Meet the USA

Exhibitions & Events featuring American Art and Artists in Austria

• Vienna Jazz Festival
  June 27 - July 17, 2008, Vienna
  The Vienna Jazz Festival, started in 1991, is a fixed point on the international festival scene and a milestone for Austria and Vienna´s cultural landscape. The Vienna Jazz Fest is a modern, urbane festival with an international reputation which places it as one of three most important Jazz festivals in the world, a factor which has only boosted Vienna´s position as an attractive travel destination.



• Transmission Festival 08
  July 4 - 6, 2008, Kufstein
  Combining live musical performances, visual art, multimedia installations, music seminars, and arthouse cinema, Transmission will provide its visitors with the complete aural and visual experience. Our aim is to make Transmission a personal and intimate arts and culture experience, not just for the audience, but also for the artists taking part in the event.
  Eliot Lipp
  From Tacoma to San Francisco to Chicago to Los Angeles to New York, producer Eliot Lipp has always followed the music. Creating songs that, according to XLR8R, “tickle days after the last spin,” he combines hip-hop influenced drum programming with the vintage synthesizer sounds found in the cutting edge electronic music of the 70s.



• The Cleveland Orchestra (Salzburg Festival)
  August 19, 2008, Salzburg
  Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
  Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor
  Antonín Dvorák . Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World', op. 95
  Béla Bartók . Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, Sz 119
  Alban Berg . The Orchestral Pieces, op. 6
  
  
• Romeo and Juliet
  Young Directors Project, Nature Theater of Oklahoma (Salzburg Festival)
  August 19 - 21, 2008, Salzburg
  "Can you tell me the story of Romeo and Juliet?" The result of a series of phone calls to people who were asked to tell, in their own words, the story of Romeo and Juliet from beginning to end, this one-of-a-kind performance by the off-off-Broadway company Nature Theater of Oklahoma takes some rather surprising twists and turns, due to the fact that no one they speak to seems to exactly remember the plot. Who loved whom first? Did they have sex? Who killed Mercutio? Versions of the story compound in an array of competing scenarios as the participants try to invent themselves out of their own narrative blind alleys. In the end, the participants radically re-imagine Romeo and Juliet in their own voluptuous detail, creating scenes and characters that never existed before. What we are left with is a highly personal and original series of Romeos, pervaded with feeling and rife with thoughts about love.
  Coproduction with the International Summer Festival auf kampnagel, Hamburg
  
  
• The Cleveland Orchestra (Salzburg Festival)
  August 24, 2008, Salzburg
  Kim Kashkashian, Viola
  Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor
  Franz Schubert . Andante from Symphony No. 10 in D, D 936a (fragment)
  Béla Bartók . The Miraculous Mandarin, op. 19, Sz 73
  Béla Bartók . Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Sz 120
  Johann Strauss . Emperor Waltz, op. 437
  
  
• The Cleveland Orchestra (Salzburg Festival)
  August 25, 2008, Salzburg
  Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor
  Simon Keenlyside, Baritone
  Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor
  Olivier Messiaen . Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
  Gustav Mahler . Das Lied von der Erde