In the Media–November 2024 Roundup

Hannah Bos ’00 and Paul Thureen ’00, co-creators of the HBO series Somebody Somewhere, talked to The New York Times about the show, which is in its third, and last, season.
New York Classical Review and The Boston Musical Intelligencer reviewed performances by Abendmusik, directed by Bill Barclay ’03 with Patricia Ann Neely ’75 on the viol.
BookTrib reviewed She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street by Professor Paulina Bren, Vassar’s Director of Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies on the Pittsburgh Chair in the Humanities.
Jens Austin Astrup ’22 just joined the cast of General Hospital, as reported by Soap Opera Digest.
Fulbright scholar Madeleine Freundlich ’24 was featured in a Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey article, as an International Day of the Girl Spotlight.
Bella Myŏng-wŏl Dalton-Fenkl ’20 wrote a Guardian article titled “My brilliant Korea: rediscovery of a rich cultural narrative.”
Composer Robinson (Robin) McClellan ’99, a curator at the Morgan Library & Museum, found a previously unknown waltz by Frédéric Chopin written on a scrap of paper in the museum’s vault, as reported by The New York Times.

Wesley Dixon, Deputy to the President of Vassar, solves the world’s 10 biggest problems (identified by ChapGPT) on the Home from Here podcast.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center exhibition Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency was the subject of Art Newspaper and Whitehot Magazine stories.
Environmentalist Nikola Alexandre ’14 has been selected as one of the honorees for OUT magazine’s 30th Annual OUT100 List.
Actor Louisa Jacobson ’13 was a cast member of The Gilded Age, which was selected as one of the honorees for OUT magazine’s 30th Annual OUT100 List.
The artwork featured in the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Salt Line Hudson Valley, and the Heartwood, was the subject of an artdaily.com story.
Politico noted an impressive voter turnout this year among young people who live on or near the Vassar College campus.
Aubrey Hays ’15, who goes by the moniker Somebody Someone, talked to American Songwriter about life, creativity, and Hays’s latest song, “Better.”
Pianist and composer Jane Strong O’Leary ’68 was a guest on RTE Lyric FM’s The Lyric Feature.
Photos: Thureen and Bos, courtesy of Sandy Morris/HBO; Dixon, Karl Rabe.
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