December 1, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Geena Davis, CFA'79, Hon.'89. Photo: BU Today
Geena Davis, CFA’79, Hon. ’99, spoke last night at the Friend’s of the Libraries Speaker’s Series sponsored by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
Aside from her Oscar-winning success, Davis is a concerned mother of a young daughter (she also has twin boys). She began The Geena Davis Institute On Gender in Media in 2004 to study and address the depiction of female characters in children’s media as well as the imbalance of male to female characters in many of the shows. A recent University of Southern California study sponsored by the Institute, found evidence of stereotypical portrayals of women and fewer speaking parts in relation to men in the 122 films examined. –Information from BU Today
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December 1, 2010 at 2:53 pm
TRIIIBE
In Search of Eden: A Work in Progress
Up until Sunday, December 19.
As the title suggests, In Search of Eden: A Work in Progress, is a show that delivers a new experience every time visitors see it. Repeat visits often offer new insights at exhibitions but in this case, they're all but certain. Of course, if you have never seen it, I recommend that you do.
From the CFA web site:
In Search of Eden: A Work in Progress is an evolving show by the Boston-based collective Triiibe. This growing collective was formed in 2006 by performance artists (and identical triplets) Alicia, Kelly and Sara Casilio and photographer and BU alumnus Cary Wolinsky. Triiibe has made work that explores and confronts a range of contemporary issues through a variety of media. This multi-faceted and collaborative project will explore various social constructs interpreted through metaphors of a present-day Garden of Eden. The installation will encompass photography, sculpture, painting and daily performances by the artists, who will be living in the gallery for the duration of the show.
Read Cate McQuaid's review in the Boston Globe.
See also: Facebook/triiibe
808 Gallery
808 Commonwealth Avenue
Gallery Hours
11 a.m.–9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday
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December 1, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Derek Jacobi. Photo: Public Domain from Wikimedia Commons
An interesting and candid interview with the great actor in The Guardian:
Derek Jacobi's King Lear: 'I've always felt slightly young for the role, but now I'm 72...'
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November 30, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Professor Harold Reddicliffe
From the November 28, 2010, Boston Globe review by Sebastian Smee:
Cameras, Clocks, and Microscopes in Uncanny Detail
"Harold Reddicliffe is a fascinating artist, and certainly one of the most accomplished I’ve come across in these parts...There’s...an emotional dynamic at work: a comic ebullience beneath the poker-face, an enlivening, adult tension between scientific fastidiousness and a sensual attention to surfaces, between cold precision and warm exuberance. You see it in the work of Spain’s Antonio López García and in Britain’s Euan Uglow. And you certainly see it in Boston’s Harold Reddicliffe — a very underrated artist."
Professor Reddicliffe will host a gallery talk on Friday, December 3, at noon. Free and open to the public. Show is up until January 16, 2011.
Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Art Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Avenue
Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri 10-5; Sat, Sun 1-5.
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November 30, 2010 at 12:22 pm
It is difficult to spend time in Russia without thinking back to the Soviet Union. After all, it was not that long ago that the decision was made to dissolve it at the Belovezh Forest meeting in December 1991.
One of the classic satirical novels of Soviet literature is Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
Mikhail Bulgakov Photo: Wikimedia Commons. This work was in the public domain in Russia according to Law No. 5351-I of Russia of July 9, 1993 (with revisions) on Copyrights and Neighbouring Rights
Copies of it made the rounds in intellectual and dissident circles despite the best efforts of the government to suppress it. Bulgakov's play, The Days of the Turbins offered a sympathetic view of the erstwhile Russian monarchy, which also displeased officials. Bulgakov's request to emigrate was denied personally by Stalin in a telephone call that must have shaken the writer. Though much of his work was banned, Bulgakov was never imprisoned and died in Moscow in 1940.
As it happens, BU Professor Katherine T. O' Connor published a translation of The Master and Margarita in 1995 (with Diana Burgin); Ardis Publishers, Dana Point, CA.
