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In her joyful new role as university distinguished professor of art history emerita, AC has stepped down from teaching, but not from public lecturing which, as she confesses, she thoroughly enjoys since
she is no longer responsible for listeners remembering what she says! |
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AC lectured in Vienna on behalf of the Klimt Atelier Foundation where a signing event for three of her books was held. In March 2007 the Klimt Society of Vienna named AC an honorary member. |
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In London last fall, AC joined the existential psychotherapist Anthony Stadlen in an all-day seminar devoted to the famous contradictory concepts of music exchanged between Sibelius and Mahler during their brief acquaintanceship in Helsinki 100 years ago. |
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After 20 years of being out-of-print, AC‘s study of the reception history of Beethoven from social recluse to cultural demi-god has been just been released in paperback facsimile by Sunstone Press of Santa Fe, with an updated foreword and new reviews by conductor Kurt Masur, musicologist Scott Messing, and William Meredith, director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. |
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In February the Meadows Museum at SMU was the venue for Rutgers University‘s exhibition of four decades of AC‘s photos of women artists and art historians, entitled, of course, In Passionate Pursuit. The exhibit coincided with the national conventions in Dallas of the College Art Association and the Women‘s Caucus for Art. |
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In March AC lectured for the Meadows Museum at SMU on Alma Mahler and Her Vienna: Of Mixed Marriages, Anti-Semitism, and Canceled Careers. The talk was framed by a live performance of her Lieder by Virginia Dupuy and Simon Sargon. |
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In April for the continuing Gustav Klimt exhibition at New York‘s Neue Galerie AC repeated ‘by popular demand‘ her October lecture on The Two Gustavs: Klimt, Mahler, and Vienna‘s Golden Decade. AC selected the tracks and authored the liner notes for an accompanying KLIMT MUSIK CD, available at the Neue Galerie and from MuseumMusic.com. |
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AC spent the month of June in Greece searching out sites and sights relating to the lives and works of Strauss and De Chirico. |
