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Thursday, March 8,2012
Arts & Li e
Page 3
Alex Macon, Arts & Life Editor
alexdmacon@yahoo.com
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Photo by Tyler Cleveland/Visuals Editor
Amy Simon, director of the UNT's Center for Leadership and Service, walks with CLS members development and family
studies senior Alyssa Dixon and speech language pathology junior Caitlin Easterling outside the Union on Tuesday. "I
think part of our job is to be citizens and build community," Simon said.
he call to volunteer
Bun i'm Harnett
Senior Staff Writer
Amy Simon's passion for
service runs deep.
As an undergraduate she
found her calling working at
a Michigan homeless shelter,
inspiring her to spend several
years with AmeriCorps, a
federal program for national
and community service, as well
as the Congressional Hunger
Center.
That calling eventually led
her to UNT, and Simon is now
the director of the universi-
ty's Center for Leadership and
Service, an office that empowers
students to become engaged
leaders in the global commu-
nity.
Formerly known as the
Volunteer Center, the CLS
opened two and a half years
ago when Simon joined the UNT
community.
"It's been a long time since
that homeless shelter," Simon
said. "I think that experience
taught me the meaning of
service and really about the
relationships and the fact that
anybody could walk through
those doors and it was home.
They could be accepted and
they could get connected, and
that just really spoke to me."
The CLS has grown signifi-
cantly since its opening, said
Kirsten Bishop, leadership coor-
dinator for CLS.
While the volunteer center
helped connect students to
service opportunities, the CLS
allows students to develop and
champion these causes, Bishop
said.
"I think the difference
between taking our office from
a volunteer center to really and
truly a center for leadership and
service is we are able to engage
students in a different way,"
she said. "We're not just asking
students to fulfill a service
requirement, but we're teaching
them how to be servant leaders.
We're teaching them how to
make social change happen on
campus and in the commu-
nity."
The idea for the Big Event, a
day of service attended by about
2,000 students last year, came
from students, Bishop said.
The CLS sponsors several
other events throughout the
year, including CANstruCtion,
which takes place Friday More
than 30 organizations will build
structures with cans of food
that will then be donated to the
Denton Food Center.
"I think as educated people
it's our responsibility to give
back to the community," said
Sarah Amberson, higher educa-
tion master's student and grad-
uate assistant for the CLS.
"We provide connections for
students who want to give back
to the community, connections
for students who want to meet
other leaders so that they can
really have a role at UNT."
The center helps the univer-
sity engage the surrounding
community, one of the points
laid out in U NT's four bold goals,
Simon said.
"I think part of our job is to
be citizens and build commu-
nity," Simon said. "We provide
that avenue for students to be
able to do that."
For more information about
the Center for Leadership and
Service visit www.volunteer.
unt.edu.
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" I volunteered to make some
cinemagraphs for some of the
bigger artists at 35 Denton,"
painting and drawing junior
Alice Won said. "I told them I'm
a part of PDA, and they asked us
to do the backdrops."
Atotal ofthree backdrops are
being painted for the confer-
ence: two bearing this year's
35 Denton logo and a third
featuring a hipster Godzilla.
The crew steps over land-
mines of wet paint as they
search for tiny imperfections in
the backdrop, mostly in the form
of dead bugs which have now
become part of the painting.
"This whole thing has been
called Twister," painting and
drawing senior Sloane Solley
said.
Used to painting mainly on
canvas, the group had to adapt
to the vinyl material the back-
drop is made out of. And because
regular paintwon't adhere prop-
erly, spray paint was sprayed
into containers and then quickly
used before it could dry.
"You know how Saran wrap
sticks to itself," painting and
drawing junior Caroline Irvin
said. "This is a giant example
of that."
The third painting, which
will be featured on Main Stage
2, owes more to the creative
efforts of the group led by Kevin
Ryan.
"Essentially it's all about
Denton, so I was trying to
cater to the crowd," Ryan said.
''Everyone has the Denton beard,
but I also think it's funny that it's
a big hipster Godzilla engorged
on the power of music and good
times. That was kind of the idea
behind it."
