Center for the Arts Radio Hour

Conversation between Associate Director of Visual Arts Benjamin Chaffee and Curator of the Davison Art Center Miya Tokumitsu.

Featuring the track "Audible Bacillus" by The Ex from their 1995 album, "Mudbird Shivers."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 16: Audible Bacillus; Bestiary

Interview with Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher and bassist Roy Wiseman. Featuring tunes from Elite Syncopation's 1995 album "Sidewalk Blues" - "The Cannon Ball," "Hen Cackle Rag," "La Paloma," "A Song of India," "Hyena Stomp," "Solace," "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate," "Dead Man Blues," "Billy Goat Stomp," "Wall Street Rag," "Bethena," and "One O' Them Things!"

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 17: Roy Wiseman

Interview with CONTRA-TIEMPO's Founding Artistic Director Ana María  Alvarez; conversation with John Spencer Camp Professor of Music Neely Bruce, Professor of Music Ron Kuivila, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Academic Writing and Associate Director for Assessment Rachael Barlow about Jon Barlow.

Featuring a recording of Jon Barlow performing Frédéric Chopin's Prelude in e minor Op. 28 No. 4; Nocturne in E Major Op. 62 No. 2; and the beginning of Prelude in F# Major Op. 28 No. 13. Recorded on April 4, 1992 by Roland Barlow at Lehigh University for Jon Barlow's parents' 50th wedding anniversary.

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 18: CONTRA-TIEMPO; Jon Barlow Remembered

Interview with The Assembly's Co-Artistic Directors Nick Benacerraf ’08 and Jess Chayes '07 by Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the Center for the Humanities Natasha Korda; conversation between Program Manager for the Center for Creative Youth Lisa Foss and Assistant Director for Programs at the Center for the Arts Hanna Oravec.

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 19: The Assembly; Center for Creative Youth

Interview with pianist Angelina Gadeliya, Assistant Professor in Residence of Piano and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the University of Connecticut, and Founding Artistic Director of the Connecticut Bach Festival. 

Featuring recordings of Angelina Gadeliya performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio in b minor K. 540 and Alexander Scriabin's Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp Major Op. 30 from her album "Music of Tribute: Schnittke and His Ghosts” (2015); komungo (Korean stringed instrument) virtuoso and Wesleyan University Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Jin Hi Kim performing "Saturn’s Moons," as well as "Double Portraits" and "Pale Blue Dot" with Gerry Hemingway from the album "Pulses" (2010); and Alsarah and The Nubatones "Ya Watan" and "3roos Elneel" from the album "Manara" (2016).

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 20: Angelina Gadeliya; Jin Hi Kim

Interview with Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 HIGHWAYMEN by Associate Director for Programming and Performing Arts Fiona Coffey; interview with Ray Achan '19 by Assistant Director for Programs Hanna Oravec.

Includes Alsarah and The Nubatones "Fulani," "Salam Nubia," "Alforag," and "Albahr" from the album "Manara" (2016).

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 21:  600 HIGHWAYMEN; Ray Achan '19

Conversation between curator Phoebe Junghee Shin and artist Young-Il Kim.

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour: Sound Of Korea

Interview with Sean Callahan, eighth grade art teacher at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Middletown, Connecticut; translation of conversation between curator Phoebe Junghee Shin and artist Young-Il Kim by Sangwon Kim '20. 

Featuring tracks from Kayagum Ensemble Sagye's album "Part 2" - "Walking in Small Steps," "Song in the Dusk," "Jul," "Though the Petals Fall," "Variations on 'Sangju Moshimgi,'" "Azaleas," and "Wild Flowers of the Mountains."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 22: Middletown Public Schools Art Exhibition; Sound of Korea

Interview with singer, songwriter, and bandleader Alsarah. Featuring tracks by Alsarah and The Nubatones "Ya Watan," "3roos Elneel," "Fulani," "Salam Nubia," "Alforag," "Albahr," "3yan T3ban," "Nar," "Manara," "Asilah," and "Habibi Taal." 

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 23: Alsarah

Conversation between John Spencer Camp Professor of Music Neely Bruce and composer, scriptwriter, and essayist Michael Kowalski. 

Featuring Neely Bruce performances of his "The Feline Sea" from his 2015 album with composer Robert J. Martin “Playful Edge of the Wave: Image-Based Music for Solo Piano" (Ravello Records); "Pandiatonic Study No. 3" from "This Is It!" Part 12 on July 16, 2017; "Two Fiddle Tunes: 'Country Dance' from 'Americana,' and 'Old Joe Clark' (arranged by Neely Bruce)" from "This Is It!" Part 14 on February 25, 2018; "Chopin Jam No. 3" from "This Is It!" Part 10 on September 25, 2016; "A Fugue for Katchen Coley" from "This Is It!" Part 2 from February 16, 2014; "Nocturne No. 1;" "Furniture Music in the Form of 50 Rag Licks" from "This Is It!" Part 6 on July 12, 2015; and "Napoleon at Junior's [Piano Rock Album No. 3]" from "This Is It!" Part 7 on November 1, 2015.

