Having grown used to the solo, acoustic performances and revivalist lyrics that flowed from Bob Dylan, his fans cried a united foul when he showed up defaced by commercialism at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
When Bob Dylan showed up to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival with an electric guitar and a full backing band, many fans decried he had turned his back on folk music. It turns out this debate over what exactly is “folk” has been happening for a long time.We speak to a UW-Madison student who was recently awarded a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution to zero in on how people in 20th century America defined “folk?”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student isn’t letting hemophilia stop him from pursuing his dream of both performing and teaching piano, but an expensive medication is allowing him to do so.
Noted: Fledermaus, which runs July 20-29 at UW-Madison’s Music Hall, is also the first directorship for Shelton, a lyric tenor who has performed in theaters around town and in the blockbuster opera, Dead Man Walking (Madison Opera, 2014). For a director whose heart is in comedy, Fledermaus is a perfect fit.
Noted: Jose Lerma, who earned a master’s degree in painting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been involved with the Green Gallery since its earliest days, was commissioned to create a diptych, which is installed in an expansive marble passageway.
Kangwoo is a doctoral student in piano at UW-Madison and a teacher who’s won at least 10 prestigious competitions. He’s performed as a soloist with the UW Symphony Orchestra and on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Lucy Tan’s ambitious debut novel, What We Were Promised, grew out of a short story she penned while she was a part of UW-Madison’s prestigious master’s program in fiction writing … Since graduating from the MFA program in 2016, Tan has split her time between NYC and Shanghai, but she’ll be back in Madison this fall as part of the UW-Madison faculty; she has been selected as this year’s James C. McCreight fiction fellow. She corresponded with Isthmus by email about what it means to her to return to Madison just as the novel that was born here makes its arrival into the world.
Iva Ugrcic moved to the United States because, as a musician, she was frustrated with gender inequality on her home continent.
Noted: In 2005, she won a scholarship to study in Paris, earning a master’s in solo flute performance. She taught in Belgrade and Paris before moving to pursue a doctorate at the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music on a fellowship in 2014. She’s performed internationally and regionally with orchestras and as a soloist, and with jazz, blues and alternative ensembles, including Madison’s Sound Out Loud collective. She’s recorded two CDs — one classical and one by a contemporary female composer from Romania — and won awards for her performances and leadership.
Noted: Clark and Peterson, two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors known in their collaborative artistic work as Spatula & Barcode, planned a Sustainable Food Hackathon for about two dozen people on a recent weekday.
Noted: Knox holds degrees from UW-Madison and The Juilliard School.
Noted: Once upon a time, the new men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton was just a regular middle-class guy from the Midwest. Abloh went to Boylan Catholic High School. He was an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a degree in civil engineering, later receiving his master of architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a stint spent deejaying, Abloh’s fellow Chicagoan and BFF, Kanye West, put him on the fashion path, and in 2009 he scored an internship at Fendi. Today, Abloh is the first African-American to take on the role of creative head at a European luxury fashion house.
Wisconsin, where Moore lived for much of this book’s composition, makes glancing appearances throughout, first as ambivalently but tellingly described as Moore’s husband, and then, with the benefit of distance—a divorce, a move from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to Nashville’s Vanderbilt—regarded in full, with reserved, bone-chilling candor, in a review of Making a Murderer.
Noted: Dohnielle Clayton, an author and COO of the grassroots #weneeddiversebooks, will appear on two panels this week, including one hosted by her organization. She said there has been progress in the industry, but cited a recent study by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center School of Education, based in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing that children’s stories remain predominantly by and about whites.
Edward Peters, from the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Inquisition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). Henry Kamen, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, wrote The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
Shawn Francis Peters couldn’t believe his luck. After writing 2012’s The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era (Oxford University Press), the instructor in UW-Madison’s Integrated Liberal Studies Program was searching for an intriguing Upper Midwest-based true-crime subject when Harry Hayward entered his life.
Now that “Once Upon a Time” has ended its lengthy run at ABC, executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz are moving on to a new adventure. The duo have signed on as writers and executive producers of Steven Spielberg’s revival of “Amazing Stories” for Apple.
Two years before Duke Ellington died at 75, he spent a week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with his orchestra, teaching and performing in concert. Among the indispensable members of his entourage was a lean, legally blind 20-year-old pianist from New York to whom Ellington referred students in his master class.
Using high-tech scanning equipment, so far Connelly and her partners — from the Library of Congress and the University of Wisconsin-Madison — have begun to analyze stains in two dozen medieval manuscripts.
Two years before Duke Ellington died at 75, he spent a week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with his orchestra, teaching and performing in concert. Among the indispensable members of his entourage was a lean, legally blind 20-year-old pianist from New York to whom Ellington referred students in his master class.
But in all her years of drawing, the Prairie River Middle School teacher has never had an art project this big.
On Monday the Madison Area Sports Commission unveiled Bucky on Parade, starring 85 6-foot-tall Bucky Badger statues on display throughout downtown Madison, the University of Wisconsin campus and beyond. They represent the work of 64 Madison area and regional artists including award-winning Milton artist Larry Schultz.
From curator to curated, Russell Panczenko follows his retirement last September as museum director of the Chazen Museum of Art with an exhibit of his own photography.
Photojournalist Jeremy Nichols shows you dozens of these statues, some familiar faces, and the stories behind some of them.
Bucky on Parade, which officially launches with unveiling of the statues on Monday morning, is scheduled to run through Sept. 12.
Campo, a fair-trade start-up that sells high quality Badger gear made from Alpaca fiber, has launched its Kickstarter.
