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New grants promote arts at Stanford

flora_sica.jpgThe Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) has awarded 18 grants for its 2009-10 grant competition.

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Art Critics in Residence

Acocella_Joan.jpgWhy write about art? And why read art criticism? The Arts Critics in Residence series has brought leading arts critics to Stanford campus to engage with these questions, and to answer them through the example of their own work.

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Nature's Representatives

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Believing that nature poetry can make us fall in love with nature itself, John Felstiner enlists poets and artists to inspire environmental action.

 

 

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Symphony Takes Shape Online

Tim_Lee.jpgA Stanford MBA student developed the idea of harnessing the power of YouTube to host amateur and other unheralded musicians in a virtual orchestra. The result was a concert at Carnegie Hall featuring musicians from around the world.

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Stanford's 50-year-old archive celebrates sound

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Composer Kurt Weill's Railroads on Parade was one of the most popular attractions at the 1939-40 World's Fair in New York City. It has never been performed since.  There's only one known recording, and Stanford has it. The 16-inch LPs are in the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this academic year.

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Passion for Rodin

rodin.jpgThe greatest collection of Rodin bronzes outside Paris is at Stanford. It is the first time the Cantor Center for Visual Arts is giving the public a chance to see its entire collection: about 200 works of stone, wax, plaster, terracotta and bronze by the legendary French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917).

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'Write what matters to you,' says playwright Solis

Solis_smile.jpgWriting plays is tough. Becoming a working playwright is even tougher. Playwright Octavio Solis remembers the rough spots and is sharing what he learned from them with Stanford students.

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Stanford researcher uses cell phones to make music

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The sound is unearthly, the sort of hypnotic drone you might hear from the chanting of state-of-the-art Tibetan monks. Or a vibration picked up via radio signals from another galaxy. In fact, it's not a human sound at all. It's a half-dozen mobile phones. The eerie music is part of a "mobile renaissance," said Ge Wang, creator of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra, known as MoPhO.

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'Evel Knievel of dance' starts residency

Streb.jpgDubbed the "Evel Knievel of dance," Elizabeth Streb is coming to campus for a weeklong residency and performance with her New York company, STREB. The former MacArthur Fellow brings STREB's unique blend of dance, athletics, extreme sports and Hollywood stunt work to Stanford for two performances.

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Writers share insights about their craft, field questions at Three Books forum

three_books_forum.jpgThe writers were zesty, accomplished, celebrated, awarded, and, if the term isn't too démodé, hip. So this year's noisy class of incoming freshmen treated them like rock stars, with hoots and howls and deafening applause on the evening of Sept. 17.

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