Adaskin, Murray (1906–2002)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Strachan
Keyword(s):  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Compositional Style ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Small Orchestra ◽  
Canadian Music ◽  
Music Centre ◽  
The University

Born in Toronto, Ontario and passing in Victoria, British Columbia, Murray Adaskin was a violinist, composer, and academic whose music was widely performed in Canada. Adaskin was violinist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1926–36, and held senior academic and administrative positions at the University of Saskatchewan (1952–73) and the Canada Council for the Arts (1966–69). His compositional style largely avoids allegiance to modern and experimental currents of the twentieth century, balancing conservatism and lyricality with atonal and folk elements. An expedition to Canada’s arctic to record Inuit singing in 1965 proved influential to Adaskin, resulting in several works including Qala and Nilaula of the North (1969, for small orchestra), Rankin Inlet (1978, for piano duo), and Eskimo Melodies (1980, for piano). Adaskin wrote that he hoped his music would "someday be recognized for its Canadian flavor," and much of his programmatic oeuvre dedicates itself to regional and national topics (Canadian Music Centre, Musicanada, 9). His chamber opera based on a Metis fur trader, Grant, Warden of the Plains (1967), was commissioned for Canada’s centenary. The Adaskins, including Murray’s brothers John (1908–1964) and Harry (1901–1994), were significant influences on the cultivation of art music in Canada during the postwar period.

Advanced Intermediate Chamber Music for Double Bass and Unusual Combinations

1994 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
Pamela Ryan ◽  
Heidi Castleman
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Music ◽  
String Quartet ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Brooklyn College ◽  
State University ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
North Carolina School ◽  
Cincinnati College

Pamela Ryan is an associate professor of viola at Florida State University in Tallahassee and in May becomes president of ASTA's Florida state unit. Previously, she taught at Bowling Green State University, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Brooklyn College, and Aspen Music School. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, she received her B.M. from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in performance from the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College, and a D.M.A. from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory. She was a winning soloist of the Aspen Concerto Competition and has performed with the Bowling Green String Quartet at Carnegie Hall and in Mexico City. Recently, she has performed on chamber music radio broadcasts in New Orleans and with the Louisiana Philharmonic. She now serves as principal violist of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra.

scholarly journals Violet Archer's Formative Years: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Her Compositions, 1932–43

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-195
Author(s):  
James Whittle
Keyword(s):  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Canadian Music ◽  
Music Centre ◽  
The University ◽  
Formative Years

This chronological catalogue of Violet Archer's earliest completed compositions, including works written from 1932 to 1943, is based on manuscripts in her possession and on deposit at the University of Calgary Library, as well as published scores and reproductions of manuscripts in the University of Alberta Library and the libraries of the Canadian Music Centre. It provides the date of composition for each work and summarizes the supporting evidence, including dates found on manuscripts, the types of paper used, entries on lists of works compiled by the composer, and dates of first and early performances. Also included are the medium of performance of each work, a list of movements, the source of any text, and the location of scores and recordings.

scholarly journals Canadian Music: A Personal Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Carl Morey
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Canadian Music ◽  
Music Centre ◽  
The University ◽  
League Of Composers

In this article the author reflects on musical life in Canada, drawing on experiential perspectives while growing up in Toronto and his career for three decades as a faculty member in musicology at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. References to pivotal musical institutions (Canadian League of Composers, CBC, Canadian Music Centre, among others) and historical documents such as Ernest MacMillan’sMusic in Canada,Marshall McLuhan’sGutenberg Galaxy,and George Grant’sLament for a Nationprovide contextual frameworks for these perspectives.

Supply, Demand, and the University

1984 ◽  
Vol 471 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHELDON HACKNEY
Keyword(s):  
Art Music ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Educational Mission ◽  
Adequate Funding ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Human Awareness ◽  
Taking Responsibility

One reason there never seems to be adequate funding for the arts is that supply can never keep up with demand. Because of their mission and the environment they provide for creative minds, universities contribute to the problem by fanning the sparks of artistic desire. At the same time, because of their role in educating the audiences of the future, they are equally a part of the solution. In good financial times no less than in bad, Americans have tended to regard support for the arts in a puritanical light. Universities therefore make their most solid contributions to the arts in kind, by encouraging artists and the arts as part of the primary educational mission and by exposing all students to both the old and the new in art, music, and drama. Even though direct subventions are bound to remain inadequate, institutions can effectively provide support for the arts by resuming some responsibility for instilling aesthetic judgment in the citizens and consumers of tomorrow. Universities have a historical obligation to develop the highest in human awareness. This includes helping to determine tomorrow's tune by taking responsibility for informing the tastes of those who will pay the pipers of the future.

