, entombed and forgotten, for over 25 years. In 1995, six years after DeFeo’s death, The Rose was bought and restored by the Whitney Museum and is now regarded as a seminal work of contemporary art.

Dana Lyn

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Jun 4, 2024

Torsten Wiesel 100th Birthday Celebration · Carnegie Hall

Oct 18, 2022

Dana Lyn: A Point on a Slow Curve CD Release · Public Theater

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