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Grand Illuminations: Speaking from the Heart, Ordinary or Extraordinary?
No full textThe Grand Illuminations series is back in a new conversational format! Please join Amy Grinsteiner (Music) and Tony Cunningham (Philosophy) for the next Grand Illuminations event. They discuss “ordinary” and “extraordinary” lives. Everybody wants to do well and be good; nobody wants to flop or be “below average.” But how good is “good enough”? Amy Grinsteiner graces us with a bit o\u27 piano music, and the duo provides some kindling for a great conversation
Echoes of the Divine: A Dialogue between Jewish and Christian Musical Traditions
No full textA Concert and Conversation with Amy Grinsteiner (piano), Thomas Schönberg (cello), and David Jordan Harris (moderator)
Music can be a potent meeting place between religious cultures, both as a fertile crossroad for the musicians and as an instructive and emotionally compelling bridge for audiences to experience another culture. Echoes of the Divine features pianist Amy Grinsteiner, cellist Thomas Schönberg, and moderator David Jordan Harris in a concert of music and conversation. Among the composers whose work will be performed are Paul Ben-Haim, Ernest Bloch, Max Bruch, Nikolai Kapustin, Isabella Leonarda, Felix, and Arvo Pärt.
Amy Grinsteiner is associate professor of music at CSB/SJU, teaching piano, music through history, and rock and roll music. She also serves as the faculty program coordinator at the Seattle Piano Institute, a summer program for aspiring young classical pianists at the University of Washington, Seattle. She earned a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington. As a recipient of both the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar Award and the P.E.O. National Scholar Award, she has traveled extensively, building appreciation for the arts. Dr. Grinsteiner was the recipient of CSB’s Sister Mary Grell Teacher of Distinction Award in 2017 and she currently chairs the CSB/SJU music department.
Thomas Schönberg, earned a Master of Music degree from San Diego State University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford where he was principal cellist for two school orchestras. He also served as principal cellist for the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra and as assistant principal for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and has given numerous solo performances and cello/piano recitals throughout the world. Together he and guitarist Chris Kachian form The Arpeggione Duo and have performed hundreds of concerts and recorded five albums. Dr. Schönberg has been dean of three schools of music in Sweden and is currently a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute where he is working on “The Bach Book Project.
David Jordan Harris, a graduate of the University of Chicago, is artistic director and co-founder of the Twin Cities-based performance ensemble Voices of Sepharad. Integrating his skills as a singer, actor, and dancer, he has appeared as guest artist with many ensembles, including Zorongo Flamenco, Katha Dance Theatre, Corning Dances and Company, Illusion Theater, North Star Opera, Rose Ensemble, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Espaῆol, and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. Harris was the founding music director of Shir Tikvah Congregation where he led music for 21 years and was the founding executive director of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council
Organized and sponsored by Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John\u27s University with funding, in part, provided by Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota, and additional support from the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies and Chapel Arts Series at the University of St. Thoma
Echoes of the Divine: A Dialogue between Jewish and Christian Musical Traditions
No full textMusic can be a potent meeting place between religious traditions, offering a portal for audiences and musicians into another culture. Echoes of the Divine, using a salon format that includes both performance and conversation, features pianist Amy Grinsteiner, violinist Stephanie Arado, guitarist Chris Kachian, and narrator David Jordan Harris. Among the composers whose work is performed are Arvo Pärt, Ofer Ben-Amots, Joseph Achron, Maurice Ravel, Gerald Cohen, Komitas, Isabella Leonarda, and Andrés Segovia.
