Professional Activities
Dr. Jim Chesebrough (Music) spent two weeks in June touring Germany, the Czech Republic, and Denmark as a member of the Trombone Choir of America. The members of this ensemble are trombone professors and performers from colleges and universities across the United States. They performed concerts in Bad Neuenahr in Germany’s Ahr River Valley and at St. Nicholas Church in Prague, and then traveled to Aarhus, Denmark, to attend the International Trombone Festival. The Trombone Choir of America joined with players from around the world, giving performances as the Cramer Trombone Choir at the Royal Academy of Music and the Aarhus Cathedral. Attending the latter performance was Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark. Along with the opportunity to meet and study with international artists, the players were also able to visit museums and cultural and musically significant sites in Cologne, Leipzig, Bonn, and Hamburg.
Dr. Chesebrough also toured New England for a week with the 2009 Yankee Brass Band. The band is made up of invited players who perform period concerts on original instruments from the second half of the 19th century.
A short film by Jonathan Schwartz (Film Studies) Nothing Is Over Nothing will have its first NYC screening in the New York Film Festival, “Views from the Avant-Garde,” at the Walter Reade Theatre (Lincoln Center) October 2-4. The 16mm film, finished in late 2008, is a series of portraits, gestures, light captured, aural divisions, and dividing lines collected in Jerusalem.
