Oct. 19, 2009 Brad Wells, lecturer in music, will bring Roomful of Teeth, a group of young singers who mix yodeling, belting, Tuvan throat singing and western classical singing technique, to New York. Their debut show there will take place Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Galapagos Art Space (DUMBO/Brooklyn), as part of the New Amsterdam Records’ new series of monthly concerts Archipelago. The New York concert will feature much of the music performed at the summer’s sell-out Mass MoCA concert in June.
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Oct. 7, 2009 Peter Erickson, visiting professor of humanities, is the author of four new articles, three focusing on visual art and a fourth on performing race in the theater. The first three range from the Renaissance to the contemporary: “Invisibility Speaks: Servants and Portraits in Early Modern Visual Culture” in Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies; “The Black Atlantic in the Twenty-First Century: Artistic Passages, Circulations, Revisions” in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art; and “The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger” in A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Arts of Interpretation (Fordham University Press). The piece on the visual dimension of the Black Atlantic is an expanded version of Erickson’s introduction to the Black Atlantic Symposium co-organized by the Williams College Museum of Art and the Clark Art Institute in March 2008. The final article, in the current issue of Shakespeare Bulletin, is “Casting for Racial Harmony: Strategies of Redemption in Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Double Play.” Sept. 30, 2009 Kevin Jones, the McElfresh Professor of Physics, published, with colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a paper describing a novel experimental realization of an optical amplifier. The device operated close to the fundamental noise limits set by quantum mechanics. Jones and his colleagues used this new device to amplify a piece of a quantum state and studied the way in which this amplification process degraded the quantum correlations in the state. The paper, “Low-Noise Amplification of a Continuous-Variable Quantum State,” was published in Physical Review Letters (PRL 103, 010501 (2009)) a prestigious international journal reserved for rapid publication of significant fundamental physics research. Sept. 24, 2009 Lecturer in English Paul Park’s Roumania Quartet was nominated for the James R. Tiptree Award for science fiction and fantasy stories that explore and expand gender roles. His first volume in the series, “Celestis,” was also nominated for the award in 1996. Listen to Paul on “Strange and Reminiscent: Paul Park on Writing and Teaching” http://tinyurl.com/yadc7g5 a Williams-to-Go podcast. “The Shipment,” a play about African-American identity written and directed by Young Jean Lee, with scenic design by David Evans Morris, assistant professor of theatre, went out on tour this fall following a sold-out New York run at The Kitchen in January 2009. The show is currently playing at the Rotterdamse Schouwberg (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), following recent stops at PICA in Portland, Oregon; Zürcher Theaterspektakel in Zurich, Switzerland; and the KDFA festival in Brussels. In October and November “The Shipment” will be performed at On The Boards (Seattle), the Festival d’Automne (Paris) and the Hebbel Theater (Berlin), while 2010 dates include Chicago, Pittsburgh, Chapel Hill, the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), and a multi-city Japan/Australia tour. Professor Morris is again collaborating with Ms. Lee on her next show, a reimagining of Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” which is currently in development. Young Jean Lee’s “Lear” will have its premiere at SoHo Rep in New York City in January 2010. |
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