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How we met: Merce Cunningham and M C Richards
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Merce Cunningham, 75, is America's premier contemporary dance
choreographer. He danced in Martha Graham's company, then started
his own, in 1953; with the composer John Cage, he created a new
form of modern dance. He and his company are at the Edinburgh
Festival (27-28 August).
MC Richards is a potter, painter, writer, poet and teacher. Born
in Oregon in 1916, she is best known as author of the 1964 minor
classic Centering: Poetry, Pottery and the Person. She now divides
her time betwe...
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The Magic Mountain: The Arts at Black Mountain College Mary Emma Harris
The Texas Observer
; "The greatest danger to Black Mountain College now is not that its legacy will be lost but that its truly radical nature will be forgotten," writes Mary Emma Harris in the preface to the revised edition of her book on one of the most unusual and influential schools in the United States. It was at
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Creative mayhem preserved: Black Mountain College, rich with theatrical history, gets a museum.
American Theatre
; The locals referred to them as the mentals. For more than 20 years, artists, poets and performers such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Merce Cunningham and John Cage would descend on Black Mountain College, creating experimental work that
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CSFB saves $115 million with Black Mountain's benefits administration, enrollment solutions.
Employee Benefit News
; In the world of benefits outsourcing, there is partnering, and then there are partnerships. Nothing exemplifies the latter better than the relationship between Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and Black Mountain Group, a global benefits administration firm. Stephen Medici was the compensation and
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The arts at Black Mountain College.
The Nation
; ... history and compendium that skips lightly over the periodic bad news to celebrate the may accomplishments. Although it was a short-liv ... II, a student brought a radio into the dining hall to hear the news, there was a general scandal. Neither Harris nor Duberman mentions ...
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Black Mountain seen reshaping benefits outsourcing landscape.(teams with Brown Brothers Harriman for benefits administration )
Employee Benefit News
; ... only one person who knows one thing really well, replace that individual when they find another job and spend countless hours on retraining. Bruce Shutan, former managing editor of Employee Benefit News, is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.
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Outventurist proves mettle to clients and employees.(Black Mountain Management)
Employee Benefit News
; Amid widespread organizational restructuring in the mid 1990s, businesses began farming out massive piles of paperwork in order to focus brainpower on their core competencies. It was also around the time that Credit Suisse First Boston was considering outsourcing its employee benefits
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Black Mountain College: A Pioneer in Southern Racial Integration
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
; An experimental college for students in the arts was also a major innovator in race relations in the Jim Crow South. Ten years before Brown v. Board of Education, Alma Stone Williams, a young black woman from Atlanta, enrolled at the all-white Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina.
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Wolpe and the poets of Black Mountain.(Stefan Wolpe at Black Mountain College)(Critical Essay)
Perspectives of New Music
; IN THIS HISTORICIZING PERIOD in which we find ourselves, composers are often identified by their influences: teacher, previous compositional models, cultural influences, and so forth. Accordingly, we take stock of Stefan Wolpe in part through the singular constellation of his influences, including
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Black Mountain gets tax break
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
; RUMFORD - Roger Arsenault breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday afternoon when the Board of Assessors unanimously granted tax exemption for Black Mountain of Maine. "I'm relieved. Maine Winter Sports has given us quite a gift and the Board of Assessors gave us an opportunity to succeed. It's been a
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Painting a picture of a creative partnership Dadaism, Zen and the i ching... SUSAN MANSFIELD looks at the art of an unlikely team - choreographer Merce Cunningham and top composer John Cage
The Scotsman
; IT ALL started because the bus was late. On tour in LA with his dance company, Merce Cunningham was packed and ready to leave when he learned that their coach was delayed by two hours. Looking for a way to pass the time, he sat down at the table in his hotel room and started to sketch the branches
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