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Austin Elliott Clarkson

Toronto - Canadá

(M.A., Eastman; Ph.D., Columbia)

Professor emérito de música na York University (Toronto). Foi professor na University of Saskatchewan, Columbia University (onde foi o editor fundador da publicação Current Musicology) e Yale University. Editor geral de músicas e textos de Stefan Wolpe.

Projetou e ministrou cursos sobre teoria e prática do processo criativo desde 1984. Seu trabalho de ensino e pesquisa na área da criatividade resultou na formação do "The Milkweed Collective", uma comunidade de artistas, poetas, músicos e professores que realizam apresentações públicas de arte e oficinas de trabalho sobre criatividade para crianças e adultos. Um livro escrito em colaboração com os membros do "Collective", The intelligence of the imagination: personal stories of the Creative Process está sendo publicado.

Formação:

• 1953 B.A., Honours Science, University of Toronto.
• 1955 M.A., Theory of Music, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
• 1970 Ph.D., Musicology, Columbia University.

Experiência profissional:

• 1955-1958 Instructor of Music, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
• 1964-1966 Instructor, Music History and Theory, Columbia University.
• 1967-1972 Assistant Professor, Music History, Department of Music,
• Yale University.
• 1972-1984 Associate Professor of Music, York University.
• 1985-1995 Professor of Music, York University.
• 1995 Professor of Music emeritus, Senior Scholar, York University.

Prêmios e Distinções:

• 1960 Alice M. Ditson Fellowship, Columbia University.
• 1963 Martha Baird Rockefeller Fellowship.
• 1972 Morse Fellowship, Yale University.
• 1976 Fellow of the American Council for the Arts in Education.
• 1987 Richard S. Hill Award, The Music Library Association.
• 1991 Atkinson College Fellowship, York University.

Atividades profissionais

• 1978- Chair, Vice-Presidentm, Board of Directors, The Stefan Wolpe Society, Inc., NY
• 1985- Board of Directors, New Music Concerts, Toronto.
• 1991- Director, Stefan Wolpe Archive, York University.

Livros:

• 2003 On the Music of Stefan Wolpe. Essays and Recollections. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press. Editor. 400 pages.
• The Intelligence of the Imagination: Personal Stories of the Creative Process. In preparation.

Capítulos de livros:

• 2000 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. Articles: "Mordecai Sandberg" (new article), updates on articles on "Jacob Druckman," "Billy Jim Layton," "Stefan Wolpe."
• 2001 "The intent of the musical moment: Cage and the transpersonal," in Writings through the Music, Poetry, and Art of John Cage, ed. David Bernstein and Christopher Hatch. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2001, 62-112.
• 2001 "Between the keys: Istvan Anhalt writing on music," in Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and memory, ed. Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, 324-341.
• 2002 "Stefan Wolpe and abstract expressionism," in The New York Schools of Music and Visual Arts, edited by Steven Johnson. New York: Routledge, 75-112.
• 2002 "Stefan Wolpe: Broken Sequences," in Music and Nazism, edited by Michael Kater and Albrecht Riethmüller. Saarbrücken: Laaber Verlag, 219-240.
• 2002 "Mordechai Sandberg," and "Stefan Wolpe," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, edited by Larry Sitsky. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 420-424, 569-580.
• 2003 "A curriculum for the creative imagination," in Creativity and Music Education, ed. Timothy Sullivan and Lee Willingham (Toronto: Canadian Music Educators’ Association), 52-76.

Artigos:

• 1996 Sonda do zvukoé imaginace. Konserva/Na Hudbu (Prague) 12: 134- 173. Translation of, Uncursing the silence: An exploration of sonic imagination. Musicworks 57 (1994).
• 1996 Clarkson, A., Pegley, K. & Rahn, J. Mordecai Sandberg: A Catalogue of His Music. Musica Judaica 13:1-63.
• 1996 Clarkson, A. The Sounds of Dry Paint: Animating the imagination in a gallery of art. Musicworks 63:20-27.
• 1997 "Bring back Salome," Literary Review of Canada, 6/1:19-22 (1997). Review of Canadian Opera Company production, directed by Atom Egoyan.
• 1997 "Ninety timeless minutes," Musicworks 67 (Winter, 1997), 60-1. Review of Ocean, by Merce Cunningham, John Cage, David Tudor, Andrew Culver.
• 1999 "Stefan Wolpe in conversation with Eric Salzman," The Musical Quarterly 83/3 (1999): 378-412.
• 2001 "From Tendenzmusik to abstract expressionism: Stefan Wolpe's Battle Piece for Piano," Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, nr. 14 (April 2001), 38-43.
• 2002 "Essays in actionism: Wolpe’s pieces for three pianists," in Perspectives of New Music 40/2: 115-133.
• With Douglas Worts, "The Beaver Dam Diary: Ten Years in the Life of the Painting by J. E. H. MacDonald." The Curator (forthcoming).

Workshops:

• 1996 "Personal stories of creation and destruction," with Beverly Bond Clarkson.
• Analytical Psychology Society of Montreal, Montreal, April 13-14; Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York, Buffalo, May 18-19.
• 2000 "Nature and Imagination" (with Beverly Bond Clarkson), "Exploring an Artwork in Depth." Milkweed 2000: Exhibition and Workshops, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto. 25 May to 8 June 2000.
• 2002 "Exploring artwork in depth." Twelve workshops for elementary school classes, Neilson Park Creative Centre, 25 April to May 30.
• 2002 "Introduction to the music of Wolpe." Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow, 19 Feb.
• 2002 "Introduction to Enactments for Three Pianos." Konzerthaus, Berlin, 12 Sept.
• 2002 Panelist: "Wolpe's Musical Theater: Schoenberg, Busoni, the Bauhaus, and Kunstjazz."Konzerthaus, Berlin, 14 Sept.
• 2002 "Stefan Wolpe and Abstract Expressionism." Tate Modern Gallery, London, 30 Sept.
• 2002 "From Berlin to New York: Dada, Bauhaus, Abstract Expressionism." Tisch Center, New York, 27 Oct.
• 2002 "Stefan Wolpe und seine Schüler," with the Wolpe Trio. Curt-Sachs Saal, Berlin, 14 Nov.
• 2002 "Stefan Wolpe and the Music of Actionism." New Music Concerts, Music Gallery, Toronto, 1 Dec.
• 2003 "Exploring artwork in depth." Seven workshops for elementary school classes.
• Neilson Park Creative Centre, Feb-Apr.
• 2003 "Exploring artwork in depth: A program for activating the creative imagination."
• International Conference on Imagination and Education, Vancouver, July 18.

Resumo: "Rumo a um currículo que privilegie a imaginação criativa"

O trabalho descreve o currículo de um curso universitário destinado a engajar a estrutura profunda do processo criativo. Apresentado primeiramente em 1984, o curso vem sendo dado a artistas plásticos. O currículo é apresentado em doze conceitos e sob os tópicos Ativando a imaginação e a atitude simbólica, Imagens arquetípicas, Personalidade e criatividade, O ciclo do processo criativo e do processo ritual. As respostas dos estudantes indicam que a proposta preencheu a forte necessidade de um curso que permitisse engajar as inteligências pré-cognitivas da imaginação, comunidade e espiritualidade. O trabalho traz também relatórios de professores que aplicaram os conceitos do curso em suas classes. O grupo de alunos de 1995 permaneceu unido, formando uma comunidade que ainda se reúne regularmente, apresenta shows com trabalhos de arte e desenvolve oficinas sobre criatividade para estudantes crianças e adultos.