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Purchase Alum Score Emmy Nominations

Five alumni earned nominations, with two career-firsts.
New Opera by Purchase Instructor & US Poet Laureate

Cincinnati Opera has announced a commission of Castor and Patience by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Tracy K. Smith, US Poet Laureate
Zaire Anderson ’19 is Superhero for the Summer

She and her Art Force 5 team promote “creativity over conflict.”

Composition Professor wins Two Opera America Awards

Kamala Sankaram wins two Opera Grants for Female Composers.
Purchase Ranks Among the Best

Purchase selected by the highly selective Fiske Guide to Colleges for its strength in many areas from academics to arts and culture to campus environment.
New Academic Partnership with Upstate Medical University Launched

Plan hopes to attract students from a diverse range of undergraduate study programs.

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Piano music plays.

Regina Spektor:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Host Elisa New:

That was such a beautiful reading, Regina. In fact it wasn’t a reading; you memorized the poem. This poem is a sonnet, it begins with an eight line octet, and then moves to a six line sestet, which is a fixed, traditional form. What your reading did, was combine a warmth that sounded very contemporary with the elevation and the grandeur of this language, you humanized the poem, but you left the grandeur.

Regina Spektor:

You know I come from a culture where poetry was recited constantly throughout life. In the Soviet Union, everybody memorized poems and once you are using your voice, it’s this in-between thing, it’s conversation but it’s also elevated, it just kind of vibrates on a higher level.
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Purchase Alum Score Emmy Nominations

New Opera by Purchase Instructor & US Poet Laureate

Zaire Anderson ’19 is Superhero for the Summer

Composition Professor wins Two Opera America Awards

Purchase Ranks Among the Best

New Academic Partnership with Upstate Medical University Launched

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