Voices from the past: Reviving a rarely heard musical on a college campus

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda J. Nelson ◽  
Richard Masters
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
Excavation Process ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Production History ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
Basic Production ◽  
The Many

Inspired by New York City Center’s Encores! programme, we came together as a music director and stage director to develop a new college programme focused on producing rarely heard musicals. As faculty members, we select a little-known musical and research basic production history to provide a launchpad for hands-on learning for students. Our process involves examining a show’s production history, exploring the story and score in their original historical milieu, and mounting a workshop production. Given the many forgotten musical theatre pieces, this act of excavation is possible for any college musical theatre programme, including those with limited resources. In this article, we share our approach and process, connecting strategies and tactics to experiential learning, and reflect on challenges encountered and opportunities discovered during our workshop production of Richard Maltby, Jr and David Shire’s The Sap of Life, a show that spent several months Off-Broadway in 1961 and then disappeared into the composer’s closet for the next 54 years. For The Sap of Life, we seized the opportunity to offer our students the experience of working and learning directly from Maltby and Shire, who visited campus as guest artists. Our excavation process provides the opportunity for students and professors alike to learn more about how a musical is developed, written, honed and ultimately produced on the stage.

The Many Lives of Chief Kisco

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
Madeline Bourque Kearin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Art Object ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Village

This paper deconstructs the folklore surrounding an early twentieth-century zinc figure of an American Indian that stands in the center of the village of Mount Kisco, New York. The identity that “Chief Kisco” has assumed over the past hundred years elides the nature of the origins of the statue, which was intended not as a statement of communal identity, but rather as the exact opposite. As a ready-made art object, the statue was emblematic of a new network of commodified goods that transformed the cultural geography of the United States; as it was utilized in Mount Kisco, the statue was a piece of temperance propaganda with strong nativist undertones that tapped directly into the class, religious, and ethnic divisions running through the turn-of-the-century village.

scholarly journals AN OPEN-ENDED DESIGN-BASED LAB EXERCISE FOR A FIRST THERMOFLUIDS COURSE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Hastie ◽  
Jan Haelssig
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
The Many

The Thermo-Fluid Engineering I course provides all first-semester second-year engineering students at Dalhousie University with a basic introduction to thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. In the past three years, we have used a combination of six traditional laboratory exercises and a short four-week design project to provide students with hands-on learning experiences in this course. In general, these projects have been well-received by students as a welcome break from the many abstract theoretical concepts that are normally associated with introductory thermodynamics. However, two of the continuing challenges with these projects have been the students’ limited engineering design experience and the availability of time to perform a design project. To address these challenges, in the fall 2015 offering of Thermo-Fluid Engineering I, the four-week design project was replaced by an open-ended design-based lab exercise.The open-ended lab exercise required groups of students to develop specific laboratory experiments related to thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, given a limited quantity of resources. While the focus shifted away from a traditional short design project, the open-ended lab exercise continues to allow students to develop their creative thinking, critical analysis, hands-on, communication, and team work skills, which was the primary purpose of the short design projects in the first place.

scholarly journals The Many Lives of Victorian Fiction

2010 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Teresa Mangum
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Communities ◽  
Collective Reading ◽  
The Many

Abstract Can Victorian literature speak to non-academic publics of the twenty-first century as it did to “common readers” of the past? This essay discusses several experiments in which faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduates find creative means to engage local as well as university communities in the study of Victorian and Edwardian texts. In particular, the essay considers the power of public performance—in this case of Elizabeth Robins’s suffrage play, The Convert—to inspire collective “reading,” interpretation, and reflection on the future as well as the past.

Collaborative Musical Theatre

2016 ◽  
pp. 100-119
Author(s):  
Penny Prince
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Multiple Intelligences Theory ◽  
Theory Of Multiple Intelligences ◽  
The Many ◽  
Education Courses

The author describes her process of utilizing collaborative musical theatre as a teaching tool in three settings. These include an elementary school in the Bronx, New York, which adheres to the theory of Multiple Intelligences; undergraduate and graduate music education courses at Lehman College, City University of New York; and in a College/Community Collaborative Musical Theatre Project at Lehman College. The chapter depicts how the collaborative process closely resembles the goals of the Multiple Intelligences theory by the way it stimulates, encourages and nurtures the many capacities and ways of expression of the participants: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Mathematical/Logical, Spatial, Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Musical and Naturalistic, and therefore, serves as an effective, all-encompassing teaching tool.

The search for linguistic equality

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humphrey Tonkin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Working Group ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language Problems ◽  
The Many

Five papers from the symposium on language and equality, held in New York in 2014 and organized by the Working Group on Language and the United Nations, make up this special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning. The symposium highlighted the difficulty of defining the nature of language equality, the many instances in which it is abandoned in favor of some apparently more practical goal (for example, the expansion of English in higher education, or the assimilation of immigrants into the United States), efforts in the past to achieve such equality (notably the Esperanto experiment), and the apparent sidelining of language as a variable in the planning of United Nations activities and goals.

