Follow, new opera with libretto by Aaron Landsman, premieres September 8

LCA faculty member Aaron Landsman wrote the libretto for Follow, a new opera about truth, news, and how stories evolve beyond our intentions. A collaboration with Portuguese composer Igor Silva, US performer Stephanie Pan and Dutch musicians Ensemble Klang, Follow premieres at Gaudeaumus Music Week, and will have further shows throughout The Netherlands, and in Portugal. Look for Follow in the US in 2022.

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Conscious Living Brings Mindful Travel to PBS Stations

Conscious Living is an entertaining lifestyle television series that travels the planet on a hunt for what it takes to be a mindful human. Through the adventures of its EMMY award-winning host, Bianca Alexander (P'93) and her husband, vegan chef Michael, the show takes viewers across the globe while inviting them on a surprising journey inward.

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"Castrati Singers in the European Sacred Music Tradition”--A free video lecture by Elisabeth Kotzakidou Pace, Ph.D. is now available at the Academy of Sacred Drama

In July, Elisabeth Kotzakidou Pace, Ph.D. delivered a video lecture at the Academy of Sacred Drama entitled “The Original Sin: Castrati Singers in the European Sacred Music Tradition,” and a conference paper at the 19th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music organized by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire entitled “Where did all the Altos go? Voice-type symbolism and the representation of the Female Principle in J. S. Bach’s Church Cantatas, Masses, and Passions.”

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New pandemic-inspired urban poetry from alumna ('74) Amy Madden

The 4th collection of poetry from alumna Amy Madden Taylor '74. A veteran New Yorker and New York Blues Hall of Fame bassist, Amy has weathered the evolution and disintegration of the music scene in the city. With soul and nostalgia she continues, in this fourth collection, to harvest the grit and heart of what remains in a volume that reads as the lyric-score of a stunning urban opera.

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Public Art: “Taking Pause” Explores What is Irreplaceable to Us

Public Art: “Taking Pause” Explores What is Irreplaceable to Us

“What is irreplaceable to you?” Capturing diverse answers from the local community, a public art installation now graces Dohm Alley, near the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon Streets. The Princeton University Humanities Council and the Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) are co-hosting the exhibit that runs through October. It features portraits and stories arranged by ACP Artist-in-Residence Robin Resch, a Princeton-based photographer who earned her Master’s in Architecture from Princeton University in 2003.

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