Of Note
Conservatory students Eli Stine’14 (top left) and Charles Glanders ’14 (right) handle sound design for The Amerikans. Bottom right: Beard artist Don Matis with the student choir that accompanied his episode.
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working on The Amerikans provides students with valuable exposure to life as part of a professional film crew. Most episodes feature performances by Oberlin musicians and sometimes pieces by Oberlin composers or other sound designers. For example, the episode “Love & Venom,” which focuses on the bee-sting therapy of Don Downs, included sound design by TIMARA major Charles Glanders ’14. Ryan Lester ’11, who has composed music for The Daily Show, created an original score for the episode,
which was then recorded by conservatory students Jennifer Carpenter ’14, Rachel Iba ’14, and Jarrett Hoffman ’14, as well as Rosalind Soltow ’08. Such a collaboration— not to mention the numerous students and community members working on nonmusical aspects of the production—is typical of The Amerikans, a project that not only focuses on Oberlin and nearby communities, but could likely happen nowhere else. All episodes of The Americans are available online at www.theamerikans.org.
Marilyn Horne Professorship Established by Stephen Rubin Philanthropist Stephen Rubin, president and publisher of Henry Holt & Co. and the man behind Oberlin’s Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, has committed $150,000 to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music to establish the Marilyn Horne Professorship and Residency Fund. The purpose of the
AMERIKANS: COURTESY MIKA JOHNSON; RUBIN: COURTESY STEVE RUBIN
process: anything from rerecording muffled dialogue to assisting composers and musicians in adapting to the needs of the shoot. “The storytelling that Mika is doing is unique in that it fully envelops the audience in an individual’s world,” he says. “Not how they fit into a context, but how they feel about themselves as individuals, as Ohioans.” Stine also helps match the various projects with composers and performers from the conservatory. In addition to the artistic experience,