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<< BackChapel Art Center Presents Music and Poetry The Alva deMars Megan Chapel Art Center at Saint
Anselm College has commissioned works of music and poetry in
conjunction with its ongoing Figural Presence art exhibition. Both
works will be presented this month at the college’s Chapel Art gallery.
On Thursday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m., award winning poet F.D. Reeve will
read for the first time his newly composed work, A Girl and Two Doves.
Both events are free and open to the public.
The premiere of internationally recognized
composer Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee’s work, Sonata No. 5, occurred Thursday, Nov. 12. It was the culmination of the evening’s
program called “Centuries of Sonata,” featuring representative piano
sonatas of the classical through modern styles. Pianist George Lopez performed. Photos of the event can be found on the college's Flickr site.
As a first-generation Armenian-American, Goolkashian Rahbee creates
music that is deep-rooted in her ethnic background. Her first spoken
language, Armenian, and the folk music she grew up with are
particularly influential in her own music. Her mother was a talented
violinist and aided her daughter’s early love for music. Her father was
a survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. She has created a large body
of pieces for piano solo, orchestra, instrumental ensembles,
percussion, and voice. She performs internationally, and her work has
been featured in the United States and abroad.  Franklin Reeve, a renowned writer, scholar
and critic, has achieved honors for his fiction, poetry, and
translations. His honors include the New England Poetry Society's
Golden Rose award and an award in literature from the American Academy
National Institute of Arts and Letters.
A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, he taught in the Slavic
Department at Columbia University and then the Russian department at
Wesleyan University. He retired as a Professor of Letters from
Wesleyan, following 50 years of academic service. He is the father of
the late actor Christopher Reeve.
A Figural Presence is an interdisciplinary exhibition that seeks to
combine learning with the experience of beauty through the study of
contemporary American figural works of art in painting, drawing, and
sculpture. The exhibition, at the Chapel Art Center, runs through Nov.
25. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
and Thursday evenings until 8 p.m.
This program, including the exhibition and associated events and
activities, is funded in part by a grand from the National Endowment
for the Arts.
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