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A.J. Potter (1918-1980): The career and creative achievement of an Irish composer in social and cultural context
No full textA. J. Potter (1918-1980) was one of the most significant composers working in Ireland in the latter part of the twentieth century. This thesis surveys his career and creative achievement, which have not hitherto been subjected to detailed scrutiny. The opening chapter presents a biographical overview: its first part outlines the circumstances of Potter's childhood and early adulthood, including his studies with Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music in London, his period of service in the British Army during World War II and his subsequent three-year sojourn in Africa; the second continues the narrative from 1951, when he settled permanently in Ireland, up to his death in 1980. In addition to detailing events of note in his private and professional life, an important subsidiary focus of this section is to depict the impoverished and culturally marginalised nature of Irish musical life at this period and describe the frustrations that these conditions engendered for the composer and his contemporaries. The remaining chapters are devoted to an examination of Potter's major works. Chapter 2 considers four student compositions that were written or conceived in the late 1930s and were subsequently revised when he resumed composing in 1949 after a creative silence of over a decade. Chapter 3 is divided in two parts: the first delineates the salient features of his mature creative aesthetic, while the second provides an account of his later orchestral works. The remaining chapters explore his choral music and stage works, which, in addition to the scores previously described, constitute his most noteworthy achievements
U of M Professor and Author Brenda Child featured during annual Ice Cream Social on Wed., Aug. 15, 2012
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2012). U of M Professor and Author Brenda Child featured during annual Ice Cream Social on Wed., Aug. 15, 2012. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222897
American Women's Hospitals: Fundraising correspondence
No full textThe American Women's Hospitals (AWH) developed from the War Service Committee of the Medical Women's National Association (later, American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)) in 1917 to provide, register and finance American women physicians for war work; offer medical and emergency relief to refugees; and, later, to provide international public health service. Marion Craig Potter was a physician and suffragist, who was the first woman physician to be appointed to the Rochester City Hospital, around 1898. She served as Vice President of the Medical Women's National Association, as President of both the Blackwell Medical Society and the Women's Medical Society of New York State, and belonged to the Committee of Medical Women of the Council of National Defense during World War I
Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social at the U of M, Crookston Features Author Gayla Marty on Wed., Aug. 18, 2010, from 2-4 p.m.
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2010). Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social at the U of M, Crookston Features Author Gayla Marty on Wed., Aug. 18, 2010, from 2-4 p.m.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222491
Excitement Builds Around Visit by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Historian Taylor Branch on January 20, 2014, at U of M Crookston
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2013). Excitement Builds Around Visit by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Historian Taylor Branch on January 20, 2014, at U of M Crookston. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/223385
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Historian Taylor Branch to Speak at the U of M Crookston on Monday, January 20, 2014
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2013). Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Historian Taylor Branch to Speak at the U of M Crookston on Monday, January 20, 2014. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/223383
"Exploring Our Sexualities" - Noted Author and Activist Robyn Ochs to Present Workshop and Interactive Presentation at U of M Crookston on Wednesday, April 22, 2009
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2009). "Exploring Our Sexualities" - Noted Author and Activist Robyn Ochs to Present Workshop and Interactive Presentation at U of M Crookston on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222053
Media Heritage and Memory in the Museum: Managing Dennis Potter’s Legacy in the Forest of Dean
No full textThis research explores the ways in which Dennis Potter (1935-1994) is made inheritable to audiences through a rural Heritage Lottery Funded project. With the sale of the written Potter Archive to the Dean Heritage Centre, Gloucestershire, in 2010, this study explores in great detail the processes enacted to interpret the Potter Archive as cultural (television) heritage. Through a creative and innovative research design which utilises autoethnography, inventive qualitative methods and a level of quantitative analysis, this study examines the ways in which Potter is made intelligible to past television audiences, project members and collaborators, local people, and the casual tourist within the heritage environment.
A unique and irreproducible study, this interdisciplinary research sits as a contribution to an emerging field that is located at the interface between Memory studies and Museum Studies and explores the way various forms of mediation are connected to these fields. Inherently at stake in this research is the valorisation of television as heritage, as Potter remains well within living memory. Through proximate and intimate connections to this multifaceted heritage project this work represents one of the first interventions to explore turning television into heritage at a local level drawing together the macro level of cultural policy with the micro level of enacting that policy.
In asking how Dennis Potter’s legacy is managed in the Forest of Dean heritage environment, this thesis explores the ways Potter’s legacy is mediated, how television heritage is consumed and made meaningful (or struggles for meaning) in the museum space, how a writer’s legacy is interpreted by heritage professionals, volunteers, past television audiences and museum visitors, and how television as heritage is consumed online. This thesis makes visible the underlying mechanisms by which the Dennis Potter Archive is (or might yet become) articulated as television heritage, through examining the core managerial, interpretive and memorial processes involved in this high stakes, multi-partner project
Author to be Featured during Ice Cream Social at U of M Crookston on Wed., Aug. 17, 2011; "Cooking Up the Good Life" Highlights Recipes Based on Local Foods
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2011). Author to be Featured during Ice Cream Social at U of M Crookston on Wed., Aug. 17, 2011; "Cooking Up the Good Life" Highlights Recipes Based on Local Foods. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222736
Two Presentations by Internationally-renowned Speaker, Author, Explorer Broughton Coburn Slated for the U of M Crookston on Thursday, November 18, 2010, in Kiehle Auditorium; Presentations at Noon and 7 p.m. are Free and the Public is Invited
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2010). Two Presentations by Internationally-renowned Speaker, Author, Explorer Broughton Coburn Slated for the U of M Crookston on Thursday, November 18, 2010, in Kiehle Auditorium; Presentations at Noon and 7 p.m. are Free and the Public is Invited. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222532
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