Word: lanning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lan speaks about her projects with the enthusiasm and slang teenagers might use to refer to the latest fashions or music videos. She says that her Chinese composition will be "really cool" and declares with the insolence of a Vogue fashion editor that she is drawn toward shorter pieces because "symphonies are just not in anymore...
...Lan's creativity found other outlets as well. She enjoyes making clothes from McCall's patterns and built a motion sensory lighting system for her New York City apartment so she wouldn't waste electricity. The lights turned on automatically "whenever you walked into the house" and turned off automatically "when it didn't sense motion for like 10 minutes." "I don't know if that was even legal," Lan recalls with a laugh. "I hope my [former] landlord doesn't read this...
After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 1995, Lan took up organ-playing at Memorial Church, and served as president of the Society for Physics Students. Lan also learned to tango so she could choreograph Stravinksy's tango from 1940, which she researched for her thesis...
Like the tango, Lan insists that many of her current interests and projects were picked up quite by accident. She is teaching herself Japanese because she won a summer fellowship from the music department to study the culture of the tango in China, Japan and Taiwan. She brushes up on high school German to read the papers of Einstein, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in their original German, and she is currently composing a piece for chorus and orchestra in Chinese because her mother happened to be "listening to a lot of Chinese music" when Lan went home to New York...
...Lan is very hip, say Uche A. Blackstock '99 and Oni J. Blackstock '99, who attended Stuyvesant High School with Lan. "She has a unique fashion sense," says Uche Blackstock. "She'll wear these mature floral scarves with these overalls with Tweety Bird [on them]. It personifies the contradictions in her personality. Iris is this young-looking woman with this big, brilliant mind...