Konye's "Migrations" recorded by Kiev Philharmonic

Paul Konye, Ph.D., latest composition, “Migrations: A Global Portrait.” It has been released by Erm Media on the 14th volume of the album, Masterworks of the New Era.

Konye’s piece was recorded by Kiev Philharmonic and conducted by Maestro Robert Winston.

Audio clips from Konye’s composition can be found at http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=842751

Changes in Foy "Pit"

During remodellings this summer, we found out that the basement of Foy, where our Music studio, Theatre practice room and art studios have been implanted, used to be called "The Pit" when the basement was a Rathskeller. New nickname?

Foy 105, our Music Room, has undergone an "improvement" for the sake of acoustics: the removal of the moldy carpet and 6 layers of subflooring. Now the floor is the exposed cement block, with a few places of excess paste and tiles. I wrote "RAW" at the entrance door, so people will know that we are in the process... The floor will be finished when funds are available.

Our hero for this project is John Cozzy, lead maintenance man at Foy, who single-handedly got out all the dust and detritus left by the floor removal. Thank him if you're not breathing cement fumes! And thank him for his over 30 years of service to Siena.

A projection TV (discard from dorms) is now in place in Foy 107, The Actor's Studio, for the benefit especially of Acting for the Camera classes.

Professor Liz Blum spent a week cleaning up the Art and Design rooms. Thanks, Liz.

There are still things to be finished, but we have come quite a way in upgrading The Pit.

Eagle Rock September 11th Flight Crews Memorial

The “Eagle Rock September 11th Flight Crews Memorial”, designed by sculptor architectural designer, and college art instructor, Patrick Morelli (who taught in CREA in 2009), will be dedicated in a public ceremony on Friday, September 11, 2009 at 8am, at Eagle Rock Reservation Essex County Park in West Orange, New Jersey, overlooking the former site of the Twin Towers.

ABC-TV will telecast an interview with the artist by correspondent, Kemberly Richardson, at 8:25 am the same day.

Images of the Flight Crews memorial and the adja cent 160-foot granite "Wall of Remembrance" bearing 2850 names and the eight bronze sculptures of the “Eagle Rock September 11th Memorial”, dedicated on October 20, 2002--which the new memorial will complement--can be viewed on the artist’s website portfolio, www.MorelliART.com

Beaudoin Theatre Season 2009-20

October 1-3: Student Production directed by Paul Mayer

Nov 13-21: Into the Woods, Director Steve Fletcher, Music Ellen Rizzo, Sets Denise Massman, Costumes Karin Mason, Lights Lilly Fossner

March 10-14: Perfect Pie: Director Ralph Plasting, Sets Denise Massman, Costumes, Karin Mason, Lights Rob Thompson, Music Chas Marsh

April 22-May 1: Pygmallian: Director Paul Ricciardi, Lets Jason Cross, Dostume Denise Massman, Lights Lilly Fossner.

Videotaping is scheduled for a day prior to the opening of each production

RANSOM & NEW MEDIA

Artists' statement from the program of the show:

NEW MEDIA ARTISTS MAINE (NMAM) is an association of new media artists. Each artist has chosen the mission of exploring the creative realm within their discipline/s to produce new media art, rejecting commercial influences and popular culture as an objective. The term new media art as described here refers to an art genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, Internet art, interactive art technologies, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology. New Media concerns are often derived from the telecommunications, mass media and digital modes of delivery the artworks involve, with practices ranging from conceptual to virtual art, performance to installation.

The works presented here are as varied as the artists themselves. They are not always easily understood. They can challenge, provoke, confuse, outrage and even entertain. Just how they affect the viewer may not be immediately apparent. Much as we may not know the impact on our body of a recently digested meal, so a new media work’s effect may go unnoticed for some time. New media art, as all art, is mysterious. Ultimately it can only be experienced.. . .

The programs we offer consist of a selection of new media art and the presence of the artists who produced that work. This combination of the work being presented by the creator is integral to each program. The artists will speak about their method of employing their chosen medium (film, video, computer, other). This might involve using live action, stop motion, stills, animation, puppetry, found footage, electronic feeds, multi-screen, or a combination of techniques or other systems, which they have devised to produce their art. They will speak about the challenges and difficulties of being new media artists. Granted the mystery of art remains but our presentations hope to bring the viewer closer to the artists and their art.

AMANDA RANSOM

Faculty Siena College

Recipient Fulbright Fellowship,

Simon Foundation Award For Innovation In The Arts

Showcase Nanjing Museum, China

showed

MYSTERY BIRDS (2008), 12 minutes

Birds appear representing the unknowable forces that rule our lives.

VIDEO HAIKU (2006), 6 minutes

A video version of this traditional form of poetry, using seconds of footage to replace syllables of words.

PTC & BEATLEMANIA

The Beatles won't be in Liverpool at the end of June but Pat Trutty-Coohill will be. She's organized a panel of European and American scholars to discuss philosopher Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's theories of God. The meeting is at the Liverpool Hope University where they offer a Master's Degree in Beatles' studies.

TRASHION FASHIONS SHOWN BY MISS NY MODELS

The Trashion Fashions students designed for the Spring Green Show will be shown in the Center Court Colonie Center Mall for the Miss NY Meet and Greet on Saturday June 27 at 11 a.m.

Thanks to Cam Hoheb, Chair of the Creative Arts Committee that fund raises for us, who made the contact; as a RISD graduate in fashion design, she recognized the quality of the work. Linda Dockal, Dirctor of Marketing at Colonie Center made the arrangements.

Congratulations, students of Denise Massman and Karen Mason!