Professor Paints to Music
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By Robert C. Harwi
University Daily Kansan
That fleeting and formless mode of art, music, could someday be cast in a tangible form.
Making music last beyond the quick moment that includes both its birth and its death is the problem. A KU faculty member has been working on the solution.
Miriam Stewart Hamilton, assistant professor of voice, has devised a colorful approach she calls "designed listening," through which she hopes that a song can be retained longer in the mind of the listener.
Prof. Hamilton will use this approach on Friday at the Contemporary Arts Festival of Wisconsin State College in River Falls, Wis.
Prof. Hamilton has been invited to sing at the festival. She will perform a program of 26 songs by such contemporary composers as Benjamin Britten, Theodore Chanler, John Edmonds, Paul Nordoff, Ellis Kohs, Ernst Bacon and Herbert Elwell.
Pictures With Songs
But in addition to her singing, Prof. Hamilton has printed water color pictures which represent her response to each of the songs.
In some cases she has allowed the lyrics of the song to inspire her picture. In others the melody line has created in her mind vivid color and design. The styles of the composers are varied, which necessitated the many different styles in the paintings.
Prof. Hamilton will take her paintings to the festival, where they will be on display in the lobby of the theater in which she performs on Friday. Beside each painting will be printed the title, composer and lyrics of the song the picture represents.
Those who attend may compare the singing of Prof. Hamilton with the image she has created in the tangible form of the picture, leaving the concert with a more lasting impression of the music.
Long Musical Training
Prof. Hamilton, who came to KU last fall, graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has sung with many of the major symphony orchestras, the New York City Opera Co., and in several Broadway shows.
Before entering her music training at Cleveland, she studied art for a year in college.
"One of my art teachers once told me that I should be a singer," said Prof. Hamilton. "I followed this advice and I have never regretted it. But I still like to paint."
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MUSIC TO PAINT BY—Miriam Stewart Hamilton, assistant professor of voice, displays her paintings that were inspired by contemporary music.
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Prof. Bonner, who for the current year holds a Guggenheim fellowship for research in medical history, spent three summers here doing research for the book.
"The Kansas Doctor: A Century of Fioneering" will be published Wednesday by the University of Kansas Press.
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