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NEIL BRAKE
of raising money for four charitable
organizations through an
auction of the guitars.
Back in 1973 the best-selling
book Sybil introduced the
country to a profoundly disturbed
woman described as
“Sailing Ships” by Sybil
fragmented into at least 16
separate personalities. An
Emmy-winning TV movie
starring Sally Field as the
patient and Joanne Woodward
as the psychiatrist followed.
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During the spring a new show
of 33 adult paintings by “Sybil,”
whose name was actually
Shirley Ardell Mason—including
several signed by her other
personalities—was on view at
Vanderbilt University
Medical Center. “The
Hidden Paintings: The Secret
Life of Sybil Revealed” ran
through the end of April in the
Mezzanine Gallery of the main
lobby of the Medical Center.
Following the exhibit, the
St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
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paintings began an international
tour to Canada, Germany
and South Africa.
MUSIC:
The spring season for the
Great Performances Series at
Vanderbilt began in late
February when the St. Martin
in the Fields Chamber
Ensemble visited Langford
Auditorium and presented a
program of works by Borodin,
Dvorak, Shostakovich and
Mendelssohn. Drawn from the
principal players of the
Academy of St. Martin in the
Fields Orchestra, the Chamber
Ensemble was formed to perform
larger chamber works as
a string octet, string sextet, and
other configurations including
wind instruments.
Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory
took on the festive air of
Carnival time in the Caribbean
when the Vanderbilt Steel
Band performed as part of the
Music on the Mountain
Concert Series in late April.
Even though the low tempera-
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