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MICHALA PETRI Recorder
MICHALA PETRI recorder For 50 years, Michala Petri has been one of the most universally recognized and beloved recorder players in the world. She has performed almost 5.000 concerts and has discography of more than 70 critically-acclaimed and award winning recordings. Michala Petri was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on July 7, 1958 to musical parents. A child prodigy, she first picked up a recorder at the age of three and by the time she was ten, she made her concerto debut in Tivoli Concert Hall and began her formal studies at the at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, with Professor Ferdinand Conrad. By the time she was seventeen, she was already making recordings with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Her repertoire spans the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras and extends into contemporary and improvised music and multi-media. This versatility, together with a flawless technique, an insatiable curiosity, and the ability to make an emotional connection with her audiences has contributed to her special appeal as an artist. Her list of collaborators reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of late 20th century classical music, including such legendary artists as Sir Neville Marriner, Claudio Abbado, Sir James Galway, Gidon Kremer, Heinz Holliger, Henryk Szeryng, Pinchas Zukerman, Maurice Andre, Joshua Bell, Mahan Esfahani, Hille Perl and Keith Jarrett. From her youth, Petri was fascinated with the musical potential of her chosen instrument, however, at the time of her studies the recorder was considered mainly an instrument for early music. But gradually, contemporary composers began taking interest and through Petri’s prompting – and virtuosity - started composing works for her. -
April 2005 Updrafts
Chaparral from the California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc. serving Californiaupdr poets for over 60 yearsaftsVolume 66, No. 3 • April, 2005 President Ted Kooser is Pulitzer Prize Winner James Shuman, PSJ 2005 has been a busy year for Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. On April 7, the Pulitzer commit- First Vice President tee announced that his Delights & Shadows had won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. And, Jeremy Shuman, PSJ later in the week, he accepted appointment to serve a second term as Poet Laureate. Second Vice President While many previous Poets Laureate have also Katharine Wilson, RF Winners of the Pulitzer Prize receive a $10,000 award. Third Vice President been winners of the Pulitzer, not since 1947 has the Pegasus Buchanan, Tw prize been won by the sitting laureate. In that year, A professor of English at the University of Ne- braska-Lincoln, Kooser’s award-winning book, De- Fourth Vice President Robert Lowell won— and at the time the position Eric Donald, Or was known as the Consultant in Poetry to the Li- lights & Shadows, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2004. Treasurer brary of Congress. It was not until 1986 that the po- Ursula Gibson, Tw sition became known as the Poet Laureate Consult- “I’m thrilled by this,” Kooser said shortly after Recording Secretary ant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. the announcement. “ It’s something every poet dreams Lee Collins, Tw The 89th annual prizes in Journalism, Letters, of. There are so many gifted poets in this country, Corresponding Secretary Drama and Music were announced by Columbia Uni- and so many marvelous collections published each Dorothy Marshall, Tw versity. -
ENG 351 Lecture 33 1 Let's Finish Discussing Gwendolyn Brooks. I
ENG 351 Lecture 33 1 Let’s finish discussing Gwendolyn Brooks. I would like your indulgence to make up for last time. I really was blind. It was — and one of you saved my life, with my visual migraine which sent me into something of a panic. Something else I’ve learned is you should never — you should never read a poem in public that you haven’t read for many years. It can sneak up on you and kick you, and that’s what this poem did. I haven’t looked at The Chicago Defender poem for a long, long, long time. And here I am, half blinded, and then I got emotional at the end of it. So I apologize for that and see if I can get through this with a decent reading. That happened to me one time before with a poem called “April Inventory” by W. D. Snodgrass. And sometimes, you know, poetry has a — has a way of getting to you, whether you want it to or not. But let me — it’s a good poem. It’s only a few minutes long. If you can bear with it, I wanted to get that on in the lesson. This was the poem that I asked Gwendolyn Brooks why she didn’t read it while she was here and she said she no longer liked the ending of it. So I particularly want you to pay attention to the ending of it. She asked me why I liked it and I said because I’m from Little Rock, and then she inquired, “How old were you in 1957?” And when I told her I was eleven, it was okay. -
A Tribute to Robert Penn Warren J
