Professional Activities
Jose Lezcano (Professor of Music) was a guest recitalist and clinician at the Shephardsville International Guitar Festival, West Viriginia (May 2015); and performed on guitar and Andean Ronroco in Electric Earth’s performance of Osvaldo Goliojov’s “Ayre,” a song-cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble, with settings of Medieval poetry in Ladino, Spanish, and Arabic, at Ahavas Acham in Keene, NH. and again at the Portland Chamber Music Festival (Aug. 15 and 20). He also performed on other regional concert series: West Claremont Center for Chamber Music, in his Poemas Concertantes for flute, guitar & strings, and Vivaldi’s Guitar concerto (Aug. 9); the Wisteria Chamber Music Society, “Concerts at 7,” Plainfield Mass. in “Fantasia: Spanish and Latin American music for guitar, flute, and soprano” (Aug. 24); a solo guitar recital of Spanish and Latin-American music at the Seacoast Repertory Theater, Portsmouth NH (Sept. 16); and a lecture-recital for the NHHC “To-go” series at Northampton Library, “The Guitar in Latin America” (Sept. 17).
Brian Green, Sociology, published a paper with his colleague Maciej Kryszczuk of the Polish Sociological Association in the September edition of Management and Business Administration: Central Europe. The research presents trend analysis and multiple regression results based on nationally representative samples of Poles collected in 2003 and 2008. The data are from the Polish Panel Study (POLPAN) collected by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Results show that there were lingering disparities in PC ownership and Internet use by occupational status (employed vs. unemployed) and occupational category. On the positive side, all groups were more likely to possess a PC or use the Internet in 2008 relative to 2003. Results further show sharp disparities across occupational categories for PC skills. The also paper explores the critical question of whether or not being digitally savvy has any statistical impact on wage growth over time. Briefly, the analyses show that it does not. The conclusion is that the digital divide narrative, which argues that lack of access to digital tools is detrimental in terms of economic opportunities and more specifically wage growth, needs to be challenged, or at least explored more carefully.
An exhibition of work by Maureen Ahern, visual artist and former director of the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, will be on display at the Dublin Community Center from November 2 through November 28. An artist’s reception will be held on Friday, November 6 from 5-7 p.m. The exhibition, “The Eye of the Beholder,” includes work using interference paint as well as mixed media. Interference paint reflects only half the spectrum of light and provides the viewer with an entirely different experience depending on their position and the amount and quality of light present at the time.
