The new production of Doctor Atomic has inspired a host of events around the city, including symposia at the City University of New York (CUNY). Many of these events are possible thanks to a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Scholars explore the social, political, and scientific issues at stake during the dawn of the nuclear age. A Metropolitan Opera Guild lecture moderated by Robert Marx.
Saturday, October 4 at 11 A.M., Samuel B. & David Rose Building, Lincoln Center
The Composer's Voice
Adams discusses the relationship of words and music with Juilliard Dean Ara Guzelimian. Sasha Cooke, who plays Kitty Oppenheimer, and other singers will perform musical selections.
Monday, October 6 at 8 P.M., 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
A Metropolitan Opera Guild lecture with composer John Adams, director Penny Woolcock, and conductor Alan Gilbert, moderated by Sarah Billinghurst, Met Assistant Manager, Artistic.
Tuesday, October 7 at 6 P.M., Metropolitan Opera
Saturday October 11, 2008 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Explore the science, history and current implications of the bomb with leading physicists, historians and Manhattan Project veterans.
With Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwardy, Gerald Finley, and Eric Owens. A Metropolitan Opera Guild lecture moderated by Fred Plotkin.
Tuesday, October 14 at 6 P.M., Samuel B. & David Rose Building, Lincoln Center
J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Man, The Manager, The Physicist
With David Cassidy (Professor of History, Hofstra University, author of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century), Robert Crease (Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York, co-author of Oppenheimer: A Life), and Jeremy Bernstein (Professor Emeritus of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, author of Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 at 6.30 P.M., The Graduate Center at CUNY
Friday October 17, 2008 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Join leading authors, historians and professors as they explore these questions in depth and discuss the decisions made at the time, and their resounding implications today.
Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project
Ruth Howes, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Marquette University, discusses her book on the science, and the discrimination, the women of the Manhattan Project faced.
Monday, October 20 at 6.30 P.M., The Graduate Center at CUNY
Los Alamos
In a dusty, remote community of secretly constructed buildings and vast scientific potential, the world’s most brilliant minds came together to create a bomb and end a war. Novelist Joseph Kanon talks about his book, Los Alamos.
Tuesday, October 21 at 6.30 P.M., The Graduate Center at CUNY
An Evening with Alan Gilbert
The conductor of Doctor Atomic discusses his Japanese-American heritage as well as his cultural and musical background.
Monday, October 27 at 6:30 P.M., Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street
Remembering the Manhattan Project
David Pines, a former student of J Robert Oppenheimer's, together with Manhattan Project veterans Ben Bederson and Theodore Rockwell join Atomic Heritage Foundation president Cynthia Kelly in a discussion of the making of the bomb.
Saturday, November 8 at 10:15 A.M., The Graduate Center at CUNY
Uranium & Peaches
A play in one act by Peter Cook and William Lanouette. Staged reading by Break-A-Leg Productions.
Monday, November 10 at 6.30 P.M., The Graduate Center at CUNY