Luisa Neubauer and Lydian String Quartet: Beethoven meets Climate Justice in E-Flat Major
When:
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2024 7:00p -
8:30p
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2024 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Music
Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=26094812
Join Luisa Neubauer from Fridays for Future Germany and the Lydian String Quartet for a journey into the universe and back, and a conversation about climate justice.
Luisa Neubauer is a youth climate justice activist and lead organizer of the German "Fridays for Future" climate movement. For over five years now, Luisa and Fridays for Future have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets. In 2022 TIME Magazine included her among the "100Next" leaders. In „Neubauer vs. Germany“ she and others won a landmark constitutional court ruling against the German government (then led by Angela Merkel) in 2021, forcing the government to improve its climate law. She and others are now suing the (new) German government again. She has published three best-selling books on the climate crisis. One of them is available in English: Beginning to End the Climate Crisis. A History of Our Future, published by Brandeis University Press in 2023. Her Ted Talks on climate action have been watched more than 4 Million times. Luisa Neubauer is currently completing a Masters degree in Geography. She is the host of the award-winning Podcast "1,5 Degrees". A Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University this fall, she normally lives in Berlin.
From its beginning in 1980, the Lydian String Quartet (Clara Lyon and Julia Glenn, violins; Mark Berger, viola; Joshua Gordon, cello) has been acclaimed by audiences and critics across the USA and abroad for embracing the full range of the string quartet repertory with curiosity, virtuosity, and dedication to the highest artistic ideals of music making. Residing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts since the group’s founding, the quartet has continued to build a reputation for their depth of interpretation, performing with “a precision and involvement marking them as among the world’s best quartets” (Chicago Sun-Times). From the acknowledged masterpieces of the classical, romantic, and modern eras to new remarkable compositions written by today’s cutting edge composers, the Lydians approach music-making with a sense of exploration and personal expression that is timeless.