The backdrop features a
Lit's a big hipster Godzilla
engorged on the power of
music and good times. "
—Kevin Ryan
Designer of 35 Denton stage backdrops
hipster Godzilla traipsing along
the streets of Denton, accom-
panied by an outline of signifi-
cant streets.
"The shape of Loop 288
encompasses most of Denton
and inside the roads that break
it up paint a pretty neat picture
of Denton," Ryan said. "It made
sense to paint a picture of the
town in the most literal sense
possible."
In addition to the backdrops
featured on the main stages,
the Painting and Drawing
Association will have a booth
at 35 Denton, offering face-
painting to festival goers.
"One thing that's kind of
funny is Doug Martsch, from
one of my favorite bands, Built
to Spill, kind of looks like that
dinosaur," Ryan said. "It's funny
to think that he is going to be
playing in front of this dinosau r
that vaguely resembles him."
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Piano professor passes
legacy on to stuc ents
Alison Matlock
Staff Writer
UNT piano professor
and world-renowned
pianist loseph Banowetz
began playing piano when
he was seven and has spent
almost 70 years teaching,
performing, recording and
helping shed light on lost
composers from the past.
"It's a way of expressing
myself, my thoughts and
emotions," Banowetz
said.
He said he has never
wanted to be anything
other than a pianist.
"It's never been a nine-
to-five job," Banowetz
said.
In 2010, he received his
second Grammy nomina-
tion for Best Instrumental
Soloist Performance with
Orchestra for recording
Paul Kletzki's "Piano
Concerto in D Minor, Op.
22."
Kletzki's music was
once considered lost but
was brought back to life
with help from UNT's Lost
Composers Project, which
aims to recover the music
of composers whose works
almost disappeared during
the Holocaust.
Banowetz is currently
working on a piece by
Karl Weigl, who was also
a victim of the Holocaust,
which will be released in
lune.
"Naturally, it is person-
ally moving to record works
by these two composers
who were so crippled by
the Nazi era," Banowetz
said.
Banowetz said recording
the music of these
composers was one of the
most important things he has
done.
"Coupled with this was
having the opportunity to
present on a major interna-
tional label, Naxos, the first
recordings of these pieces,"
he said. "This of course places
a heavy responsibility on one,
and I greatly felt this."
Banowetz's other Grammy
nomination was in 2007 for
"He attracts the
top students
because of his
reputation"
—Steven Harlos
Chair of keyboard studies
his work on "Balakirev and
Russian Folksong."
U NT music professor Steven
Harlos, chair of keyboard
studies, said he wasn't
surprised at Banowetz's
success.
"He's a brilliant pianist,"
Harlos said. "He attracts the
top students because of his
reputation."
B anowetz has been teaching
at UNT since 1973 and plans
to continue teaching and
playing piano "until he dies,"
he said.
"There are very talented
students at UNT," Banowetz
said. "I enjoy passing on a
legacy."
Piano performance
master's student Arsentiy
Kharitonov, who has studied
with Banowetz for four years,
looks at him as not only a
L-
JOSEPH
BANOWETZ
teacher
but also a
mentor.
"Heknows
how to help
his students
become
better piano
players,"
Kharitonov
said. "He has an individual
approach to each of his
students."
Banowetz has performed
and served on major piano
juries on five continents,
including performances in
India, South Africa, Europe
and Hong Kong, he said.
"He travels frequently
throughout the world, giving
concerts and recording,"
Harlos said. "His recordings
are always well-received and
very well-regarded."
During his time traveling
and teaching, Banowetz
has recorded more than 30
records for the Naxos, Marco
Polo, Warner Brothers and
Altarus labels.
"Recording is extremely
serious, challenging and
emotionally moving,"
Banowetz said.
Banowetz has written
several books, including "The
Pianist's Guide to Pedaling,"
which has been translated
into six different languages,
he said.
Harlos said Banowetz's
sound, technique and
musical insight is what makes
him stand out from other
pianists.
"Honestly, I don't know
how he keeps up with his
schedule," Harlos said. "With
concerts, teaching, judging
and writing, he's just very
prolific."
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