Music and Poetry on Campus

Queens College Nota Bene Contemporary Ensemble
&
Poets from the Queens College MFA Program
(Michael Lipsey and Roger Sedarat, co–directors)
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**Reactions: Music/Society**
The musical works of George Crumb, Frederic Rzewski, Michael Finnissy and Louis Andriessen

With the poems of Yves Cloarec, Mike D’Alto, Gabriel Cabrera, Liv Mammone, Deborah Fried-Rubin and a special reading/performance by Roger Sedarat & Michael Lipsey

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH AT 12:15
LEFRAK CONCERT HALL
MUSIC BUILDING AT QUEENS COLLEGE

* FREDERIC TUTEN * CCNY Professor Emeritus*

The New Inquiry, BOMB Magazine, and ForYourArt present:
THE MARATHON READING OF
THE ADVENTURES OF MAO ON THE LONG MARCH
BY FREDERIC TUTEN

The grand finale event celebrating the 75th anniversary of New Directions Publishing
Sponsored by Google Places
December 4, 2011, 2:30-8PM
The Jane Hotel, 113 Jane Street, New York, NY 10014
***RSVP (required): MaoMarathon@bombsite.com***
Visit www.MaoMarathon.com for more information

On December 4, 2011, The New Inquiry, BOMB Magazine, and ForYourArt will host a Marathon Reading of Frederic Tuten’s visionary novel, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, first published in 1971. This five-hour festival, free and open to the public, will bring together hundreds of participants, including some of America’s most notable artists, novelists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers, to read the full text of Tuten’s avant-garde masterwork. The Marathon Reading marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of the novel and the finale of New Directions Publishing’s year-long celebration of their 75th Anniversary.

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March is the first novel to use methods of appropriation. It is a radical, original work made up of a linear narrative of Mao Zedong's legendary Long March, interspersed with passages quoted from a variety of novels and essays used as dialogue and exposition. It has been praised by a variety of writers ranging from Susan Sontag and Iris Murdoch to John Updike and Raymond Queneau.

Readers will include Walter Mosley, Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, Jon Robin Baitz, Kurt Andersen, Laurie Anderson, Ross Bleckner, Deborah Eisenberg, Francine du Plessix Gray, A.M. Homes, Edmund White, Oscar Hijuelos, Patricia Marx, Hans Ulrich Obrist, David Salle, and Cecily Brown. More readers will be announced in the coming weeks. Please check for updates at www.MaoMarathon.com.

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March Reading Marathon is sponsored by Google Places, a personalized local recommendation engine powered by the reviews of users and their friends. As part of their sponsorship, Google Places will be offering attendees the opportunity to win a package of prizes [see website].

"Poet-Bashing Police" by Robert Hass, former poet laureate of the U.S.

"Beat Poets, not beat poets" ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/at-occupy-berkeley-beat-poets-has-new-meaning.html?pagewanted=all

MFA Plays Performed on QC Campus ...

The MFA Program is thrilled to announce the first in our series Queens College Play Development Lab, a collaboration between our MFA program and the Department of Drama, Theater and Dance on campus. Student actors will read scenes from new plays by MFA students April Smallwood and Jonathan Kravetz Thursday November 10, 6:30pm, in King Hall 115.

Looking into the Mirror of Race

For the Queens College community ...
"Looking into the Mirror of Race: Reflections on Seeing the Present through the Past" presented by Gregory Fried, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department, Suffolk University

Monday, November 7th, 12:15-1:30pm
Rosenthal Library President's Conference Room 2 (5th floor)

In this talk, Fried will discuss the Mirror of Race Project, a multi-disciplinary, multi-media undertaking to explore the meaning of race in America. The project focuses on early American photography as a way to take a new look at the history of race in America, and as a way to confront our present by reviewing the past and envisioning the future. Fried will discuss the genesis of the project, its scope, and some of the work that has been done with these images from 150 years in the past.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Writing at Queens

Faculty and Students: rsvp to Dominique Zino at dfzino@gmail.com