Sunday, April 22, 2012
Friday, September 18, 2009

Men's Center's New Moderator Brings Despair
by Gilligan Zyland
D. Sparrow Snodgrass, longtime community recidivist and avid participant of the male movement, has reluctantly taken on the position of Program Coordinator of the John Wayne Bobbitt Men's Center. Although only working at the University for the last 24 years, he has already taken the Men's Center to new depths of loathing and will continue to do so throughout the remainder of the fall semester.D. earned his bachelor's degree from Beaver College in management with a minor in utopian philosophy and a master's degree in speech pathology from the University of Hawaii, so it was quite a surprise when he returned to Scranton to try to get a job at the University. He was hired as a secretary at a time when women held all the jobs of secretary. His job description was rewritten seven times and he had to type the job descriptions out in triplicate.
From the time D. was a young boy, he had a very strong male role model: his father. His father always stressed the necessity of receiving a good board of education. His father was not only a man of wood but also of steel and proved his strength by earning the coveted SUPARINPEI 6th Dan Black Belt in karate. His father was a source of great despair for D., providing him with an example of life-loathing and a commitment to social decay.
"I wish to bring the same life-loathing to the students here at the University, " D. said.
For years, D. has devoted time and energy to various community outreach programs. For the past 10 years he has been a tax consultant for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate income families.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Jerome- The Playlist
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945.
Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited. Columbia Good morning, Dearie!--
I have the room above.--Blue Danube
blues.--Heaven in my arms.--Bojangles of Harlem.--Some
sort of somebody.--Put me to the test.--You never knew
about me.--In Egern on the Tegern See.--Never gonna dance.
--In the heart of the dark.--Make way for tomorrow.
Nancy Andrews, Barbara Cook, Harold Lang, Bobby Short, and
Cy Young, solists; musical direction and arrangements by
Norman Paris; cast and material assembled and directed by
Ben Bagley.
Moross, Jerome,1913- The Cardinal: an original soundtrack
recording RCA Victor, 1963.
Main title (4 min., 2 sec.) -- Stonebury (1 min., 55 sec.)
-- The monks at Casamari (2 min., 18 sec.) -- Dixieland-
Tango (2 min., 50 sec.) -- The cardinal's faith (4 min.,
51 sec.) -- They haven't got the girls in the U.S.A. / Al
Stillman-Jerome Moross (Bobby Morse and his Adora-belles)
(2 min., 50 sec.) -- The cardinal in Vienna (6 min., 7
sec.) -- Annemarie (2 min., 55 sec.) -- The cardinal's
decision (3 min., 35 sec.) -- Way down south (1 min., 55
sec.) -- Alleluia / Mozart, arr.: Jerome Moross (1 min.,
45 sec.) -- The cardinal's theme (4 min., 59 sec.)
Rosen, Jerome, 1921- String quartet no. 1.
Epic [1957] Fromm Music Foundation. Twentieth century composers
series New Music String Quartet.
To Broadway With Love. Columbia, [1964]
Selections from the musical comedy performed by the
original World's Fair cast; Franz Allers, conductor.
Jerome Kern, Till the Clouds Roll By
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show boat. Words by Oscar Hammerstein.
RCA Victor, [1956] Patrice Munsel, soprano; Risë Stevens, mezzo-soprano;
Robert Merrill, baritone; and other soloists, with chorus
and orchestra; Lehman Engel, conductor.
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 West Side Story. Based on a conception of
Jerome Robbins. Book by Arthur Laurents. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Columbia, [1957] Starring Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert, and Chita Rivera; Max
Goberman, musical director.
Kern, Jerome,1885-1945. Mark Twain Suite.(Portrait for orchestra) Columbia,1949.
Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra.