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The September edition of NPR Music’s “Heavy Rotation” includes a track by Laura Veirs ’97. ‘That Alice’ from the 2013 album Warp & Weft is one of “Ten Songs Public Radio Can’t Stop Playing.”
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Gao Wins Grant from Minnesota State Arts Board
4 September 2013Gao Hong, Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments, has been awarded a $53,600 “Folk and Traditional Arts” grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. As a master pipa player, this grant supports Gao in promoting and preserving the traditional Pudong style of pipa music, and in giving concerts and lectures in three Minnesota locations.
“This is a wonderful grant. I’m so thankful,” Gao told The Northfield News. “I want to get more people involved with pipa music.”
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R. Kayeen Thomas, Carleton Class of 2006, was awarded the Phillis Wheatley Book Award for First Fiction at the 15th annual Harlem Book Fair on July 19 at the Langston Hughes Auditorium of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. Thomas was honored for his critically-acclaimed novel “Antebellum” (Simon & Schuster/Strebor Books 2012), for which Thomas also received a nomination for a 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Debut Author. Past recipients of the Phillis Wheatley Award include Maya Angelou, Gordon Parks, and Terry McMillan.
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Video Feature: International Festival
4 June 2013Carleton student videographer Andy Rodgers ’16 captured some footage during the College’s annual International Festival at the Weitz Center for Creativitiy.
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Carleton Art Professors’ Work Featured in 25th Anniversary Celebration of Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
17 May 2013In a new installation celebrating 25 years of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the work of Carleton College art professors David Lefkowitz and Stephen Mohring is featured in “Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf.” The Walker Art Center invites the public to play two eight-hole courses, featuring individual holes created by various architects, artists, engineers, machinists, and mini-golf aficionados. The new interactive installation features everything from garden gnomes masquerading as foosball players to a scale model of a French chateau, along with mazes, gopher holes, and contours mapped from the course of the legendary Augusta National Golf Club. The result is a delight for both serious golf purists and lovers of outdoor kitsch.
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Eric Tretbar ’86 presents Northfield premiere of his latest feature film, “Girl Meets Bike”
9 May 2013Former Carleton College cinema & media studies (CAMS) instructor Eric Tretbar, Class of 1986, returns to campus this Saturday, May 11, for the Northfield premiere of his latest feature film, “Girl Meets Bike.” This local screening will take place at 7 p.m. in the Weitz Center for Creativity Cinema. The 105-minute film will be followed by a Q & A session with Tretbar, along with members of the cast and crew. The screening is free and opening to the public. Please note that the film is unrated but includes adult content.
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London Gives Keynote Address at Musical Metre in Comparative Perspective Conference
19 April 2013Justin London, professor of music, gave the Keynote Address, “Toward a Global Understanding of Musical Metre,” at the Musical Metre in Comparative Perspective conference, which took place March 4 through 6. The conference was dedicated to Professor London’s work on cross-cultural models of musical rhythm and meter, and featured respondents and scholars from North America, Scandinavia, and the European Union. London also presented a second paper, “Stravinsky’s Hiccups: Cognitive and Aesthetic Aspects of Metric Ambiguity,” in addition to his keynote.
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Photo Feature: Winter 2013 Musical Performances
17 March 2013The end of winter term brought a plethora of musical performances by several different student ensembles including the Carleton Orchestra, the Jazz Ensemble, the Chinese Music Ensemble, and more.
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London’s Article Featured by ‘Music Perception’
8 March 2013Justin London, Professor of music, recently co-authored the article, “Systematic Distortions in Musicians’ Reproduction of Cyclic Three-Interval Rhythms,” with Bruno Repp (Haskins Labs, New Haven) and Peter Keller (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig). The article appeared in Music Perception and examines musicians’ ability to produce and synchronize with complex rhythms. They found that musicians could, so long as the music is not too slow. Their findings also support dynamic systems models of rhythm perception and production.
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London Publishes on Sonny Boy Williamson’s ‘Little Village’
8 March 2013Professor of music Justin London recently had his article, “Ephemeral Media, Ephemeral Works, and Sonny Boy Williamson’s ‘Little Village’” published in the latest issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. London notes that a recording of the great blues harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson inspired the paper. The article explains that although “Little Village” was never released as a single, the piece gives listeners a window into how songs were composed and produced during Chicago Blues era of the 1950s. In particular, it shows the impact of recording technology on song composition, and forces one to consider the difference between a song and an improvisation.
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