Redemption Center
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Environmental Redemption in the Arts and Humanities

One of the greatest joys of teaching at Paul Smith’s College over the last few years has been to learn my way through the emerging field of Environmental Humanities. Many of you know how much authors like Dante, Chaucer, Galileo, Shelly, Dario, and more have molded and shaped my musical life. The increasing urgency of…

numbers flying on the domed ceiling of Rochester planetarium
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Glenn McClure’s “Totality”

Performance on January 20, 2024 by fivebyfive at the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester, NY.

The melodic content of “Totality” is drawn from the sonification of “duration” data that shows the varying time intervals of totality during an eclipse at selected locations along its path. Sonification is the mathematical translation of numerical data points into musical pitches and rhythms. This melody, drawn from the data describing its path, provides the unifying motifs that recur throughout the piece.

Glenn Conducting Adirondack Folk Opera
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Glenn Exploring the Adirondack Folk Opera at Mountain Lake PBS

This series of Spotlight video stories and exclusive interview clips from Mountain Lake PBS invites you behind-the-scenes and on the stage of the Adirondack Folk Opera, as a work in progress aims to become a full scale opera. About the Adirondack Folk Opera In the 1850s, abolitionist Gerrit Smith (with John Brown, Frederick Douglass and others) gave…