Papineau-Couture, Jean (1916–2000)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bazin
Keyword(s):  
Art Music ◽  
First Year ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Double Concerto ◽  
School Of Music ◽  
Canadian Art ◽  
Canadian Music ◽  
Nadia Boulanger ◽  
Music Centre ◽  
Music Faculty

Grandson to Quebec’s art music scene pioneer Guillaume Couture (1851–1915), composer Jean Papineau-Couture (1916–2000) played a major role in the development of the province’s musical life throughout the century. A composer, pianist, pedagogue, and administrator, Papineau-Couture’s contributions range from his involvement with the foundation of the Canadian League of composers (Toronto, 1951) to the fulfilment of his academic function as Dean of the music faculty at Université de Montreal (1968–1973). He also participated in the creation of both the Society for Canadian Music (Montreal, 1954) and the Montreal bureau of the Canadian Music Centre (1973)—the former being a music society dedicated to the performance of Canadian music, the latter one of today’s most active institutions in the dissemination of Canadian art music—and acted as an administrator of the Société de musique contemporaine du Quebec, founded in 1966 and for which he served as president starting that very first year up to 1972. His teaching of music is stringed across these many accomplishments. The catalogue of Jean Papineau-Couture includes many stylistically diverse works. His music evolved throughout his life, moving from a form of neoclassicism most probably influenced by the composer’s many encounters with Igor Stravinsky—some by way of Nadia Boulanger, whom he studied with, along with Quincy Porter, at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts—to an atonal idiom. Papineau-Couture composed many concertante-style works, as demonstrated in his Clair-obscure (1986), a double concerto for contrabassoon, double bass, and orchestra. The composer also wrote many pieces of chamber music, most often for soloist and piano accompaniment (Caprices, 1962; Discussion animée, 1997), as well as a substantial number of orchestral works.

What's in a title? The developing role of an artist-critic in the university

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-185
Author(s):  
G. James Daichendt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Art World ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Institutional Expectations ◽  
Studio Arts ◽  
The University

Abstract Arts professionals within higher education struggle with identity. Dual roles across departments, the changing role of the arts professor and non-traditional positions have challenged the notion of the studio arts instructor and whether institutional expectations are the best way to think about the future of the arts in higher education. As a veteran arts professor, dean, art historian, art critic and artist ‐ my role is not as straightforward as I originally thought it might be as an undergrad studio art major. Through a series of significant streams in my education and personal life, including successes and failures in the academic and professional art world ‐ a new identity emerged that is not represented in search profiles, academic departments or administrative positions.

EXIT INTERVIEW: HENRY SNYDER

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Slive
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American English ◽  
Exit Interview ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
Louisiana State University ◽  
The North ◽  
The University

Henry Snyder was born in Hayward, California in 1929 and did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his PhD in history in 1963. He has taught and held administrative positions at University of Kansas, Louisiana State University, and University of California, Riverside. He has been director of the North American English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) project since 1978. In that time, the project has expanded from its original focus on eighteenth-century imprints to include records for letterpress items in any language printed between 1473 and 1800 in England or any of its dependencies, and works . . .

SEM and TEM observations of sperm development in the testis of the freshwater fish Oreochromis mossambicus

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
Daryl A. Cornish ◽  
George L. Smit
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Oreochromis Mossambicus ◽  
Breeding Cycle ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Sem And Tem ◽  
Sperm Development ◽  
Ultrastructural Characteristics ◽  
The University

Oreochromis mossambicus is currently receiving much attention as a candidater species for aquaculture programs within Southern Africa. This has stimulated interest in its breeding cycle as well as the morphological characteristics of the gonads. Limited information is available on SEM and TEM observations of the male gonads. It is known that the testis of O. mossambicus is a paired, intra-abdominal structure of the lobular type, although further details of its characteristics are not known. Current investigations have shown that spermatids reach full maturity some two months after the female becomes gravid. Throughout the year, the testes contain spermatids at various stages of development although spermiogenesis appears to be maximal during November when spawning occurs. This paper describes the morphological and ultrastructural characteristics of the testes and spermatids.Specimens of this fish were collected at Syferkuil Dam, 8 km north- west of the University of the North over a twelve month period, sacrificed and the testes excised.

Social Responsibility Practice Diagnosis applied to the Universidad del Valle- Northern Facility. Period 2014-2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (62) ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Adriana M. Moreno Moreno ◽  
Eduar Fernando Aguirre González
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Management

Social Responsibility is a concept that has been approached from different perspectives by theoreticians and institutions. Initially, this was limited exclusively to companies, however, the creation of the Social Capital, Ethics and Development Initiative by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) sought to make educational institutions aware that, like any other organization, they are responsible for the externalities they generate in their environment and their stakeholders. This research approaches the concept of University Social Responsibility (USR) from the scheme proposed by the IDB, which proposes four axes of action for Universities’ CR: Responsible Campus, Professional and Citizen Training, Social Management of Knowledge and Social Participation. The Universidad del Valle has a strategic plan entitled “Universidad del Valle’s Strategic Development Plan” and Regionalization attached thereto. It has also developed its action plan and in the five strategic issues raised herein, its socially responsible approach is clearly identifiable. The North Cauca Facility wherein this study is being developed, even though it does not have a University Social Responsibility Management Model, has attempted to align its practices with its strategic affairs that broadly conform to the four axes proposed by the IDB. This research addresses a relevant and current issue inasmuch as it proposes to develop a diagnosis on the relationship between the four axes of Social Responsibility proposed by the IDB and the practice of Social Responsibility applied at the Universidad del Valle, North Cauca Facility, for the period 2014-2015. In order to answer the research problem, a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive type of study is used, given that the work was based on the documentary information available at the University, while the interviews with the directors of the Institution are used as a tool for oral history. The research method used is the case study, which allows to address a unit of analysis in depth, in this case the USR within the Universidad del Valle, North Cauca Facility.

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