Amy Grinsteiner is associate professor of music at CSB/SJU, teaching piano, music through history, and rock and roll music. She also serves as the faculty program coordinator at the Seattle Piano Institute, a summer program for aspiring young classical pianists at the University of Washington, Seattle. She earned a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington. As a recipient of both the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar Award and the P.E.O. National Scholar Award, she has traveled extensively, building appreciation for the arts. Dr. Grinsteiner was the recipient of CSB’s Sister Mary Grell Teacher of Distinction Award in 2017 and she currently chairs the CSB/SJU music department.Stephanie Arado, violinist, who earned a Master of Musical Performance degree at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Dorothy Delay and Paul Kantor, served one season as concert master of the Colorado Symphony and spent twenty-two years as assistant concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, a position she resigned in 2012 to devote more time to teaching and to performing chamber music. Currently she is assistant professor of violin at the University of Minnesota School of Music, an artistic director with the Twin Cities-based Bakken Ensemble, and a member of The Isles Ensemble in Minneapolis. A recipient of a McKnight Foundation Grant for Performing Artists, Ms. Arado frequently collaborates with composers and has commissioned numerous compositions.Chris Kachian, guitarist, has given over 500 performances in the UK, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Russia, and Africa and throughout the USA and South America. He has been heard on Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio, and American Public Radio (including several appearances on Prairie Home Companion). Dr. Kachian is the founder and Director of the UST Guitar Studies Area and is a national leader in distance learning (technology-aided teaching) having developed several courses at the college level. He is also the editor of the guitar column for the journal of the Minnesota chapter of the American String Teacher\u27s Association/National String Orchestra Association.David Jordan Harris, a graduate of the University of Chicago, is artistic director and co-founder of the Twin Cities-based performance ensemble Voices of Sepharad. Integrating his skills as a singer, actor, and dancer, he has appeared as guest artist with many ensembles, including Zorongo Flamenco, Katha Dance Theatre, Corning Dances and Company, Illusion Theater, North Star Opera, Rose Ensemble, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Espaῆol, and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. Harris was the founding music director of Shir Tikvah Congregation where he led music for 21 years and was the founding executive director of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council.
Co-produced by the Chapel Arts Series at the University of St. Thomas with the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies at the University of St. Thomas and the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John\u27s University
FIT Authors Talks: "The Miracles" with Amy Lemmon
No full textProfessor and Chair of English and Communication Studies Amy Lemmon reads from and talks about her book The Miracles.With lyricism and grace, Amy Lemmon gives us a worldview to live by. The all-too-familiar “wear of sorrow’s rub” is presented alongside the world’s miracles, including the author’s two children. Fearlessly bridging the gap between tradition and artistic innovation, the author moves us forward with her into the unknown, to entertain new relationships with herself, her children, and the world
American Women Writers: Amy M. Clark
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Amy M. Clark about her life and the inspiration for her work
Dr. Amy Howard – Faculty Author Interview
No full textAmy Howard, executive director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and associated faculty in American studies, discusses her new book, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing, published recently by the University of Minnesota Press. Her research and book looks closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco and brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them
Music as Exploration and Expression of the Divine featuring Olivier Messiaen\u27s Quartet for the End of Time : Concert and Conversation
No full textSunday, November 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.Escher Auditorium, Benedicta Arts CenterCollege of Saint Benedict
Part 1: Olivier Messiaen\u27s Quartet for the End of TimeMusicians: Amy Grinsteiner (piano), Svend Rønning (violin), Lucia Magney (cello), Bruce Thornton (clarinet)
French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) wrote Quartet for the End of Time in 1941 while a prisoner at the Nazis\u27 Stalag VIII-A camp during World War II. Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, called it the most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century. The unique combination of piano (Messiaen\u27s instrument), violin, cello, and clarinet reflects the players he had available in the camp. Messiaen was a devout Catholic, and Quartet for the End of Time is a profound reflection of his faith in the midst of dreadful circumstances. Brian Campbell, chair of the CSB/SJU department of music, said that perhaps no other composer has suggested the eternal as powerfully and beautifully as Messiaen. According to Amy Grinsteiner, assistant professor in the CSB/SJU department of music, who will be at the piano for this performance, Quartet for the End of Time has become one of the iconic pieces of the twentieth century, not only because of the circumstances under which it was written, but also because of the twentieth century musical elements it employs. She has also noted that while on the surface it can be a bit abrasive at times, it is also peaceful, challenging, comforting, thought-provoking, and mesmerizing.
Amy Grinsteiner is assistant professor of music at CSB/SJU, teaching piano and music through history, and she enjoys a varied performance schedule as a pianist, including solo and chamber music recitals, concerto performances, and choral accompaniments.
Svend Rønning, concertmaster of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra and one of the most active violinists in the Pacific Northwest region, is associate professor of music and chair of the string division at Pacific Lutheran University.
