Scott M Williamson
Distant Immortal Beloved
Below are the notes on the recital I'll be sharing via WLU's Livestream, Saturday Nov 7 at 8 pm (ET). I hope you can tune in to this...
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Scott M Williamson
- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
Creativity during Crisis: 1918-1920 (Part I)
Like me, do you find yourself interested in how creatives responded to the global pandemic 100 years ago during the Spanish Flu of...
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Scott M Williamson
- Jun 10, 2020
- 1 min
International Abolition Day
After posting on FB about the presentation I shared in Romania this past December, I realized I hadn't shared its contents here, for...
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Scott M Williamson
- Apr 17, 2020
- 8 min
Playlists for Patrick...
(Dr. Patrick Shaw Cable at the Taubman Museum of Art, in "Pop Power" one of his last exhibits.) Memorial Poems and a Mixtape for Patrick...
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Scott M Williamson
- Feb 22, 2020
- 4 min
The “three-way game” of Art
"Great art has dreadful manners." So begins Simon Schama's Art (Vintage). "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you... Merciless...
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Scott M Williamson
- Jan 17, 2020
- 1 min
#Top10 artist list | Fall/Winter 2019/20
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Children, sculpture group, Muzeul de Arte, Timisoara (10.19) #MuzeuldeArte, Timisoara (10.19) Pop Up | Magdalena...
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Scott Williamson
- Oct 19, 2019
- 3 min
Friday afternoon in Timișoara
After a self-guided walking tour of a pair of the city's squares or Piața (like Piazza in Italian), I'm glad I stopped in the Art Museum...
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Scott Williamson
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
Collective Euphonia debut: Arise My Love
So excited and grateful after the debut residency of @CollectiveEuphonia, a new flexible ensemble of performing and creative artists for...
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Scott Williamson
- Jul 23, 2019
- 3 min
Quattro Stagioni: Cento for CYT
The "Cento" or "found" poem below is inspired by Cy Twombly's paintings, and the poetry scribbled, scrawled, scratched, painted over and...
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Scott Williamson
- Jun 29, 2019
- 4 min
The Pity of War
The Pity of War: A Recital commemorating the 75th Anniversary of D-Day Below are some of the images to be projected, interspersed with a...
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Scott Williamson
- May 19, 2019
- 1 min
Fantastic Opera Scenes @WLU
(The "Fantastic Opera Scenes" cast of WLU students, L-R: Sarah Gabrielle Lynch, Hayley Allen, Haochen Tu, Keren Katz, Levi Lebsack, Troy...
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Scott Williamson
- May 14, 2019
- 2 min
Ah, bravo Figaro...
Below is a new poem as a gift for the awesome team who brought Rossini's Barber of Seville to colorful life this past weekend at Opera...
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Scott Williamson
- Apr 5, 2019
- 1 min
L2P: Caption Contest
What would you title this piece from Bob Trotman's installation, "Business as Usual," at the Taubman Museum. Post your replies on my FB...
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Scott Williamson
- Apr 3, 2019
- 1 min
Seascape & soundscape
So, what do you hear when you see this painting (Seascape, by William Dodge. Taubman Museum.) If you're on FB, comment on the post with...
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Scott Williamson
- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
greenwork and harmony lessons
Rosemary Laing: greenwork (aerial view) in the exhibit "Outside Eyes" at the Taubman Museum of Art. I was thrilled when my friends at the...
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Scott Williamson
- Mar 27, 2019
- 1 min
L2P@TMA 4.7.19
Just a few subjects to be touched upon anytime the TMA and I collaborate on L2P: poetry to travels, Cityscapes, Nightscapes and...
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Scott Williamson
- Feb 14, 2019
- 2 min
Winterreise postscript
Thanks to everyone who came out on a wintry day in central Virginia for my first Winterreise. It means so much to me that family and...
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Scott Williamson
- Feb 9, 2019
- 1 min
More "Winter Journey" inspiration
This is a postscript to my previous post. Reading the (2-sentence!) paragraph below reminded me anew how Mann's protagonist Hans Castorp...
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Scott Williamson
- Feb 7, 2019
- 7 min
Winterreise: Anecdotes and Images
Below are my program notes (in the form of 24 anecdotes) and select images which will be projected during an upcoming performance of...
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Scott Williamson
- Jan 31, 2019
- 2 min
"Never Again" Dachau, Jan. 2019
I'm still processing the powerful and disturbing day spent at Dachau KL earlier this month. Here are some images from our 9-day trip to...
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