Discoveries: Arts and Culture

  Sarah and Mamoru Fujieda viewing Bess's work at BAM opening, September 12, 2014 The charming pianist, daughter of James Cahill, and the composer Mamoru Fujieda     The Japanese composer Mamoru Fujieda has written an extraordinary set of pieces called "Patterns of Plants" (1996-2004 ).He hooked up an apparatus called a Plantron to read the bio-electric fluctuations of various plants, to try and understand their "voices".  Then he transformed the sonic data into the melodical  patterns of these beautiful pieces which are dedicated to Lou Harrison.   Sarah had been performing all over the country (Freer Gallery, Spoleto Festival USA, Lincoln Center) for about four years when the composer wrote to her.  He invited her to the first Pacific Crossings Festival in Tokyo in the summer of 2004 to play his own music along with Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros and others.  Then a month later, he presented another con...

Mary Anne Rogers  Sarah Cahill  Dr. Nicholas Cahill, director of Sardis Dr Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley         Granddaughter Trio Sing "Danny Boy"  y tribute:   Posted on IEAS Site; Memorial Dr. James Cahill. By Janet Roberts Generous of spirit and kind of heart, Dr. James Cahill is missed by all who knew him through the study of Chinese Art.   Dr. Cahill came to Fudan University in Shanghai, in 1987, when I was a foreign expert part of the US China Peoples Friendship Assn Exchange program, teaching future teachers, acting as writer/editor for a textbook on teaching of English models, and lecturing graduate students in the first American poetry survey course. I was attending   lectures about   Chinese art history with Dora Chen, who had graduated Smith College.   I attended Dr. Cahill’s week long seminar, and recall that he invited me to tea, in the faculty guest house, afte...