ART
BEAT
HAPPY
ANNIVERSARY: The Windham Chamber Music Festival is
celebrating their 10th anniversary this summer. Founded by
Robert Manno and Magdalena Golczewski, who are
both ex-Metropolitan Opera musicians, WCMF has consistently
presented high-quality concerts. Some of these performances,
in fact, have been broadcast on NPR’s program Performance
Today (heard locally on WMHT-FM). To get to the point,
however, WCMF will present a gala 10th-anniversary concert
on July 14 at 8 PM at the Windham Civic and Performing Arts
Center at Main and Church streets in Windham. Featured performers
will include soprano Emily Pulley, pianist Simone
Dinnerstein (pictured) and violinist Raymond Gniewek;
the program will include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Greig,
Gounod, Rachmaninoff and Bartók. Tickets are $30 general admission,
$25 for seniors, $20 for contributors and $5 for students;
for reservations call 678-9309 or e-mail info@windham music.com.
EMPAC HAS CHOSEN: There are going to be a certain number of
words in this particular entry with peculiar capitalization,
so be forewarned. The DANCE MOViES programs, presented
at various RPI venues for the last couple of years by eMPAC,
have been consistently popular; now, eMPAC is getting into
funding films for the series with grants ranging from $7,000
to $42,000. eMPAC, aka the Experimental Media and Performing
Arts Center of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute—have, with
the support of the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and
Performing Arts, selected four winning entries in their
DANCE MOViES commission project. How good are they? “As we
got a ton of submissions,” explained Jason Steven Murphy
in a recent e-mail, “we of course came up with four doozies
which will dazzle the senses on a screen sometime soon.” The
selection panel included Silvina Szperling, Bob Lockyer, Gaelen
Hanson, Solange Farkas, eMPAC dance curator Hélčne Lesterlin
and director Johannes Goebel. The selected projects are Kino-Eye
(USA), Nora Chipaumire: A Physical Biography (USA/Zimbabwe),
Pasillo (Argentina) and Soldier (USA/UK). These
works will premiere at RPI in fall 2008.
A BIG BIT OF ALL RIGHT: In case you haven’t heard, the Clark
Art Institute recently received a gift. A really, really
big gift: The Manton Foundation has donated a “significant
collection of British paintings, oil sketches, watercolors,
and other works on paper by J.M.W. Turner, John
Constable, and Thomas Gainsborough, among others.”
Oh, and the foundation also endowed the Clark’s Research and
Academic Program, “a leading international center for discussion
and scholarship in the visual arts,” to the tune of $50 million.
The Manton Foundation, FYI, was founded by the late businessman
and patron of the arts Sir Edwin A.G. Manton, who died
in 2005 at sprightly age of 96. Sensibly, the Clark will be
naming their research building the Sir Edwin and Lady Manton
Research Center. The collection, meanwhile, will be exhibited
beginning later this summer.
—Shawn
Stone
sstone@metroland.net
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