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Crescendo!, Winter 2004, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Winter 2004 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.

Islamic Art At Doris Duke's Shangri La: Playing With Form And Pattern, Carol Bier, David K. Masunaga

Textile Research Works

Shangri La is the historic home of Doris Duke in Honolulu. It is filled with installations of Islamic tilework and other arts. Open to the public in late 2002, by reservation for tours arranged through the Honolulu Academy of Arts, today this home serves as a museum in which a walking tour can provide extraordinary visual opportunities for the study of geometry and pattern both in the arts that are installed and exhibited, and in the surrounding plantings and landscape. The house offers a plethora of educational opportunities, for which its full potential has not yet been tapped. A new …

Spanish And Mamluk Carpets: Comparisons Of Decoration And Structure, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Two recent exhibitions, Carpets of Andalusia and Mamluk Rugs from Egypt, at The Textile Museum afforded a rare opportunity to compare two radically different rug-weaving traditions from the perspectives of design and weave structure. While not often evident to the casual viewer, there is a significant relationship between design, pattern, and weave structure in all Oriental carpets. The opportunity to explore such differences warrants careful examination and critical viewing.

The Mamluk rugs all probably date from the last quarter of the 15th century. They comprise a cohesive group defined by color, a geometric style, and similarity of weave characteristics. The …

"Indigo" From Encyclopædia Iranica, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

INDIGO (Pers. nil), the common name of a broad genus, Indigofera, with numerous species, widely distributed throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas. A member of the leguminous pea family, indigo is variously classified as an herb or small shrub; its stalks are long, bearing raceme flowers. It is usually perennial, but in some areas annual. Native species are known from Arabia, including the Yemen, and around the Indian Ocean. In some sources Persia is not listed among those regions in which indigo occurs in a natural form (e.g., the website mentioned below). Hans Wulff (p. 192) mentions two local species …

The Kellie Mccarthy Community Aids Walk, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The Kellie McCarthy Memorial AIDS Walk; June 5; 2004; Delaware Park; Buffalo NY

Back Text: AIDS Community Services of Western New York; Volunteer

Description: Purple shirt with yellow lettering; sun image

Nineveh Sails For The New World: Assyria Envisioned By Nineteenth-Century America, Steven W. Holloway

Libraries

No abstract provided.

Squealin' Around Lincoln Log, Historical Administration

Hogpen to Hearth: Winter on the 1845 Prairie - Docs

No abstract provided.

Hogpen To Hearth: Winter On The 1845 Prairie, Historical Administration

Hogpen to Hearth: Winter on the 1845 Prairie - Docs

No abstract provided.

A Concert To Benefit The Western New York Lgbt Domestic Violence Committee, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

No abstract provided.

Crescendo!, Fall 2003, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Fall 2003 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.

Songs Of Freedom, Buffalo Gay Men's Chrous

Programs

Welcome to the Spring concert of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus. This is our fourth concert since our founding in 2001 and we've grown from 50 men for that first concert in February of 2003 to 70 men tonight. Our mission is not only to entertain, but also to present different kinds of choral music that a talented male chorus under the leadership of an experienced and skilled music director can perform. So we have a very broad repertoire for a discriminating, eclectic audience that includes both vocal and instrumental pieces, classics, Broadway, and somewhat lighter selections. As well, because …

Crescendo!, Spring 2003, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Spring 2003 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.

Festival Of Voices 2003, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

Welcome to the first Festival Of Voices. It is our goal to make the Festival Of Voices an annual showcase concert to feature the wonderful GALA choruses from the Northeast USA and Canada, and to build community between GALA choruses and other local musical performance ensembles. To this end we are pleased to welcome the Cayuga Chimes Women's Barbershop Chorus as our local guest chorus. Out Loud Chorus is a member chorus in the Gay and Lesbian Association Of Choruses, Inc. (GALA) which has over 200 member choruses with over 10,000 active musicians world-wide. The motto of GALA is Our …

Of Sweet Harmony, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

A concert of music about music was the theme proposed for tonight's program, with a title taken from the lyric beauty of Act V of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The scene describes the joys of listening to music and describes someone who is unable to enjoy music as "fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; the motions of his spirits are as dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus; let no such man be trusted."

