A reading on the occasion of Paul Celan’s book launch’s Breathturn into Timestead by Luxembourg poet and translator PIERRE JORIS

The event is presented by Deutsches Haus at NYU. Following the reading, a conversation between Pierre Joris and Paul Auster will be introduced by NYU Professor Ulrich Baer.

Luxembourg-born Pierre Joris is the author of some fifty books, including poetry, essays, translations, and anthologies. Most recently he published Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj and the anthology Poems for the Millenium Vol. 4: The University of California Book of North African Literature. In 2005, he received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his translation of Celan’sLichtzwang/Lightduress. To learn more, please visit:  http://pierrejoris.com

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NYU HEMMERDINGER HALL

Silver Center for Arts and Science, CAC – 100 Washington Square East– New York, NY 10003

Directions:

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Monday, December 1, 2014 at 7:00pm

Event is free of charge

RSVP: deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu

FALL OPEN STUDIOS 2014
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
1040 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211

From November 7-9, 2014 the current Edward Steichen Luxembourg Resident in New York, Jeff Desom showcased some of his recent film works, as well as a new installation that he has developed in conjunction with James Tompkin from the Visual Computing Group at Harvard University.
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 About the artist:

Filmmaker Jeff Desom uses sound, light, cinematography, rhythm and editing as well as digital imaging and processing combined to create atmospherically charged fantastical short stories. The artist’s most renowned project to date, Rear Window Loop (2010), merges cinema and contemporary art, by collaging the original film’s principal sequences and side events into a singular panoramic view of the backyard, with the original plot remaining largely intact.

Jeff Desom (born 1984, Luxembourg) Desom’s first short film, The Plot Spoiler, 2006, was voted Best Short Film at the 2007 Luxembourg Film Awards. Desom and experimental pianist, Hauschka, collaborations include four music videos and a filmic live performance, Ghost Piano, 2010. Co-directing with David Altobelli, Desom released the noise rock band Health’s music video, Tears, 2012. For his reworking of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window he earned the renowned 2012 Vimeo Award and a Golden Nica.

For more information, please visit: www.jeffdesom.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jisIJZAyd44

Please also see: www.visitluxembourg.com/en/place/specialevents/national-holiday

JEAN MULLER Luxembourg Classical Pianist Returns to Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall to present “Transcendence” all-Franz Liszt recital and CD launch ________________________________________________________________________________

WEILL RECITAL HALL – CARNEGIE HALL 57th Street and Seventh Avenue – New York, NY 10019 Sunday, June 22, 2014 – 7:30pm

http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2014/6/22/0730/PM/Jean-Muller-Piano/

Tickets $40.00  –-  (212) 247-7800

Call Carnegie Charge, 8 AM-8 PM, seven days a week, for assistance and also to order by phone or check on the status of an order. Or visit the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue, 11 AM-6 PM, Monday through Saturday and 12-6 PM Sunday.

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In this concert presented by Music & More, pianist Jean Muller will perform his interpretation of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes. Liszt’s repertoire is dear to the pianist, who has recorded his Sonata in B Minor twice and will present an all-Liszt recital. Muller’s CD Transcendence is the culmination of twenty years of work that began as a childhood dream to one day play the composer’s masterpieces.  Along with the Etudes, Muller will perform Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1, in an arrangement by Vladimir Horowitz.

Luxembourg’s Findel airport appears to be a winner with air passengers after topping a European satisfaction survey and ranking well globally.

The airport was voted joint winner alongside Munich Airport in a 2013 satisfaction survey conducted with Belgian passengers from European airports and airlines.

The results were published in monthly magazine “Test Achats” and show that out of more than 35 airports ranked for factors including public transports access, parking, security, toilets, shopping and dining areas, boarding areas and indication boards, Luxembourg came top.

Luxembourg Airport also received a good score in the annual Skytrax World Airport Awards survey. Based on 39 different criteria, Luxembourg was ninth in the category for airports accommodating fewer than five million passengers. This result places it behind London City an Durban in Australia.

Lux-Airport CEO Johan Vanneste said: “On behalf of all my colleagues and all partners at Luxembourg Airport, I am very proud that the qualities of the Airport are recognised with these awards.”

Source: www.wort.lu/en

Luxembourg immigrant turned US diplomat John Dolibois, who served as ambassador to the Grand Duchy in the 1980s, died on May 2 at the age of 95 at his home in Cincinnati.

Dolibois was born in Luxembourg on December 4, 1918, and immigrated to the US with his father in 1931, where the family was reunited with John’s sister, Marie, living in Akron, Ohio.

Earning a scholarship to Miami University in Ohio, Dolibois majored in psychology and graduated with honours in 1942, marrying Winifred Englehart during their final year at university. The previous year, he became a US national.

In 1942, Dolibois was drafted into the US army and went on to become a member of the intelligence team that interrogated Nazi war criminals in 1945 ahead of the Nuremberg trials.  Dolibois is the last member of the five-strong team to die.

After the war, Dolibois briefly returned to work for Procter & Gamble, where he had worked between graduation and army service, before becoming Miami University’s first full-time alumni secretary in 1947.

In 1966, Dolibois was named vice president for development and alumni affairs, helping establish the university’s Luxembourg campus – renamed in his honour as the Miami University John E Dolibois European Center in 1987.

Dolibois retired from Miami University in 1981, after becoming vice president for university relations, in order to be able to take on the post as US ambassador to Luxembourg, a tenure which he held until 1985.

Dolibois was the first immigrant to serve as a US ambassador in his country of origin.

The family returned to Oxford, Ohio, where Miami University is based, in 1985. In 1987, Dolibois was awarded the Cross of the Grand Ducal Order of the Crown Oak by Grand Duke Jean, one of Luxembourg’s highest decorations – only one of several awards and accolades Dolibois received during his lifetime.

Dolibois is survived by two sons, John Michael Dolibois and Robert Joseph Dolibois, as well as eight grandchildren and other family members.

Source: www.wort.lu/en

An unusual sight awaits anyone taking a stroll down Avenue Gaston Diderich this week after a visiting artist designed a Luxembourg-themed dress for a tree.

The novel number, which bears the colours of the Luxembourg national flag, was created by artist Irene M Vlak, who currently has an exhibition at Galérie Simoncini, 6 Rue Notre-Dame.

“This is my shout out to celebrate Luxembourg!” Ms Vlak told wort.lu/en, explaining that her works are made from everyday pieces.

“I want to make people think about the possibilities and alternative views of life and hope to make them smile when they view my pieces. This particular piece is bottle tops, plastic bags and dishwashing gloves. A very traditional dress concept translated into a modern installation piece.”

Ms Vlak is a former Ralph Lauren fashion designer working in New York. She said that the tree dress allowed her to use her draping skills, “since there is no pattern available for tree dressing.”

Photo: Irene M. Vlak
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He also said that Luxembourg had become the destination of choice for investors and corporations active in the Chinese market, citing the Grand Duchy’s prominent role in the internationalisation of the Renminbi – China’s currency – as one of the reasons for this.

The meeting was an initiative of the Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office in New York and coincides with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank spring conferences, which took place on April 11 and 12.

At the IMF spring conference, Gramegna and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde unveiled a plan to set-up a line of credit in favour of the Luxembourg Fund to the tune of 2.06 billion euro.

Source: www.wort.lu/en