Lucia Magney teaches cello and directs the cello ensemble at CSB/SJU and is assistant principal cellist of the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra.
Bruce Thornton is associate professor of music and director of the jazz and clarinet ensembles at CSB/SJU, and he maintains a busy performance schedule, including performances with the Minnesota Orchestra and in the Plymouth Music Series.
Part 2: Responses to the performance and conversation about music and the divine Panelists: David Jordan Harris and Mary Dana Hinton
Music is widely perceived to be a preeminent way of expressing and provoking feeling. But it is not commonly recognized to be a way of knowing, which is how it is described by Vincent Smiles, professor in the CSB/SJU department of theology. Like other forms of knowing, music involves exploring reality, and then attempting to express the reality discovered, he said. Music is unique, because it does both of these things through sound, and through its deep connections to the human spirit. Music evokes reality and at the same time responds to it, but more than that, in its singular way, it brings experience of reality\u27s depths - even the depths of God. In an interfaith discussion, David Jordan Harris and Mary Dana Hinton will share their insights on this topic and audience members will be invited to do the same.
David Jordan Harris, whose performance and study of Judeo-Spanish music has taken him to numerous countries, is artistic director and co-founder of the Twin Cities-based performance ensemble Voices of Sepharad and executive director of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council.
Mary Dana Hinton, former vice president of academic affairs at Mount Saint Mary\u27s College in Newburgh, New York, and a scholar of African American religious history, religious education, and leadership in higher education, is president of the College of Saint Benedict.
Co-sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning and the Music Department at CSB/SJU.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/music_recordings/1012/thumbnail.jp
Payton, Amy Louise. "Looking Back" radio show on Paytons book on Georgina Stirling.
No full textCBC freelance broadcaster Cathy Porter talking to author Amy Louise Payton about the life of Georgina Stirling, Soprano Premadonna from Twillingate. Payton talks about her interest in the singer and her book on Stirling; Hiram Silk interviews Amy Louise Payton on the program Looking Back about her book Nightingale of the North about Georgina Stirling. Payton talks about Stirling and the history of the Twillingate area
Sparrows can't sing : East End kith and kinship in the 1960s
No full textSparrows Can’t Sing (1963) was the only feature film directed by
the late and much lamented Joan Littlewood. Set and filmed in
the East End, where she worked for many years, the film deserves
more attention than it has hitherto received. Littlewood’s career
spanned documentary (radio recordings made with Ewan MacColl
in the North of England in the 1930s) to directing for the stage
and the running of the Theatre Royal in London’s Stratford East,
often selecting material which aroused memories in local audiences
(Leach 2006: 142). Many of the actors trained in her Theatre
Workshop subsequently became better known for their appearances
on film and television. Littlewood herself directed hardly any material
for the screen: Sparrows Can’t Sing and a 1964 series of television
commercials for the British Egg Marketing Board, starring Theatre
Workshop’s Avis Bunnage, were rare excursions into an area of practice
which she found constraining and unamenable (Gable 1980: 32).
The hybridity and singularity of Littlewood’s feature may answer,
in some degree, for its subsequent neglect. However, Sparrows Can’t
Sing makes a significant contribution to a group of films made in
Britain in the 1960s which comment generally on changes in the
urban and social fabric. It is especially worthy of consideration,
I shall argue, for the use which Littlewood made of a particular
community’s attitudes – sentimental and critical – to such changes and
for its amalgamation of an attachment to documentary techniques
(recording an aural landscape on location) with a preference for nonnaturalistic
delivery in performance
Letter from Amy Narawaki to Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Thomas, December 15, 1971
No full textA holiday letter of greetings on Christmas from Amy Nakawaki [=Emiko Amy Terada] in Stanton, California to Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Thomas in Lawndale, California, which contains basic correspondence.The James H. Osborne Nisei Collection contains mainly correspondence between Emiko and Usami Terada, incarcerees in the Rohwer incarceration camp, McGehee Arkansas, and the Thomas family in Lawndale, California, and photographs of the Teradas and the Thomases. The letters describe the trip from the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center to the Rohwer incarceration camp, their lives and conditions in the camp, and their concerns about their properties in Lawndale, California. Also included are photographs taken in the camp, some issues of "The Rohwer outpost," and fliers published during wartime
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