Alvin Lucier: A Celebration

Acknowledgments

48 We gratefully acknowledge the funders whose generosity has made this festival, symposium and exhibition possible, including many departments at Wesleyan University: Academic Affairs, the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, Center for the Arts, the Music Department, the Lemberg Fund, University Relations and Wesleyan University Press. Many people collaborated to make this celebration possible. In particular, we thank our guest curator, Andrea Miller-Keller, for her expertise and dedication in making the exhibition and this catalog a reality. Thanks are also due to our hard-working colleagues in the Department of Music led by Ron Kuivila and Jane Alden who organized the festival concerts, the symposium and film screenings, and to Su Zheng, Dan St. Clair and Deb Shore who gave them full support; to the industrious CFA staff: Lee Berman (Gallery Manager), John Elmore (who designed the exhibition), Erinn Roos-Brown (who coordinated this publication), Barbara Ally, Kyle Beaudette, Andy Chatfield, Mark Gawlak, Hanna Oravec, Camilla Parente, Bob Russo and CFA Interns Anya Backlund ’11, Joanna Bourain ’12 and Caitlin Colasacco ’11; to Suzy Taraba for her tremendous efforts and Alec McLane and Pat Tully at the Wesleyan University Library; to Suzanna Tamminen (who invited us to produce this catalog) and our colleagues at Wesleyan University Press; to Melissa Datre, Allynn Wilkinson and Philip Issacs at the Wesleyan’s ITS New Media Lab; to Clare Rogan, curator of Davison Art Center; to Anne Rhodes, research archivist at Oral History of American Music, Yale University; to Janet Passehl, curator of the LeWitt Collection, and Sofia LeWitt of the LeWitt Estate; and to Jonathan Hiam, curator of American Music, New York Public Library. Our appreciation also to Wesleyan’s President Michael Roth, Ron Kuivila and Nic Collins for their important contributions to this catalog, and to Provost Rob Rosenthal and former Dean of the Arts and Humanities Krishna Winston, for their special support. Our gratitude to the designer of this catalog Catherine Waters, whose gift is seen on every page. Most of all, we thank Alvin for the considerable time, energy and patience he has graciously offered, along with his wife Wendy Stokes, in providing us with the research materials and guidance we needed along the way. (P.T.) Acknowledgments ...