An Evening with
Violinist Miha Pogačnik
and speaker Marke levene
Monday, April 28, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Threefold Auditorium
260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY
Tickets at the Door: $20 (regular), $12 (students and seniors)
Miha Pogačnik's burning question is: What could be an entrepreneurial impact of a violinist, in repositioning the role of the arts in human society beyond entertainment? Masterpieces of classical music add inspiration and central formative force of the "threefold social composition."
Miha will take the audience on “a creative detour,” demonstrating how Rudolf Steiner’s momentous Foundation Stone Meditation is embodied in Bach’s Suites for Violin. Marke Levene, a speech artist and eurythmist who has organized worldwide tours of Steiner’s Mystery Dramas and of eurythmy performances, will speak the Foundation Stone Meditation.
From Miha Pogačnik: “The great composers, when they create a true masterpiece, actually work with the sublime forces that make up our body. By showing how the human being is actually created out of this cosmic music, I feel I can open up the audience’s etheric perception. I play and show how we can enter these pieces in an objective way, recognizing themes as seeds that evolve and transform. What we hear in the music is our own biography--as we struggle to make a masterpiece of it. There is something very much personal for each of us. But experiencing this together, we are suddenly a group. We are not a performer standing on the stage and the audience looking at him from their seats, but actually a community. Then we can open up for conversation and create an event completely different from what you would otherwise expect.”
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Violin virtuoso Miha Pogačnik is the Republic of Slovenia’s Ambassador of Culture. As a “cultural entrepreneur” and “social artivist,” he is perhaps best known for using his violin in organic and proactive ways. Why? His core vision is to awaken the artistic principle in every human being while addressing structural and systemic problems in society. For this, he aims to reposition the impact of the arts in society and to connect disciplines, cultures, and generations.
Miha’s began his classical violin career after completing musical studies in Germany and in the US as a Fulbright Scholar. After playing extensive concert tours, he put his artistic gifts at the service of something bigger than entertainment: he invented a new type of cultural festival known as the IDRIART movement. As a bold and true visionary, Miha travelled with his audiences in "caravans" and "flotillas" to European crisis areas, shaking taboos, healing the wounds of war, and culturally interacting with local communities. For more information, visit his website at https://mihavision.com
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Sponsored by Threefold Education Foundation and Eurythmy Spring Valley
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For more information, email marta@eurythmy.org