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The McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency

麦科马克捐赠访问艺术家-学者驻留是为了继续 特别节目办公室丰富的暑期艺术节目. 旨在为艺术家和火博体育社区提供完全的沉浸感, 实习项目包括课堂参观、师生互动、表演、 readings, and exhibitions. 


2023 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar Residents

Rita Dove and Richard Danielpour

Dove, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former U.S. Poet Laureate, and Danielpour, 曾获格莱美奖的作曲家,合作创作了一部火博体育委托的作品 song cycle, “The Unhealed Wound.”

Rita Dove 2021             Richard Danielpour

"Artists in Conversation"

Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 
5:30 – 6:45 p.m.
Gannett Auditorium 
Free and open to the public 

Poet Rita Dove and composer Richard Danielpour discuss the creation and Sept. 29 premiere of their newest collaboration, “The Unhealed Wound.” The event will be moderated by 火博体育的教员阿普丽尔·伯纳德和泰莎·邓肯,由 President Marc Conner. 


World premiere of “The Unhealed Wound”  

Friday, Sept. 29, 2023  
7:30 p.m.
Arthur Zankel Music Center 
Free and open to the public 

The song cycle will feature Metropolitan Opera star Eric Owens and Amanda Lynn Bottoms as soloists, with Dr. Young Kim, pianist, Jameson Platte, cellist, Dr. Floydd Ricketts, conductor, and a chorus of faculty artists, students, and guests.


About Rita Dove


Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove is the author of a novel, 一本由短篇小说、散文和大量诗集组成的书,包括《火博体育》 图书奖入围者和全国有色人种协进会形象奖得主《火博体育官网》和她 latest release, “Playlist for the Apocalypse” (W.W. Norton, 2021). She also edited 《火博体育官网》和《火博体育》 《火博体育官网》(2011),并在2000年至2011年期间为《火博体育》撰写每周诗歌专栏 2003 and The New York Times Magazine from 2018 to 2019.   

达夫因第三部诗集《火博体育官网》获得普利策奖, in 1987, and served as U.S. Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995.    

她的戏剧《火博体育官网》在俄勒冈莎士比亚节上开幕 1996年和1997年分别在华盛顿肯尼迪中心和欧洲首演 at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1999. Her song cycle “Seven for Luck,” 由约翰·威廉姆斯作曲,由辛西娅·海蒙与波士顿交响乐团首演 1998年,她在坦格伍德(Tanglewood)举行了音乐会,她的歌曲集《火博体育》(A Standing Witness)由14首带音乐的诗组成 由理查德·丹尼尔普尔演唱,最初由苏珊·格雷厄姆在肯尼迪中心演唱 other venues in 2021 and 2022.   

多芬的众多荣誉包括,最近的终身成就奖章 弗吉尼亚图书馆和富布赖特协会,2019年华莱士史蒂文斯奖 美国诗人学会颁发的2021年美国诗歌金奖 艺术与文学学院——第16位(也是第三位女性和第一位非裔美国人) 这是该奖章110年历史上的一位诗人,也是2022年露丝·莉莉诗歌奖的终身得主 achievement. She received the National Humanities Medal from President Bill Clinton 1996年获得国家艺术奖章,2011年获得奥巴马总统颁发的国家艺术奖章 her the only poet ever to receive both medals. To date, Dove is the recipient of 29 荣誉博士学位,其中包括火博体育学院(2004年)和埃默里杜克大学 大学有:耶鲁大学、史密斯学院、哈佛大学、纽约大学 Michigan, and the University of Iowa. 

她曾担任作家和写作计划协会(AWP)主席, 作为Phi Beta Kappa的主席,以及美国学院的主席 Poets. A member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts 以及美国艺术与文学学院,她在该大学任教 她是弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的亨利·霍恩斯创意教授 Writing.

About Richard Danielpour

格莱美获奖作曲家理查德·丹尼尔普尔以他的能力而闻名 通过简单、直接和独特的方式传达深刻、重要的情感 American musical voice. His work has attracted an illustrious array of champions, 作为一名忠诚的作曲家,他对年轻一代的作曲家产生了重大影响 mentor and educator.

Danielpour’s first opera, Margaret Garner与诺贝尔奖得主托妮·莫里森(Toni Morrison)共同撰写的这本书在评论界和观众中掀起了轩然大波 2005年,由底特律的歌剧公司共同委托的首演座无座席, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia. During the 2007 McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency at Skidmore College, Danielpour and members of the Margaret Garner cast participated in classes and special campus and community events.

He has received such prestigious honors as the American Academy of Arts & Letters’ Lifetime Achievement Award and Charles Ives Fellowship; the Guggenheim Fellowship; The Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin; two Rockefeller Foundation grants; 哥伦比亚大学的贝恩斯奖,以及美国国立卫生研究院的奖学金和驻留奖学金 Bogliasco基金会,MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Copland House和美国科学院 in Rome.

丹尼尔普尔的作品在世界各地演出,他也为 纽约爱乐乐团,费城交响乐团,旧金山交响乐团,室内乐 林肯中心音乐协会,圣达菲室内乐节,美国作曲家 西雅图、匹兹堡、太平洋、国家、亚特兰大和巴尔的摩交响乐团, among many others. Danielpour has also composed two major scores for the New York City and Pacific Northwest Ballets. He became only the third composer – after Stravinsky 和科普兰-将与索尼古典唱片公司签署独家录音合同 he is one of the most recorded composers of his generation.

丹尼尔普尔也是一位积极的教育家,他深信年轻人的培养 musicians. He served on the composition faculty of Manhattan School of Music from 1993年至2017年,在柯蒂斯音乐学院作曲系任教 since 1997. In 2017, he accepted a tenured position in composition at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where he now teaches. Danielpour has served as composer in 曾与西雅图交响乐团(1991-92)、太平洋交响乐团(1998-2001)以及 the Pittsburgh Symphony (2009-10).

2019年,丹尼尔普尔创作了五部作品,其中最重要的是《火博体育》 《火博体育》是由著名诗人创作的15首以诗歌为背景的系列歌曲 Rita Dove. Composed for mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and Music from Copland House, this 这部74分钟的独角戏见证了美国过去50年的历史 首演在芝加哥大学,后来在肯尼迪剧院演出 Center and at Tanglewood.

丹尼尔普尔目前是加州大学洛杉矶分校赫伯特音乐学院的杰出音乐教授 School of Music. He is also the recipient of the Susan B. and Mitchell D. Covel Chair in Music. He is currently completing his second opera, The Grand Hotel Tartarus, which will premiere in Los Angeles in May 2024, at the Freud Theater.


The residency is presented by Skidmore’s Office of Special ProgramsOffice of the President, Arthur Zankel Music Center, Racial Justice Initiative, Black Studies Program, and the departments of Music, English, and Theater.