[FPSPACE] FW: Cornell: Musician's Illustrated Tribute to Saturn Arrives on DVD

[LARRY KLAES]

> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:40:39 -0500
> Subject: Cornell: Musician's Illustrated Tribute to Saturn Arrives on DVD
> From: rick.fienberg at aas.org
> To: Rick.Fienberg at aas.org
> 
> THE FOLLOWING RELEASE WAS RECEIVED FROM CORNELL UNIVERSITY IN ITHACA,
> NEW YORK, AND IS FORWARDED FOR YOUR INFORMATION. (FORWARDING DOES NOT
> IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY.) Rick
> Fienberg, American Astronomical Society: rick.fienberg at aas.org,
> 1-202-328-2010 x116.
> 
> January 15, 2010
> 
> Contact:
> Blaine Friedlander
> +1 (607) 254-8093
> bpf2 at cornell.edu
> 
> NEW TAKE ON A RING CYCLE: CORNELL MUSICIAN’S TRIBUTE TO
> SATURN -- REPLETE WITH STUNNING IMAGES -- ARRIVES ON DVD
> 
> Art meets science: A fresh sultry, circular and sweeping piece of
> music -- called “Anillos” -- perfectly timed with breathtaking images
> of the planet Saturn and perfect for a large-screen television, is
> available now on DVD.
> 
> Originally, “Anillos” -- which mean rings in Spanish -- was
> commissioned for a meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s
> Division for Planetary Sciences, and the piece premiered at the
> group’s annual meeting in October 2008, in Ithaca. It was composed by
> Roberto Sierra, Cornell professor of music, recently nominated for a
> 2010 Grammy Award for another composition, “Missa Latina.”
> 
> Elizabeth Bilson, retired administrative director for Cornell’s Center
> for Radiophysics and Space Research, had proposed an original musical
> piece for the 2008 conference. She had worked with Joe Burns,
> Cornell’s Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering and Professor
> of Astronomy, on the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibit of
> images from NASA’s Cassini-Huygens mission, and she wondered if those
> ethereal pictures of Saturn and its rings and moons -- which she
> described as “sheer aesthetic pleasure” -- might also inspire a work
> of music.
> 
> Bilson floated the idea to composer Sierra, Cornell’s Old Dominion
> Foundation Professor in the Humanities. “I thought he would laugh at
> me,” Bilson later confessed. Instead, Sierra took the challenge. With
> a selection of images from the Cassini mission and essays by
> 17th-century astronomer and musician Christiaan Huygens as his guide,
> Sierra composed the 10-minute-long, full-orchestra piece “Anillos.”
> 
> The piece on this DVD was recorded at Cornell’s Bailey Hall
> immediately after its premiere performance. It features Chris
> Younghoon Kim, Cornell director of orchestras, conducting the Cornell
> Symphony Orchestra with percussion soloist Tim Feeney, director of
> percussion ensembles at Cornell. Matthew Hedman, a Cornell research
> associate in astronomy, created the video sequence that accompanies
> the music, using images from NASA’s Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn.
> The DVD also contains interviews with Sierra and Burns.
> 
> A sample of the music may be heard at:
> http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan10/Anillos.html
> 
> “Anillos” is available for $15 at Buffalo Street Books, Dewitt Mall,
> 215 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca (buffalostreetbooks at hotmail.com, +1
> 607-273-8246). Also, mail orders are being processed by Elizabeth
> Bilson at emb9 at cornell.edu.
> 
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