You can read The Master and Margarita free on Google Books, http://books.google.com. It is also available at the Mugar Library.
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November 28, 2010 at 4:27 am
College of Fine Arts Freshman Piano student Leon Bernsdorf at the Liszt Competition
The Central Music School in Moscow of the famous Tchaikovsky Conservatory held their Second International Liszt Piano Competition this past week. The School, founded in 1935 is recognized as a leading institution for musically gifted children. Many outstanding artists like Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Natalia Gutman, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and many more studied there.
Under the remarkable leadership of Alexander Yakupov, the School now has new facilities, dorms, classrooms and four concert halls. Young students from all over the world come to study here.
The competition had an outstanding artistic quality and we are very happy to report that our own Leon Bernsdorf, a student of Professor Boaz Sharon, won the Second Prize with a remarkable performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, the School's orchestra conducted by Maestro Yakupov was extraordinary in it's quality, commitment and enthusiasm. Young Russian musicians were invited to come to the BU Tanglewood Institute next year; one of them will come for the second time and is very interested in joining BU's School of Music. More soon...
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November 23, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn
Though I was unable to attend this concert due to travel, I did attend the rehearsal. I am therefore confident that the audience at Old South Church had a wonderful evening. Congratulations to Professor Ann Howard Jones and all the artists who worked on this event.
Hadyn's Paukenmasse (Mass in a Time of War) has always reminded me of my student days at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1960s. Like a lot of American campuses at that time, protests of American involvement in the Vietnam War were a regular occurrence there and in nearby Los Angeles. I recall seeing Jane Fonda at one and also a man who claimed to be Carlos Castaneda at another of the protests. It was around this time that I sang part of the Paukenmasse at a concert in Griffith Park. I cannot confirm that either Jane Fonda or Carlos Castaneda attended that performance!
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November 23, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Peter Zazofsky, solo violin; David Hoose, conductor. Photograph: Michael Lutch
On The Road
By the time you read this, I will be in Russia with School of Music director, Robert Dodson and Piano department chair, Boaz Sharon. Among other activities, we will meet with officials from the Moscow Conservatory on possible collaborations between our schools.
Even though I am 4,500 miles away, I am thinking of all of you who helped create a memorable evening at Symphony Hall in honor of Roman Totenberg. Thank you.
According to the Boston Globe, this was the first concert to be webcast from Symphony Hall (see article link below). My wife Marisa, watched it via webcast from Mexico City and a friend watched from Paris.
If you don't already know of the rich career and life of Roman Totenberg, who continues to inspire us, the Globe article provides fascinating details.
A Symphony Hall Tribute to Violinist Totenberg's Century
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November 18, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Photograph by Kalman Zabarsky
Roman Totenberg
I hope you will join me and the entire Boston University community at Symphony Hall on Sunday, November 21, at 7:30 p.m. to honor our own Roman Totenberg in celebration of his 100th birthday and the countless contributions he has made to music.
Each time a former student raises a bow in one of the world's concert halls, Professor Totenberg's impact on music is felt and heard. Please join us.
Boston University Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall
David Hoose, conductor
Peter Zazofsky, violin
Ludwig van Beethoven Prometheus Overture
Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2
Edward Elgar Symphony No. 1 in A-flat
With a special tribute emceed by political commentator Cokie Roberts
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November 18, 2010 at 1:50 pm
French doctor René Laennec (1781-1826) had a sensitive ear; as a flutist he knew how to listen.
In 1816, he came upon an idea that would help him to hear the internal sounds of the body. He rolled up sheets of paper into a cylinder and pressed one end to a patient's abdomen and the other to his (Laennec's) ear.
Laennec was also hoping to maintain a dignified distance between himself and the patient, some of whom were women. By using the cylinder, he avoided placing his ear directly on the patient. He soon replaced the paper cylinder with a wooden one. It is impossible to overstate the importance of this diagnostic tool which opened the human body to medicine.
If he had never played the flute, would he have had this insight?
Public Domain Image from Wikimedia Commons. Artist unknown.
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