Archived Creativity & Arts Spotlights
New Media Studies Minor
Jun 1, 2010
Professor Eddy von Mueller of the Film and Media Studies Department at Emory discusses the newly launched Media Studies Minor and what new opportunities it will bring for Emory faculty and students.OKLAHOMA!
Apr 1, 2010
Rodgers & Hammerstein's first, and perhaps most innovative, musical collaboration is set just after the turn of the century, where the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story.Performing Arts Honors
Mar 15, 2010
A closer look at some of Emory's performing arts undergraduate honors students' projects in theater, dance, and music.Gary Motley: Merging Music and Technology
Feb 1, 2010
Emory's Director of Jazz Studies Gary Motley took some time to discuss the upcoming Jazz Festival as well as new developments in the Emory jazz program and his recent integration of technology both in the classroom and in his own music.Will Ransom
Jan 1, 2010
Emory's Mary Emerson Professor of Piano William Ransom is celebrating his twenty-fifth year at Emory with an Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Emerson Series Concert on Sunday, January 24 at 4 p.m. Ransom shares his thoughts about the concert, his anniversary, and the Chopin/Schumann Bicentennial Series in his letter.Harmonic Experience: Metaphysics and Music
Dec 1, 2009
This spring Emory's Department of Music introduces "Harmonic Experience: Metaphysics and Music," the newest interdisciplinary course for Emory undergraduate and graduate students. The course is the brainchild of composer, multi-instrumentalist and Emory music Professor Steve Everett and Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director.National Science and Performance Collaborations on Evolution Culminate at Emory
Oct 1, 2009
Innumerable worldwide commemorations of Charles Darwin continue in 2009, the 200 th anniversary of his birth, and Emory University’s unique contribution culminates this fall with a melding of science and arts that furthers public understanding and engagement with both. Emory’s Center for Creativity and Arts commissioned nationally-known artists to participate in the Oct. 2008 “Emory Evolution Revolution Symposium” and Feb. 2009 “Emory Evolving Arts: New Works Festival” and to collaborate with its scientists, artists and students. The resultant explorations of the intersections of creativity, art and science are performances and related “Creativity Conversations” at Emory in Oct./Nov. 2009.Family and Poetry Inspire Emory Choreographer Anna Leo
Sep 1, 2009
Inspired by her family, choreographer Anna Leo, Emory Dance Program Director, presents …me so much nearer home, a sequence of elegant dances blending delicate gesture with physically driving movement that honor the nature of family and community. The concert features music composed by Music Department faculty member Steve Everett, and Dance Program composers Kendall Simpson and Klimchak. Poems are by Robert Brown, Fran Castan, Lynne Thompson, and Cecelia Woloch. Dancers will be from the Atlanta professional community and Emory faculty.For archived spotlights, visit the spotlights archive.
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