History Happenings March Women Who Made a Difference. First Friday Gallery Night. Understanding Deeds. Eric Ross and Avant Ensemble

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1 History Happenings March 2015 Women Who Made a Difference First Friday Gallery Night Understanding Deeds Eric Ross and Avant Ensemble Girls Explore Stories from the New York Canal System Riding the Wave with Albert Glinsky Support The History Center AmazonSmile Women Who Made a Difference In Celebration of Women's History Month

2 Lifelong 119 West Court Street Wednesday, March 4th, :00-3:00pm Carole West (Eight Square School House and Youth Education Director from the History Center) will be presenting on nine prominent local women and their impact on Ithaca and Tompkins County. Their lives span approximately one hundred years from the 1860s to the 1960s, and include relative unknowns such as Samantha Nivision and Sophronia Bucklin, to the prominent and well-known Margaret Bourke White and Belle Sherman. This event is only open to Lifelong members. $10 fee. Welcome to Rod Howe! A First Friday Gallery Night Event The History Center

3 Friday, March 6th, :00-8:00pm 6:00pm Welcome Remarks The History Center in Tompkins County invites you to join us in officially welcoming our new Executive Director, Rod Howe, as he concludes is first week at The History Center. We wish to invite the community to welcome Rod by sharing stories from the past and ideas for the future. Corey Earle, President of the Board of Trustees, will give an introduction and warm welcome at 6:00pm. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there! Understanding Deeds: A Presentation, Discussion, and Workshop

4 The History Center Saturday, March 7th, :00-4:00pm Bruce Brittain will cover just about everything you need to know about deeds: how to search for them, trace them forwards and backwards in time, read and understand them, as well as map them and perform (rough) surveys. Deed abstracts, making use of tax maps, how to compute selling price, and various ways of recording distance and area will also be discussed. If you have specific questions about a deed, or would like to trace your deed back through time, this may be the workshop for you! This talk and demonstration will be led by Bruce Brittain, who is a trained engineer and the historian for the hamlet of Forest Home. Eric Ross and his Avant Ensemble Two Performances, Two Venues: Center for Technology and Innovation - Sunday, March 8th, 2015 The History Center in Tompkins County - Thursday, March 19th, 2015

5 The History Center in Tompkins County Thursday, March 19th, :00-9:00pm FREE and OPEN to the public Composer Eric Ross and his Avant Trio including, will perform on Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 7:00 pm at The History Center in Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY. Eric Ross performs on piano, guitar and synthesizer and is a master of the theremin, one of the first electronic instruments. Eric's compositions are a combination of written and improvised music and include elements of jazz, classic, serial, and avant garde. Eric Ross will present works from his recent CD "Music from the Future". BIOGRAPHY ERIC ROSS "has excited audiences with his fiery virtuosity and innovative work" - Washington Post. He's presented concerts of his music at Lincoln Center, (NYC), Kennedy Center (Wash, DC), Disney Redcat Center (LA), Newport Jazz, Berlin, Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festivals, Brussels, Prague,

6 Copenhagen Festivals, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, among others worldwide. He performs on guitar, keyboards and is a Master of the Theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments. For over twenty five years he's led his ensemble that's featured jazz giants, John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, New Music Virtuosos Youseff Yancy, Lydia Kavina, Robert Dick, and many others. The New York Times calls his music "a unique blend of classical, jazz, serial and avant-garde." Eric Ross (BA, MA SUNY) began playing the Theremin in 1975, and has performed on radio, film and TV. He's written an Overture for 14 Theremins, played on the world premiere of Percy Grainger's Free Music No.1 in New York. In 2009, Eric Ross was a guest artist on the No.1 Best-Selling album in Japan, Aqi Fzono's "Cosmology". Since 1976, with his wife, Mary Ross, he's presented multimedia performances with video, music and dance. Among recent projects is Ultimedia Concept program at UNESCO World Heritage sites including Guggenheim- Bilbao Museum, Spain; Residenz Palace, Wurzburg; Bauhaus- Dessau, Germany; Casada Musica Portugal. Eric Ross was a friend of theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, and electronics pioneer, Robert Moog. In 1991, he met and played for the inventor of the instrument, Professor Lev Termen. He's drawn inspiration from them to develop the Theremin as a voice in his own compositions. Center for Technology and Innovation 321 Water Street Binghamton, NY Sunday, March 8th, :00pm Eric Ross with his Avant Ensemble (ERA Ensemble) featuring: Atsuko Yuma, Dancer, Fusion Artist Trevor Pinch, Moog Synthesizers Jason Smeltzer, Theremins John Snyder, Theremin, Didgeridoo Eric J. Roth, Lute, Guitars Joseph Perkins, Bass Regular Tickets - $12