Includes a quote from Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" at very end of the segment. 

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 24: This Is It! The Complete Piano Works of Neely Bruce

Conversation between Curator of the Davison Art Center Miya Tokumitsu and Associate Director of Visual Arts Benjamin Chaffee.

Featuring tracks by Alsarah and The Nubatones "Ya Watan," "3roos Elneel," "Fulani," "Salam Nubia," and "Alforag."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 25: For Effect

Interview with drummer and Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher Pheeroan akLaff. 

Featuring tracks from the Tom Pierson Orchestra's 2018 album "Last Works" - "two becoming 3" and "Abandoned."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 26: Pheeroan akLaff

Interview with Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Corey Sorenson and Naomi Okada '20 by Associate Director for Programming and Performing Arts Fiona Coffey; conversation with Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Julie Mulvihill and Zachary Farnsworth '21.

Featuring tracks from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's 2006 album "Up from the Skies: Music of Jim McNeely" - "Up from the Skies" and "The Life of Riley."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 27: Eurydice; Moving Conversations/Making Community

Conversations with Associate Professor of Music and Medieval Studies and Director of the Wesleyan University Collegium Musicum Jane Alden; and Director of the Wesleyan University Jazz Ensemble Noah Baerman.

Featuring excerpts from The Tallis Scholars' 1992 recording of Duarte Lôbo's "Requiem for Six Voices," and "Umm...(This Isn't Real)" from Sanah Kadoura's 2018 album "Hawk Eyes;" as well as the Joe Locke Quintet's version of Joni Mitchell's "Blue" from their 1998 album "Slander (And Other Love Songs)."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 28: Collegium Musicum; Jazz Up Close

Conversation between Associate Professor of Dance and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Hari Krishnan, inDANCE company members Roney Lewis and Eury German '16, and current Wesleyan students Luna Mac-Willliams '22 and Mickey Kieu '19, moderated by Dean of the Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of Dance, Environmental Studies, and African American Studies Nicole Stanton.

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour: inDANCE

Conversation between Wesleyan University Professor of Music and vibraphonist Jay Hoggard and GRAMMY Award-winning pianist/composer Jim McNeely.

Featuring tracks from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's 2006 album "Up from the Skies: Music of Jim McNeely" - "Don't Even Ask" and "Almost Always."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour: Jim McNeely

Conversation between Associate Professor of Dance and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Hari Krishnan, inDANCE company members Roney Lewis and Eury German '16, and current Wesleyan students Luna Mac-Willliams '22 and Mickey Kieu '19, moderated by Dean of the Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of Dance, Environmental Studies, and African American Studies Nicole Stanton; conversation between Professor of Music and vibraphonist Jay Hoggard and GRAMMY Award-winning pianist/composer Jim McNeely.

Featuring tracks from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's 2006 album "Up from the Skies: Music of Jim McNeely" - "Don't Even Ask" and "Almost Always."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 29: inDANCE; Jim McNeely

Interviews with Jordan Roe '19, Rodrick Edwards '19, and Wenxuan Xue '19; and Director of the Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble Joseph Getter.

Featuring tracks from the Karawitan Group's 1995 album "Original Javanese Music: Gending-Gending Volume One" - "Balabak" and "Hajuna Mangsha."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 30: Senior Playwriting Festival; Youth Gamelan Ensemble

Conversation between Assistant Director for Programs Hanna Oravec and Chloe Malushaga '21. Featuring the tracks "Racecar Baby Racecar, Parts 1-3" from the 2019 album "Racecar Baby Racecar" by Jackie Weo (Matt Rubenstein '21); "Emily, "Two Dreams," and "A Reading From The Crack-Up" from the 2018 album "Cocoon Year" by Novelty Daughter (Faith Harding ’14, Kuh-Lida, Chrystal Ghost, and Leaftype);  "get along" (2018) and "baby it's cold" (2019) by iris olympia (Iris Sackman '22); and "The County Line," "Bedroom Fears," "Bram," and "Whateva Eva" from the 2016 album "MEG" recorded at Wesleyan's Red Feather Studios by MEG (Chris Reed '19, Meg West '19, and Jake Rogers '19). 

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 31: The MASH

Interview with Cara Blumstein '20 and Emma Frohardt '20. 

Featuring the first five tracks from the 2019 album "Live at Brooklyn Bowl!" by Phat A$tronaut - "Front Row," "Greene Eyes," "Puppy Love," "I Wanna Know," and "Motherland;" plus two tracks from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's 2006 album "Up from the Skies: Music of Jim McNeely" - "Hardly Ever," and "You Tell Me."

Producer: Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication, Wesleyan University
WESU General Manager: Benjamin Michael

Center for the Arts Radio Hour Episode 32: Senior Thesis Showcase Exhibition

Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts is an eleven-building complex on the Wesleyan campus that houses the departments of Art and Art History, Dance, Music, and Theater. Opened in 1973, the CFA serves as a cultural center for the region, the state and New England. The Center includes the 400-seat Theater, the 260-seat Hall, the World Music Hall (a non-Western performance space), the 400-seat Crowell Concert Hall, and the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.

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