FEBRUARY 2003
French conductor and pianist Philippe Entremont conducted the
Mannes Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in his only New York City appearance. The program featured works by Berlioz, Bizet, Debussy and Ravel.
The
2003 La Guardia Award Dinner honored George David, chairman and
CEO of United Technologies Corporation, for his support and contributions to education, the arts and the business community. President Bob Kerrey introduced Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, who gave the keynote address.
New School University formed a strategic alliance with Britain’s Open University to enable the two institutions to work closely together in distance and online education. The Open University is Britain’s largest and most innovative university, with more than 200,000 students.
Gabriel Grayson, chair of the sign language department at
The New School, published a new book on sign language entitled
Talking With Your Hands, Listening With Your Eyes (Square One Publishers).
Jazz Executive Director Martin Mueller was one of the chief researchers and the head of the New York City component of a recent National Endowment for the Arts survey on jazz musicians.
Changing the Beat: A Study of the Worklife of Jazz Musicians contained the results of interviews with 2,700 jazz musicians in New York, Detroit, San Francisco and New Orleans. The principal goals of the study were to document the jazz artists’ resources and support systems and to develop a detailed needs assessment from the musicians themselves, by collecting data about their professional lives and most pressing needs.
The
Milano Graduate School’s Center for New York City Affairs held a timely discussion on “The Media and The Mayor: Does Spin Make the Man?” The panel included
New York Times columnist Joyce Purnick and
New York magazine columnist Michael Wolff.
Eugene Lang College and the Gene Media Forum sponsored a lecture on “Stem Cell Research: A Progress Report.” The discussion included the scientific community’s views on one of the most controversial topics in human history.
The Design Workshop of the department of architecture at
Parsons volunteered to assist the Take the Field project, a public-private nonprofit partnership dedicated to rebuilding public school athletic fields in New York City by 2004.
The
Actors Studio Drama School opened its seventh annual repertory season at the Actors Studio Drama School
theater in Greenwich Village. The repertory season ran for 12 weeks and featured the thesis projects of 52 actors, eight playwrights and eight directors in original works by the school’s playwrights, as well as works drawn from classic and contemporary repertory.
Actors Studio Drama School Dean James Lipton interviewed Hollywood’s A-list this semester, including Jeremy Irons, Renée Zellweger, Jeff Bridges, John Travolta, Joanne Woodward, Diane Lane, John Goodman and the cast of the hit NBC-TV show Will & Grace. The interviews were taped for later broadcast as the award-winning show
Inside the Actors Studio on the Bravo cable television network.
President Bob Kerrey and
Parsons School of Design Dean Randy Swearer welcomed guests at a ceremony
launching the opening of the Angelo Donghia Materials Library and Study Center. Funded by the Angelo Donghia Foundation, the facility includes a library, gallery and lecture hall. A graduate of Parsons, Angelo Donghia was an artist, innovator and internationally recognized icon who inspired the world of design.
The National Book Critics Circle held its 28th annual awards ceremony at
The New School's Tishman Auditorium. These prestigious awards were presented in five areas - fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, criticism and biography/autobiography.
