Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era — Darryl McDaniels, Jennifer Homans and Iarla Ó Lionáird
Event Overview
Dates
November 15, 2022
Hours
7:30 PM
Location
Richardson Auditorium
Admission
Free and open to public; tickets required
In a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, director of the Princeton Atelier, moderates a discussion with Darryl McDaniels, co-founder of Run-D.M.C.; Jennifer Homans, historian, critic, former ballet dancer and writer of Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet and Mr. B; and internationally acclaimed traditional Irish Sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird.
Per Princeton University policy, all guests must either be fully vaccinated, or have recently tested negative (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen test within 8 hours of the scheduled visit) and be prepared to show proof if asked, or wear a face covering when indoors and around others.
Jennifer Homans is the dance critic for The New Yorker and the author of Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (2022) and Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (2010). She was a professional dancer, trained at George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. She earned her BA at Columbia University and her PhD in modern European history at New York University, where she is a Scholar in Residence and the Founding Director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts.
Photo courtesy Iarla Ó Lionáird
Iarla Ó Lionáird is a leading figure in Irish music. He has had international success with a number of groups including The Crash Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, The Afro Celt Sound System and The Gloaming. Ó Lionáird has also lent his voice to movie soundtracks such as Gangs of New York, Calvary, Hotel Rwanda and Brooklyn. His performances and recorded output follows an ambitious arc that challenges musical identity, from traditional Sean Nós song to worldbeat, from alt folk to opera. A twice Grammy-nominated artist, Ó Lionáird has worked with a stellar cast of composers internationally including Donnacha Dennehy, Dan Trueman, Nico Muhly, Kate Moore, Linda Buckley, Gavin Bryars, Annika Socolofsky and David Lang, and he has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Peter Gabriel, Nick Cave, Robert Plant and Sinead O’Connor. His unique singing style has carried him to stages and concert halls all over the world, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, London’s Royal Albert Hall and beyond. “Vocal Chords,” Ó Lionáird’s radio series for Ireland’s National Classical Music Broadcaster RTE Lyric FM, explores the mysteries of the human voice and won both Gold and Silver Awards at the New York Radio Festival in 2017 and 2019. Ó Lionáird has lectured on music at various academic institutions including University College Cork, Georgetown University, Washington DC, University of Notre Dame, Indiana and Glucksman Ireland House at NYU. In 2017 he was awarded a Belknap Fellowship by the Humanities Council at Princeton University, where he taught courses in songwriting and orality. Subsequently he was appointed a Global Scholar at Princeton and as Visiting Lecturer in Music, teaching courses at the postgraduate level for both the music and English departments.
Darryl McDaniels. Photo courtesy Darryl McDaniels
Darryl McDaniels, well known as “DMC,” first made his start in the music business in 1981 as one-third of the groundbreaking rap group Run-D.M.C., which he co-founded with Joseph (Rev. Run) Simmons and the late Jason (Jam Master Jay) Mizell. The multi-platinum music group sold over 30 million singles and albums worldwide, helping to transform rap and hip-hop into the most popular music in the world while building a fan base to rival the biggest acts in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Run-D.M.C. were the first rappers to earn a gold album, the first to earn a platinum album, the first to go multi-platinum, the first to have their videos played on MTV, the first to appear on American Bandstand and Saturday Night Live, and the first rap band to grace the cover of Rolling Stone and Spin. The group has been lauded “Greatest Hip Hop Artist of All Time” by VH1 and named among “100 Greatest Artists” by Rolling Stone. DMC is the author of King of Rock: Respect, Responsibility and My Life with Run-DMC. In 2006, he released a debut solo studio album entitled Checks, Thugs, Rock-N-Roll.
Richardson Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. Learn more about accessibility services at Richardson. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
