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Symphony Space, founded by Isaiah Sheffer and Allan Miller, is a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization at 2537 Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Performances take place in the 760-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (also called Peter Norton Symphony Space) or the 160-seat Leonard Nimoy Thalia.
After serving as the centerpiece of the 16 June 2007 "26th Annual Bloomsday on Broadway" at Symphony Space in New York City [3] (during which it was broadcast live on WNYC and streamed on the Internet), it had its staged world premiere, directed by the composer, on 6 November 2007 in New York City. [4]
Bloomsday performers outside Davy Byrne's pub, 2003. Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place on a Thursday in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, [1] and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.
May 3—Thousands milled in and out of the Spokane Convention Center Friday, some of the last steps to go before they take part in the annual Bloomsday run on Sunday. More people are grabbing ...
Feb. 22—Festivities for Bloomsday officially began Thursday when race founder Don Kardong, members of its board of directors and even the 11-foot vulture that looms over racers at the top of ...
Beginning in 2002, O'Brien directed the James Joyce "Bloomsday" readings at Symphony Space. [1] When WBAI's "Radio Bloomsday" split from that in 2008, [10] she went with the radio side and became the director of the annual radio broadcast, where she also performs Molly Bloom's soliloquy (the last chapter of Ulysses).
Joyce aficionados celebrate 16 June as 'Bloomsday'. As the day unfolds, Bloom's thoughts turn to the affair between Molly and her manager, Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan (obliquely, through, for instance, telltale ear worms), and, prompted by the funeral of his friend Paddy Dignam, the death of his child, Rudy. The absence of a son may be what leads him ...
May 3—Bloomsday participants wanting to donate their jackets by tossing them atop the branches of Riverside Avenue street trees — as is the Bloomsday starting line tradition — might want to ...