MUSIC AGAINST FASCISM: THE CASE OF TOSCANINI
January 21 at 8 pm
Italian Academy at Columbia University
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A theatrical concert based on the letters of Arturo Toscanini with  music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Guido Alberto Fano, Aldo Finzi, Giuseppe Verdi, Wagner and Gershwin.
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), the most celebrated conductor in history, was admired for his opposition to Fascism and Nazism. His clashes with Mussolini and Hitler and his trips to Palestine to conduct the orchestra made up of Jewish refugees from Europe showed the world that artists can raise their voices against totalitarianism.

AN INTRODUCTION TO ISTVAN FARKAS
January 22 at 6 pm
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History

The Art and Life of István Farkas (1887-1944). Lecture by Éva Forgács, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena

A modernist of the École de Paris, whose elusive landscapes fascinated writers and painters alike, in 1932 Farkas returned to his native Hungary where his mysterious works ultimately presaged his own death at Auschwitz. The art and personality of István Farkas have captured the imagination of  Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész who homaged the artists in his poetic prose The Farkas Villa.

FALLING BODIES
January 11 at 6 pm
Rubin Museum of Art
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By Jonathan Levi and Gil Morgenstern.An imagined meeting between the 17th-century Italian scientist-poet Galileo Galilei, the "father of modern science"; and the 20th-century Italian poet and scientist Primo Levi, author of "Survival at Auschwitz".  Dropping balls from the Tower of Pisa, watching soccer on TV in a bar, listening to a concert in a village café, the two ponder their own searches for truth during lives marked by inquisition and despair, the price one pays for survival, and the restorative power of art. Members of CPL receive 10% discount mentioning code "LAMA".