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  • R. Murray Schafer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    • Raymond Murray Schafer (born 18 July 1933) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977)
    • he also coined the term schizophonia in 1977, the splitting of a sound from its source or the condition caused by this split: "We have split the sound from the maker of the sound. Sounds have been torn from their natural sockets and given an amplified and independent existence. Vocal sound, for instance, is no longer tied to a hole in the head but is free to issue from anywhere in the landscape

  • R. MURRAY SCHAFER - COMPOSER / LIBRETTIST / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    • After receiving a Licentiate in piano
      through the Royal Schools of Music (England) in 1952, he pursued further
      studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto,
      followed by periods of autodidactic study in Austria and England which
      encompassed literature, philosophy, music and journalism. A prolific
      composer, he has written works ranging from orchestral compositions
      to choral music as well as musical theatre and multi-media ritual.

  • Canadian Music Centre

    • the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto in 1952 to study with John Weinzweig. His casual contact with Marshall McLuhan on campus in that period could arguably be singled out as the most lasting influence on his development.
    • His booklets The Book of Noise and The Voices of Tyranny are pleas for anti-noise legislation and urban soundscape improvements through reduction of potentially destructive sounds.
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  • Theatre Designers - Richard Hudson

    • Hudson trained at the Wimbledon School of Art and has designed for Theatre and Opera worldwide. In 1988 Hudson won the Laurence Olivier Award for the season at the Old Vic Theatre in London. In 1998 Hudson won a Tony for his stage design for The Lion King and in 2000 he received the Critics Design Award. Other awards include the 2001 the Ovation Award and the Hollywood NAACP Award for Best Set Design (Also for The Lion King) At the 2003 Prague Quadrennial Hudson won the Gold Medal for his design of Tamerlano.


      Hudson is most famous for his bold use of colour and iconography, originally seen in his Opera work (The Rake’s Progress Lyric Opera Chicago 1992) and later made famous to a wider audience in his design for Disney’s The Lion King.

  • George Gershwin - Wikipedia

    • George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin composed songs for both Broadway and the classical concert hall.
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  • George Gershwin - American Masters | PBS

    • Gershwin’s first published song, “When You Want ‘Em, You Can’t Get ‘Em,” demonstrated innovative new techniques
    • he met a young lyricist named Irving Ceaser. Together they composed a number of songs including “Swanee,” which sold more than a million copies.
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  • gershwinfan.com

    • George Gershwin is the hallmark of a native American composer who mixed the traditional orchestral setting with the truly American medium -- Jazz. Gershwin's musical hallmarks, such as Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and Concerto in F are just the most common of his orchestral works

  • National Gallery of Art-Calder Exhibition

    • Alexander Calder revolutionized the art of sculpture by making movement
      one of its main components. Yet his invention of the "mobile" -- a word
      coined in 1931 by artist Marcel Duchamp to designate Calder's moving
      sculpture -- was only one of Calder's achievements. In his early wire figures
      and in his "stabiles," static sculptures in sheet metal, Calder created
      innovative works by exploring the aesthetic possibilities of
      untraditional materials. As a major contribution to the development of
      abstract art, Calder's stabiles and mobiles challenged the prevailing
      notion of sculpture as a composition of masses and volumes by proposing a
      new definition based on the ideas of open space and transparency. With the
      giant stabiles of the latter part of his career, Calder launched a new type
      of public sculpture -- one which proved so successful that many of these
      works have become landmarks in cities around the globe.

  • Artist/Naturalist Andy Goldsworthy

    • Goldsworthy regards all his creations as transient, or ephemeral
    • "I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools--a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn. 
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  • What is Art? What is an Artist? Photograph by Andy Goldsworthy

    • "At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient-only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete." -Andy Goldsworthy
    •  Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental sculptor in which his use of the natural surroundings create an art form. He explores and experiments with various natural materiel such as leaves, grasses, stones, wood, sand, clay, ice, and snow. The seasons and weather determine the materials and the subject matter of his projects. With no preconceived ideas about what he will create, Goldsworthy relies on what nature will give him. Goldsworthy "feels" the energy from nature and transcends that energy into an art form. His transient sculptures contradict the
      permanence of art in its historical pretense.
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