Holmes Morton Flyer
What: The Trinity College Concert and MacArthur Fellow Lecture is the first in a series of concerts and lectures called the Clinic for Special Children MacArthur Lectures. The event features a lecture by MacArthur Fellow, D. Holmes Morton, M.D. ’79, called “Roads Not Taken: Reflections About an Education, Difficult Learning, and Meaningful Work,” and a concert by cellist Matt Haimovitz, who will play selections from the J.S. Bach Cello Suites, Ned Rorem’s After Reading Shakespeare and Ligeti’s Sonata for Cello, with opening music from classical guitarist, Paul Morton. The concert is made possible through funds from a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and Trinity College. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Trinity College Howard Hughes Medical Institute Life Science Initiative.
When and Where:
Matt Haimovitz with Paul Morton
Sunday, November 11, 2007 ~ 3:00 p.m.
Trinity College Chapel
D. Holmes Morton, M.D. ’79, MacArthur Fellow
Sunday, November 11, 2007 ~ 5:00 p.m.
The Goodwin Theater, Austin Arts Center on the Trinity College campus
Background:
D. Holmes Morton, M.D. received the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1993 and was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of Medicine" in 1997. In 2006 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for his work. Morton was the co-founder, with his wife Caroline, of the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, PA. Their clinic is a nonprofit medical center that provides care for children with complex medical problems caused by inherited predispositions to disease. Although it remains a local pediatric medical center, the clinic has become recognized internationally for innovative studies in the diagnosis and treatment of genetic disorders and for the discovery of the genetic basis of problems within the Amish and Mennonite populations. Publications from the clinic are found in Pediatrics, The American Journal of Medical Genetics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The New England Journal of Medicine, among others. Dr. Morton graduated from Trinity College in 1979 with Honors in biology and psychology.
Matt Haimovitz is a world-renowned cellist who plays more than 100 concerts each year in venues that range from the world’s major concert halls to folk and rock clubs to bookstores. He is the Professor of Cello Performance at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In 1992 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque (1991) and Diapason d’Or (1991). For his recording Suites and Sonatas for Solo Cello, he was given the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts from Harvard University in 1996. Mr. Haimovitz was the first cellist to receive the prestigious Premio Internazionale “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” in 1999. He is a graduate of Harvard College. His award winning recordings include the complete J.S. Bach 6 Suites for Cello Solo, which has won wide critical acclaim. His current concert tour features works by his wife, the composer Luna Pearl Woolf; Ned Rorem’s After Reading Shakespeare; and the rediscovered Sonata for Violoncello Solo by Gyorgy Ligeti.
Paul Morton is in his third year of study at Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he is a performance major in classical guitar. For many years he studied with Ernesto Tamayo at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster. At Peabody, Mr. Morton studies guitar under Ray Chester, a renowned teacher of classical guitar who was a founding member of the widely acclaimed Classical Guitar Program at Peabody Institute.
Lecture and concert are free and open to the public. For more information please call the Advancement Office at 860-297-2336.