December 2, 2008 · Posted in Assignments · 13 Comments 

To conclude our journey through the Arts, tell me what  you think after hearing Hemon and Ghosh discuss their life in literature.  Writing is an art form. A novel constructs a reality outside the reader, all other forms of art communicate a moment, a thought, an emotion.  The human imagination is able to construct a reality out of words, a feeling out of music, and color out of pigment and water or oil.

What is Art then?

Danilo Kish/kis

December 2, 2008 · Posted in Announcements · Comment 

Alex Hemon offered this name as his inspiration:
A TOMB FOR BORIS DAVIDOVICH. By Danilo Kis. Translated by Duska Mikic-Mitchell (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 135 pp.

“A tomb for Boris Davidovich,” by Yugoslavian Danilo Kis (pronounced Kish), author of the widely acclaimed “Garden, Ashes” is a collection of seven short stories, each with the cohesive and recurring theme of senseless suffering for the sake of ideologies.

Juilliard Faculty Recital: Persichetti, Ranjbaran, White

December 1, 2008 · Posted in Announcements · Comment 

A free Juilliard Faculty Recital with works by the late Vincent Persichetti, Behzad Ranjbaran and Michael White, and the piano trio “Search.” The concert will take place in Morse Hall at Juilliard on Thursday December 4 at 8:00 PM. Juilliard’s address is 60 Lincoln Center Plaza. The new entrance is on 65th street, between Broadway and Amsterdam.