Embracing Diversity, Sgi-Usa Buddhists, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Embracing Diversity; 2003

Back Text: SGI-USA Buddhists

Description: Pride 2003; Blue shirt with white lettering

We Are The Future, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: GLYS; We are the future! PRIDE 2003

Back Text: n/a

Description: White shirt with blue lettering; rainbow colored stick figure outlines between writing

The Kellie Mccarthy Community Aids Walk, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The Kellie McCarthy Memorial AIDS Walk; Saturday June 7th; 2003; Delaware Park Lakeside

Back Text: Volunteer

Description: Maroon shirt with white lettering; ribbon outline

Many Voices, Many Lives, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Many Voices, Many Lives; Voices

Back Text: Buffalo Pride 2003

Description: White shirt with white lettering outlined in black; rainbow image on front

Pride, 2006, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Pride '06; Buffalo, NY

Back Text: n/a

Description: White shirt with orange and pink lettering; decorative designs behind words

Crescendo!, Winter 2003, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Winter 3003 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.

Mamluk Rugs From Egypt: Jewels Of The Textile Museum's Collection (Exhibition), Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Mamluk rugs are considered by many to be among the most beautiful of any rugs ever created. The brilliant reds, greens, and blues (figs. 1 and 2) are reminiscent of rubies, emeralds and sapphires; whether this was an intentional evocation is not known. But The Textile Museum's holdings of Mamluk rugs, unparalleled in the world, are truly the "jewels" of the collection. Simply by virtue of the fact that they date from the late 15th century, Mamluk rugs comprise one of the most significant groups of classical carpets. Their lustrous wool and wondrous color, as well as their geometric designs …

Pride Buffalo, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Pride Buffalo

Back Text: n/a

Description: Grey shirt with black and maroon lettering; PG logo on front

Fall On The 1845 Prairie - Web Pages, Historical Administration

Fall on the 1845 Prairie - Docs

No abstract provided.

Tabletop Display, A Look At The System Of Design, Kristi Schmeling

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Carpets Of Andalusia (Exhibition), Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The fall of Granada in 1492 reestablished Christian dominion in Spain after centuries of Islamic rule. The rapid expansion of Islam from Arabia in the 7th century encompassed the rich cultural legacy of the Late Antique world, forging a unified empire throughout the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean lands and across North Africa to Spain within a short span of several decades. Arab and Berber armies had crossed into Spain in 711, generating at once an effort that lasted for many generations to restore Christian rule. In Islamic times, the Iberian peninsula was called al-Andalus, or Andalusia. Although we have …

Hogpen To Hearth: Winter On The 1845 Prairie - Web Pages, Historical Administration

Hogpen to Hearth: Winter on the 1845 Prairie - Docs

No abstract provided.

Fall On The 1845 Prairie - Design Brief, Historical Administration

Fall on the 1845 Prairie - Docs

No abstract provided.

How Museum Educators Build And Carry Out Their Profession: An Examination Of Situated Learning Within Practice, Elsa B. Bailey

Educational Studies Dissertations

This study explores the ways and means that museum educators build their expertise to practice museum education. A qualitative methodology was utilized in this examination, incorporating aspects of grounded theory and phenomenological research. Fifteen museum educators in science-related museums in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who worked extensively with teachers, were selected as respondents.

Crescendo!, Autumn 2002, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Autumn 2002 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.

Defining And Customizing Tagmemic Interaction For Historic House Museum Websites: A Study Of Effective Learning Design For Museum Educators, Julie Jenkins Strohkorb

English Theses & Dissertations

Educational multimedia tools that are marketed most successfully usually are described as "interactive" learning resources. The word interactive broadly suggests a host of positive learning experiences - student-driven inquiry, audio-visual support of ideas, and critical thinking or decision-making opportunities. However, the term interactive often is used loosely, and begs for a more concrete definition. This study defines multimedia interactivity as a give-and-take relationship between a technology tool and its human user. Technology itself is not interactive, but technology can be designed and developed to enhance an interactive experience. This study looks at the problem of defining such a nebulous term, …