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The Arts Initiative Subject Matter Series - Looking at the Movies in 1930s America

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November 10, 2015
11:30AM - 12:30PM
Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts Enterprise, 131 Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St.

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-10 11:30:00 2015-11-10 12:30:00 The Arts Initiative Subject Matter Series - Looking at the Movies in 1930s America Time: 4:30 p.m. Event Host: Ohio State Film Studies Program, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Arts Initiative Short Description: Professor Ryan Friedman, Director of the Ohio State Film Studies Program presents Looking at the Movies in 1930s America before the Columbus Symphony Orchestra performance of Hollywood Festival: Classic Film Scores. The Subject Matter Series is presented by The Arts Initiative, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts Enterprise. Professor Ryan Friedman, Director of the OSU Film Studies Program, presents Looking at the Movies in 1930s America before the Columbus Symphony Orchestra performance of Hollywood Festival: Classic Film Scores. The Subject Matter Series is presented by The Arts Initiative, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts Enterprise. In his lecture, Professor Friedman, will delve into the conversations about the movies happening in the United States during the 1930s; he will examine the different ways in which Americans living during this period understood the phenomenon of the movies. Discussing publications ranging from Henry James Forman’s Our Movie-Made Children (1933), to Margaret Thorp’s America at the Movies (1939), to essays and reviews appearing in African American newspapers, to the studios’ “Motion Pictures’ Greatest Year” publicity campaign, Friedman will ask: According to period commentators, who was seeing movies and why? What, in their view, were the movies’ effects on these viewers? What did they find most significant about the movies’ artistry or the institutions that produced them?Visit the Columbus Symphony for information on the orchestra’s Hollywood Festival: Classic Film Scores playing at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 and Saturday, Nov. 14.Conducted by Rossen Milanov, with Sarah Mesko, mezzo-soprano, the Columbus Symphony Chorus and Ronald Jenkins, chorus director Classic Films Scores is a part of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s Hollywood Festival. From the surging melodies of Gone with the Wind and Lawrence of Arabia to the spine-tingling music of Hitchcock’s Psycho, this thrilling and nostalgic program offers some of the world’s most celebrated movie music. The concert climaxes with Sergei Prokofiev’s vibrant cantata drawn from his score for the 1938 Russian epic, Alexander Nevsky. The performance includes: Steiner: Tara - Short Poem for Orchestra, Bernstein: Main Title from The Magnificent Seven, Herrmann: Psycho, Jarre: Suite from Lawrence of Arabia and Prokofiev: Alexander Nevskyl.More information on this event can be found at the Arts Initiative. Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts Enterprise, 131 Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St. College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Event Host: Ohio State Film Studies Program, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Arts Initiative
Short Description: Professor Ryan Friedman, Director of the Ohio State Film Studies Program presents Looking at the Movies in 1930s America before the Columbus Symphony Orchestra performance of Hollywood Festival: Classic Film Scores. The Subject Matter Series is presented by The Arts Initiative, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts Enterprise.


Professor Ryan Friedman, Director of the OSU Film Studies Program, presents Looking at the Movies in 1930s America before the Columbus Symphony Orchestra performance of Hollywood Festival: Classic Film Scores. The Subject Matter Series is presented by The Arts Initiative, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts Enterprise. 

In his lecture, Professor Friedman, will delve into the conversations about the movies happening in the United States during the 1930s; he will examine the different ways in which Americans living during this period understood the phenomenon of the movies. Discussing publications ranging from Henry James Forman’s Our Movie-Made Children (1933), to Margaret Thorp’s America at the Movies (1939), to essays and reviews appearing in African American newspapers, to the studios’ “Motion Pictures’ Greatest Year” publicity campaign, Friedman will ask: According to period commentators, who was seeing movies and why? What, in their view, were the movies’ effects on these viewers? What did they find most significant about the movies’ artistry or the institutions that produced them?

Visit the Columbus Symphony for information on the orchestra’s Hollywood Festival: Classic Film Scores playing at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 and Saturday, Nov. 14.

Conducted by Rossen Milanov, with Sarah Mesko, mezzo-soprano, the Columbus Symphony Chorus and Ronald Jenkins, chorus director Classic Films Scores is a part of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s Hollywood Festival. From the surging melodies of Gone with the Wind and Lawrence of Arabia to the spine-tingling music of Hitchcock’s Psycho, this thrilling and nostalgic program offers some of the world’s most celebrated movie music. The concert climaxes with Sergei Prokofiev’s vibrant cantata drawn from his score for the 1938 Russian epic, Alexander Nevsky. The performance includes: Steiner: Tara - Short Poem for Orchestra, Bernstein: Main Title from The Magnificent Seven, Herrmann: Psycho, Jarre: Suite from Lawrence of Arabia and Prokofiev: Alexander Nevskyl.

More information on this event can be found at the Arts Initiative.

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