Arts and Culture

"City of Webs," a composition by University at Buffalo Music Department alumnus Alejandro Rutty (Ph.D., 2002) based on a text of the same title by Michael Basinski, Ph.D., curator of the UB Poetry Collection, will make its premiere as part of "Unimaginable Music & Unruly Artists," the 2008 New Music Festival to be presented by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, School of Music Oct. 28-30.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Bowfire at 8 p.m. on Oct. 21 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored in part by Monaco's Violin Shop and Music Center.

More than 100 educators will celebrate the success of and take cues from the University at Buffalo's pioneer "City Voices, City Visions" student digital video project during a regional conference to be held Sept. 26 in the WNED Studios, 140 Lower Terrace, Buffalo.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Compania Flamenco Jose Porcel at 8 p.m. on Oct. 17 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by M&T Bank.

Michael Basinski, Ph.D., curator of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, will discuss the university's significant Robert Graves holdings at the ninth annual international Robert Graves Conference to be held at St. John's College, Oxford University, Sept. 9-13.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Michael Feinstein at 8 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery will present the memorial exhibition, "Ode to Michael Goldberg: Selective Thievery and the Practice of Looking" Sept. 13 to Jan. 18. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will open with a public reception to be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Sept. 13.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Song and Dance Ensemble of West Africa at 8 p.m. on Oct. 2 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The performance is sponsored by M&T Bank.

Founded more than 70 years ago, the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection was the first to archive the manuscripts and artifacts of living writers, many of them largely unknown outside their field and some of whom were considered outrageous. Today they are famous and however wild and wooly it was when archived, this enormous trove of material written on the vanguard is "ripe" today and widely accepted as seminal to some of the most important movements and literary forms of the 20th century.

How did 19th-century immigrants maintain relationships with loved ones thousands of miles away, much less preserve ties with pasts rooted in places they had left voluntarily? In his critically acclaimed book, "Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century," David A. Gerber, Ph.D., analyzes the cycle of correspondence between immigrants and their homelands to uncover the critical role played by letters in reformulating personal relationships made vulnerable by separation.