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RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Through January 5, Mark Armijo McKnight‘s Decreation, a show of new and recent black-and-white photos of bodies and landscapes, is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibit is in the museum’s Lobby gallery, accessible to the public and free of charge. ART & DESIGN
The New York Times and other publications have been reporting on music theory faculty Robinson McClellan‘s discovery at the Morgan Library & Museum of a previously unknown waltz by Frédéric Chopin. “My jaw dropped,” prominent Chopin scholar Jeffrey Kallberg said of McLellan’s discovery. “I knew I had never seen this before.” Listen to Lang Lang‘s world-premiere recording of Waltz in A Minor “Found in New York.” ARTS ONLINE
Pam Tanowitz is presenting a new ballet at the Royal Opera House in London. The Royal Ballet premieres Tanowitz’s work as part of a program called Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets, October 22 through November 16. DANCE
Ryan Silbert received a Signal Award nomination for Best Writing for his work with James Patterson on the The Coldest Case: The Past Has a Long Memory, the second season of his No. 1 Audible Original starring Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, and Beau Bridges. FILMMAKING
Composition faculty Scott Ordway has been awarded the two-year Fireline Fellowship from the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University. From 2024 to 2026, he joins a multidisciplinary cohort of artists, writers, and journalists whose work addresses themes of landscape, ecology, and culture in the American West. MUSIC
Anthony Branker is a recipient of a 2024 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant, funded through the Doris Duke Foundation. In addition, the Senate of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater has elected Branker an honorary member of their academy for his contributions to their jazz department and, more broadly, to Estonian jazz. Branker says his relationship with the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater began in 2005 when he was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor who helped nurture their newly created jazz studies program. Branker has returned to Estonia on several occasions as a visiting composer/conductor and as a faculty member at their summer Socrates Erasmus Crossing Borders Program. MUSIC
Melissa Dunphy’s BBC commission, “Totality,” had its world premiere at the BBC Proms on July 21. VOCES8 and The King’s Singers performed the work, which is inspired by 2024’s total solar eclipse. The performance took place at Royal Albert Hall and was broadcast live on BBC 3 Radio. MUSIC
Christopher Cartmill was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome in March and April 2024. He was there to work on his translation of Carlo Gozzi’s play The Little Green Birdie, which was first performed at Mason Gross in 2022, to prepare the work for publication. THEATER
On October 28, David P. Gordon won a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for his work on Arden Theatre Company’s production of Once on This Island. The Barrymore Awards recognize professional theater in the greater Philadelphia region. THEATER

FACULTY VOICES IN THE MEDIA

Gerald Casel is quoted in Dance Teacher Magazine‘s feature “Teaching Politically Engaged College Dance Students.” DANCE
Cameron Knight talks scare acting in NJ.com’s “A Haunting in New Jersey” feature. THEATER
Kraig Williams discusses the Rutgers Wind Ensemble’s October 13 concert featuring a live performance of the film score along with a screening of 1931’s Frankenstein on WWFM’s A Tempo radio broadcast with host Rachel Katz. MUSIC
Mitchell D. Weiss provides financial tips in WalletHub’s article “Cities with the Highest & Lowest Credit Scores.” ARTS ONLINE
Christopher Cartmill is quoted in this Los Angeles Times article about the meaning of banter and its place in dating and on dating apps. THEATER
Min Kwon was interviewed by former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley for his Sirius XM radio show, American Voices, about her “America/Beautiful” project, which includes 70 composers and their take on “America the Beautiful.” Kwon has begun recording all 70-plus new works written for the project, which received media coverage from The Financial Times, NBC Nightly News, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and International Piano, among others. She is collaborating with the Grammy-winning producer Adam Abeshouse for this recording (five volumes), which will be released later this year. MUSIC
Jeff Friedman spoke with NorthJersey.com about the Disability Studies minor, a collaboration between MGSA, SMLR, Bloustein, and SAS, as part of the website’s feature “Rutgers launches disability studies minor to explore world of oft-ignored community.” DANCE
Composer and multimedia artist Scott Ordway speaks about the relationship between art, landscape, and emotion on the Climate Change and Happiness podcast (Helsinki, Finland). MUSIC
Patrick Stettner weighed in about the benefits and limitations of using a smartphone to shoot a movie in a WIRED article, “You Can Shoot a Movie on a Phone. Just Don’t Expect It to Be Easy.” FILM