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Throughout the Week Structural Healing What if an oversized adhesive bandage could repair a flaw in the landscape? Or would it merely act as camouflage? Find Livia Bell ’13’s healing sites attached to an array of structures on campus. Various locations around campus. Mirror, Mirror Can an anonymous connection also be deeply felt? Borrowing from acoustic mirrors, religious gates and sacred spaces, Victoria Cheah Ph.D. ’16 sends you through a portal of sounds. Located on the Great Lawn. Unraveling: Epithelium Part interactive art gallery, part theatrical funhouse—you choose. Collaboration by David French ’13 and Vincent Wong ’14, with Robert Fitzgerald PB ’13 and David Yun ’14. BernsteinMarcus Building, lower level. Innermost Parts What happens when soft inner parts become exposed? Sculptors Olivia Leiter ’14 and Paul Belenky ’14 explore the dissonance of fragility combined with industrial materials. Shapiro Campus Center Atrium. It Seemed Absurd Enough, Part I Berke Goldberg ’16 performs short personal acts of domesticity daily around campus.
Imagine All The Dreamers: The Festival Begins Anything is possible at this unpredictable, improvisational performance celebrating creativity in all forms, led by students and faculty in the Brandeis School of Creative Arts. Noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.
Schedule of Events
The Transformative Power of Creativity In their annual symposium on creativity, resident scholars at the Women’s Studies Research Center discuss the egoless state of mind that can transform reality into another dimension. Panelists at this event include visual artist Linda Bond, composer and poet Cheryl Conner, actor Annette Miller, and musician Amelia LeClair. Cultural anthropologist Ellen Rovner, respondent, will also participate. Moderated by Rosie Rosenzweig, WSRC scholar. 12:30 p.m. in the Women’s Studies Research Center.
Holland Cotter: Art, Writing, Life, Writing Art Provocative and poetic, Holland Cotter is chief art critic at the New York Times and has been contributing editor at Art in America. He has written widely about non-western art and received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism “for his wide ranging reviews of art, from Manhattan to China, marked by acute observation, luminous writing and dramatic storytelling.” 5 p.m. in the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center. Theatrum Instrumentorum: Brandeis and Tufts Early Music Ensembles Imagine yourself in the European courts of the 17th century. The Brandeis Early Music Ensemble, directed by Prof. Sarah Mead (MUS), is joined by the Tufts Early Music Ensemble, directed by Jane Hershey, to present early Baroque music for a splendid array of instruments and voices. Delight to music by Schein, Praetorius, Marini, Dowland, Jenkins and more. 6 p.m. in the Berlin Chapel.
‘The Kings of Summer’ Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, The Kings of Summer is a coming-of-age story about three teens who spend their summer building a house in the woods. Their idyll quickly becomes a test of friendship. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and starring Alison Brie (“Community,” “Mad Men”), Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”) and Megan Mullally (“Community”). Sponsored by the Film, Television and Interactive Media program. 7 p.m. in the Wasserman Cinematheque in Sachar International Center. Admission is free. Reservation required. Contact Dona Delorenzo dolorenz@brandeis.edu. A Cappella Fest Imagine our finest student singers united in harmony. Starving Artists presents the 14th annual A Cappella Fest, featuring Ba’Note, Company B, Jewish Fella A Cappella, Manginah, Proscenium, Rather Be Giraffes, Starving Artists, Too Cheap for Instruments, Up the Octave, Voice-
Male and Voices of Soul, with special guests the Lexington High School Pitch Pipes. 8 p.m. the Hassenfeld Conference Center. Tickets are $5. Proceeds go to support a local nonprofit. Visions of an Ancient Dreamer Imagine new visions of universal myths in a dramatic journey across time and cultures. The haunting classical Greek tales of Orestes and Iphigenia are reimagined as twin visions of an ancient storyteller who relates the creation of the world, climaxing with the creation of the Furies. A new adaptation of Euripides’ Orestes and Iphigenia at Tauris, adapted and directed by Eric Hill. Translated by Prof. Leonard Muellner (CLAS) and Brandeis students; movement by Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda of the Navarasa Dance Theater. 8 p.m. in Spingold Theater Center. Tickets are $5 for students and $20 general admission and can be purchased at the Brandeis Box Office or online.
