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Public Discourse: Photographs by Robert Dawson
Robert Dawson has long been interested in how photography can be used to understand our relationship with the environment and in photography’s ability to shape public awareness and understanding of complex issues surrounding water, land use and our shared commons. Public Discourse: Photographs by Robert Dawson features work spanning 30 years of his career. The photographs…
Written, read and spoken
The feast of campus literary events through the end of the academic year is enough for even the most ravenous word nerd appetites. Beginning with a pair of events on March 13, the René Girard Lecture by Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands, and readings by Stegner Fellows Jacques Rancourt and Austin Smith, and ending on…
Stanford student explores the arts way off campus
Massive public murals typically aren’t the first image that comes to mind when the city of Lyon is mentioned. Located in east-central France between two major rivers, the Rhône and the Saône, Lyon is renowned for its Renaissance architecture, silk production and a plethora of local sausage specialties (calf’s feet anyone?). Yet a lesser-known gem…
Stanford’s Chocolate Heads dance around the theme ‘synesthesia’
The Bing Concert Hall box office ran out of tickets for the upcoming Chocolate Heads performance in just three hours. The Heads, along with their muse and mentor this year, William Parker, clearly have a following. The 842 lucky ticketholders will be among the first to see dance performed in the new hall and experience…
Othello, the Moor of Venice
The Stanford Shakespeare Company is proud to present Othello, Shakespeare’s timeless tale of a foreign general plagued by prejudice and insecurity, poisoned with the words of a treacherous friend seeking to advance his own position in the world. In the course of the general’s downfall, we encounter a love twisted into monstrous jealousy, an innocence battered…
Stanford Arts Institute funds student works
An exhibit of vinyl prints in the Cummings Art Building lobby, a Toyon performance of a student composition for violin and viola, the Cantor Arts Center’s annual Party on the Edge– all owe their existence to student arts grants given out quarterly through the Stanford Arts Institute. This winter, 76 students submitted applications for grants,…
The Crucible
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: a small, devout town is thrown into chaos with accusations of witchcraft and spiritual possession. Arthur Miller’s explosive account of the famous Salem witch trials caused a sensation with its parallels to the Communist scares of the 1950s, and remains one of his most enduring classics. Approximate duration: 2.25 hours Performances: Thursday,…
The 36th Stanford Viennese Ball Slideshow
The annual Viennese Ball is a Stanford tradition with social dancing, live music, dance contests, and performances. In 1978, students returning from the Stanford-in-Austria program organized the first ball, inspired by the vibrant balls that took place in Vienna. This year’s ball took place on Feb. 22 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
Professor Documents the Emotional Effect of Chopin’s Music at Cantor
Stanford music professor Jaroslaw Kapuscinski grew up steeped in Frederic Chopin’s music. He trained as a classical pianist and composer in Chopin’s hometown of Warsaw, and constantly encountered Chopin’s music outside of school, too. “Chopin is clearly the most treasured composer in Poland,” he says. That experience prompted Kapuscinski to create Where Is Chopin?, a…
A weekend of sold-out performances at Stanford’s Pan-Asian Music Festival
Ninety musicians filed onstage Saturday night with their erhus, konghous, pipas and zhongruans. At the end of a two-hour orchestral performance, the audience wouldn’t let them leave the stage. Finally, after several standing ovations and four encores, the appreciative musicians headed backstage. It was an auspicious performance and the first Chinese New Year’s Eve concert to be held in Stanford’s…
More than a Stanford concert hall, Bing is a high-tech music research lab
Like a well-designed sports car, Stanford’s new Bing Concert Hall looks great from the outside but is even more impressive when you peer under the hood. And Feb. 15-16, Bing’s high-tech engine will shift into overdrive when the groundbreaking electronic musicians of Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) showcase their latest works. From…
Windhover Contemplative Center to Break Ground in June
The university will break ground after Commencement on a new center for contemplation and reflection adjacent to the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden at the corner of Santa Teresa Street and Lomita Mall. The one-story, 4,000-square-foot Windhover Contemplative Center has been on the university’s construction agenda for about 15 years. The estimated $5.3 million project…
Free Concert for Stanford Undergraduates Announced
February 25, 2013 | The Beethoven Project Stanford Symphony Orchestra Jindong Cai, music director and conductor with Jon Nakamatsu, piano In its first ever free performance just for students, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra—under the direction of Jindong Cai—performs Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, the “Eroica” Symphony (movement 1), and Piano Concerto No. 3, with Van Cliburn Gold…
Ge Wang to receive the Champion of the Arts Award
Another member of the Stanford community is the recipient of Cantabile’s Champion of the Arts Award for the second consecutive year. Ge Wang of Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and co-founder of Smule, will add this new title to the many awards and accolades he has already received for his…
Tickets for Bing Concert Hall inaugural season performances are selling out
Early reviews of Bing Concert Hall are in, and they are glowing. The best of the bon mots include: “The sound popped like champagne,” “The hall exudes a serenely majestic air,” “The acoustics in the room and the intimacy of the space made performing an incredibly personal musical experience,” and “In a word, it’s magnificent.”…
Stanford students’ variations on a theme by Kotche
A Glenn Kotche performance is a physically impressive feat. Kotche is a percussionist – best known as the drummer for the rock band Wilco – renowned for his solo percussion shows. Without melodies and harmonies to hide behind, these concerts leave him with the task of making a seamless, full composition out of what seems…
