{"id":65663,"date":"2007-08-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professors-are-note-worthy\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professors-are-note-worthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/08\/uri-professors-are-note-worthy\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 professors are note worthy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013August 7, 2007\u2014 By day they are respected teachers and researchers, but by night they change their tune. Meet four 溏心vlog免费B站 professors who find that music strikes a chord with them.<\/p>\n

Physicist Pulls Strings

\nA nightingale sings. In fact, Physics Professor Peter Nightingale of Kingston not only sings, he plays the Renaissance lute. Two of them actually, a tenor and a bass lute.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI love the sound of the lute and Renaissance music in particular. I originally chose the guitar because one of my fellow graduate students in theoretical physics advised me to choose a harmonic instrument rather than the flute, in which I had expressed an interest,\u201d Nightingale recounted. \u201cHis argument was that a harmonic instrument could be played as a solo instrument and did not require either phenomenal skill or an ensemble. That was good advice, given that theoretical physicists tend not be particularly gregarious.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nNightingale started singing self-accompanied lute songs about 10 years ago. Since 2003, he has been singing and playing the lute as an Elizabethan character named Marteyn van Ockeghem, Marty Ock for short, during the annual King Richard\u2019s Faire, a Renaissance fair held in Carver, Mass., which starts on Labor Day weekend and continues into mid-October.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWhether I sing and play, or just play at the Faire depends on my voice and also on my mood,\u201d he said. \u201cI can play endlessly, but that isn\u2019t true for singing, because I use a countertenor (male alto) voice, which is hard work. The sound can also be hard on the audience, which for the most part has never heard a guy sing such femininely high notes.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nNightingale sings with the 溏心vlog免费B站 Concert Choir, which typically performs three times a year in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Concert Hall, and also takes voice lessons with 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s PREP Program.<\/p>\n


\nHe plays the lute daily with few exceptions. \u201cOne side of my brain does physics; the other side does music. Extended family and friends have to make do with the rest,\u201d said the physicist\/musician with tongue firmly planted in cheek.<\/p>\n

Engineering Jazz

\nWhen Michael Greenfield of Providence, associate professor of chemical engineering and Victor J. Baxt Chair of Polymer Engineering, isn\u2019t using molecular simulation techniques to study polymers and liquids, he\u2019s arranging, composing, or playing jazz.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cMusic gives me a creative outlet that is distinct from my technical research and my teaching; I find it relaxing,\u201d he explained. \u201cI initially chose clarinet for the very naive reason that it resembled a recorder, which I had liked in music class. I later started on saxophone because I wanted to play jazz, and that was much more possible on saxophone.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAlthough he played in a classical woodwind trio and a folk\/rock band in college, Greenfield finds his strongest emotional connection is to jazz. He especially enjoys ensemble music that emphasizes complex harmonies and rhythms\u2014groups such as the Boston-based Either\/Orchestra and the Washington, D.C.,-based Windmill Saxophone Quartet.<\/p>\n


\nThe chemical engineer plays tenor and baritone saxophone, the clarinet, and the flute in Joe Parillo\u2019s Big Band, which performs Monday nights at the True Brew Cafe in Wakefield. He often participates in jazz jam sessions there on Sunday nights, sometimes playing his own compositions.<\/p>\n


\nDuring the academic year, Greenfield plays with other groups run from within 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s jazz studies program, which Parillo heads.<\/p>\n


\nWhen asked if his musical ability was inherited, the professor replied: \u201cMy dad always jokes that he can play the radio. I was influenced a lot by an uncle who played the guitar professionally,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m hoping to provide a similar influence on my own nephew and nieces.<\/p>\n

Communicating Performer

\nSteve Wood of Wakefield, professor of communication studies and film media, started playing the piano in first grade, switched to the cello in third grade, switched to the bass and guitar in high school, and started a folk trio that played in Southern California for four years.<\/p>\n


\nHe continues to play the guitar and bass, but also plays the mandolin (including an octave mandolin, banjo\u20144, 5, and 6-strings models), the hammered dulcimer, and the Native American flute. With the exception of the piano and cello, all the other instruments are self-taught.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI chose the guitar early because of the pervasiveness of the folk music craze of the \u201960s, and it was the only instrument I could play better than my father, who was a talented jazz musician,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n


\nWood plays folk music, a touch of bluegrass, traditional, old time, and a bit of the blues. He performs locally from Westerly to Newport to Warwick\u2014sometimes solo, or with his friend Joe Miller, or with the Cognitive Dissidents-a trio of 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty singing songs of social justice. On a few occasions, he performs with Joe Parillo, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s director of jazz studies. During the summer, the professor and Jon Dember play Saturday mornings at the Coastal Growers Market held at Casey Farm in North Kingstown. Calling themselves the Rusty Scuppers, Wood recently joined Joe Miller, Gene Alesandrini, and his brother, Doug, to record a CD of songs about the sea called Drunken Sailor, one of four CDs by Wood produced and published by Neoga Records.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cMusic is creative and challenging. It keeps the cranial synapses firing,\u201d said the communicating musician. \u201cAnd I\u2019m thrilled when I see people in the audience enjoying the music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voicing Joy

\nLisa Harlow of Exeter, professor of psychology and a multivariate statistician, has long been interested in music, taking piano and violin lessons for a number of years. Although she no longer plays the violin, she continues to tickle the ivories at home.<\/p>\n


\nIn recent years, she has been singing in the choir at Kingston Congregational Church, serving on both the church music committee and a church concert series committee.<\/p>\n


\nHarlow has been taking voice lessons for the past two years from mezzo soprano Valerie Nicolosi, training to sing opera arias, Broadway show tunes, and more. While she enjoys belting out such songs as \u201cWhen I Fall in Love,\u201d \u201cMoon River,\u201d and \u201cBlue Moon,\u201d she\u2019s beginning to like operatic arias such as \u201cPorgi Amor\u201d by Mozart and \u201cO Mio Babbino Caro\u201d by Puccini.<\/p>\n


\nHarlow credits her musical interests to family tradition. Her family tree includes a grandfather who lived to be 97 and who played the banjo, accordion, bass fiddle, and piano for much of his life. He went blind in the early \u201960s from a childhood accident that weakened his eyes, but he used the setback as motivation to get back to his beloved music, forming two musical groups and performing at adult centers.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cMusic is the connective fluid that sustains my everyday life,\u201d explained Harlow, who often organizes musical events, mostly sing-alongs, for the Psychology Department. \u201cMusic makes me more centered and balanced, music, to me, seems like a flowing expression of joy.\u201d<\/p>\n


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