Fellow community members came to Fredric March Play Circle to hear several women and non-binary individuals share their experiences as people of color.
The annual “Threads” fashion show, hosted by the School of Human Ecology, displayed a culmination of three semesters’ of hard work this past weekend.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin in Madison has selected Egan’s book as the Go Big Read selection for 2018-’19. Copies will be given to first-year students at the Chancellor’s Convocation for New Students, and the book will be incorporated into some classes. (Past Go Big Read selections include Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted.”)
Mike Leckrone does backflips for Badger fans during musical spectacular.
Noted: The year “The Crossover” was published, the number of diverse children’s books began to increase — those written by and/or about people of color, this according to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an organization that has been collecting statistics about diverse books since 1985.
MADISON, Wis. – Earlier this week, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced its pick for the 2018-2019 Go Big Read book: “The Death of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan.
These days it’s not unusual to hear a lot of jazz at UW-Madison. You can find it in classrooms, practice rooms and concerts featuring any of the Mead Witter School of Music’s six jazz ensembles.
It’s been a spring tradition on the UW-Madison campus for 70 years–“Humorology”. Students spend much of the year creating and rehearsing mini-musicals, and then compete against each other in the juried show at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
’The Life and Death of the Great Lakes’ hits home for 80 percent of incoming freshmen.
UW-Madison selected “The Death of the Great Lakes” as the 2018-’19 Go Big Read, according to a UW-Madison press release.
While walking through the halls of UW Hospital, you might notice art unlike anything else. Physicians in the hospital’s anesthesiology department decided to find something useful for used vial caps that were once thrown away.
Kewaunee High School was among those from around the state that sent students to the Great World Texts Annual Student Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 9.
The UW Varsity Band Concert takes place over 3 nights, Thursday through Saturday. Plus, there’s a very special theme — Camp Randall Stadiums Centennial.
Is this 1921 cartoon the first recorded meme? When this comic was posted to Twitter, it caused excitement as people began to wonder if it was the first meme ever published.
For 70 years a UW-Madison institution has been changing the community for the better. Humorology, the largest student run nonprofit in the state, pits original mini musicals against one another in the spirit of philanthropy.
For 48 of Camp Randall’s 100 years, the band marching on its field has been led by Mike Leckrone.
Indeed, if war were to break out among the major powers today, don’t discount the possibility that it might come from a naval clash over Chinese bases in the South China Sea rather than a missile strike against North Korea or a Russian cyber attack.
Alfred W. McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
These shorts, presented Sunday in Union South, ranged from an oddly funny, repetitive experimental feature, “This One’s for Mikey,” that felt like three minutes of aquarium-themed Vine videos to a slice-of-life documentary set on Homecoming night in small town Oklahoma.
The statue will be one of the 100 hand painted Buckys in the “Bucky on Parade” free public outdoor art event.
Only about 8 percent of the 3,700 new children’s books published in 2017 were by Latino, black and Native American authors, according to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. About 8 percent were by Asian authors.
Mike Leckrone says the 2018 Varsity Band Concert will celebrate Camp Randall’s 100th anniversary. The concert will be April 19-21.
Quality always aces quantity; for instance, check out the quality in the swoozy marks made by artist Claudette Lee-Roseland in Swing Theory, consider the fun jazzy canvases of Melissa Dorn Richards and the sensational, clunky assemblages of Aristotle Georgiades. UW-Madison is heavily represented.
Besides being an Eisner Hall of Fame cartoonist, Barry teaches at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she helps people learn to “speak” in the language of comics.“My personal reaction as a cartoonist is a feeling-combo of honored, giddy and delighted,” Barry says of the Reuben nomination.
Ben Ferris, the popular Madison jazz bassist, recalls when he first attended the Richard Davis Foundation conference in seventh grade. The event, a two-day clinic for young bassists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, left a huge impression.
Virgil Abloh was named the top menswear designer at Paris-based fashion brand Louis Vuitton Monday.
“A Concert for Richard,” an all-bass concert featuring faculty from the 25th annual Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists’ Conference, is at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Memorial Union’s Great Hall.
The production, directed by lecturer Drew Sutherland, will be held April 12-29 at the Hemsley Theatre in Vilas Hall.
Going on for over three years, the show brings together students from all over the world as a means of representing cultural diversity.
Members of the University of Wisconsin marching band brought the Fifth Quarter to seniors in the Madison area Tuesday night.
A 25-year plan would consolidate UW Madison’s 20 plus libraries — and renovate existing buildings in a way that consultants say would maximize space.
Aaron Gochberg is getting ready for his big senior recital at UW-Madison on April 8, where he’ll perform on the vast world of instruments that a contemporary percussionist has to master. But first, he’s performing in one of the Mead Witter School of Music‘s most prestigious concerts: The Symphony Showcase, taking place March 18.
Noted: After much debate in the publishing industry, children’s literature is more diverse today than ever before but still is far from representative. Of some 3,500 children’s books received from United States publishers in 2017 by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 116 were by black authors and 319 were about African-American characters, the center said.
Tiana Clark, the Jay C. and Ruth Halls poetry fellow at UW-Madison’s Institute of Creative Writing, won the 2017 Anges Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her collection, “I Can’t Talk about the Trees without the Blood.”
Column by Gloria Ladson-Billings: Unlike its predecessors, “Black Panther” is decidedly black — not just a “white” superhero in blackface. No, “Black Panther” is decidedly political, cultural, spiritual, and racial. It asks its audience to think about the world we created and the world we want to live in.
