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Siebel began her work Resurrection: Soon Darkness Will Give Way To Light (2002) in an attempt to get to know her grandfather, John Colin Vaughan, whom she never met. He took part in the failed 1903 Ziegler Expedition to the North Pole, which prior to Siebel’s efforts had never been researched. She reconstructed the journey from photos, drawings, film and her grandfather’s journal, and turned the story into a series of 16 etching and monoprint collages—eight of which hang in the Carpenter Center as a part of the New Faculty Exhibition...
...title of this memorable performance was “20th Century Psalm Settings for Chorus.” Within that program Elkies was nestled among composers as diverse as Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams, in a program that presented a cross-section of great composers of the 20th century. Elkies was very much deserving of the company...
...being cured and therefore prolong his life. But not all prostate cancers are equally deadly. Indeed, most men, if they live long enough, will eventually develop prostate cancer. But most don't die from it. "Perhaps 10% to 15% of prostate cancers are very benign," says Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan, president of the American Urological Association. "Another 10% to 15% are very aggressive." It's hardest to predict what will happen to the middle...
...Yesterday Joe Bonamassa In 1990, when blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died prematurely in a helicopter crash at the age of 35, some say that a little bit of the blues died with him. In his wake, many have tried to cultivate his raw electric sound, and innumerable blues guitarists have since cited Vaughan as a primary musical influence, Joe Bonamassa simply adds to the litany of names. What Bonamassa, with his album A New Day Yesterday, also adds is confusion. Modern blues has always been difficult to define, and this, his first solo outing, defies strict categorization even more...
...feels more like a grunge band trying its hand at the blues (but failing miserably), and the hook to “Miss You, Hate You” bears a plagiarism suit-inducing similarity to Matchbox 20’s “Push.” If Vaughan was able to make people care about the blues when rock ruled the roost, perhaps Bonamassa will learn from his idol and stay away from the mainstream. —James A. Crawford