Books and Recordings

Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song
Matt BaileyShea explores the shared features between poetry and song—such as diction, meter, lineation, and form—as well as the inherent differences between the two art forms. BaileyShea is an associate professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music and in the Arthur Satz Department of Music in the School of Arts & Sciences. (Yale University Press)

Ethical Realism
William FitzPatrick examines multiple facets of ethical realism, arriving at a distinctive realist take on ethical objectivity and normative authority. FitzPatrick is the Gideon Webster Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. (Cambridge University Press)

Posthumous Lives: World War I and the Culture of Memory
Bette London, a professor of English, explores shifting public and private efforts to commemorate British soldiers killed in World War I, in the context of the compelling hold the war has had on the British imagination for more than a century. (Cornell University Press)

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death
Timothy Quill ’76M (MD), ’79M (Res), a professor emeritus and the founder of the University’s Palliative Care Program, coedits a volume of case studies of end-of-life options that have become known as VSED. The book is designed for patients and families, clinicians, ethicists, lawyers, and administrators in health care. (Oxford University Press)

Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage
Anna Rosensweig, an assistant professor of French, shows the endurance of the right of resistance in 17th-century France as a conceptual framework in tragic drama. (Northwestern University Press)

The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health
Ellen More ’79 (PhD), a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, explores the career of Calderone ’39M (MD), a prominent voice in the development of sex education. (New York University Press)

The Dark Ride
John Kessel ’72 presents a retrospective of his stories published since 1981. He teaches in the creative writing program at North Carolina State University. (Subterranean Press)

War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter: A Cultural History of a Creative Life
Jeffrey Reznick ’92, chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine at NIH, explores the life of the German-born poet, artist, and nephew of John Galsworthy. (Anthem Press)

Enter the Blue
Dave Chisholm ’13E (DMA) writes and illustrates a graphic novel in which a musician comes face-to-face with “a mysterious meeting place for jazz history . . . where ghosts from this music’s storied past spring to life for those courageous enough to enter.” Chisholm directs the jazz ensemble and teaches on comics and related media at Rochester Institute of Technology. (Z2 Comics/Simon & Schuster)

Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence, and the History of the Photo-Finish
Jonathan Finn ’03 (PhD) explores the history and role of the photo-finish in a win-at-all-costs culture, and the potential of the quest for precision to undermine the human drama of competition that attracts spectators and fans. Finn is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. (McGill-Queens’s University Press)

Development Strategies of Open Economies: Cases from Emerging East and Southeast Asia
Frank Hsiao ’67 (PhD), a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao ’67 (PhD), a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Colorado Denver, offer a statistical and systematic analysis of multiple development strategies. (World Publishing)

Memory Passages: Holocaust Memorials in the United States and Germany
Natasha Goldman ’02 (PhD), a research associate in art history at Bowdoin College, examines changing attitudes toward the Holocaust in the US and Germany as reflected in memorials. (Temple University Press)

The Game of Innovation: Conquer Challenges. Level Up Your Team. Play to Win.
David Cutler ’96E (MM), offers an illustrated, full-color guide to gamifying problem solving in business and management. Cutler teaches at the University of South Carolina’s music school and is the founder and CEO of the Puzzler Company. (McGraw-Hill)

Bertrand Russell: Public Intellectual (Second Edition)
Peter Stone ’00 (PhD) coedits an expanded second edition of the essay collection first published in 2016, featuring new essays as well as an interview with Noam Chomsky. Stone is an associate professor of political science at Trinity College Dublin. (Tiger Bark Press)

Modern Optics Drawings: The ISO 10110 Companion
David Aikens ’83, ’84 (MS), Richard Youngworth ’02 (PhD), and Eric Herman offer a user’s guide to the international standard for optics drawing notations, designed to simplify communication between designer and manufacturer. The authors are veteran optical engineers and entrepreneurs. (SPIE)

Dial EM for Empath
In a detective novel, Chuck Smith ’68 tells the story of Washington, DC, private investigator Thane Solace as he searches for a missing Howard University student. (Self-published)

Beloved
Jeannine Gibson ’88 offers a collection of inspirational poetry touching on joy, sorrow, doubt, faith, grief, despair, hope, loss, relationships, and family. (Freiling)

Dry Heat
Len Joy ’73, ’74S (MBA) presents Joey Blade—charged with attempted murder, offered a deal, and facing a choice to betray a gang leader he’d only recently asked for help. (BQB Publishing)

Three Centuries of Russian Viola Sonatas
Basil Vendryes ’82E, principal violist of the Colorado Symphony, performs music by Glinka, Shebalin, and Sokolov, accompanied by pianist William David. (Toccata Next)

Project Fusion
The saxophone quartet of Matt Amedio ’12E, ’16E (MM), Dannel Espinoza ’15E (DMA), Matt Evans ’15E (MA), ’15E (DMA), and Michael Sawzin ’13E (MM)—present their debut recording. (Bridge Records)

Houses of Zodiac: Poems for Cello
Composer and multimedia artist Paola Prestini and cellist Jeffrey Ziegler ’95E present their first recording as a duo. The compositions are inspired by the poetry of Nin, Neruda, and others, and include readings from their works. (National Sawdust Tracks)

Fertile Soil Suite
The Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra, founded by Mike Conrad ’13E (MM), performs four of Conrad’s compositions in celebration of Iowa. Conrad is an assistant professor of jazz and music education at the University of Northern Iowa. (mconrad music)

Paradigms
Jacob Dalager ’12E (MM), an assistant professor of trumpet and jazz at New Mexico State University, presents a debut solo trumpet album. (Tonsehen)

Synthesis
Jay Kacherski ’05E (MM), a guitar instructor at Loyola University New Orleans, performs works for classical guitar by contemporary Mexican composers. (Frameworks Records)

Moon Marked
Chris Gekker ’76E, professor of trumpet at the University of Maryland, performs works by composers including Lance Hulme ’89E (MM) and Eric Ewazen ’76E. The recording won second place from the American Prize competition series in the 2021 solo instrumentalist category. (Divine Art Recordings Group)

Of and Between
The Rochester-based ensemble fivebyfive—clarinetist Marcy Bacon ’08E (DMA), pianist Haeyeun Jeun ’16E (DMA), double bassist Eric Polenik ’06 (MM), guitarist Sungmin Shin ’18E (DMA), and flutist and artistic director Laura Lentz—presents its debut recording. The recording includes works by composers in response to stained glass art by Judith Schaechter and photography by James Welling. (ArtistShare)

Rapture and Regret
Pianist Tracy Cowden ’00E (DMA), the Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professor in Music at the University of Texas at San Antonio, presents music for voice and piano and for solo piano by Daron Hagen. (MSR Classics)

Verdehr Trio Archival Series
The Verdehr Trio, founded by clarinetist Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr ’64E (DMA) and violinist Walter Verdehr, presents three volumes of archival recordings, including transcriptions of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, and others; and pieces by composers commissioned by the trio. (Blue Griffin Recording)