The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. New York: Peter Lang, 2002; pp. 240 + illus. $32.95 paper.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Anne Fleche
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
The Past ◽  
Awkward Position ◽  
Early Success ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Protection ◽  
Death Of The Author

The Undiscovered Country is a collection of essays mostly by and for the Tennessee Williams specialist—who else could write with such confidence that Williams's “instinct for finding the humor in his most intimate pain may have sprung from the natural inclinations for self-protection and self-deprecation, long known as personality traits of the playwright” (212) ? Williams's “later plays” (of the sixties and seventies) have been “undiscovered” precisely because the Williams specialist has tended to treat them with well-meaning sympathy, even defensiveness, rather than critical rigor. Each of the fifteen essays here opens with a gloomy recitation of one later play's production history and its miserable reviews, before moving on to describe the work as unfairly denigrated, and to defend Williams as the victim of his early success. Because Williams continues to experiment technically throughout his career, the writers in The Undiscovered Country are in an awkward position. If they want to say that the later plays are new, better, or even different, they have to look to the past—the very history that “traps” him. The need to view the Author as the “past” or source of the works is, as Roland Barthes saw, a modern invention that really seeks to glorify the critic. Barthes celebrated the “Death of the Author” not as an escape from critical responsibility but as a way to ensure it. What would it take to clear away the history of neglect and well-meaning phrases and to read Williams's plays differently?

scholarly journals The Decentralized Central Bank: A Review Essay on The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve by Peter Conti-Brown

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 621-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narayana R. Kocherlakota
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Federal Reserve ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Federal Reserve Bank ◽  
The Past ◽  
Board Of Governors ◽  
Reserve Bank ◽  
The Many ◽  
Reserve System ◽  
Public Entity

This essay discusses the structure and governance of the Federal Reserve System in light of the many changes in its activities over the past thirty years. Based on this analysis, it argues in favor of four specific reforms: clarification of Congressional expectations for the system; enhanced Federal Reserve Board of Governors transparency with respect to its oversight of the Reserve Banks; stripping monetary-policy votes from the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Boards of Directors of the Reserve Banks; and the initiation of a public conversation about redesigning the Federal Reserve as a unified public entity. (JEL D72, E44, E52, E58, G21, G28)

A Framework for Developing Cognitively Diagnostic Assessments

1994 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Diagnostic Assessment ◽  
Instructional Decisions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Many ◽  
Use Of Assessment ◽  
Cognitively Diagnostic ◽  
Intended Use

Over the past decade or so, a growing number of writers have argued that cognitive science and psychometrics could be combined in the service of instruction. Researchers have progressed beyond statements of intent to the hands-on business of researching and developing diagnostic assessments combining cognitive science and psychometrics, what I call cognitively diagnostic assessment (CDA). In this article, I attempt to organize the many loosely connected efforts to develop cognitively diagnostic assessments. I consider the development of assessments to guide specific instructional decisions, sometimes referred to as diagnostic assessments. Many of my arguments apply to program evaluation as well—assessments that reveal the mechanisms test takers use in responding to items or tasks provide important information on whether instruction is achieving its goals. My goal in this article is to characterize CDA in terms of the intended use of assessment and the methods of developing and evaluating assessments. Towards this goal, I (a) outline the societal trends that motivate the development of CDA, (b) introduce a framework within which the psychological and statistical aspects of CDA can be coordinated, and (c) summarize efforts to develop CDA in a five-step methodology that can guide future development efforts. Finally, I address some of the issues developers of CDA must resolve if CDA is to succeed.

“Where Childhood’s dreams are twined”: Virginia Woolf and the Literary Heritage of Lewis Carroll

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Original Manuscript ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The Many ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Philadelphia is celebrating 150 years of Alice in Wonderland with public programming and multiple exhibitions beginning in 2015 through 2016. There are lectures, tea parties, hands-on tours at the Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia, talks of medical oddities of Alice, costume parties, and more. Carroll’s original manuscript is traveling around the East coast in pop-up displays in Philadelphia and New York. This focus on Lewis Carroll’s work provides an intriguing opportunity to examine Woolf’s review, which was written on the occasion of the Nonesuch Press issue of the complete works in 1939. Woolf ‘s response to Carroll’s legacy, in the midst of what she calls “non-war” and “written in barren horror,” hones in on the construction of childhood, the relationship of the child to the adult, and the illusory nature of the author. Woolf’s diary entries, documenting what she calls the many distractions surrounding her, point to the irony of composition and the world Carroll creates. In this paper I will approach these topics and consider the ways in which Woolf reflects on, engages with, and represents the connections and disconnections with the literary heritage of Alice and her enduring appeal.

Remotely Accessible Systems for Computing Sciences Disciplines

2012 ◽  
pp. 380-396
Author(s):  
Mark Stockman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
System Virtualization ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academic Organization ◽  
World Environment ◽  
Technical Framework

Like most other academic disciplines that require any amount of hands-on learning, requiring access to specific technologies, delivering computing curricula, and performing computing research online can be a difficult task. By using system virtualization and remotely accessible computing however, a near real world environment can be realized. When rolled out in tandem, these remotely accessible virtualization initiatives can use a common hardware set and/or existing computing resources within the academic organization or via cloud computing, thus reducing the initial and ongoing costs for servers, storage, and support. The goal of this chapter is to present a logical and technical framework from which educators can implement complex systems laboratories accessible at a distance. The chapter will also document the history of the use of virtualization in systems laboratories, the many benefits of virtualization, and future trends in the remoting and virtualization technologies.

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