College Radio Station of the Year Engaging Romanticism
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College Radio Station of the Year Engaging Romanticism WKDU-FM, Drexel's student-run radio station, is having Engaging Romanticism, a performance one of its most successful years to date while celebrating by students and faculty of the music its 40th anniversary. They recently were ranked in a list of program, will be presented on Sunday, the nation’s top 10 best college radio stations by The Wall November 13th at 4 PM, in the A.J. Street Journal and now WKDU has won the College Drexel Picture Gallery (3141 Chestnut Music Journal’s (CMJ) Station of the Year award, for the Street). More than just a concert, Art second year in a row. WKDU was also named “Biggest History professor and historian Charles Champion of the Local Scene,” a win that validates the Morscheck will address how Romantic very ethos of the station. music continues to make a direct and meaningful emotional connection with “CMJ is kind of like Billboard for college stations,” says listeners and performers. Jake Cooley, a junior business administration major and general manager at the station. “It’s a big deal because at The concert will include songs by CMJ you’re voted on by other colleges and people in the Schubert and Brahms, the Romances by industry.” Robert Schumann, Chopin’s Ballade Number Three, Richard Strauss’ WKDU Philadelphia 91.7 FM, broadcast from the Serenade for Winds, and the finale of basement of the Creese Student Center, is free format, non- Victor Ewald’s third brass quintet. commercial radio whose members are unpaid student volunteers who have a passion for music and unique radio The Drexel faculty includes some of the programming for the greater Philadelphia area audience. community’s leading musicians who Their terrestrial FM signal broadcasts at 800 watts and is will perform during the concert: also streamed online. pianists Stephanie Abruzzo and Brian Dilts, flutist Veronica Mascaro, alto “These students have a passion for local music,” says Rebecca Oehlers, and trumpeter Darin Larry Epstein, associate professor of entertainment and Kelly, as well as student singers and arts management and faculty advisor for the station. instrumentalists. “They’re not just interested in listening to themselves talk on the radio—they’re interested in new music and what’s Romantic music is all around us. It’s going on in the local music community. That’s what the stylistic source of John Williams’ makes WKDU such a gem.” and Hans Zimmer’s film scores, and soundtracks quote liberally from Station management includes: Jake Cooley, General Romantic composers Wagner, Manager; Nora Meighan, Personnel Director; Sean Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff. Dr. Comber, Production Director; Carolyn Haynes; Program Morscheck will speak to why this Director; Jamie Crymes; Public Relations Director; Sean music, more than any other, continues Lavery, Station Manager and Pat O’Brien, Treasurer. For to inform the musical and emotional more information or to join WKDU visit www.wkdu.org. landscape of our lives. Admission is free and the public is warmly welcomed. Modus Operandi Thai Harvest Philadelphia's Alexander Stadler will be showing his multi-faceted design work in the exhibit Modus Operandi at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery from November 7th to For 700 years, the people of Bo Klua in December 9th. Works on display will include: paintings, rural Thailand have subsisted on rice fabric designs, swatches, a line of scarves, illustrated grown and harvested by hand on steep, chronicles, fashion designs, several books written and rocky slopes. While they enjoy a strong illustrated by Alex, and finally, a unique wall drawing. community, these farmers struggle to There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, overcome chronic pain, inefficiency, November 16th at 5 PM that will include an artist’s talk and low crop yields. This year, a team and book signing by Stadler. of students from the Westphal College, the College of Engineering and the Alex Stadler received a BFA in Printmaking from the School of Biomedical Engineering, Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 and then went Science, & Health Systems (Biomed) from Providence to Buenos Aires before moving to helped them to reach their goals. Philadelphia where he began designing textiles in addition to writing and illustrating children's books. His The team designed and implemented an company, stadler-kahn, produces scarves in New York City efficient and ergonomic rice planter from imported Italian merino wool. Concurrently with this that eliminates pain, cuts sowing time exhibition Alex is curating a Pop-up show at the by 50%, and has the potential to Philadelphia Museum of Art. P.POD, (Philadelphia increase rice yields. The team worked Produces Original Design), will bring together 40 local with farmers during an adventuresome designers and their work from November 11th to December two-week trip to Thailand that included 31st at the museum. For more information call 215-895- hosting workshops and an unexpected 2548 or