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Northern Vibrations

Reflecting on the time he spent working in artistic isolation as a court musician for Hungary’s Esterházy family, Joseph Haydn once remarked: “I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.” In many ways, the same is true for award-winning composer and Eleanor Shea Professor of Music, Matthew Burtner. Born and raised in Alaska, Burtner knows what it means to live remotely. Growing up in Nuiqsut, an Arctic city accessible only by airplane or ice road, he spent much of his young life helping his family prepare adequate food, heat, and clothing.

https://giving.virginia.edu/stories/northern-vibrations

Tanya Holland is an award-winning chef, author and restauranteur who has appeared on Bravo TV’s “Top Chef” and hosted her own show, “Tanya’s Kitchen Table,” on Oprah Winfrey’s network. (Photos contributed by Tanya Holland)

From UVA’s Corner to Julia Child, Meet Celebrity Chef and Alumna Tanya Holland

Tanya Holland has made numerous appearances on NBC’s “Today” show, “Good Morning America” and The Food Network; was a contestant on Bravo TV’s “Top Chef”; and hosted her own show, “Tanya’s Kitchen Table,” on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. But this celebrated Black celebrity chef and 1987 University of Virginia graduate started her food service career not in the grand kitchens of Europe, but on the Corner, working at two long-gone restaurants in the 1980s.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/uvas-corner-julia-child-meet-celebrity-chef-and-alumna-tanya-holland

Matthew McLendon’s (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)

News in Brief: Fralin Director Takes New Role at Texas Museum

Matthew McLendon, J. Sanford Miller Family Director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, will leave at the end of the month to become director and CEO of San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, the first modern art museum in Texas. McLendon will begin his appointment at the McNay on Feb. 13.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/news-brief-fralin-director-takes-new-role-texas-museum

Collage of Book Titles by Emily Faith Morgan, University Communications

New Books for the New Year, Written by UVA Faculty, Staff and Alumni

From David Baldacci’s latest thriller to the history of nurses, University of Virginia faculty and alumni published a range of books last semester. Here’s a selection of what they’ve written or edited that might appeal to a range of readers, with information from publishers and reviewers.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/new-books-new-year-written-uva-faculty-staff-and-alumni

Andrea Trimble is stepping forward as an artist of the built and natural environment. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)

Critical Lines: Andrea Trimble’s Art Merges Natural, Built Worlds

In Andrea Trimble’s drawings, worlds merge. The built environment stakes its claim and nature presses its inevitability. Sometimes structure morphs into nature through the slender black lines that capture what she’s seen and where she’s been. “I use pen and ink mostly to depict different locations that I see in my travels, usually something that captures my eye,” Trimble said.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/critical-lines-andrea-trimbles-art-merges-natural-built-worlds

Molly Joyce has found an instrument that enables her to embrace her disability, a vintage electric toy organ. (Photos by Sanjay Suchak, University Communications)

The Sound of Music, Composed With Disability in Mind

Molly Joyce was in sixth grade when she started composing music and experimenting with musical notation software. “It was like a game,” she said, “combining the music in my head with the software and playing it back.” She could change the notes, the timing, and make other special effects.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/sound-music-composed-disability-mind

Photo illustration by Emily Faith Morgan, University Communications

UVA Today’s Photographers Unveil Their Favorite 2022 Images

By the end of any year, UVA Today’s photographers – Sanjay Suchak, Dan Addison and Erin Edgerton – will have snapped thousands of images on and around the University of Virginia’s Grounds. They range from the expected, like portraits of faculty members in the news, to the surprising, like a rainbow arcing across the Lawn. UVA Today asked each photographer to select five photos that moved him or her most this year, and explain why.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-todays-photographers-unveil-their-favorite-2022-images

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Tokie Rome-Taylor depicts Black girls dressed as upper-class white women in the Antebellum era or in European motifs. (Photos by Erin Edgerton, University Communications)

Photography Exhibit Turns Female Stereotypes on Their Heads

The direct gazes of the portrait subjects and vibrant colors of the photographs caught the attention of two museum visitors, University of Virginia students who are photographers themselves. Ava Proehl and Kate MacArthur, who both work on the UVA student newspaper, the Cavalier Daily, took a break from their studies to view The Fralin Museum of Art’s “Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography.” The exhibit displays selected works of five photographers from women’s perspectives: Sarah Maple, Tokie Rome-Taylor, Cara Romero, Martine Gutierrez and Wendy Red Star.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/photography-exhibit-turns-female-stereotypes-their-heads

What Can You Learn About Leadership From Conducting A Symphony?

In his program called “The Music Paradigm,” maestro Roger Nierenberg aims to help organizations improve their work by exposing their leaders and employees to the dynamic that exists between a conductor and orchestra musicians.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/what-can-you-learn-about-leadership-conducting-symphony

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