Theory & Practice
STANFORD LIVE ANNOUNCES 2014-15 SEASON UPDATES
Bing Concert Hall lineup to include special event with Grammy winner Sheryl Crow, indie-pop-rock-duo Pomplamoose, third annual Sing and Play the Bing community concert and an Arts Open House to celebrate Anderson Collection; single tickets go on sale Sunday, September 7Stanford Live’s expanded 2014-15 season is becoming even more expanded. In addition to the nearly 60 performances already scheduled, Executive Director Wiley Hausam has announced four more added events to the 2014-15 lineup, the organization’s third season at Bing Concert Hall. Among the updates is Sound + Vision, a free arts open house on September…
Read MoreOpening this month!
It’s September – and students are packing up their belongings to come to Stanford for the new school year.The Anderson Collection at Stanford University has been packing as well – crating 121 exemplary works of modern and contemporary art and moving them from the Andersons’ private collection to their new home in Stanford’s arts district. The team has been working hard all summer long receiving and installing the works – by Jackson Pollock,…
Read MoreWorks from American art giants enter Stanford’s permanent collection
Remarkable works by artists Richard Diebenkorn, Jacob Lawrence and Andy Warhol are entrusted to Stanford's Cantor Arts CenterWhen Connie Wolf took over the helm at the Cantor Arts Center in 2012, she began seeking out opportunities to build on the Cantor’s strong collections and its legacy. Under her leadership, the museum recently experienced a dramatic expansion of its collection through three significant gifts of American art: Richard Diebenkorn’s sketchbooks donated by his…
Read MoreStanford Repertory Theater in the throes of a whale hunt and preparing for an alien invasion
Stanford Rep's summer festival celebrates Orson Welles with his theatrical adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick and a recreation of his 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.Perhaps it was Orson Welles’ fascination with magic as a youth that inspired him to turn a 200,000-word novel into a 90-minute play. The trick worked. His Moby Dick – Rehearsed invokes the sea, the great white whale and the infectious mania of Captain Ahab with just a few props, some scaffolding and a remarkable…
Read MoreStanford Engineering and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announce Magic Grants to transform the world of media
Grants will fund eight groups of students, faculty and post-docs to develop media technologies that could transform how stories are discovered and told.The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation has awarded its 2014-2015 Magic Grants to eight teams of students, faculty, alumni and post-doctoral researchers from Columbia and Stanford universities to develop new technologies that could transform the way media content is produced, delivered and consumed. Offered annually, Magic Grants are made possible by…
Read MoreStanford Live and Stanford Repertory Theater ramp up for summer
Stanford Rep gets things started early with a collaborative production of "An Inspector Calls," opening this week, followed by a program dedicated to Orson Welles.This spring, Stanford Repertory Theater collaborated with Stanford Theater and Performance Studies and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society to produce J.B. Priestley’s classic British thriller, An Inspector Calls. The play serves as both the closing production to the TAPS 2014 season and the capstone event for the Ethics in Society Ethics Of…
Read MoreHaydn, Burney, England, and The Creation
Mining the Memorial Library of Music turns up a letter from Haydn and an early scoreOn May 24, Dr. Robert Huw Morgan will conduct the University Singers and the Memorial Church Choir in a performance of Haydn’s Creation in Bing Concert Hall. This post highlights two important items in the Memorial Library of Music related to the work: a letter written by Haydn to his English friend Dr. Charles Burney…
Read MoreSeniors
With the end of the 2013-2014 academic year fast approaching, this month is all about our graduating Stanford seniors.On April 23 the senior class put on the second annual Senior Arts Gala in Bing Concert Hall. This new Stanford tradition is a great occasion. The students get a chance to celebrate their time at Stanford, take a step into the next phase of their lives (with a very sophisticated cocktail party)—and enjoy the…
Read MoreCantor Arts Center presents an exhibition in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant
Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums is on view April 23 to August 17, 2014.As the nation celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant, Cantor Arts Center presents an exhibition featuring more than 80 original mammoth prints from three unique albums of Carleton Watkins’s work: Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865–66), Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862–76), and Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867…
Read MoreStanford exhibit spotlights medieval ‘world of words’
The Circle of the Sun exhibit draws on Stanford's medieval and early modern manuscript holdings, including a number of recent acquisitions, to show how secular learning was shared and spread throughout the Middle Ages.Open a book, and you discover a whole new world – especially if that book is several centuries old. That is the case with The Circle of the Sun, a new Stanford University Libraries exhibit on display through June 14 in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda of Green Library. It features the secular works…
Read MoreAeolus Quartet Goes Pro
Championed by Stanford’s own St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Aeolus belongs to the best of the new generation of string quartetsWhen members of the Aeolus Quartet arrive at Stanford in April for a performance at Bing Concert Hall, they might as well be coming home. Starting with their first visit to campus in 2010, their mentors, the musicians of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, have welcomed them back for an alphabet of programs—ESQP, EPGY and…
Read MoreArt students showcase creative works during Stanford’s Open Studios
After working in relative privacy for most of the quarter, Art and Art History students throw open their studio doors and invite in the Stanford community. Open Studios, an event at the end of every quarter, allows undergraduates to exhibit their work in a variety of settings. Galleries across campus showcase the students’ drawings, paintings,…
Read MoreStanford’s string quartet course warrants an encore
Stanford Continuing Studies music history course integrates musicology with performance and will return as a freshman seminar next year.Stanford’s winter Continuing Studies course “Quartet Conversations” was more than just talk. In addition to the musicological insights of Professor Stephen Hinton’s lectures on the history of the string quartet, students were treated to live illustrations and performance of the highest caliber. Hinton co-taught the course with Stanford’s ensemble in residence, the St. Lawrence String…
Read MoreStanford’s Pan-Asian Music Festival marks a 10-year milestone, and keeps going
Founder and artistic director Jindong Cai brings people and traditions from East and West together through music.The Pan-Asian Music Festival has been a musical odyssey for founder and artistic director Jindong Cai, and 10 years in, the journey continues. He sees endless possibilities for future festivals built around Asian countries, regions and artistic forms. With the 2014 festival a few days behind him, Cai is already thinking of 2015 and beyond…
Read MoreStanford Libraries online archive expands access to French Revolution treasures
Images and textual documentation of the French Revolution's early years are available for the first time to anyone with an Internet connection.Participants, spectators and critics produced scores of historical documents during the French Revolution. These items are now available in the French Revolution Digital Archive, a digital collection recently released by Stanford Libraries. FRDA brings together two foundational sources for French Revolution research: the Archives parlementaires, a day-to-day record of parliamentary debates and discussions held between…
Read MoreThe Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary
Featuring artists from Tibet, Mongolia, and around the world February 1 – March 1, 2014.
Inaugurated in the 2004-2005 season, the Pan-Asian Music Festival is dedicated to promoting an understanding and appreciation of music in contemporary Asia. Jindong Cai, the festival’s founder and artistic director, states: “It has been a remarkable ten years during which we have explored many of the rich and diverse musical cultures from Asia. With the…
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