visit drexel.edu/westphal. long hike to escape flooding. The team continues to work with the local Sustainable Development Research Foundation (SDRF) to scale and expand the program. Our own Katie VenVertloh, Graphic Design student, travelled to Thailand with the team and was critical to the effort. Katie produced a visual catalog for participatory design, fundraising materials, a website, and several iterations of the main deliverable: a manual enabling the farmers and their advocates to produce and improve the rice planter. The team will host a seminar, The Thai Harvest Initiative, a multimedia presentation on how four Drexel programs came together to empower Thai farmers to use technology to improve their livelihoods, on Tuesday, November 15th at 5 PM in the The Drexel Players return to the Mandell Theater this fall Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building with a re-imagined production of William Shakespeare's room 120. A reception will follow with Twelfth Night, adapted by director and Theatre Professor live music by Drexel alumnus Dante Nick Anselmo as 12th Nite. Bucci. For more information, visit DrexelThaiHarvest.org. In 12th Nite we move the action from a sleepy Italian seaside village to a contemporary Miami-like town. With a Signs And Wonders Beach Boys-inspired score, created by Michael Kiley, the music will make this production a bit reminiscent of a Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello beach party film. Anselmo's adaptation focuses the story on young lovers and mistaken identities with plenty of comic relief from Shakespeare's outlandish and ever-foolish characters Sire Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguacheek and every body's favorite fool, Feste. With sets by Meghan Jones, lighting by Dom Chacon, and costumes by Lauren Perigard, the Mandell Theater stage will be transformed into an ocean side beach. Janelle Kauffman, a Film & Video student, designed video elements for the production. Janelle recently finished assisting Jorge Cousineau, a top theatrical media designer, on a show for the National Constitution Center. 12th Nite will play at the Mandell Theater (33rd & Chestnuts Sts) from November 17th - 20th. Thursday, For more than forty years professor Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8 PM, and Stuart Rome has been taking there is a special 10 AM performance on Friday, followed photographs of some of nature’s most by a talk back with the cast. 12th Nite will close with a mesmerizing and powerful landscapes. Sunday matinee on the 20th at 2 PM. Tickets are $15 for He has traveled from small Indonesian the general public and $5 for students, Drexel staff and villages to the coastlines of Haiti to faculty with an ID. You may purchase tickets by visiting explore the intimate framework of www.drexelplayers.com orcivilization and nature. For his latest mandellboxoffice.westphal.drexel.edu or by calling the book Signs And Wonders, Stuart spent box office directly 215.895.2787, Monday-Friday 11:00 nearly three years photographing AM to 2:00 PM starting November 7th. Florida’s interior, a region that has Read More figured large and mysterious in America’s psyche. The book will be featured in a gallery OFF CAMPUS on CW Philly 57 talk and signing by Stuart at Gallery 339 (339 South 21st St) on Saturday, November 5th at 2 PM. Gallery 339 will exhibit several works by Stuart and hold a light reception during the signing. The event is free to the public and books will be available for purchase for $20, which Stuart will happily sign. The work in Signs And Wonders is currently on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida. Stuart is one of a handful of distinguished landscape photographers commissioned by the OFF CAMPUS, the sitcom produced by students from the Southeast Museum of Photography to Department of Cinema & Television, won the Outstanding create new photography for exhibition Achievement in a Student Production, Arts and at the museum. Stuart’s photographs Entertainment/Cultural Affairs, at the annual NATAS have been included in numerous group awards at the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards Gala in exhibitions at galleries, museums, September. The honors for OFF CAMPUS keep coming universities and art centers across the during November as CBS-owned The CW Philly 57 country. His images have been collected /WPSG-TV (check local listings for the station in your by the Center for Creative Photography area), will air three episodes of the series on successive at the University of Arizona; The Saturdays starting on November 5th at 11:30 PM. All three Davison Art Center at Wesleyan episodes will be re-broadcasted on Saturday, November University; The Federal Reserve Bank 26th from 1:00 – 2:30 AM and Sunday, November 27th Collection; Los Angeles County from 2:00 – 3:30 PM. Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Fine Art; Newport Harbor Museum of Television program director Professor Andrew Susskind is Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; the executive producer of the project, which is now Princeton University Art Museum; beginning production on season four.