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From: Lesley Groff To: Jeffrey Epstein CC leevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: Symposium Oct 29 and dinner Oct 28, re: Marvin Minsky, Classical Music Improvisation Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:04:24 +0000 Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Margaret Minsky Date: October 27, 2014, 8:03:29 AM EDT To: Lesley Groff <1 Cc: " Lesley Groff < >, Lucas Spivey ucas pivey Subject: Re: Symposium Oct 29 and dinner Oct 28, re: Marvin Minsky, Classical Music Improvisation Please let Jeffrey know that we will miss him and his musical thinking! I will let Marvin & Gloria know. Best, -Margaret Sent from my iPhone On Oct 27, 2014, at 07:53, Lesley Groff < > wrote: Hello Margaret and thank you for the kind invitation. But unfortunately Jeffrey's will not be able to attend the dinner or symposium. He sends his regrets. Lesley Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein Sent from my iPhone On Oct 25, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Margaret Minsky < > wrote: We are delighted that Jeffrey will be joining the Oct 29 Symposium on improvising classical music inspired by Marvin Minsky, "Reconstructing Beethoven's Improvisations". We will be gathering on the lower level of building e15, 20 Ames Street Cambridge MA. Registration is from 10 - 11am on the day of the event, Wednesday October 29. The day goes through 8:30 pm, with lunch and dinner included! We also hope that he may make it to the presenter/advisors dinner on Oct 28. EFTA00708606 Below are: • Dinner details at Mike Hawley's home are below • Please fill out brief Google registration form, link is below • Pre-Symposium reading and listening suggestions from our presenters and hosts are below • Our project manager Lucas Spivey (cc'ed) will be happy to assist Jeffrey in any way, and will also be sending a final conference-related email tomorrow night. Special dinner invitation at the home of Mike Hawley and Nina You Tuesday Oct 28. 6:30 pm Symosium registration form and Presenter Suggestions: Important: Fill out this form! Please click on this link to enter your information for name badge and dinner information: LINK TO REGISTRATION FORM We'd also like to share pre-Symposium suggestions for reading and listening from our presenters and hosts. Please explore these links to articles, audio and videos: SUGGESTIONS FROM OUR PRESENTERS Jonathan Biss Listen: Beethoven Fantasy, op. 77, Serkin Recording - YouTube Listen: Beethoven Fantasy, op. 77, Schnabel Recording - YouTube "The Serkin and Schnabel recordings are both excellent. Probably as close to Beethoven's actual improvisations as anything we have on paper." Noam Elkies Listen: Semi-Improvised movement based on Beethoven Sonata No. 8 Adagio Cantabile movement, by Elkies: Listen: Improvisation on an audience-suggested theme in 5/4: t Robert Levin Listen: Robert Levin playing various Mozart and Beethoven Concerti, published by Oiseau-Lyre, New York Philomusica, and DG Archiv - available on CD (Symposium committee have found these YouTube links helpful as well) Watch: Beethoven Piano Concerti No 1 - Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Watch: Improvising Mozart - YouTube Marvin Minsky Read: "Music, Mind, and Meaning" - website version Watch: Marvin with Hockenberry for the Media Lab h2.0 conference, 5 min - view or download video Listen: Marvin Minsky BBC Radio interview about Beethoven's 9th, 20 min - listen to MP3 Listen: Marvin Minsky,Nursery Rhyme Suite, 1960's, recently digitized from reel-to-reel collection - download MP3 Stephen Prutsman EFTA00708607