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Twists on John Keats

February 7, 2013 at 5:13 pm

The Core presents a poem by Dan Beachy-Quick titled The Cricket and The Grasshopper, named after the poem by Romantic poet John Keats, whose work is studied in the CC202 Core class. Here is the Dan B-Q poem: The senseless leaf in the fevered hand Grows hot, near blood-heat, but never grows Green. Weeks ago the […]

Posted in Academics, Art, Community, Curriculum, Great Ideas, Great Personalities | Tagged build, expand, influence, inspiration, John Keats, new, old, poem, poet, poetry, reference, twist | Comments (0)

Mozart Portrait Research & Controversy

February 6, 2013 at 2:49 pm

The Core presents an article by Daniel J. Wakin on the debated topic of Mozart portrait authenticity. The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Mozart’s birthplace, have announced their intriguing findings. A sample of the article: “It’s an emotional question,” Ms. Ramsauer said. “Mozart is such a universal genius. Everybody knows him. Everybody takes part of his life.”… One […]

Posted in Art, Community, Great Personalities | Tagged controversy, face, fake, famous, look, Mozart, music, painting, portrait, question, real | Comments (0)

The Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg & ‘Howl’

February 6, 2013 at 2:38 pm

The Core encourages students to explore the arts and dip their intellectual toes in diverse fields – one such extraordinary field is that of Beat writing. A quick look into Wikipedia gives an equally quick description of this movement: The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, […]

Posted in Art, Community, Great Ideas, Great Personalities, Great Photograph | Tagged Allen Grinsberg, Beat, Beatnik, change, controversial, film, generation, movement, movie, poetry, writing | Comments (0)

The Saxophone and ‘The Odyssey’

February 5, 2013 at 3:32 pm

Relating to the study of The Odyssey by CC101 every fall, here is an interesting fact: great saxophonist Chris Potter draws inspiration from the Greek epic for his music. In the article discussing the matter, Potter is quoted as saying: I read it [the Odyssey] in high school and thought it was cool but didn’t […]

Posted in Art, Community, Curriculum, Great Ideas | Tagged Art, combination, epic, expression, Greek, inspiration, mix, music, odyssey | Comments (0)

CC106: The Sound of Music

February 5, 2013 at 3:22 pm

Today, February 5th, Biology Professor Jelle Atema (Doctorandus, University of Utrecht (Netherlands); PhD, University of Michigan), held a lecture titled “The sound of music: frog calls and the design of music halls”, for the Core class CC106. CC106 is designed to round out students’ exploration of the natural sciences by focusing on the science of life. The professors […]

Posted in Academics, Community, Core Lecturers, Curriculum | Tagged CC106, class, evolution, frog, halls, lecture, life, music, Professor Atema, Professor Schneider, Science | Comments (0)

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

February 5, 2013 at 12:53 pm

Relating to CC202’s study of Walt Whitman’s work, here is an extract of the article by Claire Kelley on the poet’s whereabouts while he was writing in 1855: “Whitman-iacs” like NYU Professor Karen Karbiener have paid their respects to the ghost of Walt Whitman by visiting the unassuming white house that stands one story taller than […]

Posted in Academics, Community, Curriculum | Tagged article, CC202, ghost, living, poem, space, time, Walt Whitman, whispers | Comments (0)

Piano Concert at TSAI

February 4, 2013 at 3:36 pm

Tomorrow, February 5th at 8 pm, in the TSAI Performance Center, there will be a Piano Department Concert, featuring works by Claude Debussy. The event is free and open to the public. The Core encourages students to drop by and dip their toes in the music.

Posted in Activities, Announcements, Art, Community, Events | Tagged Claude Debussy, concert, free, music, open, piano, TSAI | Comments (0)

National Poetry Month & Free Issues of ‘Poetry’

February 4, 2013 at 3:00 pm

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is starting a giveaway of Poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month. A limited number of free copies of the April 2013 issue of Poetry magazine will be available to individuals, book clubs, and reading groups that request them by March 24. The April 2013 issue of Poetry includes new poems by […]

Posted in Announcements, Art, Community, General Announcements | Tagged celebrate, free, issue, national poetry month, poetry, Poetry Foundation, request | Comments (0)

André Alexis: Why Read?

February 4, 2013 at 2:41 pm

The essay discusses David Shields’ novel How Literature Saved My Life, and how its ideas truly relate to many aspects of existence. Here is an extract: One of the other things literature does is that it keeps the plates in the air, so to speak. Much thinking, in the humanities, has shifted from the answer-oriented […]

Posted in Art, Community, Great Ideas | Tagged books, enthusiasm, excitement, life, literature, motivation, novel, save | Comments (0)

John Keats: “This Living Hand”

January 31, 2013 at 2:16 pm

Some spring semesters, CC202 studies the works of John Keats. Here is an interesting untitled fragment the Romantic poet scribbled in a margin: This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights […]

Posted in Academics, Art, Curriculum, Quotes | Tagged dark, discussion, gloomy, hand, interesting, John Keats, ominous, poem, poet, poetry, tomb | Comments (0)

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