The Kentucky Review Volume 2 | Number 3 Article 3 1981 A Tribute to Robert Penn Warren J. A. Bryant Jr. University of Kentucky Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kentucky-review Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Bryant, J. A. Jr. (1981) "A Tribute to Robert Penn Warren," The Kentucky Review: Vol. 2 : No. 3 , Article 3. Available at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kentucky-review/vol2/iss3/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Kentucky Libraries at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kentucky Review by an authorized editor of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Tribute to Robert Penn Warren J. A. BRYANT, JR. We are all here tonight for the same purpose, to honor a man who by his achievements and his stature as a human being, can come closer than anyone else I know to making Kentucky, which is after all a hodge-podge geographically, politically, and c111.lturally, if there ever was one, speak with one voice, say yes to something in unison. It's a cause for both sadness and rejoicing that there are some occasions when more than miles separate the Purchase and the mountains, the Tennessee Ridge and the Ohio River. But Red Warren, as his friends have been calling him now for most of his seventy-five years, miraculously unites Bluegrass and Pennyrile, just as he has miraculously encompassed Tennessee, Louisiana, the Midwest, New England, to say nothing of Europe and especially Italy, and made them, transformed, inhabit a body of fiction and verse in which we detect what Donald Davison, an old friend and Tennessean, was wont to call "the Kentucky voice of Warren." It's a distinctive voice that we Kentuckians respond to, acknowledge, and tonight claim as our own. -
Haimovitz Plays Bach Matt Haimovitz, Cello
Miller Theatre at Columbia University 2015-16 | 27th Season Special Events Haimovitz Plays Bach Matt Haimovitz, cello Thursday, October 22, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, October 24, 8:00 p.m. From the Executive Director This October has been such a full and rewarding month so far. We celebrated John Luther Adams, recipient of the William Schuman Award, with three New York premiere concerts that captivated audiences with soundscapes inspired by the Arctic. We also opened our Early Music series with a screening of La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc accompanied by a medieval score devised and sung by the Orlando Consort. This week, Matt Haimovitz performs on the Miller stage and around Columbia’s campus, bringing Bach and new works to audiences in a myriad of spaces, and it has been lovely to see students and professors stumble upon a cello suite on their walks to class. Matt and I share a passion for bringing classical music to new audiences, and watching Matt deliver these suites to the Columbia community has been inspiring. Haimovitz Plays Bach culminates here at Miller with the presentation of the complete Bach Cello Suites and six accompanying new overtures. Each overture is a unique reflection of the composer’s experience with and interpretation of Bach. Next Tuesday, Ensemble Signal returns to continue our Pop-Up Concert series. This time, they’ll present pieces that inspire them as artists with an amazing repertoire that features solos for violin and cimbalom. In a few weeks, we kick off November and our Jazz series with the return of the incomparable Anat Cohen. -
NEA-Annual-Report-1992.Pdf
N A N A L E ENT S NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR~THE ARTS 1992, ANNUAL REPORT NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR!y’THE ARTS The Federal agency that supports the Dear Mr. President: visual, literary and pe~orming arts to I have the honor to submit to you the Annual Report benefit all A mericans of the National Endowment for the Arts for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1992. Respectfully, Arts in Education Challenge &Advancement Dance Aria M. Steele Design Arts Acting Senior Deputy Chairman Expansion Arts Folk Arts International Literature The President Local Arts Agencies The White House Media Arts Washington, D.C. Museum Music April 1993 Opera-Musical Theater Presenting & Commissioning State & Regional Theater Visual Arts The Nancy Hanks Center 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington. DC 20506 202/682-5400 6 The Arts Endowment in Brief The National Council on the Arts PROGRAMS 14 Dance 32 Design Arts 44 Expansion Arts 68 Folk Arts 82 Literature 96 Media Arts II2. Museum I46 Music I94 Opera-Musical Theater ZlO Presenting & Commissioning Theater zSZ Visual Arts ~en~ PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP z96 Arts in Education 308 Local Arts Agencies State & Regional 3z4 Underserved Communities Set-Aside POLICY, PLANNING, RESEARCH & BUDGET 338 International 346 Arts Administration Fallows 348 Research 35o Special Constituencies OVERVIEW PANELS AND FINANCIAL SUMMARIES 354 1992 Overview Panels 360 Financial Summary 36I Histos~f Authorizations and 366~redi~ At the "Parabolic Bench" outside a South Bronx school, a child discovers aspects of sound -- for instance, that it can be stopped with the wave of a hand. Sonic architects Bill & Mary Buchen designed this "Sound Playground" with help from the Design Arts Program in the form of one of the 4,141 grants that the Arts Endowment awarded in FY 1992. -
20190607 Theslowdown 20190
