Sabbatical presentations will take place on Friday, November 18 from 3-4:30 pm in CA 3080.
PHILLIP COLLISTER – DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
Randall Thompson’s Solomon and Balkis: Redux for Chamber Orchestra
Randall Thompson was one of the U.S’s most prominent composers of the 20th century. His only one-act opera, Solomon and Balkis has been reduced for small chamber orchestra by Prof. Phillip Collister, Dept. Of Music. Prof. Collister will discuss his sabbatical project and the process by which he created a flexible reduction for chamber orchestra (10-12 solo instruments) for this opera as well as the historical importance of Solomon and Balkis. The project will become part of a rental catalogue of operas and other orchestrated works for ECSchirmer and Morningstar Music Publishers.
NAHID TOOTOONCHI – DEPARTMENT OF ART + DESIGN, ART HISTORY, ART EDUCATION
Learning and researching calligraphy as an artform in different languages, particular Persian was my sabbatical focus.
Taking the letterform to its essence of line and point with negative and positive shades, to its bare minimum, and to disassociate it with rhetoric usage in our daily life communication is my goal. I have been working on two different themes: Combining letterform with organic elements from nature and using letterform as design elements to create non-conformist composition, which I will be discussing in my presentation.
