Hilary Tann, professor of music, is to premiere a new work on March
10 in Tuscon, Ariz. In the First, Spinning Place, a concerto for
alto saxophone and orchestra was commissioned by the North American
Saxophone Alliance (NASA), and will be performed and recorded for CD
release by the Arizona Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jindong Cai during
the NASA 2000 conference. The concerto, published by Oxford University
Press, takes its title from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' exuberant poem
about youth, Fern Hill.
Charlotte N. Eyerman, assistant professor of art history, presented
a lecture at the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., last October on
“Domesticity and Politics in 19th-century French Art and
Culture.” She also contributed an essay to Piano Roles: 300 Years
of Life with the Piano, James Parakilas, ed. (Yale University Press,
1999).