Composers Kurt Rohde and Christopher Stark will discuss their experience creating recent works that were performed at two EPA Superfund sites in Brooklyn, as well as how nature and ecology influence their work more generally.
Samuel Gruber – How a casual lunchtime conversation at the Academy led to an unexpected career documenting and preserving historic synagogues, cemeteries, and other Jewish sites
Samuel Gruber (1987 Fellow) will describe how an entirely new field of study and preservation work has developed since he began his work thirty-five years ago.