Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee Memorial Organ Installation at IUP
The Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania is adding a notable instrument this summer to its already vast keyboard collection. In May 2014, the department will make way amid its 93 Steinway pianos for the Pogorzelski-Yankee Memorial Organ, valued at $400,000.
The two-manual and pedal, 24-rank tracker pipe organ will come to IUP via a special renewable lease from the American Guild of Organists. The pipe organ is a bequest to the Guild from its original owners, Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee, formerly of Bucks County, Pa.
In 2011, the Guild announced a request for competitive proposals to house the organ; and IUP's proposal, written by IUP assistant professor of organ Christine Clewell, was selected. The organ will be installed in the large instrumental rehearsal room in Cogswell Hall, a room with the size and acoustical properties to provide an ideal setting for teaching and performance on the organ, according to Michael Hood, dean of the College of Fine Arts at IUP.
According to AGO Executive Director James Thomashower, the Guild selected IUP because of its thoroughly documented and passionate desire to have this instrument on campus and for its commitment to use the organ regularly for teaching and performance purposes exactly as Messrs. Pogorzelski and Yankee desired. The proposal, he said, made it abundantly clear to us that IUP's organ students, faculty, and administration would treasure the opportunity to have this elegant organ at the school, and that it would be of immediate and lasting benefit not only to the academic community, but to the larger community around Indiana.
In addition to moving and installing the Pogorzelski-Yankee Memorial Organ, the AGO will be responsible for its ongoing maintenance and will establish the Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee Annual Competition—a composition competition to encourage the creation of new music specifically for this instrument. Each year, the winning composition will be given its world premiere performance in a gala recital at IUP by an internationally recognized organist.
The organ was built under commission in 1991 by Raymond J. Brunner & Co., with casework, gilded in 22-karat gold leaf, inspired by the early Pennsylvania German organs of David Tannenberg (1728--1804). Tannenberg was the most famous apprentice of Johann Gottlob Clemm, who established the rich, early 18th-century Pennsylvania organ building tradition. The IUP installation will also be completed by the original builder, Mr. Brunner.
Since at least 1881, at what was then Indiana Normal School, the organ program has relied on the benevolence of local churches that have offered their instruments for practice, teaching, and performance. Acquisition of the Pogorzelski-Yankee Memorial Organ will not change that relationship, Clewell said, but will build on the critical message that the organ and its great literature hold a viable artistic voice outside of the church.
The organ will serve as IUP's premier performance instrument and will be used for solo organ performances as well as collaborative ensemble music written for strings, voice, woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboard concerto, and choral accompaniments. Music students in all applied performance areas will benefit from having a high-quality organ available for accompanying both student and faculty recitals on campus. Plans also include establishing an alumni organ series.
The American Guild of Organists is the national professional association serving the organ and choral music fields. Founded in 1896 as both an educational and service organization, it sets and maintains high musical standards and promotes the understanding and appreciation of all aspects of organ and choral music. The mission of the AGO is to enrich lives through organ and choral music. The Guild currently serves approximately 18,000 members in more than 300 local chapters throughout the United States and abroad. The American Organist Magazine, the official journal of the AGO and the Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America, reaches an audience of more than 20,000 each month.
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The station is located in Midtown Manhattan close to Herald Square, the Empire State Building, Koreatown, and the Macy's department store. The station is underground beneath Madison Square Garden, between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue and between 31st and 34th Streets. Penn Station has 21 tracks fed by seven tunnels (the North River Tunnels, the East River Tunnels, and the Empire Connection tunnel).
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Rob Evans Podcast 04-19-2011
Interview with Rob Evans for the 2011 exhibit at the Crary Art Gallery
Mystery and Metaphor
Works by Rob Evans
May 8 - June 5, 2011
Exhibition opens to the public
Sunday, May 8, 12-4pm
Rob Evans' paintings are evocative renditions of a world perhaps more closely allied with dreams than our everday reality. We are pleased to host an exhibition of this accomplished artist's oil paintings as well as drawings and prints, some of which will be available for sale.
Mr. Evans is an independent curator as well as an artist, and lives in southeast Pennsylvania. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1981 and has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the E.D. Foundation, the Eben Demarest Trust and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Mr. Evans' meticulous paintings and drawings have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is enthusiastically collected. His work can be found in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Corcoran Museum of Art; Achenbach Foundation; Davis Museum of Wellesley College; Portland Art Museum; State Museum of Pennsylvania; Noyes Museum of Art; James A. Michener Art Museum; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art; Lancaster Museum of Art; Allentown Art Museum; and the University of Delaware. His paintings have been featured in numerous books, newspapers and magazines and on public radio and television.
Special Event / Reception
Open to Crary Art Gallery members only: Mr. Evans will give a PowerPoint lecture about his work both as an artist and a curator, titled Transforming the Commonplace. There will be a gallery reception afterward, in which members are invited to see his work up close and talk with the artist.
Saturday evening, May 7, 7:00 pm at the Crary
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White Coat Ceremony 2019
First year Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine students mark their transition into the medical profession at the White Coat Ceremony. At this annual tradition, students put on their white coats in front of family and friends and are welcomed into the medical profession by HMS and HSDM faculty.
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Restoring an Urban Watershed: Ecology Equity and Design
Anne Whiston Spirn focused on the story of Mill Creek's restoration as a model for uniting science, design, and community engagement to address social and environmental problems. Spirn discussed how landscape literacy is just as critical to those solutions as verbal literacy was to the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Anne Whiston Spirn award-winning author, photographer, and professor of landscape architecture and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The lecture series, New Directions in EcoPlanning, is presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and supported by a generous gift from Michael Dyett (AB ’68, MRP ’72) and Heidi Richardson.
Oct. 28, 2019 - Law Amendments Committee Proceedings (Part 1)
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)