Friday, April 26 Lunch and Learn with Alumni in the Arts Do you want to pursue a career in the creative arts? Join the Hiatt Career Center for a special opportunity to speak with Brandeis alumni who are pursuing diverse arts-related careers. You’ll meet Yarden Abukasis ’09, co-founder/ curatorial director, SITEBoston; Nicholas A. Brown ’10, music specialist, Library of Congress; and Lauren Elias ’10, managing director and co-founder, Hub Theatre Company of Boston. Learn how they got to where they are, and get advice for your own career path at this Lunch & Learn event. Alumni guests will represent an array of career paths and interest areas. Lunch will be provided. Noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Geller Lounge in the Hassenfeld Conferenec Center. RSVP required through B.hired. BIG NAZO Mask Workshop BIG NAZO’s famed creature-making laboratory visits Brandeis for a mask-making workshop. Use foam, fabric and other materials to build your own personal creature—then join BIG NAZO in their roving performance on Sunday afternoon, lower campus. 2 to 4 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room in the Shapiro Campus Center. Email ingrids@brandeis. edu to enroll. Opening Reception for “The Sea of Knowledge and Nonsense” As ambient light shifts through the space, a translucent cyanotype built into a functional modular tabletop reveals a previously unseen landscape. Created by Boston-based sculptor, inventor and media artist Prof. Deb Wheeler (FA), who teaches three-dimensional design at Brandeis and is represented by Ellen Miller Gallery (Boston). Supported by a gift from Eric and Debbie Green, P ’05, P ’07. 5 to 6 p.m. in Volen Center in the Shapiro Science Center. Late Night with Leonard Bernstein Hosted by Bernstein’s daughter Jamie, acclaimed soprano Amy Burton and pianists John Musto and Michael Boriskin perform the
maestro’s favorite music, including works by Copland, Confrey, Coward, Schubert and Grieg. 8 p.m. in Slosberg Music Center. Admission is free, but tickets are required and can be purchased as the Brandeis Box Office or online. Visions of an Ancient Dreamer 8 p.m. See Thursday’s schedule. ‘Removing The Glove’ In this one-act comedy by Clarence Coo, young Will has a secret: he is left-handed. Afraid of repercussions, he’s hid this sordid fact for years. Will our hero find the strength to reveal his true nature and come out of the glove compartment? Directed by Melanie Pollock ’14 and produced by the student-run Brandeis Ensemble Theater. 8 p.m. in the Schwartz Auditorium. Ages 13 and older. Boris’ Kitchen Really Big Really Funny Show Brandeis’ all student-written sketch comedy will make you laugh till you cry or leave the theater in disgust. Well, if you can’t stand the heat... 8 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center. Tickets are $3 for the Brandeis community and $5 for general admission. Ages 16 and up. ’Deis Hafla The Brandeis Belly Dance Ensemble and the Miras Project, along with the Middle East music ensemble, unite for a party with live music, food and dancing. 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. in Ridgewood Commons. Late Night with Brandeis SingerSongwriters Whether personal and confessional or political and inspirational, Brandeis has hosted the greats from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Discover a new generation of singer-songwriters with acoustic performances by Becca Fischer ’13, Max Goldstein ’13, Jonah Hirst ’15, Christy Kang ’13, Hailey Magee ’15, Nate Shaffer ’16, Donna Vatnick ’15, Clay Williams ’14 and more! 10 p.m. in Cholomondeley’s Coffee House.
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‘Love in Schlossberg Village’ Based on the music of Johannes Br berg Village weaves together charm folk songs into a “folk opera” abo Conceived and directed by Prof. voice instructor in the Music de Nicholas, pianist. Costumes by Pam 12:30 to 1 p.m. in Rapaporte Treasu brary. Visions of an Ancient Dreamer 8 p.m. See Thursday’s schedule. ‘Removing the Glove’ 8 p.m. See Friday’s schedule.
