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Please mark your calendars now for the Foundation's special behind-the-scenes tour of Liguria and Piedmont, which will take place next spring from May 1-8, 2009. Among the highlights will be visits to several of the most spectacular private palazzi and art collections in Genoa and Turin and a gala dinner at Villa dei Pini with Bogliasco Fellows and staff. The trip will be strictly limited to 25 guests. Further details will be available in the next edition of BF News. You can also contact Hope O'Reilly at support@bfny.org to request to be added to the trip update list. We hope that you continue to share our commitment to the arts and humanities. Please consider making a contribution today to help us ensure that future generations of artists and scholars can experience the gift of time at the Liguria Study Center. You can make a gift directly on our website by clicking here. While visiting our website, please take a look at the new Directory of Fellows page, which lists past Fellows and enables you to search for a Fellow or Fellows based on a number of criteria (discipline, geography, name, nationality and year of residency.) Bogliasco Fellows, please take a moment to ensure that your information is correct and do let us know if we should make any changes. In the near future, we plan to add a News page to our website, which will provide timely updates about Foundation activities and special events, and will include links to past issues of BF News. Warm regards,
James
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Aaron Copland Bogliasco
Fellowship in Music
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the fifteen recipients of this year's awards in music, which included Bogliasco Fellows Donal Fox ('98) and James Matheson ('01). The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members, including Martin Bresnick ('04). The awards will be presented at the Academy's annual ceremony this month. Among last year's recipients was Bogliasco Fellow Chester Biscardi (see below). Raphael Cohen-Almagor ('05) has spent the 2007-2008 academic year as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC.
Nancy Azara ('00), sculptor and book artist, who has shown her work throughout the U.S. and abroad, gave an Artist Talk in September on "The Evolution of a 1970s Feminist Artist" for the recently opened Elizabeth A. Sackler Center at the Brooklyn Museum. She also has an installation of her work, Heart Wall, in the lobby of 340 Madison Ave, New York City, from March to October of 2008. A number of works by Chester Biscardi ('99, '05) were performed this spring in New York City including the world premiere of Recognition for piano and violin with string orchestra as well as Resisting Stillness performed by The Cygnus Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. Cornell Press has just published Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World by Bonnie Costello ('05). This study of modern American poetry deals with how exchange among the arts, through the lens of artists and writers, helps to establish vital thresholds between the personal and the public realms.
Claire Guanella ('01) had an exhibition of paintings in Art 7 Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland this spring. Ann Harleman ('98, '04) has written a new novel: The Year She Disappeared. She is the award-winning author of Happiness, Bitter Lake, and Thoreau's Laundry. Congratulations to Gilberto Isella ('04) whose collection of poems, Corridoio Polare, received the Premio Lorenzo Montano prize for poetry from the cultural association, Anterem, in Verona, which is led by another Bogliasco Fellow, Flavio Ermini ('02). Previously, this book received the Premio Schiller prize in Switzerland in 2007. Gilberto worked on this collection during his residency in Bogliasco.
Veikko Hirvimäki ('00) and Françoise Jaquet ('00, '03) both had their art on display in Geneva. Veikko's exhibition was at Galerie Rosa Turesky and Françoise showed a retrospective of works at the Galerie la Ferme de la Chapelle. The latter included several pieces which were made in Bogliasco. Risa Jaroslow ('05) is currently working on the choreography for Sixty, which will premiere this fall. A list of current performances and an on-going journal of this work-in-progress are updated frequently on her website. Richard Kenney's ('02) book of poetry, The One-Strand River, was recently published by Knopf.
Since Mark Kroll's ('99) residency, he has published three books: Playing the Harpsichord Expressively, The Beethoven Violin Sonatas and Johann Neopmuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World. He also now enjoys the privilege of being the first American harpsichordist to have performed in the United Arab Emirates. Henry Martin's ('99) Piano Concerto No. 3 premiered in November in a concert sponsored by Yahama Pianos, in conjunction with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Korean Cultural Service. Congratulations to Laura Lio Martorelli ('06) who was selected by the jury of the International Competition for Young Sculptors to present a work this May at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan. This piece is based on her sculpture which was acquisitioned last year by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. J. D. McClatchy ('97, '04) collaorated with Thomas Meehan on the libretto for 1984, an opera based on the book by George Orwell. This month, 1984 will premiere at La Scala in Milan. The composer and conductor is Lorin Maazel. Elizabeth McCracken ('01) just had her short story "Something Amazing" published in the current issue of Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story (Spring 2008). James McGarrell's ('03) Astronomies and Pleasures, a New Ragamala will be shown in India next year. This suite of gouache and watercolor paintings was begun at the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi. James was a Bogliasco Fellow along with his wife, Ann McGarrell ('03). Melissa Meyer ('05) has had her work recently shown in various exhibitions: Melissa Meyer in Black and White: Works on Paper, Melissa Meyer: Paintings and Works on Paper 1975-2005, and Melissa Meyer: Sketchbook, Artist's Books, and Works on Paper.
The Foundation congratulates poet and visual artist Tom Raworth ('05), who was presented in June with the Antonio Delfini Lifetime Achievement Prize in Modena. Also, his graphic work was shown in the exhibition IMAGEworks/ WORDworks at the Miami University Art Museum in Ohio. Arden Reed ('07) is currently working on Slow Art: From Tableaux Vivants to James Turrell, a book that addresses problems of attentiveness in the arts by formulating an aesthetic tradition to counter the speed of culture. The book is based on themes he was developing while in Bogliasco last spring. Mary Jo Salter ('98,'04) and her husband, Brad Leithauser ('01) are now both tenured professors at Johns Hopkins in the Writing Seminars Program. Ms. Salter recently published a book of poetry: A Phone Call to the Future. A review in The New York Times states: "The book recalls Anthony Hecht, a poet whose elegant confrontations with death and depravity never seem merely wise." Anthony Hecht was a Bogliasco Fellow in 1997, 1999, and 2004.
Jeff Talman ('07) will be taking part in the 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression in Genoa this June for which he will make a sound installation in the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, bringing together the natural resonance of one of the rooms of the museum and the frequencies of the sound of the sea. Composer Scott Wheeler ('06) has a new recording on the Naxos American Classics series as well as his one-act opera The Construction of Boston, which was released in March. The March issue of the Emerson College newsletter profiles Scott Wheeler, "The Most Musical Man on Campus."
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reetings to all and happy spring!
The first months of 2008 have certainly flown by. Several Bogliasco
Foundation events have taken place, beginning with our mid-January Board
of Trustees meeting at the Liguria Study Center. In addition to
participating in the board meeting itself, trustees enjoyed the villas
and gardens of the Study Center, visited artistic and architectural
sites in Genoa, and took a day trip down the Ligurian Coast, stopping at
the seaside villages of Camogli and Portofino. In April, trustee
Michèle Gerber Klein graciously hosted a cocktail party at her
Manhattan apartment for Foundation friends and supporters. You may click
on the attached link to 
Chip Kidd's ('97, '04) new
novel The Learners was recently published and 
Catch Tiffany Mills ('07),
choreographer and director of the 
Maxim Shrayer
A solo exhibition in Kyoto
recently featured the paintings of