20190607_theslowdown_20190607_128 Wed, 9/30 7:24PM 5:00 SUMMARY KEYWORDS poem, wind, speaker, poet, poetry, dh, buried, rapturous, door, gathering storm, lawrence, thawing, draw, writer, infallible, crucifix, nester, learn, invocation, surrounds 00:05 I'm Tracy k Smith, and this is the slow down. 00:22 I think there are a number of misconceptions about poetry in the popular imagination. One is that the poet has buried an encoded message deep within the poem that the reader must wrestle out. Another is that when a reader encounters different perspectives within a single poem, like sorrow and joy, one perspective has to be right and the other wrong. But sometimes a person can be both happy and sad. At the same time, one feeling doesn't always win out over the other, which is why poems quite often arise out of the desire to acknowledge and explore the messy, complex, contradictory nature of life. And while it is sometimes an abundance of feelings and opinions, that draw young poets to the art form, I suspect that more poems arise out of the writers desire to learn, listen and discover, than out of the intention to make grand or infallible pronouncements realizing this when I was a younger writer, set me free, allowing me to engage with all manner of material about which I knew little and sought to learn more dh Lawrence's poem, song of a man who has come through is an example of a poem written out of the wish not to pronounce, but to receive wisdom. The poem opens, Not I, Not I, but the wind that blows through me. -
San José State University Department of English and Comparative Literature ENGLISH 131: Writing Poetry, Sec. 1 Fall 2014
San José State University Department of English and Comparative Literature ENGLISH 131: Writing Poetry, sec. 1 Fall 2014 Instructor: Prof. Alan Soldofsky Office Location: FO 106 Telephone: 408-924-4432 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: M, T, W 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Th PM by appointment Class Days/Time: M W 12:00 – 1:15 PM Classroom: Clark Hall 111 (Incubator Classroom) Prerequisites: ENGL 71: Introduction to Creative Writing (or equivalent); or instructor’s consent. Course Description Workshop in verse forms and poetic craft. Study of traditional and contemporary models. (May be repeated for credit.) Methods and Procedures • Students in this course will write and revise original poems, which class members will critique during the weekly in-class workshops. • Class will be divided into four student writing-groups whose members will post drafts of poems to Canvas for other members to discuss (on the Student Groups setting in Canvas). • Student Writing-Groups (one group per week) will have their members’ poems discussed in the weekly in-class workshop. • The workshop’s principal text will be class members’ original poems posted on our workshop’s Canvas and Blogger sites. • Verse forms and poetic craft will be taught through assigned readings from the required textbooks and from links to poems and commentary on the Internet. comprised of published poems, an online prosody workbook with commentaries and craft exercises, and links to poems and commentaries (sometimes including audio and video files of poets reading. • The class will be divided into 4 student writing-groups (6 or 7 students per group) to discuss first/early drafts of poems. -
Roberto Sierra's Missa Latina: Musical Analysis and Historical Perpectives Jose Rivera
Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2006 Roberto Sierra's Missa Latina: Musical Analysis and Historical Perpectives Jose Rivera Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC ROBERTO SIERRA’S MISSA LATINA: MUSICAL ANALYSIS AND HISTORICAL PERPECTIVES By JOSE RIVERA A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2006 Copyright © 2006 Jose Rivera All Rights Reserved To my lovely wife Mabel, and children Carla and Cristian for their unconditional love and support. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work has been possible with the collaboration, inspiration and encouragement of many individuals. The author wishes to thank advisors Dr. Timothy Hoekman and Dr. Kevin Fenton for their guidance and encouragement throughout my graduate education and in the writing of this document. Dr. Judy Bowers, has shepherd me throughout my graduate degrees. She is a Master Teacher whom I deeply admire and respect. Thank you for sharing your passion for teaching music. Dr. Andre Thomas been a constant source of inspiration and light throughout my college music education. Thank you for always reminding your students to aim for musical excellence from their mind, heart, and soul. It is with deepest gratitude that the author wishes to acknowledge David Murray, Subito Music Publishing, and composer Roberto Sierra for granting permission to reprint choral music excerpts discussed in this document. I would also like to thank Leonard Slatkin, Norman Scribner, Joseph Holt, and the staff of the Choral Arts Society of Washington for allowing me to attend their rehearsals. -
Download Master List
