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...addition, Anthony Cheung ’04 was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts for performance on the piano and cello...
...third time in as many years, rocker BILLY JOEL has crashed his car into an inanimate object. In 2002 it was a post. In 2003 it was a tree. Last week it was a house in Bayville, N.Y., down the street from the Piano Man's Long Island estate. Joel says he was on his way to pick up a pizza when his vintage 1967 Citroen skidded off the wet road, through some shrubbery and into the home. He suffered a minor cut on his left ring finger but refused medical attention. Police say the singer showed no signs...
Wheeldon's true breakout began in 2001 with Polyphonia, a dazzlingly imaginative suite set to the jagged piano music of contemporary Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. Other companies and other styles soon beckoned. There was a richly rendered A Midsummer Night's Dream for Denver's Colorado Ballet; another spiky, witty Ligeti work, Continuum, for the San Francisco Ballet; a fairy-tale treatment of Stravinsky's Firebird for the Boston Ballet. Like Balanchine before him, Wheeldon ventured onto Broadway, creating dances for the 2002 musical Sweet Smell of Success. It was a dud, but it led to a collaboration with Success...
Cheung points to his guidance over the past four years from professors Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68 and Rosen Professor of Music Bernard Rands as his most fullfilling academic experience. He says their work with piano and composition continues to inspire him today...
While he does not plan to go into arts as a profession, Sherwood is sure that they will remain a part of his life. “As a musician, it is tortuous for me to go a week without at least playing a few notes on the piano, and attending theater is second-nature to me,” he says. “I am looking to enter a technology career, but I will always be creating, writing, innovating—I can’t conceive of a life without the arts...