January 20, 2011 at 3:34 pm
This morning, BU Today published a story on my goals as dean of the College of Fine Arts. I am pleased to see this interest in our College and it is important that the University community know of my commitment to have the arts become an integral part of every BU student’s education. If you [...]
January 13, 2011 at 6:18 pm
After 36 years as Director, Peter Brook is leaving the Bouffes du Nord, the experimental Paris theater, where his minimalist productions continue to influence how plays are staged, The Guardian reports. I met him there in 1981 when he was staging La Tragedie de Carmen; my dear friend violinist Jacques Dejean played in the orchestra.
January 12, 2011 at 10:00 pm
School of Theatre Professor James Spruill (’75) died on December 31. Professor Spruill was an actor in New York in the 1960s and early 1970s before coming to Boston. As a professor, director, and leader in the Boston theater community, he taught students with a generosity and warmth that many never forgot and brought to [...]
January 7, 2011 at 11:54 am
It is with sadness that I must report that Professor Raphael Hillyer, acclaimed musician, teacher, and mentor to so many students in our School of Music died on December 27, at the age of 97. Professor Hillyer had recently served on the Host Committee of the Roman Totenberg Centennial Celebration at Symphony Hall and had [...]
January 5, 2011 at 10:36 pm
The New York Times reports that at Roslyn High School on Long Island, a pilot program is underway to determine if iPads should replace textbooks for a generation raised on video games. Roslyn High is a strong school that has sent many graduates on to BU over the years. What they do will influence other [...]
December 31, 2010 at 2:52 pm
(First learn Spanish. Then study Chinese.) In the December 29, 2010, New York Times , Nicholas Kristof recommends Spanish comprehension for all Americans. He concedes that Mandarin is the “it” foreign language in schools right now and indeed, recommends studying it, but Spanish should come first as it is no longer as “foreign” a language [...]
December 22, 2010 at 6:06 pm
In today’sWall Street Journal, Gunther Schuller is called “the man of many music careers.” The article points out that the well-known composer taught composition at Yale, ran the New England Conservatory, was music director at what is now Tanglewood, and played on the legendary Mile Davis album, Birth of the Cool. I am pleased to [...]
December 17, 2010 at 4:43 pm
The New York Times reports that some recent college graduates, tired of looking for jobs, have started their own businesses. It takes money but there may be help there, too. No Jobs? Young Graduates Make Their Own Young Entrepreneur Council
December 16, 2010 at 3:15 pm
I mentioned in a post last week that I intended to see Peter Greenaway’s installation, Last Supper, in the Park Avenue Armory while in New York. It was a visually spectacular show and it had some things to say about the way we experience art and the relationship between art and technology. Art and Technology [...]
December 14, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Somewhere in the middle of the last century, the distinction between high and low culture passed into history under a tidal wave of modern communication. The distinction may have done more harm than good anyway as art cannot be so neatly categorized. Take for example, a very young Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), who in 1910, met [...]
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