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Risë Stevens (b. 1913, Bronx, New York - d. 2013, Manhattan, New York) was an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She was born Risë Gus Steenberg in the Bronx, and as a child she sang on a local radio program. As a teenager, her family moved to Queens and she began appearing in local opera productions, […]
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" As Chairman of the Festival Committee, Miss Beegle considered plans for a masque in connection with the celebration. It was decided to make it a city affair. "
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Clara Mannes (1869-1948) was a German-American pianist and music educator. Clara grew up in Breslau, Germany, and was born into the famous Damrosch musical family; her father Leopold Damrosch was known as a respected violinist, composer, and conductor, and her mother, Helen Von Heimburg, an acclaimed opera singer. The Damrosch family immigrated to the United […]
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" Clara Damrosch Mannes and her husband, David Mannes, formed the first touring professional violin-piano concert duo, according to Martin. Mannes went on to found the Mannes School (later College) of Music in addition to participating in activities such as managing the benefit concert in 1912 for the Music School Settlement of Harlem, a concert that featured James Europe and his Clef Club Orchestra "
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Louise Tilly was apart of the Graduate Faculty at the New School. She was a professor in sociology and historical studies. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Louise Tilly, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Just because we all have the gift of gab does not mean we are endowed with the art of speech. Speech is an art, especially speech for the theatre. "
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Arien Mack has been a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research since 1970, and still teaches today in the Adult Bachelor’s division. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Arien Mack, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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Margaret Mead was best known for her work in anthropology. She had a career at the New School for over twenty years. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Margaret Mead, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Those who argue for the first view endow man with such pugnacious instincts that some outlet in aggressive behavior is necessary if man is to reach full human stature. It was this point of view which lay back of William James's famous essay, "The Moral Equivalent of War," in which he tried to retain the warlike virtues and channel them in new directions. "
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" The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Benjamin Patterson on 2009 May 22. The interview took place at Patterson's home in New York, N.Y., and was conducted by Kathy Goncharov for the Archives of American Art,Smithsonian Institution. Funding for this interview was provided by the Brown Foundation, Inc. Benjamin Patterson has reviewed the transcript and has made corrections and emendations. The reader should bear in mind that they are reading a transcript of spoken,rather than written, prose. "