BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Extinction Rebellion Boston//Action// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Beethoven meets Climate Justice in E-Flat Major DTSTART:20241029T230000Z DTEND:20241030T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T164726Z UID:1924@https://xrboston.org CREATED:20260425T164726Z DESCRIPTION:Event details: https://xrboston.org/action/beethoven-meets-cli mate-justice-in-e-flat-major/\n\nJoin Luisa Neubauer from Fridays for Futu re Germany and the Lydian String Quartet for a journey into the universe a nd back\, and a conversation about climate justice.\n\nTues.\, Oct. 29\, 2 024 7:00 pm ET (US)\; Goethe-Institut Boston\, 170 Beacon Street\, Boston\ , MA\n\n[Click here for more details and to RSVP](https://www.eventbrite.c om/e/luisa-neubauer-and-lydian-string-quartet-tickets-1038884971917)\n\n** Lydian String Quartet**\n\nClara Lyon\, violin\nJulia Glenn\, violin\nMark Berger\, viola\nJoshua Gordon\, cello\n\nFrom its beginning in 1980\, the Lydian String Quartet (Clara Lyon and Julia Glenn\, violins\; Mark Berger \, viola\; Joshua Gordon\, cello) has been acclaimed by audiences and crit ics across the USA and abroad for embracing the full range of the string q uartet repertory with curiosity\, virtuosity\, and dedication to the highe st artistic ideals of music making. Residing at Brandeis University in Wal tham\, Massachusetts since the group’s founding\, the quartet has contin ued to build a reputation for their depth of interpretation\, performing w ith “a precision and involvement marking them as among the world’s bes t quartets” (Chicago Sun-Times). From the acknowledged masterpieces of t he classical\, romantic\, and modern eras to new remarkable compositions w ritten by today’s cutting edge composers\, the Lydians approach music-ma king with a sense of exploration and personal expression that is timeless. \nThe Lydian String Quartet has performed extensively throughout the Unite d States at venues such as Jordan Hall in Boston\; the Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress in Washington\, D.C.\; Lincoln Center\, Miller The ater\, and Weill Recital Hall in New York City\; Music Mountain in Connect icut\; the Pacific Rim Festival at the University of California at Santa C ruz\; and the Slee Beethoven Series at the University at Buffalo. Abroad\, the Quartet has made appearances in France\, England\, Italy\, Switzerlan d\, Germany\, Russia\, Armenia\, and Taiwan. The Lydians enjoy collaborati ons in traditional configurations as well as in boundary-crossing performa nces\, recently including musicians such as clarinetist David Krakauer\, t abla player Sandeep Das\, pipa player Chen Yihan\, and others.\nThe Lydian s have long championed the commissioning\, performing and recording of new works. They enjoy working with young composers at the quartet’s Brandei s home as well as in mini-residencies at universities across the US. Their programming and recording of American contemporary quartet repertoire has earned them numerous Chamber Music America/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous P rogramming\, grants from the Meet the Composer/Rockefeller Foundation/AT&T Jazz Program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts\, an d the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. In 2012 their first Lydian String Quar tet Commission Prize drew over 400 applicants\; as a result\, first prize- winner Kurt Rohde wrote his epic string quartet treatises for an unrecover ed past for the Lydians\, who premiered it in 2013 and recorded it in the summer of 2015. The newest LSQ Commission Prize winner is Lembit Beecher.\ nThe Lydians’ 29 currently available commercial recordings reflect their diverse and far-reaching repertoire\, including works by Beethoven\, Brah ms\, Fine\, Ives\, Ornstein\, Persichetti\, and Schubert as well as Americ an contemporary composers they have long known and collaborated with such as Martin Boykan\, Eric Chasalow\, Yu-Hui Chang (forthcoming)\, Peter Chil d\, John Harbison\, Lee Hyla\, Steven Mackey\, Kurt Rohde\, Laurie San Mar tin\, Harold Shapero\, and Yehudi Wyner. \n\n**Luisa Neubauer**\n\nLuisa N eubauer is a youth climate justice activist and lead organizer of the Germ an "Fridays for Future" climate movement. For over five years now\, Luisa and Fridays for Future have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets. In 2022 TIME Magazine included her among the "100Next" leaders. In "Neubauer vs. Germany“ she and others won a landmark constitutional c ourt ruling against the German government (then led by Angela Merkel) in 2 021\, forcing the government to improve its climate law. She and others ar e now suing the (new) German government again. She has published three bes t-selling books on the climate crisis. One of them is available in Englis h: Beginning to End the Climate Crisis. A History of Our Future\, publishe d by Brandeis University Press in 2023. Her Ted Talks on climate action ha ve been watched more than 4 Million times. Luisa Neubauer is currently com pleting a Masters degree in Geography. She is the host of the award-winnin g Podcast "1\,5 Degrees". A Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Ge rman and European Studies at Brandeis University this fall\, she normally lives in Berlin. LAST-MODIFIED:20241027T210955Z LOCATION:Goethe-Institut Boston\, 170 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA ORGANIZER;CN="Extinction Rebellion Boston":MAILTO:outreach@xrboston.org URL:https://xrboston.org/action/beethoven-meets-climate-justice-in-e-flat- major/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR