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From: To: Subject: Jeffrey Epstein/Symposium: "Reconstructing Beethovens Improvisations" Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:12:32 +0000 Hello hope you are well...Jeffrey is asking if you might like to attend a symposium titled "Reconstructing Beethoven's Im rovisations" on WEd.Oct. 29th...and if so, has asked me to help organize for you...below is the email from to Jeffrey re this. Please let me know if you are interested...thank you, (assistant to Jeffrey Epstein) We are delighted that Jeffrey will be joining the Oct 29 Symposium on improvising classical music inspired by Marvin Minsky, "Reconstructing Beethoven's Improvisations". We will be gathering on the lower level of building e15, 20 Ames Street Cambridge MA. Registration is from 10 - 11am on the day of the event, Wednesday October 29. The day goes through 8:30 pm, with lunch and dinner included! We also hope that he may make it to the presenter/advisors dinner on Oct 28. Below are: • Dinner details at home are below • Please fill out brief Google registration form, link is below • Pre-Symposium readin and listenin su estions from our presenters and hosts are below • Our project manage will be happy to assist Jeffrey in any way, and will also be sending a final conference-re ate email tomorrow night. Special dinner invitation at the home of Tuesday Oct 2/ 111 6:30 pm Symosium registration form and Presenter Suggestions: Important: Fill out this forml Please click on this link to enter your information for name badge and dinner information: LINK TO REGISTRATION FORM We'd also like to share pre-Symposium suggestions for reading and listening from our presenters and hosts. Please explore these links to articles, audio and videos: SUGGESTIONS FROM OUR PRESENTERS Jonathan Biss Listen: Beethoven Fantasy, op. 77, Serkin Recording - YouTube Listen: Beethoven Fantasy, op. 77, Schnabel Recording - YouTube "The Serkin and Schnabel recordings are both excellent. Probably as close to Beethoven's actual improvisations as anything we have on paper." Noam Elkies Listen: Semi-Improvised movement based on Beethoven Sonata No. 8 Adagio Cantabile movement, by Elkies: http:/twww.math.harvard.edu/-elkies/LvB 13 2 min.wav Listen: Improvisation on an audience-suggested theme in 5/4: http://math.harvard.edu/-elkies/mp3/uhall4.mp3 EFTA00360015 Robert Levin Listen: Robert Levin playing various Mozart and Beethoven Concerti, published by Oiseau-Lyre, New York Philomusica, and DG Archiv - available on CD (Symposium committee have found these YouTube links helpful as well) Watch: Beethoven Piano Concerti No 1 - Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Watch: Improvising Mozart - YouTube Marvin Minsky Read: "Music, Mind, and Meaning" - website version Watch: Marvin with Hockenberry for the Media Lab h2.0 conference, 5 min - view or download video Listen: Marvin Minsky BBC Radio interview about Beethoven's 9th, 20 min - listen to MP3 Listen: Marvin Minsky,Nursery Rhyme Suite, 1960's, recently digitized from reel-to-reel collection - download MP3 Stephen Prutsman Listen: Shadows, by Stephen Prutsman, 9 min - listen to MP3 Frederic Rzewski Listen: Hammerklavier Sonata - YouTube Jan Swafford Read: Ludwig Rules: A Guide for Studying Beethoven, by Jan Swafford - PDF SUGGESTIONS FROM OUR HOSTS Tod Machover Read/Watch: Dialogue with Pio Barone Lumaga - PDF Peruse: Opera of the Future - website Read: Music, Mind and Marvin Minsky - website version Listen/Watch: Minsky Melodies - website version Jonathan Berger Read: Composing Your Thoughts - web article Read: Listener Correlation - PDF "All deeply influenced and inspired by Marvin" Listen: Visitations - website EFTA00360016