Latest Information and News • 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! • AC lectured in Vienna on behalf of the Klimt Atelier Foundation where a signing event for three of her books was held. The Klimt Society has made her an honorary member. • In London, 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. • After 20 years of being out-of-print, AC‘s study of the reception history of Beethoven from social recluse to cultural demi-god was released in 2008 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. • This will be the lead essay in a series of musical iconography presentations by AC for the Santa Fe Opera and other performance institutions across 4 decades. Other topics include Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Bruckner, Gustav and Alma Mahler, R. Strauss, and Poulenc. • Originally brought out by New York‘s legendary publisher George Braziller in the mid-1970s, these two groundbreaking books on Klimt and Schiele will be reissued in paperback facsimile by Sunstone Press of Santa Fe this year. AC has written lengthy new Forewords for both volumes. • Last September as part of Butler University‘s year-long ‘Mahler Project‘, AC presented a lecture on ‘The Two Gustavs: Mahler, Klimt, and Vienna‘s Golden Decade, 1897-1907‘. Alma Mahler was an important link between the two Gustavs and AC, as associate producer of the CD KLIMT MUSIK (created for the Neue Galerie Klimt retrospective of 2007-08), made sure that a composition by Alma Mahler was included. • To celebrate her 75th birthday and also to see some of the sites Frank Hurley photographed in 1914-16, AC took a 22-day cruse to the Antarctic and South Georgia Island last December (summertime in the South Pole!).