Library Cultural Calendar, 2004-2005:
"We aim to educate and entertain both the College community and the surrounding area with our events." Judith Wild, Cultural Events Committee Chair"
Each year, the Library provides a rich series of cultural events for members of the College community, as well as the community at large. This programming is arranged by the Library’s Cultural Events Committee; many events are followed by receptions. This year’s offerings, all admission free, included:
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EVENT
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Tuesday09/21/04
Tuesday 10/05/05
Thursday 10/28/05
Thursday 11/04/04
Tuesday 11/16/04
Thursday 03/03/05
Tuesday 03/15/05
Thursday 04/07/05
Thursday 04/14/05
Tuesday 04/19/05
Friday 05/13/05
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Guitar concert: Ana-Maria Rosado, guitar, & cellist
Guitar concert: Paul Gregory, guitar
Brooklyn Noir (book talk/panel discussion)
Artists Talk About Art: Chakaia Booker
Guitar concert: Stephen Marchionda
Recital inaugurating the WTA's new piano
50 Years after the Eagle: How City Papers Cover Brooklyn (panel discussion)
Author Party
Jesse Sheidlower, North American editor of the OED: American English: From the Streets to the Dictionary (lecture)
Burton Rocks: What I Learned from Jackie Robinson (book talk)
Spring Seminar: Personal Liberties in the Age of Terrorism
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The members of the Cultural Events Committee include Judith Wild (chair), Jane Cramer, Anthony Cucchiara, Miriam Deutch, Marianne LaBatto, and Irwin Weintraub. Jane Cramer creates the posters for all events and Sandra Stumbo arranges the receptions that follow.
"It takes a village to run a successful event. While scores of people helped, the committee is especially grateful to Suzie Samuel, for seeing to the lighting, sound and equipment of the WTA, and the staff of Technical Services for distributing flyers, manning the events, and helping in a variety of capacities." Judith Wild
GUITAR SERIES
Our collaboration with Lars Frandsen and the Conservatory continued into the Fall Semester with another group of talented musicians entertaining and educating music students and other guitar aficionados. Each concert was followed by a workshop.
September 21: versatile guitarist Ana María Rosado, accompanied by talented cellist Joseph Meyers: Latin American works by Bellinati, Tania León, Morel, Vásquez, Zenamon, and Brouwer.
October 5: award-winning guitarist Paul Gregory: works by Barrios, Bach, Albeniz, and Walton.
November 16: virtuoso guitarist Stephen Marchionda: works by Dowland, Britten, Maw, and Jose.
BROOKLYN NOIR
Brooklyn's neighborhoods are known for their unique ethnic ambience and the famous food, music, and lore that make them the envy of other cities. This broad cultural panorama is the brilliant setting in which a group of imaginative fiction writers constructed a spellbinding series of extraordinary crime stories entitled Brooklyn Noir. Tim McLoughlin, editor of Brooklyn Noir and author of "When All This Was Bay Ridge," and Ellen Miller, author of "Practicing," read tantalizing excerpts from their stories in an evening that included plenty of violence, sex, murder, and corruption ... all set in our extraordinary borough!
PIANO RECITAL
Again we partnered with the Conservatory, this time for a recital celebrating the arrival of the Woody Tanger Auditorium’s new piano, a gift of Barbra and Hal Higginbotham. Faculty members Honora Raphael and Michael Rogers, along with prize-winning students, performed works by Beethoven, Ravel, Scarlatti, Liszt, and Gershwin.
AMERICAN LANGUAGE: FROM THE STREETS TO THE DICTIONARY
In what proved to be both an entertaining and an educational evening, noted linguist Jesse Sheidlower spoke about the history of the Oxford English Dictionary and the criteria by which new words are added.
