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Shooting Interviews

For over four years, we have planned to spend a number of days shooting “talking head” interviews with the leading Liszt scholars in Europe. Thanks to the annual meeting of the American Liszt Society (ALS), many of these scholars were clustered in Athens, Georgia a few weeks ago for the annual ALS meeting, February 16-20, […]

Most often, I interviewed our guests. However, Betty interviewed the most interesting person attending the ALS conference. Dr. Gabriella Wolz is a Hungarian research biologist who plans her vacations around the annual meetings of the American Liszt Society and has been a regular attendee for over ten years. Though not a performer or scholar, she had both personal and musical insights about why people in general–and Hungarians, in particular–are rabid about the music and life of Franz Liszt. Her interview emphasizes the effect Liszt has on the devotion of his present-day countrymen and women.

Not seen in the photo is the cameraman and film’s director, Ken Kebow. In the spring of 2011, we are planning a trip with Ken to the east coast to interview scholars in New York City and at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Shooting interviews is grueling but imaginative work. You spend an hour or more talking with someone who is very excited about their research on Liszt to eventually wind up with 20 to 30 seconds of “useable” material.

Monthly Highlights: March 2011

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Mexico Moving Forward

The Center for U.S. Mexican Studies at UC San Diego was abuzz last month when it hosted “Mexico Moving Forward,” a rare and open dialogue on the excellence of Mexico and its future. UCSD-TV was there to capture the event and, beginning March 21, will present a four-part series focusing on Arts and Culture, Museums and Culinary Arts, Science and the Environment, and Philanthropy and the Corporate Community.

March 21 Arts and Culture
Novelists Cristina Rivera Garza and Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, and sculptor Sebastián

March 28 Museums and Culinary Arts
Diana Magaloni, director of Mexico’s Museum of Anthropology; Chef and restaurant owner Mónica Patiño; and Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo, executive director of the San Diego Museum of Art

April 4 Science and the Environment
World-renown Stanford University botanist Rodolfo Dirzo, Eduardo Santana, co-founder of the Inter-municipal Environmental Agency for Integrated Management of the Ayuquila River Watershed, and Exequiel Ezcurra, plant biologist and director of UC’s Institute for Mexico and the United States

April 11 Philanthropy and the Corporate Community
Business executives Manuel Arango, Herminio Blanco and Roberto Servitje Sendra

“Citizens United” and the Supreme Court

As University of Chicago Law School Professor Geoffrey Stone sees it, the Supreme Court issued its most aggressively activist decision in decades with the Citizens United case, which held unconstitutional the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.

What does this tell us about the judicial philosophy of the current conservative majority on the Court and the future of American democracy? Find out in this 2011 DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture presented by Earl Warren College, the UCSD’s Law and Society Program, and the California Western School of Law.

“Citizens United” and the Role of the Supreme Court in a Self-Governing Society

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

All programs repeat throughout the month. Visit the Program Schedule on our web site for additional air dates and times.

UCSD-TV Opera & SummerFest Programs Nab Telly Awards

We’re proud to announce that two UCSD-TV produced arts programs with longtime community partners have been awarded Bronze Telly Awards!

San Diego Opera Spotlight: Romeo and Juliet: A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Opera’s 2010 production of Gounod’s Shakespeare-inspired masterpiece.

This is the fifth award for the Opera Spotlight series, which UCSD-TV and San Diego Opera have co-produced since 1995 — including this year with San Diego Opera’s 2011 season.

La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest 2009: Stewart Copeland, Composer: Four original compositions by percussionist Stewart Copeland, best known as drummer for superstar rock band The Police.
This is the first award for the SummerFest series and, after twelve years of partnering with La Jolla Music Society, we are confident it won’t be the last.

UCSD-TV is no stranger to the Telly Awards, having picked up fifteen of them since 2004. The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web. Since 1978, their mission has been to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting, and supporting creativity. The 31st Annual Telly Awards received over 13,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents.

Congratulations to our talented arts producer John Menier and, of course, to our valued community partners, San Diego Opera and La Jolla Music Society.

Ronald Reagan at 100: A Son Reminisces

February 6 would’ve been President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday and, while his name is so often invoked in political discussions, there’s still plenty to say about the man as, well, a man. In his new book “My Father at 100,” the President’s youngest child Ron sets out to do just that, and he stopped by […]

Ron Reagan at UCSD's Revelle Forum

February 6 would’ve been President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday and, while his name is so often invoked in political discussions, there’s still plenty to say about the man as, well, a man.

In his new book “My Father at 100,” the President’s youngest child Ron sets out to do just that, and he stopped by UC San Diego Extension’s Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute to share some of his most endearing memories and frank opinions with Phyllis Pfeiffer, publisher of the La Jolla Light newspaper.

The affable Reagan describes the complicated, yet loving relationship he enjoyed with his father, even as his own political views veered decidedly to the left. A compelling storyteller like his father, Reagan steers clear of nitty gritty politics and lets us in on his own journey to understand the more private side of this very public man. It’s a respectful yet compelling conversation that all will enjoy, no matter what your politics.

Revelle Forum: Ron Reagan

Monthly Highlights: February 2011

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Understanding Early Hominids

When paleoanthropologists unearth a major find, it hits the headlines for a few days and then disappears. But how do these fascinating discoveries of early hominid remains piece together the mystery of mankind’s beginnings? Find out in this new batch of programs from UCSD’s Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), airing Wednesday nights at 9pm.

African Origins of Hominids; Paleoenvironments of Early Hominids

A New Cradle for Mankind; Early Hominids of Ethiopia

Hominid Teeth; Hominid Locomotion Behavior

Hominid Skulls; The Discovery of Little Foot

More Reasons to Celebrate UCSD’s 50th Year

Tune in February 21 at 8pm for the fourth installment in our series honoring UCSD’s 50th anniversary.

UCSD@50: February 2011
Host Peter H. Smith presents segments on the top-ranked Moores Cancer Center, noted for its collaborative and pioneering research in cancer patient care, followed by a fascinating look at how computers can communicate directly with the human brain, and a tribute to UCSD’s leading role in plant biology for the 21st century. Then UCSD alumni Michael and Richard Antonorsi give lucky “Golden Ticket” winners a tour of their Chuao Chocolate factory, and carilloneur Scott Paulson plays the campus bells.

Visit our 50th anniversary site for more related videos.

Hunting the Higgs with Vivek Sharma

More than two dozen UCSD physicists are working with hundreds of other scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, searching for a subatomic particle called the “Higgs boson”. How are they doing it? What have they found thus far? And why is this search considered one of civilization’s greatest quests?

In this fascinating talk, UCSD Professor of Physics Vivek Sharma, who directs the Higgs search for the CMS collaboration, explains what physicists hope to achieve at the world’s largest scientific experiment, involving an estimated 10,000 individuals from 60 countries.

What Gives Particles Mass? Searching for the Higgs
Premieres February 23 at 8pm