Code Title Poem Poet Read by Does Note the CD Contain AIK Conrad Aiken Reading s N The Blues of Ruby Matrix Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken Time in the Rock (selections) Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken A Letter from Li Po Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken BEA(1) The Beat Generation (Vol. 1) Y San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation) Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation (McFadden & Dor) Bob McFadden Bob McFadden Footloose in Greenwich Village Blues Montage Langston Hughes Langston Hughes / Leonard Feather Manhattan Fable Babs Gonzales Babs Gonzales Reaching Into it Ken Nordine Ken Nordine Parker's Mood King Pleasure King Pleasure Route 66 Theme Nelson Riddle Nelson Riddle Diamonds on My Windshield Tom Waits Tom Waits Naked Lunch (Excerpt) William Burroughs William Burroughs Bernie's Tune Lee Konitz Lee Konitz Like Rumpelstiltskin Don Morrow Don Morrow OOP-POP-A-DA Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie Basic Hip (01:13) Del Close and John Del Close / John Brent Brent Christopher Columbus Digs the Jive John Drew Barrymore John Drew Barrymore The Clown (with Jean Shepherd) Charles Mingus Charles Mingus The Murder of the Two Men… Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Patchen BEA(2) The Beat Generation (Vol.2) Y The Hip Gahn (06:11) Lord Buckley Lord Buckley Twisted (02:16) Lambert, Hendricks & Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Ross Yip Roc Heresy (02:31) Slim Gaillard & His Slim Gaillard & His Middle Middle Europeans Europeans HA (02:48) Charlie Ventura & His Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra Orchestra Pull My Daisy (04:31) David Amram Quintet David Amram Quintet with with Lynn Sheffield Lynn Sheffield October in the Railroad Earth (07:08) Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac / Steve Allen The Cool Rebellion (20:15) Howard K. -
Gwendolyn Brooks and Me by Ivy J.P. Yoder Imagine Not Knowing If Your Mom and Dad Would Make It Home Safel
Gwendolyn Brooks and Me By Ivy J.P. Yoder Imagine not knowing if your Mom and Dad would make it home safely from work. Imagine attending a school that was segregated. Imagine living in a culture that laughed at and made fun of your dreams – just because of your skin color. This was the reality for Gwendolyn Brooks, an African‐ American girl born in Kansas who began writing poetry in 1924 at age seven. Ms. Brooks certainly had talent. Her mother saw it right away, telling her daughter, “You’re going to be the lady Paul Laurence Dunbar!” By the time Ms. Brooks was eleven her poetry had been published in a local Chicago newspaper. Two years later one of her poems appeared in a children’s magazine, and by sixteen she had published 75 poems. Despite the challenges of growing up in segregated Chicago, Ms. Brooks found encouragement from her community. In fact, she even received words of encouragement from Langston Hughes, who she met at her family’s church after a poetry recital he gave. Working hard and supported by her parents (a janitor and a school teacher), Ms. Brooks published her first complete book of poetry in 1945 at age twenty‐eight. Five years later her second book won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She was the first African American to win a Pulitzer. In 1962, Ms. Brooks was invited by President John F. Kennedy to read her poetry at a Library of Congress poetry festival. After that she was invited to teach at many colleges and universities. -
Jesse Jones / Composer
JESSE JONES / COMPOSER Jesse Jones is an American artist of wide-ranging tastes and influences. His music has been performed extensively across North America, Europe, and Asia. Jones has received numerous accolades as both a composer and performer, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Elliott Carter Rome Prize in Composition from the American Academy in Rome, a Juilliard String Quartet Commission, a Tanglewood Commission, a Barlow Commission, the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an EarShot New Music Reading with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert, and a fellowship in Aldeburgh Music’s “Jerwood Opera Writing Programme.” Jones is an alumnus of both the Tanglewood Music Center and the Aspen Music Festival and School, and has received the Heckscher Foundation Prize in Composition from Ithaca College, and the Sage Fellowship from Cornell University. Jones has participated in the Underwood New Music Readings of the American Composers Orchestra, received fellowships and honors from the University of Oregon, and awards from ASCAP. His choral music is published internationally by Earthsongs. In summer 2016, an all-Jones CD is slated to be released by the Freiburg-based Ensemble Recherche, and New York’s Argento Ensemble, with soprano Sharon Harms & tenor Zach Finkelstein. The American Composers Orchestra, the Spokane Symphony, the Cornell Symphony and Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, the Oregon Composers Orchestra, the New Frontiers Chamber Orchestra, the Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestra and others have presented Jones’ orchestral works. Others of his compositions have been programmed by the Juilliard String Quartet, the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, the Italian ensemble Alter Ego, Camerata Notturna, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, the Momenta and iO String Quartets, the New Fromm Players, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Israeli Chamber Project, Ossia, So Percussion, FIREWORKS, and ECCE.