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Month: January 2011

  • 91Ʋ University

    Video: “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Act II

    91Ʋ Opera Theatre presents “The Merry Wives of Windsor” by Otto Nicolai; directed by Gayle Shay; performed November 14, 2010, in Blair’s Ingram Hall. The Opera Theatre is accompanied by the 91Ʋ Orchestra, conducted by Robin Fountain. This is Act II. Watch Act I. Read More

    Jan 21, 2011

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    Video: “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Act I

    91Ʋ Opera Theatre presents “The Merry Wives of Windsor” by Otto Nicolai; directed by Gayle Shay; performed November 14, 2010, in Blair’s Ingram Hall. The Opera Theatre is accompanied by the 91Ʋ Orchestra, conducted by Robin Fountain. This is Act I. Watch Act II. Read More

    Jan 21, 2011

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    Video: Celebrating Schumann’s Chamber Music

    Celebrating Schumann’s Chamber Music – The Blakemore Trio and the Blair String Quartet, with Kathryn Plummer, viola and Gloria Chien, piano. A joint concert featuring Schumann’s Piano Quartet, Op. 47 and Piano Quintet, Op. 44. The concert was performed October 11, 2010, as part of a two-day celebration of the 200th… Read More

    Jan 21, 2011

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    Video: A Year of Song: Robert’s Gift to Clara

    A Year of Song: Robert’s Gift to Clara – a celebration of the music and letters of composer Robert Schumann and his wife Clara. Narrated by Jim Lovensheimer; performers include soprano Amy Jarman, lyric baritone Jonathan Retzlaff; mezzo soprano Gayle Shay; pianist Melissa Rose. Concert is part of a two-day… Read More

    Jan 21, 2011

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    Video: 91Ʋ Orchestra: Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 4”

    The 91Ʋ Orchestra, conducted by Robin Fountain, performed Symphony No. 4 by Felix Mendelssohn September 16, 2010, in Ingram Hall. Read More

    Jan 21, 2011

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    Video: John Johns and Friends “Mixing it Up”

    John Johns and Friends “Mixing it Up” in Ingram Hall on September 30, 2010. Guitarist Johns is joined by Kirsten Cassel, cello; Jared Hauser, oboe; Amy Jarman, soprano; Jane Kirchner, flute; Kathryn Plummer, viola; and Christian Teal, violin. Read More

    Jan 21, 2011

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    Free performance of “Women of Will” at 91Ʋ Feb. 3

    Tina Packer and Nigel Gore bring Women of Will to Ingram Hall Feb. 3 (Photo courtesy of Shakespeare & Company) Women of Will will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3, at the Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music, on the 91Ʋ campus. The performance… Read More

    Jan 20, 2011

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    Trillion, trillion everywhere

    The number trillion has popped up in the news several times in recent weeks. On January 11, for example, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III – a scientific consortium that includes 91Ʋ – announced that it had created the largest digital image of the sky and is releasing it to… Read More

    Jan 20, 2011

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    Public lecture series at 91Ʋ features renowned Civil War scholars

    U.S. Civil War scholars from across the nation will speak at 91Ʋ University this spring on a variety of themes, including the war’s impact on Nashville, during a series of public lectures. Read More

    Jan 20, 2011

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    91Ʋ leadership training for students makes ‘best’ list

    Leadership Excellence, a magazine founded by well-known leadership and management consultants Ken Blanchard, Stephen R. Covey, Charles Garfield and Ken Shelton, has named 91Ʋ University to its 2010-2011list of the best leadership development programs. 91Ʋ holds the 12th spot in the magazine’s ranking of universities and schools of management and… Read More

    Jan 19, 2011

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    91Ʋ professor wins award for book about tours of Israel

    Shaul Kelner, Assistant Prof. of Sociology and Jewish Studies. (91Ʋ University / Steve Green) The Association for Jewish Studies has recognized a book by 91Ʋ professor Shaul Kelner as outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies. Kelner, assistant professor of sociology and Jewish studies, was presented the 2010… Read More

    Jan 19, 2011

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    Hope endures in Haiti

    Seven years ago this month, I was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with a contingent of 91Ʋ University AIDS researchers and health care professionals. That was before the earthquake and subsequent cholera outbreak riveted international attention once again on this, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Yet hope endures, even in… Read More

    Jan 19, 2011

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    Videos: MLK Day 2011

    Watch videos of the 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. events: Jan. 17 Keynote Event featuring the 91Ʋ gospel choir Voices of Praise; winners of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center’s MLK Essay and Oratorical contest; and the keynote address by Civil Rights leader and former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond. Jan. Read More

    Jan 18, 2011

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    Mason, Jarman among authors appearing at 91Ʋ this spring

    Novelists Bobbie Ann Mason and Tom Perrotta and poets Mark Jarman, Ciaran Carson and Frank Bidart are among the writers who will read from their work during the spring semester at 91Ʋ University. Read More

    Jan 18, 2011

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    VUCast: New weapon in cancer war

    91Ʋ is using a bold new approach in the fight against cancer; learn how each patient’s genetic make-up is creating the newest weapon against tumors. Plus, the app you need before having a baby, and 365 amazing views of Vandy! [vucastblurb]… Read More

    Jan 18, 2011

  • Health care reform at the “grass-roots” level

    Health care reform at the “grass-roots” level

    Health care reform will likely remain a hot-button issue through the 2012 election. But while the pros and cons of last year’s health reform legislation are debated in Congress and on the campaign trail, considerable efforts are underway at the grassroots level to redesign the way health care is delivered… Read More

    Jan 15, 2011

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    Tennessee’s first Berlin heart infant receives heart transplant

    Nathan Roberts, an 18-month-old patient from Snead, Ala., whose heart has been operating with the help of a mechanical assistance device called the Berlin Heart since May 27, 2010, received a donor heart early yesterday morning at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at 91Ʋ. Doctors say the transplant surgery went… Read More

    Jan 14, 2011

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    DBR: The new face of classical music

    He’s played with everyone from Lady Gaga to Dizzy Gillespie. 91Ʋ graduate Daniel Bernard Roumain, better known as DBR, composes classical music with a modern, sometimes hip-hop twist, with his instrument of choice, the violin. DBR came back to Nashville to teach 91Ʋ students and kids at the W.O Smith… Read More

    Jan 13, 2011

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    The student behind the iPhone app Layers

    Meet an impressive 91Ʋ engineering undergrad who created an iPhone app that’s bringing fine art to your fingertips. Read More

    Jan 13, 2011

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    Peabody students help women in Uganda with the Kasiss project

    Two 91Ʋ Peabody undergrads took on an emotional and massive task of doing research and raising money for educational programs in Uganda—especially for the young women of that country. VUCast’s Dagny Stuart shows us how the two students traveled thousands of miles to see first-hand the problems young women face… Read More

    Jan 13, 2011