Brandeis Shorts: “The Note” and A double bill of short films by Bran “The Note,” a psychological thrille by Aaron Berke ’12 (30 min.), and “T edy written and directed by Mark lowed by a Q&A with the filmmake 8 p.m. in the Mandel Center for Hum
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Various locations around campus. Gingko Couture Sarah Hershon ’14 envelops a grove of gingko trees with customknitted finery. Outside the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center. Berber Jews: Space, Memory and Identity What is left behind nearly 60 years after the massive departure of Jews to Israel and France? Through photography and painting, Chama Mechtaly ’15 documents the ruins of the Berber Jewish villages and the women who once lived there. Shapiro Campus Center Multipurpose Room. Spirits in the Forest Discover the hidden world of tree spirits through an interactive scavenger hunt across campus. This project is designed by Rebecca Ottinger ’15 and Olive Pobiel ’15. Pick up your first clue at the Shapiro Campus Center. Receiving Container Imagine 101 radios tuned to every receivable North American frequency. The result is a whole lot of noise in an innocuous container. Designed by Billy Sims (staff, Fine Arts). Shapiro Campus Center Atrium. The Usual Crowd Photojournalists and artists Robyn Spector ’13 and Joshua Linton ’14 imagine all the people, in a series of large-scale digitally
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manipulated portraits. Green Room, Goldfarb Library. Know Your Trees! Melanie Steinhardt ’13 imagines the Brandeis campus as an arboretum and has lovingly crafted woodcut prints to tag some of the most significant species. The Stroke of Change: Arbitrary Gravity What connects societies during times of drastic change? An illustrated book by Prof. Nadezda Vasilyeva (PSYC) and Saray Ayala López, translated into more than 30 languages by Brandeis community members, invites you to take a step toward understanding the principles and values that shape our worlds. Women’s Studies Research Center, Epstein Building. Prospect II Accomplished studio artists in the postbaccalaureate program exhibit painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking. Dreitzer gallery in the Spingold Theater Center. Ulafa’s Reconciliation Art Project Ulafa’a is an art project that creates opportunities for people to express themselves and to strengthen relationships among the different communities of Bahrain. 10 young artists from Bahrain show documentation of their recent residency with the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis. Shapiro Campus Center Multipurpose Room.
Sunday, April 28 Proscenium The gleeful Brandeis a cappella group belts out your favorite Broadway show tunes. Featuring Briana Schiff ’14, Zach Smith ’15 and Levi Squier ’14. 1 to 1:20 p.m. on the Great Lawn. The Tanglewood Marionettes: The Fairy Circus Ballerinas, mice, snake charmers, clowns, jugglers and magicians perform to beloved music by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Offenbach and Strauss. 1 to 1:50 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. For all ages. Top Score/Waltham Philharmonic Top Score, Brandeis’ student-run orchestra, will perform favorite music from movies. The Philharmonic will perform excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. 1:30 to 1:50 p.m. on the Great Lawn. Spoken at the Rose Celebrate the power of language with dynamic poetry/spoken word performances by Brandeis students and alumni. 1:30 to 1:50 p.m. in the Rose Art Museum. Ages 13 and up. Visions of an Ancient Dreamer 2 p.m. See Thursday’s schedule.
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8 p.m. in Levin Ballroom in the Usdan Student Center. Tickets are free with Brandeis ID, $7 for general public and $12 for a reserved seat. Boris’ Kitchen 8 p.m. See Friday’s schedule. Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra: Catch a Rising Star We imagine Mr. Bernstein would be delighted by the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra performance of Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Overture to Fingal’s Cave and Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto with Wellesley College’s rising star pianist Michiko Inouye. 8:30 p.m. in the Slosberg Music Center. ‘Tinghir-Jerusalem: The Echoes of the Mellah’ Screening of a 2011 documentary film by Kamal Hachkar, tracing the filmmaker’s rediscovery of a Judeo-Berber culture in Morocco through a personal journey that leads him from the country of his birth, France, to Israel and Tinghir. In conjunction with the exhibition “Berber Jews: Space, Memory and Identity” by Chama Mechtaly ’15. 9 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Multipurpose room.
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cappella irreverence. 3:30 to 3:50 p.m. Lindsay Straw A Boston-based guitarist, bouzouki player and vocalist who specializes in folk and traditional Irish music. 4 to 4:40 p.m. Driftwood One of the most prominent national acts to come out of Binghamton, N.Y. is at heart a rock band, though the ghost of traditional American folk music lives in their palette. 4:50 to 5:30 p.m.
