Registration information for the final two webinars for 2020 is below
Please Join us!
Dear Wagner Society Friends,
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Oct 24, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Wagner from Middle Ages to Modernity with Simon Williams In this webinar Professor Williams will be discussing similarities and differences between Wagner’s use of the Medieval landscape in Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde. Williams will discuss how in Lohengrin Wagner provides us with the crowning masterpiece of Grand Opera and how, in Tristan und Isolde, Wagner moves in a very different direction, which does not entirely abandon the past, but points toward the modern theatre.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Please do not share your registration information which is password protected. Helpful information: Webinars will start on-time. We will open the waiting room approximately 15 minutes prior to start time. Once the webinar begins, we cannot answer e-mails or address log-on problems. Please make certain to update your Zoom app prior to logging in. Once logged in – use the Q and A Icon for questions for the speaker at the end of the presentation. For technical questions use the Chat Icon.
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Webinar Speaker
Simon Williams (Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California Santa Barbara (Retired) )
Simon Williams, now retired, was a Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California Santa Barbara for thirty years. Professor Williams has taught at universities on four continents, including the University of Regina, of Alberta, Cornell University and since 1984 at University of California Santa Barbara. Williams has also published books on Wagner and on actors and acting.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Nov 7, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Topic: “Anniversary Thoughts: Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ Essay of 1870” with Professor Katherine Syer As we close out the year-long recognition of the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, The Wagner Society of Northern California welcomes Professor Katherine Syer to our webinar series. In her presentation Professor Syer will discuss Wagner’s evolving response to Beethoven up until that stage, and the ways the essay is not ultimately so much about Ludwig van Beethoven, but engages substantially with Schopenhauer in ways that tie back into key veins of Wagner’s artistic evolution (thereby allowing opportunities for music examples.)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Please do not share your registration information which is password protected. Helpful information: Webinars will start on-time. We will open the waiting room approximately 15 minutes prior to start time. Once the webinar begins, we cannot answer e-mails or address log-on problems. Please make certain to update your Zoom app prior to logging in. Once logged in – use the Q and A Icon for questions for the speaker at the end of the presentation. For technical questions use the Chat Icon.
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Webinar Speaker:
Katherine Syer (Adjunct Professor of Music and Musicology @University of California Los Angeles, Herb Alpert School of Music)
Professor Katherine Syer is an Adjunct Professor of Music and Musicology at the University of California Los Angeles, Herb Alpert School of Music. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Katherine Syer taught opera and theatre history/production, research methods, dramaturgy, and special topics courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she most recently also served as the director of Graduate Studies and Area Head for Theatre Studies. Dr. Syer’s work on Wagner’s creative development and legacy has been published in The Wagner Journal, Musical Quarterly, Wagner and His World, and A Companion to Wagner’s ‘Parsifal.’ Her monograph Wagner’s Visions: Poetry, Politics, and the Psyche in the Operas through ‘Die Walküre’ appeared in 2014 (Boydell and Brewer). She has offered production-related presentations for the Wagner Societies in Northern California, New York, and Chicago, as well as at international scholarly conferences
