The Arts Paper | April 2016

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The Arts Paper april 2016 4 Artists Next Door Rashmi Talpade 9 6 Photos Chronicle City’s History Museum is Home to Bronson Archive Music AC Sounds Off on... Struggle as Impediment and Inspiration 10 in Schools Yale Program Transcends Arts Education staff Cynthia Clair executive director Debbie Hesse director of artistic services & programs Nichole René communications manager Lisa Russo advertising & events coordinator Christine Maisano director of finance Winter Marshall executive administrative assistant David Brensilver editor, the arts paper Amanda May Aruani design consultant board of directors Eileen O’Donnell president Rick Wies vice president Daisy Abreu second vice president Ken Spitzbard treasurer Wojtek Borowski secretary directors Laura Barr Susan Cahan Robert B. Dannies Jr. Todd Jokl Mark Kaduboski Jocelyn Maminta Josh Mamis Rachel Mele Elizabeth Meyer-Gadon Frank Mitchell John Pancoast Mark Potocsny David Silverstone Dexter Singleton Richard S. Stahl, MD honorary members Frances T. “Bitsie” Clark Cheever Tyler The Arts Council of Greater New Haven promotes, advocates, and fosters opportunities for artists, arts organizations, and audiences. Because the arts matter. The Arts Paper is published by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and is available by direct mail through membership with the Arts Council. For membership information call 203.772.2788. To advertise in The Arts Paper, call the Arts Council at 203.772.2788. Arts Council of Greater New Haven 70 Audubon Street, 2nd Floor New Haven, CT 06510 Phone: 203.772.2788 Fax: 203.772.2262 info@newhavenarts.org www.newhavenarts.org In an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, the Arts Council now prints The Arts Paper on more environmentally friendly paper and using soy inks. Please read and recycle. The Arts Council is pleased to recognize the generous contributions of our business, corporate and institutional members. executive champions The United Illuminating Company/Southern Connecticut Gas Total Wine & More Yale University senior patrons Knights of Columbus L. Suzio York Hill Companies Odonnell Company Webster Bank Wiggin and Dana WSHU corporate partners Alexion Pharmaceuticals AT&T Cannelli Printing Edgehill Realtors Firehouse 12 Fusco Management Company Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Metropolitan Interactive University of New Haven/ Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Yale-New Haven Hospital business patrons Albertus Magnus College Gateway Community College H. Pearce Real Estate Lenny & Joe’s Fish Tale Newman Architects business members Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman, LLP ChameleonJohn Duble & O’Hearn, Inc. Griswold Home Care The Lighting Quotient United Aluminum foundations and government agencies The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund DECD/CT Office of the Arts Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation The Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation First Niagara Foundation NewAlliance Foundation Pfizer The Wells Fargo Foundation The Werth Family Foundation media partners New Haven Independent New Haven Living WPKN MISSION OF FAITH The Coming of the Gospel to America Examining 500 years of evangelization in North America April 9 - Sept 18 1 State Street, New Haven • 203-865-0400 • kofcmuseum.org • Free Admission & Parking 2 • newhavenarts.org april 2016 •
The Arts Paper april 2016 Letter from the Editor Putting together this issue of The Arts Paper was special for a few reasons, one of which is that it afforded me the opportunity to follow-up on a story (“A Pianist, Dancing with Fate”) we published in the January-March issue about pianist Nick van Bloss, who performed Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in late February. I interviewed van Bloss back in November about his struggle with Tourette syndrome, and Lucile Bruce talked with Dr. Christopher Pittenger to get a clinical perspective on the syndrome. Meeting Nick after his sublime performance of the “Emperor” Concerto, I was immediately struck, though not at all surprisingly, by the fact that he’s so much like the friends I made at the Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School. Nick is delightfully self-deprecating and generously warm. And he’s a remarkable musician. The morning after his performance at Woolsey Hall, Nick participated in a symposium called “Music and Medicine: Tourette Syndrome” that was organized by the NHSO and the Yale School of Medicine. As much as I’d attended the symposium out of genuine curiosity and as a reporter, I felt more like one friend learning more about another and what his life is like. When the symposium was over, Nick headed to New York en route to Miami, where he was scheduled to perform. Among these pages is an essay about spending time with and around Nick, hearing him play, and learning more about who he is. Beyond these pages is a friendship I look forward to fostering. A few weeks before the NHSO’s February concert, I spent a Saturday morning at Wilbur Cross High School, observing the Yale School of Music’s Music in Schools Initiative in action. For obvious reasons, I chose to hang out in a second-floor classroom where teaching artist Kramer Milan coached a group of middle-school-age percussionists on their technique. Kramer, like me, did his undergraduate work at Peabody. “I graduated in 1992,” I told him, as one does, to which he replied, laughing, “I was born in 1993.” As much fun as it was to compare notes, it was equally satisfying to watch him encourage members of a younger generation of percussionists. The time I spent at Wilbur Cross that day was part of my reporting on just what the Music in Schools Initiative means to the community—specifically to the youngsters who attend the New Haven Public Schools. My conversations with the program’s lead teacher, Rubén Rodríguez, were inspiring in large part because his passion for what music can do is infectious. Perhaps what I find most hopeful is that the young musicians I met and observed at Wilbur Cross, and their peers, fully understand how fortunate they are to receive such a rich musical education, thanks to their public-school music teachers and the teaching artists who support them. This issue of The Arts Paper also introduces us to hip-hop poet, playwright, and actor Aaron Jafferis’ latest work, Smooth Criminal; to an extensive photo archive at the New Haven Museum that documents life during turn-of-the century New Haven; and to the recent creative pursuits of collage artist Rashmi Talpade. In addition to those stories, we’re thrilled to bring you news of grant funding facilitated by both the Arts Council and the City of New Haven. I hope you enjoy the stories presented herein as much as I enjoyed bringing them to you, and that you’ll remember to recycle this print publication once you’ve finished reading it. Sincerely, David Brensilver, editor The Arts Paper The editor at work. Photo by Debbie Hesse. On the Cover Beachgoers at Lighthouse Point Park, in June 1932. Photo by T.S. Bronson, courtesy of the New Haven Museum. See Story about Bronson’s photo collection on pages 6 & 7. In the Next Issue … The May issue of The Arts Paper will celebrate the reopening of the Yale Center for British Art, which has been closed and undergoing a conservation project for more than a year. Pictured here is the center’s Long Gallery following the reinstallation of paintings but before sculptures were returned to the space. Photo by Richard Caspole, courtesy of YCBA. Meant to Be Shared Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints at the Yale University Art Gallery celebrate our reopening! Visit us on May 11, 2016 Following the completion of our building conservation project 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven CT | britishart.yale.edu Through April 24, 2016 YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY Free and open to the public 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut | 203.432.0600 | artgallery.yale.edu Free membership! Join today at artgallery.yale.edu/membership. Image: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo (View of the Piazza di Monte Cavallo [now the Piazza del Quirinale with the Quirinal Palace]) (detail), from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), 1750. Etching. Yale University Art Gallery, The Arthur Ross Collection • april 2016 newhavenarts.org • 3
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