b'Thursday, May 22Morning Music10:00 - 11:00 AM The Undesirables: Jews andthe MetDr. Samantha M. CooperThe recent television seriesThe Gilded Agedepicts the birth of New Yorks Metropolitan Opera House as a class war between the citys established old money clan and its newly wealthy arrivals. Yet Jewish people are absent from its plot.In this fascinating talk, historical musicologistDr.Samantha M. Cooper reveals the real story of Jewish involvement with the management of the Metropolitan Opera House between its 1880 founding and its 1940 sale to the public. She retells the well-known story of the Mets first sixty years with a new emphasis on the essential roles that Jewish men played behind the scenes, despite their status as undesirable persons in the opera houses by-laws.Dr. Samantha M. Cooper is the inaugural Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her first book,American Jews and the Making of the New York Opera Industry, 1880-1940, will be published by Oxford University Press. Samantha has previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, and received her PhD from New York University. She is the producer of The Sounding Jewish Podcast and the Co-Executive Director of the Jewish Music Forum. www.samantha-m-cooper.comThis event made possible by Bonnie Lawrence Shear in honour of her granddaughter Samantha Madison CooperTICKETS LOCATIONFREEGrace Church on-the-Hill 300 Lonsdale Road30'