Arts And Culture
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Kinetic Sculptures Create a Constellation of Ideas
John Powers’ sculpture frequently employs a combination of media, and they almost always are kinetic in some way. His 2010 work “Elysium” incorporates sound, video, and reeds on a mechanism attached to an old Smith Corona electric typewriter. Read MoreMar 23, 2015
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Blair Premieres New Works at National Conference
As the Blair School of Music wrapped up its 50th anniversary celebrations, 2015 kicked off with several world premieres and a major national conference. Read MoreMar 23, 2015
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Hersch Composition Draws on Visual Arts
On Feb. 26 the Blair School of Music gave the world premiere of American composer Michael Hersch’s Zwischen Leben Und Tod. Read MoreMar 23, 2015
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Art Conservation Fund Makes Art Accessible
The Kathryn and Margaret Millspaugh Fund for Art Conservation is helping take care of Vanderbilt’s fine arts collection. Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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Singer Daniel Shirley’s Journey Crosses Many Paths
The opportunity to sing a diverse range of material drew Shirley last February to the American Traditions Competition, a national vocal competition in which he placed fifth. Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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Author Tony Earley Matures alongside His Characters
Tony Earley, the Samuel Milton Fleming Professor of English, describes his latest book as “much more grown up and calm” than his previous story collection published in 1994. Read MoreDec 23, 2014
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At 93, Elizabeth Spencer Still Surprises
After a career spanning more than 60 years, most writers would be quite ready to retire, but Spencer is still working and enthralling new readers with her graceful fiction. Her seventh story collection, Starting Over: Stories, was published in January of this year to critical raves. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Collaborative Pianists Lend Their Ears to Young Singers
At most conservatories and music schools, work with vocal coaches is restricted to graduate voice students. But at the Blair School of Music, undergraduate voice majors have the opportunity to work with two full-time vocal coaches—also known as collaborative pianists—who lend their input, ears and piano technique to young singers. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Blair Celebrates 50 Years
Blair School of Music begins the academic year by continuing its 50-year celebration. On Sept. 13 it honored Roland Schneller, the longest-serving member of the Blair faculty and holder of the Chancellor’s Chair in Piano, with an evening of music. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Recent Books
The latest nonfiction and fiction offerings from Vanderbilt writers Read MoreJun 18, 2014
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Broadway Melody
Blair School alumna Madeline Myers' song “I Could Be a Hero”—from a musical called Legends & Lore that she is writing with librettist Jacob Combs—was recently announced as the winner of the Ken Davenport Songwriting Contest in New York City. Read MoreJun 18, 2014
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Age-Appropriate
Connection is what playwriting is about for Sheri Wilner, two-time recipient of the prestigious Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville—connection between writer and material, between material and performer, and between play and audience. Read MoreJun 18, 2014
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Dream Boogie
A biography of singer–songwriter Sam Cooke will be the fourth book by Peter Guralnick to be declared “a classic in blues literature” by the Blues Hall of Fame. Read MoreJun 18, 2014
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Searching for Hannah
Gregg Hecimovich, MA’93, PhD’97, began searching a decade ago for clues to the true identity of Hannah Crafts, author of a compelling story about a house slave who escaped to freedom. Read MoreMar 11, 2014
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Gala ‘Divertimento’
For 50 years, from its beginnings as Blair Academy of Music in 1964 to its expanded incarnation at Blakemore Avenue as part of Vanderbilt, the Blair School of Music has prepared students for the study of music as a human endeavor and as a performing art. Read MoreMar 11, 2014
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The Mighty Sky
The Mighty Sky, a musical collaboration from Nashville-based singer–songwriters Beth Nielsen Chapman and Annie Roboff and Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory Director Rocky Alvey, received a 2014 Grammy Award nomination for Best Children’s Album. Read MoreMar 11, 2014
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Long Live the Queen
Bettie Page, BA’44, America’s favorite pinup queen, is featured in a recent documentary by Music Box Films and Academy Award–nominated director Mark Mori. Read MoreMar 11, 2014