7 Student Tickets - $6 Atsuko Yuma, NYC Trevor Pinch, Naked Noise community@thehistorycenter.net Girls Explore Dolls as Rolemodels The History Center Saturday, March 21st, :00-4:00pm Ms. Randy Allen, Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Residence at Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, will give a presentation on the business she has founded - Girls Explore. Girls Explore is a website-based business dedicated to broadening "the horizon of possibilities for girls through roles models in major fields of science, sports, the arts, the humanities, and business professions" with online biographies and dolls "based on contemporary and historical women role models". Image Courtesy of Stories from the New York Canal System: Interviews with People Along the Canal A Presentation and Video Showing

8 The History Center Saturday, March 28th, :00-4:00pm Dr. Dan Ward, Curator at the Erie Canal Museum, will be giving a presentation and a viewing of the documentary "Stories from the New York Canal System: Interviews with People Along the Canal". Riding the Wave: From Leon Theremin to Bob Moog A Presentation and Demonstration The History Center Saturday, March 28th, :00-9:00 PM Albert Glinsky, composer and author, will be giving a presentation about and demonstration on the theremin. His presentation will include video and audio clips, and a live and interactive demonstration of the instrument. Biography American composer Albert Glinsky has received critical praise for his music, which has been performed widely, and in such settings as Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Aspen Music Festival, Wolf Trapp, and throughout Europe and the Far East. Performing organizations as diverse as the Boys Choir of Harlem and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra have premiered his works.

9 Dance has played a large role in Glinsky's musical output. His works have been presented at the Lexington and Wilkes-Barre Ballets, the Merce Cunningham Dance Theatre, Les Grandes Ballets Canadiennes, Marin Ballet and at universities around the country. The Joffrey II Company presented a three-season international tour of his ballet, Flights, which was subsequently filmed for cable television. Among the awards Glinsky has received are grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Smithsonian Institution, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, Music at La Gesse Foundation, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the Haydn Foundation, and New York State CAPS (Fellowship). Albert Glinsky is the author of Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, published by the University of Illinois Press, with a foreword by Robert Moog. Theremin won the prestigious ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2001 and received worldwide press acclaim. A gifted lecturer, Glinsky has delivered his multimedia "Termen-ology" presentation (on the life of Leon Theremin) across the US and in Europe. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, the A&E Network, the Science Channel, various National Public Radio programs, and on Canada's CBC network and England's BBC Radio. Information and Image Courtesy of Take Our History Forward with a gift to The History Center. Your gifts support history education at its finest. To learn more, please click here! Smile with AmazonSmile Introducing a New Way to Give to The History Center

10 The History Center now has a new, easy way for you to support our efforts. Amazon Smile is a simple, automatic way for you to support The History Center every time you shop at Amazon, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com you find the same selection, prices and convenience as at Amazon.com with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of your purchase price to THC. If you currently have an Amazon account, your same log-in information will be supported with Amazon Smile. The History Center is already registered to receive the donations and all you have to do is go to Amazon Smile, choose The History Center as your designated charity, and then use Amazon Smile each time you shop. We hope you sign up soon and thank you! community@thehistorycenter.net Thank you for subscribing to History Happenings, the e-newsletter of The History Center! For feedback, comments and suggestions please contact director@thehistorycenter.net. The History Center in Tompkins County 401 E. State/MLK Jr. St. Suite 100 In the Gateway Center, just one block from The Ithaca Commons. Free parking available in the rear lot. Phone Hours: Tues, Thurs, Sat from 11-5pm and by appointment The History Center is a proud member of the Discovery Trail With support from

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