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Alumni, Faculty, & Staff Publications & Recordings
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Jeff Barone,
'93, Crazy Talk (Doncaster, England: String Jazz Productions, 2003)
Jeff Barone has been working in New York City jazz for a decade. Three of the numbers on this 10-track debut album are the classical guitar player's own compositions: "Resa's Blues," "Crazy Talk," and "To Care For."
Vincent Cresanti,
'50, M.S. '64, Nursing Home Favorites (Albany, N.Y.: Cotton Hill Studios, 2003)
Cresanti has put together a compilation of the keyboard tunes that he plays to entertain residents at assisted living facilities. The album includes waltzes, polkas, boleros, and country music selections.
Monica Dale,
M.M. '85, Advice from the Attic: Perilous Pearls of Wisdom on Beauty, Charm, and Etiquette (Ellicott City, Md.: Hatpin Press, 2003)
Dale, a professional dancer and pianist, gives a contemporary perspective on beauty rituals from the 19th and early-20th centuries (applying lard to the hair and horseradish on the hands were at times considered beneficial). The 160-page book contains period photographs, illustrations, and advertisements.
Quinn Eli,
'85, and Charlene Gilbert. Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000)
Award-winning journalist and writing professor Eli worked with Gilbert on Homecoming, an illustrated history of African-American farmers. The book, an accompaniment to Gilbert's PBS documentary by the same name, looks at the struggles of black American farmers from the failed "forty acres and a mule" Reconstruction promise to the 1998 Supreme Court decision to grant black farmers restitution for racist banking practices.
David Fischer,
'84, with William Taffe, editors, and New York Times photo editors Brad Smith and Pancho Bernasconi, Sports of the Times (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003)
This day-by-day guide chronicles historic moments in 150 years of American sports. More than 400 black-and-white photos accompany descriptions of memorable contests like the New England Patriots' dramatic 2002 Super Bowl win and the 1943 Jake La Motta-Sugar Ray Robinson boxing match.
Ilene Graff,
'70, Baby's Broadway Lullabies (Studio City, Cal.: Brooklyn Boy Music Co., 2002)
This collection of theater tunes sung by Graff was arranged by Graff's husband, Ben Lanzarone. The couple used Broadway songs to lull their now 19-year-old daughter Nikka to sleep and wanted to make this music available to other parents. Parents can have the CD album cover customized with a picture of their child.
Ruth "Pixie" Folsom Haughwout,
'67 and Ralph Folsom, Canal Cruising in the South of France: The Romantic Canal du Midi (North Chatham, Mass.: Sea Fever Gear Publications, 2003)
This guide to the Canal du Midi, which links the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and is a protected UNESCO World Heritage Site, draws from Haughwout's travels with her husband, Ralph Folsom, in their canal boat. Topics range from navigation alerts and tips on handling boats in locks to restaurants and off-canal destinations.
Roger W. Hecht,
editor, The Erie Canal Reader: 1790-1950 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003)
Hecht, a writing lecturer at IC, presents this collection of poems, travel narratives, and fictional works about the Erie Canal. The major British and American writers represented include Samuel Hopkins Adams, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frances Trollope.
Walter Horn,
'74, The Perennial Solution Center: Conversations and Readings in Mysticism and the Psychology of Religion (Charleston, S.C.: Booksurge, 2003)
Horn, who taught philosophy at Ithaca College from 1978 to 1980, has written a fictional 300-page discourse among three characters searching for the key to spirituality. They explore the theories of figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aldous Huxley, St. Teresa of Avila, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Buddha.
John A. Krout,
and Elaine Wethington, Residential Choice and Experiences of Older Adults: Pathways to Life Quality (New York City: Springer Publishing, 2003)
Professor and director of the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute John A. Krout and sociologist Elaine Wethington are concerned that we are on the brink of a national crisis involving housing opportunities for the aging baby boom generation. In this book they examine the circumstances that lead to certain housing arrangements and identify practical policy solutions.
David Lebovitz,
'81, Ripe for Dessert: 100 Outstanding Desserts with Fruit Inside, Outside, Alongside (New York: Harper Collins, 2003).
Onetime communications major Lebovitz now communicates comfort and pleasure via sweet treats. He has been making desserts for more than 20 years in restaurants like Chez Panisse, an upscale organic eatery in Berkeley, California, and was named "one of the top five pastry chefs in the Bay area" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Terri Levine,
M.S. '79, Create Your Ideal Body (Upper Gwynedd, Penn., CCU Press, 2003) and Stop Managing, Start Coaching (CCU Press, 2003)
In Create Your Ideal Body the author, who lost 47 pounds by changing her eating habits, discusses successful weight loss and healthy lifestyle strategies; she discourages diets and instead urges readers to pay attention to their bodies. Stop Managing, Start Coaching is filled with advice for business decision-makers on how to make their employees more happy and productive. Levine is a management coach.
The Dent (Mitchell Linker '94, Jeffrey Norberg '95, and D. Rauh), Farewell
(Fairfield, Conn.: Thursday Morning Records, 2003)
This is the fourth release by the Dent. The 11-track album is a blend of sweeping orchestral ballads and edgy "power-pop."
Debrah Muska,
'79, Professional Techniques for Pet and Animal Photography (Buffalo, N.Y.: Amherst Media, 2003)
Muska discusses the technical and business skills needed when photographing animals, which she has done professionally for 15 years from her home studio. The book includes tips on designing an animal-friendly studio, selecting backgrounds and props, and marketing. Some proceeds of the book will support the author's local BOCES animal science department.
Gladys Varona- Lacey,
Contemporary Latin American Literature (New York: McGraw Hill, 2001)
This compilation of modern Spanish-language short stories, poems, a play, and an essay is intended for students of intermediate and advanced Latin American literature. Twenty authors are included in the collection of works that span the last century, from writers who specialize in Mexican Revolution history to contemporary feminist writers. Varona-Lacey, chair of the IC modern languages and literatures department, includes an introduction in English and biographical notes preceding the work of each author.
Bora Yoon,
'02, Proscenium (New York: Swirl Productions, 2003)
This is the second CD for Yoon, a classically trained vocalist, pianist, and violinist and self-taught guitarist. Proscenium features two award-winning tracks, "Onward, Upward, Outward," which took second place in the 2003 John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and "Poetry vs. Coincidence," which tied for third in the jazz division of the 2003 Billboard World Song Contest. Yoon's 1999 CD, Bora Yoon, received local acclaim.
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