December 10, 2009
Etc.: Campus news & notes
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUDWIG: If you, like Schroeder from the Peanuts comic strip, are eagerly awaiting Beethoven’s birthday on Dec. 16, be sure to go online that day for a new exhibit. Schultz’s Beethoven, Schroeder’s Muse features 60 cartoons that include meticulously drawn music from Beethoven’s piano sonatas complemented with manuscripts, first editions, and artwork from the rich collections of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University. Visitors to the online exhibition can listen to the music, travel to other Web sites to enrich their understanding of the strips, and explore cartoon and music history. And if you tune in to the exhibit, the Beethoven recordings you’ll hear are being played by UW Music Professor Craig Sheppard. Small wonder. Several years ago, Sheppard undertook to perform all of Beethoven’s piano concertos, and did so at a series of concerts. The link to the exhibit, which will not be live until Dec. 16, is www.americanbeethovensociety.org/schulzsbeethoven/.
SWEET ARCHITECTURE: The newest building on the UW Tacoma campus is among seven Tacoma architectural landmarks that have been reconstructed in gingerbread for the third annual Gingerbread Village presented by the Tacoma Art Museum and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Korsmo Construction, the general contractor for UW Tacoma’s Philip Hall, created the gingerbread version of the same building. The cookie-and-candy Philip Hall joins gingerbread versions of Stadium High School, the Tacoma Dome, the ill-fated Luzon Building, the Vashon ferry, the Elks Club and Old Crescent Ballroom, and Bob’s Java Jive. The exhibit will be up through Dec. 13. For more info, see www.tacomaartmuseum.org.
ARTIST ARCHITECT: Robert Hutchison, principal of Hutchison & Maul Architecture who teaches part-time in the Department of Architecture, has been selected by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission as one of five U.W./Japan Creative Artist Fellows. He’ll spend five months traveling in Japan to visit and study site-specific installation works created by artists and architects whose work spans both professions.
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