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Faculty NewsRoland ReissCollege Art Association’s 2009 Distinguished Teaching of Art Award WinnerThe Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, established in 1972, is presented to an individual who has been actively engaged in teaching art for most of his or her career, who has developed a distinct philosophy or technique of instruction, and has encouraged his or her students to develop their own individual abilities.
Dan LewisNPR - November 15, 2008 - by Joe Palca What Makes Something Beautiful? Is it exquisite colors? Elegant form or striking style? Or can something be beautiful simply for the ideas it contains? The answer to that last question is a resounding "yes," according Dan Lewis, Dibner senior curator of the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. He's the man responsible for a new exhibition at the library called "Beautiful Science: Ideas That Changed the World." "We're trying to illustrate what is sometimes a slippery notion, and one that is often unexpected," says Lewis, "to think of science and beauty, hand in hand." The exhibition focuses on four areas of science: astronomy, natural history, medicine and light. Some of the books featured are Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, the book where Newton codified the laws of motion and gravity; Nicolaus Copernicus' De Revolutionibus, the description of a solar system which had the sun, not the Earth, at its center; and Petrus Apianus' Astronomicum Caesarium, a collection of strikingly beautiful, hand-illustrated star charts published in 1540. Lewis brings an attitude of joy and exuberance to the new exhibition. The idea is to make the books and illustrations come alive for visitors. Sometimes, however, he admits to getting carried away. "I wanted to do things like hang alligators from the ceiling," says Lewis. Not real ones, of course, but the kind amateur naturalists once kept in their collections. "No one ever tells me 'no' around here. They just say, 'That might not be the best idea.' So my designers gently but firmly talked me out of hanging big things from the ceiling, and I'm a little bit sad about that." Even without the alligators, the show is an interesting historical glimpse at how beautiful ideas that shape modern science exploded on the world.
Peter BoyerProf. Peter Boyer has been named the 50th annual recipient of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Composer’s Award, given each year to one American composer “who is making a particularly significant contribution in the field of symphonic music.” First given in 1959, the award has been given to such notable American composers as Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, William Schuman, Gian Carlo Menotti, John Corigliano, and Joseph Schwantner. Previous recipients of this award include 23 Pulitzer Prize winners. Prof. Boyer will be presented with the award on subscription concerts of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra in January 2010, at which time his work New Beginnings will be performed. Complete details can be found on this web page: http://www.lancastersymphony.org/SpecialEvents/20092010ComposersAward/tabid/704/Default.aspx
Student NewsCamelia VoinDMA Voice Student Camelia Voin is the first prize winner of the 2009 Barry Alexander International Vocal Competition in the adult professional category and was invited to perform in a recital at Carnegie Hall, New Yourk, on January 25, 2009. Ms. Voin, a lyric coloratura soprano, has performed locally and internationally and, although not as well known as other more commercialized singers, is considered by many (including Barry Alexander) to be one of the best singers in the world. In European musical circles she was nicknamed, "The Queen of Coloratura." You can find clips of Ms. Voin on UTube (search for Camelia Voin) or perhaps you have already heard her in recitals here at CGU. Besides being in the last phase of her doctoral studies at CGU, Ms. Voin teaches voice at UCR and Cal Baptist University, Riverside.
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