NYU in the Arts
Steinhardt Students and Alumni Perform at 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
As part of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival (April 23-May 4), two screenings of René Clair’s 1929 silent masterpiece, Two Timid Souls (Les deux timides) will be presented with live accompaniment, featuring an original score composed by four current students and recent graduates of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s master’s program in film scoring: Jaebon Hwang, Jin Kyung Lee, Jihwan Kim, and Seon Kyong Kim. The score, produced by Ron Sadoff, associate professor and director of the film scoring program in Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts, will be performed by the Steinhardt Chamber Orchestra, and conducted by Gillian B. Anderson, a premier musicologist and conductor active in silent film score reconstruction and performance.
Both performances of Les deux timides will take place at the Michael Schimmel Auditorium at Pace University: Wednesday, April 30th at 6:30 and Sunday, May 4th at 2:00. For more information, go to http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org.
“These tremendously gifted composers worked tirelessly, writing and orchestrating nearly 80 minutes of music that had to sustain stylistic coherence throughout,” said Sadoff. “Perhaps unprecedented for an accompaniment to a 1929 French comedy is the marvelous and porous cultural-crossover inherent in a score composed by four young Korean composers.”
Kanbar Filmmakers Compete for $50,000 in Prizes at First Run Film Festival
The 66th annual First Run Film Festival, presented by the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, showcased over 105 films, videos, multimedia, and animation projects. These cinematic expressions, both intermediate and advanced, featured narrative, animation, documentary, experimental work. All were created by the filmmakers from the Graduate and Undergraduate divisions in the Kanbar Institute.
The four-day festival (April 10-14) kicked off with a Craft Award Ceremony and the announcement of the Wasserman Award finalists. Daily screenings were held at the Cantor Film Center. The festival wrapped with the Wasserman Awards Screening and announcement of the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Awards. Filmmakers competed for over $50,000 in prizes.
—Richard Pierce
GRAMMY Foundation® Awards Grant to
Preserve Irish Music, Oral Histories
For the second year in a row, the NYU Division of Libraries has received a $40,000 grant from the GRAMMY Foundation® Grant Program to digitally preserve field recordings and interviews taped by Irish musician and ethnomusicologist Mick Moloney, Global Distinguished Clinical Professor of Music and Irish Studies.
The recordings are part of a major collection, now at NYU, which was assembled by Moloney and documents nearly two centuries of Irish American popular culture and music. The oldest tapes are fragile and in need of reformatting so that they may be made accessible to scholars and the public.
NYU is one of only 22 recipients of this grant nationwide
—Barbara Jester
