Donderdag 23 januari Aanvang 20:15 uur Uilenburgersjoel
Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91
1011 LM Amsterdam

“De Strijd der Magiërs”
Muziek van Gurdjieff / De Hartmann

Charles Ketcham, piano

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Charles Ketcham

De Strijd der Magiërs

Dit unieke concert is het eerste piano-optreden in Nederland van de Amerikaanse pianist en dirigent Charles Ketcham die wereldwijd wordt erkend als een van de meest vooraanstaande vertolkers van de muziek van G.I. Gurdjieff.
Het eerste deel van het concert bestaat uit een gevarieerde selectie van de minder bekende werken van Gurdjieff / de Harmann. In een bijzondere samenwerking van G.I. Gurdjieff met de Russische componist Thomas de Hartmann is een inspirerende verzameling muziekstukken ontstaan, die een directe verbinding oproept met de innerlijke zoektocht binnen zowel oosterse al westerse spirituele tradities.
Het tweede deel van het concert bestaat uit de integrale pianomuziek die Gurdjieff schreef voor het mystieke ballet "De Strijd der Magiërs".
Deze muziek is aanvankelijk geschreven voor een ballet dat nooit is uitgevoerd. Charles Ketcham speelt alle delen die zijn teruggevonden.

Vrijdag 7 juni 20:15u
Engelse kerk
Begijnhof 48
1012 WV Amsterdam

Schoonoord Ensemble:

Herbert Lashner, hobo
Dietrich Bethge, cello
Maria Woerde, piano

Piano solo:
Maria Woerde, Theo Schuurman

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“Born of the Virgin Mary”
A lecture with pictures from icons by

Richard Temple

Reservering 12,50 euro.

Born of the Virgin Mary

A study in Esoteric Christianity

The lecture considers Mary's cosmic status and identifies stages in her journey from human existence to her higher life in Eternity. The tradition of the Virgin Queen of Heaven long predates Christianity and manifests in various goddesses whose feminine qualities become attributes of Mary. The Byzantine epithet Theotokos, 'Bearer of God', implies celestial events on a scale we cannot fathom. All this can be inferred from a reading of the symbolism in icons and reference to apocryphal writings. Orthodox sacred imagery illustrates Mary's rôle in sacred tradition, her practice of contemplative prayer and her ascent to the highest levels of realisation and enlightenment.

Richard Temple

Richard Temple founded the Temple Gallery in 1959 as a centre for collectors and for the study, restoration and exhibition of ancient icons and sacred art.

He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the National Art Collections Fund of Great Britain and has been active in the acquisition of icons by several major museums, among them the British Museum, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Timken Art Gallery in San Diego, California, the Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari in Vicenza, Italy, the Museum of the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow and the Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA. He has played a major role in the formation of several highly important private collections such as that of Mr. Eric Bradley, which passed into the Museum of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. The collection of Charles Pankow in San Francisco which is now in the Patriarchal Collection Museum of the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow and the collection of the late Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III.

Over the years he has published many catalogues and scholarly articles. In 1990 his book Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity was published by Element Books. It was reprinted in 1992. A new edition, published in 2001 by Luzac Oriental, is now out of print (but available at amazon.com). A fourth edition will be published soon. A Greek edition is available and a French edition is in preparation. In March 2004, his latest book, ICONS Divine Beauty, published by Saqi Books, is out of print.

Forthcomming in december 2020

DIVINE CONCEPTION

The Art of the Annunciation

An illustrated talk by

Sarah Drummond

How does an artist convey the divine in the human, evoke the invisible in the visible, allow us a glimpse into another dimension? Sarah Drummond, a writer and journalist with a special interest in the history of art and in education, explores some images of the Annunciation, one of the most frequently depicted scenes in Christian art.

CAN AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE EARTH INFORM A SEARCH FOR CONSCIOUSNESS?

An illustrated talk by

Charles Langmuir

Earth is one example of the trillions of planets orbiting in the habitable zone of their star. Earth has gone through a process of planetary evolution from barren rock to technological civilization. What is the potential role of intelligent life in this planetary process?

Charles Langmuir is the Higgins Professor of Geochemistry at Harvard University, and a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.