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5th annual New Jersey Arts Collective
Student Music Composition Contest Winners
College Winner
Thomas Oltarzewski,
Whirlwind
(Montclair State
University – Montclair, NJ)
Undergraduate in Music Composition
Hometown – Toms River, NJ
College Honorable
Mention Winners
Nicole De Maio,
Whirlwind
(Montcair State University
– Montclair, NJ)
Undergraduate in Music Composition and Music Education
Hometown – Toms River, NJ
Molly Rotondo,
Defeating Enthrallment
(St. Peter’s College –
Jersey City, NJ)
Undergraduate in Criminal Justice and Music
Hometown – Little Falls, NJ
Pre-College
Winners
Siddarth Viswanathan,
Whirlwind
Senior at East
Brunswick High School – East Brunswick, NJ
Tyler Rubin,
Cyclonic Calm
Senior at
Somerville High School – Somerville, NJ
Pre-College Honorable
Mention Winner
Kevin Madison,
Spring Winds
Freshman at North
Plainfield High School – North Plainfield, NJ
All pieces were performed at the
COMPOSER’S FORUM on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 2pm at
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY, Hunsiker Theater
Pieces by
Thomas Oltarzewski, Nicole De Maio, Molly Rotondo, Siddarth
Viswanathan,
Tyler Rubin and Kevin Madison
will be performed on Sunday, May 8 at 1pm at the
PICTURES 2010 CONCERT at the Montclair Art Museum along with
the Ionisation Pictures 2010 Commission,
Whirlwind
by Amanda Harberg.
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Information about
the sculptor and the sculpture
Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845 - 1912)
Jonathan Scott Hartley,
a late nineteenth century sculptor, helped influence the newly
developing artistic center of Montclair, New Jersey. Hartley, son-in-law
to the famous landscape painter George Inness, was born in Albany, New
York and was first employed in a marble monument yard. It wasn’t until
later that he was able to work in a studio with one of the most famous
neo- classical American artists of the day, Erastus Dow Palmer. Hartley
then went abroad, spending most of his time in London, Berlin, and
Paris, where he studied the great sculptors. He returned to New York in
1875, and soon produced his acclaimed piece The Whirlwind, in
1878.
After his marriage to
Helen Inness in 1888, Hartley moved to Montclair, where he continued to
work as a sculptor. “The Hartleys lived next to the great landscape
painter in a reconstructed farmhouse, connected to the Inness house by a
covered passage. There was a large studio on the grounds which was used
by both the painter and his sculptor son-in-law.”(1) At this time his
focus was on the production of portrait busts, many of them actors
portraying their most famous roles.
Toward the end of his
life Hartley returned to New York, where he died in 1912.
Dana E. Stoy (2003), The
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
(1) William H. Gerdts,
Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand,
1964), pp.189-190
The Whirlwind
Hartley began
exhibiting at the [National] Academy in 1870, but fame came to him only
when his [clay] work The Whirlwind was shown in the 1878 annual.
(In 1896 he reworked the conception [in bronze], a version of which is
in the collection of the Montclair Art Museum.) The artist’s attempt at
employing violently swirling drapery to depict movement in the
traditionally static medium of bronze caused a minor controversy.
Nevertheless, critics soon realized that his was a particularly
versatile talent.
from
David B.
Dearinger,
Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of National Academy of
Design (v. 1).
Mr. Hartley’s fame is
largely due to his ideal subjects in clay, one of which, entitled “The
Whirlwind,” created no end of public discussion in 1878. This remarkable
work, the personification of the whirlwind, was first exhibited in 1878,
the year in which Mr. Hartley was made an associate of the Academy of
Design. This beautiful nude figure of a woman, involved in whirls of
drapery, appears to spin in perfect poise, in a pillar of cloud. The
criticism which it aroused was due to a certain feeling that action is
not permissible in sculpture. Mr. Hartley’s works are exceedingly
numerous, and include the statue of Ericsson, which graces Battery Park,
and a splendid statue of Daguerra, in Washington.
from Theodore Dreiser, America's Sculptors, NY
Times Article, September 25, 1898
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