A Kidsummer Night’s Dream The thoroughly delightful City Stage Co. actors introduce young audiences to highlights from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, including “the most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe.” Audience volunteers are cast as dancing fairies, a love-hindering wall, the man-inthe-moon and marauding lions. 2 to 2:20 p.m. in the Bernstein-Marcus Plaza. Community Stage With Brandeis Beats Drum Circle, family performer Scott Kepnes and more. 2:30 to 2:50 p.m. in the Bernstein-Marcus Plaza. Exhibition Guided Tours Reflect on abstraction, coerce nature and discover why Ed Ruscha is far from standard in a studentguided tour of the current Rose Art Museum exhibitions. 2 to 3 p.m. in the Rose Art Museum. Animation Festival In the second annual Animation Festival, short, familyfriendly animated films transport you to new worlds. 3 to 4 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. Sol Y Canto Sol y Canto is led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist/composer Brian Amador, Keala Kamaheiwa (bass), Tim Mayer (saxophone) and Renato Thoms (percussion). 3 to 4 p.m. on the Great Lawn. Perfect Pitch An all-girl, student-run a cappella group from Brookline High School. Their repertoire spans classics from the 1950s to artists such as Lauryn Hill and R.E.M. 3 to 3:20 p.m. in the Rose Art Museum. One Little Whiff of Success Imagine composer and violist Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) brought to life in this original new work of theater and music. Clarke is conveyed through her own words and three of her most powerful and influential musical creations. Conceived and created by Alexandra Borrie, Angelynne Hinson and Amy Lieberman of Vocollage. With Noralee Walker (viola), Scott Nicholas (piano) and Todd Brunel (clarinet). Presented by the Rebecca Clarke Society (Liane Curtis, founder). 3 to 5 p.m. in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library.
Lift Every Voice Singer-song leader Ben Lovenheim ’15 hosts “Lift Every Voice,” a community sing-along. With songs by the likes of Pete Seeger and Taylor Swift, that could mean songs you’ve always loved, or favorites you haven’t met yet, depending on your generation. 3:30 to 4 p.m. in the Rose Art Museum. Barbara Cassidy Band The sweet, supple songs of Barbara Cassidy and Eric Chasalow have their roots in classical American folk, and can travel in almost any musical direction. 4 to 4:20 p.m. in the Rose Art Museum. Brandeis Juggling Club The Brandeis Juggling Club turns the lights down for a daredevil performance with flashing lights and flying objects. 4 to 4:20 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. Jim’s Big Ego Mixing rock with political satire, social relevance with romantic irreverence, Jim’s Big Ego has carved a unique place in the music world by rocking harder, fresher, louder, sweeter and better than everyone else. 4 to 5 p.m. on the Great Lawn. Springfest Student Events and WBRS are proud to present Kendrick Lamar for Springfest 2013. Student performer Gabe Goodman ’15 will start the show, followed by the DJ and mashup artist 5 & A Dime. An unannounced special guest indie rock band will also be performing. There will also be food trucks and a beer garden for students ages 21 and older. 4 to 8 p.m. on Chapels Field. Hold On/Go West “Hold On” is an original piece of hip-hop flavored contemporary dance by Shaquan Perkins ’13, Samantha Cortez ’13, and Stephanie Ramos ’15. “Go West” is an engaging, original modern dance from the Allegro Dance Collaborative featuring Courtney Choate ’11, Julie Judson ’11, Anna Kharaz ’09, Sari Ladin ’12, Beth Moguel ’10, Carina Platner ’12, Ariella Silverstein-Tapp ’09 and Greg Storella ’11. 4:30 to 5 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. Beams: The 2013 Electroacoustic Half-Marathon Imagine the music of the future. For 50 years, the Brandeis Electroacoustic Music Studio has been at the forefront of creative experimentation. This special concert presents world premieres of multimedia musical works by six Brandeis composers, in collaboration with professional musicians, that explore the outer limits and connections of electronic and live music. 7 p.m. in the Slosberg Music Center. ‘Removing the Glove’ 8 p.m. See Friday’s schedule. Sidewalk Sam Cover the campus walkways with Sidewalk Sam, aka Robert Guillemin, the beloved Boston artist dedicated to creating public art that promotes community and creativity. Throughout the afternoon around the Shapiro Campus Center. Inventor Art Create your own vision of the future using Waltham Watch Company Watch Plates and other 19th-century tools of industry, courtesy of the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation. Make a piece of jewelry or a small mosaic out of computer parts with arts educator and electronics enthusiast Melissa Glick. Throughout the afternoon in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium. Take a Trip Around the World Students and staff from the Brandeis Intercultural Center lead activities for all ages. Make a pair of maracas, draw a self-portrait or get a henna tattoo. Throughout the afternoon in the Shapiro Campus Center.
