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For his part, Hallman is no stranger a year of architecture school before botanical collection to literature. He has set to music poems heading to Cleveland, and has just of Michael Michaud by writers from Emily Dickinson to obtained a master’s in liberal arts at the or any one of our the living poet Jessica Hornik. One University of Pennsylvania, where he other talented of three new composers featured by studied the gender-specific behavior of designers. the Bethesda, Md., chamber ensemble African American boys and men at a gay Inscape on its recent album Sprung youth center in Philly. Anything Rhythm, Hallman contributed six mood That may seem remote from his from Marilyn’s pieces based on the horror fiction of composing efforts, but Hallman’s choice is loved forever. H.P. Lovecraft. Reviewing a September to pursue a “socially impactful” higher 2013 performance of these works, degree is part of his wider aim to “create Free gift the Washington Post and engage community,” wrapping! applauded the “whispers, he says. He’ll take on shouts and other noises” community engagement in the compositions and for real when he returns called Hallman “the one to Vermont this summer to watch.” as composer-in-residence astonishing jewelry • sumptuous clothing • luxurious accessories For “Suite in Mudtime,” of the fledgling PIKES FALLS Hallman was particularly CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL sensitive to Lea’s use of in Jamaica. Invited by Jacob and Kristin Albee JacobAlbee.com . 802-540-0401 textual quotes in his poems, his Cleveland Institute from Robert Frost, the colleague, festival founder 41 Maple Street, Burlington, VT Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5 Hours BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Book of Psalms and other and flutist SUSANNA LOEWY, 658-4050 • 115 college st, burlington SYDNEY LEA sources. The composer Hallman will share a living “digested” these shifts in space with the musicians tone by having the soprano speak them. and get to know the tiny town’s residents. 8V-JacobAlbee020514.indd 1 2/4/148v-marilyns020514.indd 9:40 AM 1 2/3/14 3:26 PM The final result “wavers between singing Meanwhile, he says he hopes “Suite and monodrama,” he says. in Mudtime” will similarly “create that Hallman approaches music with a community,” in this case by making wide circle of reference. The composer “connections between the audiences of grew up in a poor Philadelphia those two groups — music and poetry.” neighborhood and attended a school for orphans and “functional orphans” INFO — a term for children of single, strapped The 802 Quartet and Abigail Haynes Lennox parents, of whom Hallman was one. premiere Joseph Hallman’s “Suite in Mudtime” Outside of that basic education, he on Saturday, February 8, 7:30 p.m., at College became “a voracious reader and an Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts in autodidact,” in his words. He completed Montpelier. Free. Info, 828-8734. vcfa.edu
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The Challenges Facing Contemporary Tibetan Artists
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at the New Yorker. Here’s what editor David Remnick had to say about Koren’s work, as quoted in a CCS press release:
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Ed Koren talks on Thursday, February 27, 3 p.m., at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. cartoonstudies.org
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We’ll be catching up with Koren again to find out how he plans to spend his laureate-ness. The honor, he said, “gives our lowly profession a touch more respect.”
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6:00pm
Tibetans traditionally value copying and sameness, and innovation is seen as deviation. This proves challenging for contemporary Tibetan artists who wish to break out of the traditional mode to find self-expression in their artistic work. This talk will cover the challenges and prospects that this dilemma raises.
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The great imaginative artists, comic or seriocomic (what other kinds are there?), are great at least in part because they create a world: Baldwin’s Harlem, Faulkner’s hamlet, Chekhov’s dachas. Ed Koren not only created a world — the Koren worlds are both urban and Vermontian, but all Koren — he also created creatures, part human, part
fantastical, to represent and give voice to all of our anxieties, joys and craziness. Long live Ed Koren, his world and his creatures!
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