Dr. Ingeborg Zechner
Dr. Ingeborg Zechner

Cazenovia Public Library to present lecture on the life and influence of Hollywood composer Franz Waxman

The Cazenovia Public Library will host a special presentation by musicologist Ingeborg Zechner on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room. Her lecture, titled “Hollywood Composer Franz Waxman and the Los Angeles Music Festival (1947-1967),” will explore the life, accomplishments, and legacy of the celebrated composer Franz Waxman (1906-1967).

The German-born Franz Waxman is known as one of the most productive composers of his time. He was twice awarded with the Academy Award for his movie scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951). Lesser known, however, are Waxman’s professional activities outside the Hollywood film industry: In 1947, he founded the Los Angeles Music Festival to promote the works of contemporary composers on the American West Coast. Waxman served the Festival as an artistic director and conductor until his death in 1967.

Zechner is a musicologist at the University of Salzburg (Austria). She received her doctorate in historical musicology in 2014 from the University of Graz with a dissertation on London’s Italian opera in the nineteenth century. Her research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth- century opera, the sociocultural history of music, film music of the 1930s to 1960s, music and migration, as well as music and media. She is currently researching Franz Waxman as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University. Her lecture will focus on both Waxman’s work in the film industry and his considerable influence on L.A.’s music landscape.

Library to Host Frozen Sing-Along Event

The Cazenovia Public Library invites children and their families to the Community Room for a special sing-along event based on the hit Disney movie Frozen. The event will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 1 pm. Attendees will have the chance to meet and take photos with special guest princesses.

Frozen is a 2013 animated musical fantasy film inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen.” It tells the story of a fearless princess who joins forces with a rugged mountain man, his loyal reindeer, and a naïve snowman to find her estranged sister, whose powers have trapped their kingdom in eternal winter.

Library to host interactive junior book club

“The Wild and Wonderful Readers” junior book club will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, December 4 at 3:30 pm in the Cazenovia Public Library Story Garden Room. The session will combine book discussion, games, and hands-on creative activities. The group will discuss Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink. The children’s historical fiction novel received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.

Set in the 1860s, the book follows the exciting adventures of a lively eleven-year-old tomboy growing up in the Wisconsin frontier. The story is based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink’s grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn.

The junior book club is open to children ages 10 to 14. Books are available at the circulation desk.

All events at the Cazenovia Public Library are free and open to the public. For more information, call 315-655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.

By martha

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