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DADDY’S GIRL: Bernstein used to accompany her father on tour all over the world, including places such as Israel and the U.S. PHOTO COURTESY OF Bettmann/CORBIS
Bernstein upholds her father’s music legacy By CELINE HACOBIAN JUSTICE EDITOR
Jamie Bernstein has vivid memories of tagging along with her father, Leonard Bernstein, to his Young People’s Concerts, at which he would conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and explain various musical topics to his audience. She and her brother Alexander would run through Philharmonic Hall, unsupervised, while her father ran through dress rehearsals, camera rehearsals and script meetings before filming the concert for the public, which was then broadcast on CBS. Bernstein was born and raised in New York City, the eldest of three children to Felicia Cohn Montealegre and Leonard Bernstein. She has fond memories from her childhood and the early days of her parents’ marriage. “The house was always full of people. Our mother Felicia Cohn Montealegre, who came from South America—she had a wonderful sense of style and a sense of warmth with people, and so she made our house such an attractive, comfortable, lovely place to hang out and everybody always came to our house and there were so many people among
our parents’ friends,” she said. Among those friends were musicians, artists and writers who filled their house with music, singing and games. The adults that surrounded Bernstein’s environment when she was a child made Bernstein believe that “all grown-ups did was have fun—we couldn’t wait to be grownups,” she said. Aside from keeping her father company during the Young People’s Concerts, she also enjoyed going on tour with him to places in Europe, Israel and the United States. Narrating concerts entails speaking about either the composer, music or elements of the music performed by an orchestra. Hearing her father narrate and put together the Young People’s Concerts would help Bernstein later in life, more than she could know at the time. About 15 years ago, her family created a concert similar to the ones Leonard Bernstein developed. This concert, however, would focus on Jamie’s father’s music instead of the other composers her father’s program focused on. “I volunteered to write [the concert] myself because I thought it was such a great idea, but I’d never done anything like that in my life. But I
sure had been to a lot of them … so I felt like that maybe by the process of osmosis I would be able to figure out how to write one,” she said. Because she was not trained to play any instruments, Bernstein joined forces with Michael Barrett, Leonard Bernstein’s assistant conductor, to write the script, develop the concert and introduce what they called “The Bernstein Beat” to the world. She has hosted and narrated the concert in places like China, Venezuela, Spain and Cuba. Bernstein continued narrating concerts about various topics, mostly about her father but also about Aaron Copland, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Igor Stravinsky. First, she researches the topic, then writes the script and then sets out on the road to perform the concert. “[The job] covers all the things I like to do. I love to find out more about a topic I didn’t know about before—that’s the research part—and I love writing … so there’s that. And I love performing—getting up and sharing what I’ve learned and my own excitement about my topic to an audience, preferably a young one,” she said. As she narrates concerts and lis-
tens to the various orchestras play her father’s music, she feels a connection to her father. “I feel happy that I found a way to share him with the rest of the world, which is a nice way to give back to him, thank him in a way for everything he gave to me in the course of his life. When I sit on the corner of the stage while they’re playing my dad’s music and I’m in the middle of a concert about him, I always have this great feeling that I’m sort of giving him acknowledgement or giving him a hug back,” she said. Leonard Bernstein, who was a visiting Music professor at Brandeis from 1951 to 1956, founded the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts. Jamie will be hosting one of the events, “Late Night with Leonard Bernstein” this year on Friday, April 26 at 8 p.m. in the Slosberg Music Center. The event, which she describes as “a little tour inside my father’s brain,” will consist of pieces he might have written late at night, while he could not fall asleep. She explained that her father would write smaller pieces that would sometimes be developed into longer and more complex pieces of music later on.
Bernstein described her father as an “insomniac” and as someone who “had this power motor that he could not shut off. His engine just kept going and going all the time. That was part of why he couldn’t sleep at night. So instead, he would be up all night long by himself and would be composing … or he would be up all night partying with his friends, roaring around the piano,” she said. “You get a sense of an ‘inner’ person and an ‘outer’ person. There’s a combination of the interior compositions and also the sorts of pieces he liked to entertain his friends with, not by him necessarily,” she said. Besides the festival, Bernstein has several other developing projects in the coming weeks and months. She will travel to Venezuela in May to start putting together a concert in Spanish to introduce Aaron Copland’s music to young audiences there. In the summer, she will narrate a concert of her father’s music in Los Angeles, and then begin researching topics for next year’s concerts. “[My father] himself taught at Brandeis, so he’d be thrilled to know that everything was coming around full circle,” she said.
LOOKING AHEAD: Jamie Bernstein is enthusiastic about embracing her father’s legacy as she continues her own career. PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE J. SHERMAN
TALENTED MAESTRO: Leonard Bernstein, an active and passionate musician and composer, was very active in the arts scene at Brandeis. PHOTO COURTESY OF BrandeisNOW