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Myles Slatin
March 3, 1924—May 9, 2010

Myles Slatin, Ph.D., of Buffalo, retired UB English professor and long-time member and supporter of Hallwalls, died on May 9, 2010, after a long illness. He was 86.

Born in Queens, Myles attended Flushing High and Queens College and served in the Army Signal Corps during World War II, learning Japanese as part of a team that cracked enemy codes. After the War he earned his doctorate at Yale University with a study on Ezra Pound, then moved to Buffalo in 1952 when he became an associate professor in the University of Buffalo English Department, where he taught Romantic and modern poetry and was an early proponent of women writers and feminist activists. He also explored contemporary authors and popular fiction in his classes, which are fondly remembered by generations of students. As an associate dean in the 1960s, Myles was active in the University of Buffalo's transition into the SUNY system, recruiting numerous faculty members and participating in the recruitment of then UC Berkeley Chancellor Martin Meyerson as UB's new President. Myles was director of Lockwood Library from 1969 to 1973, during a period of student protests when the library experienced vandalism, including numerous small bombings. He retired from the UB faculty in 1994 after 42 years.

Long an avid art collector, tireless gallerygoer, and patron of local artists, Myles focused almost entirely on visual art after he retired from teaching literature, taking drawing and painting classes at UB and renting a studio on Buffalo's West Side to pursue his own art. He and his wife of 57 years, Diana Bluestein Slatin, a distinguished fine artist and fashion illustrator, were deeply involved with Hallwalls on both its Visual Artists Committee and Board of Directors. When Diana died in 2003, Myles generously invited friends who were so inclined to make donations in Diana's memory to Hallwalls, as many did. In the same spirit, Myles's surviving son Peter and other family members have indicated that memorial gifts in Myles's name may be made to either Hallwalls or Jewish Family Services of Buffalo.

Gifts to Hallwalls in Memory of our admired friend Myles Slatin will be acknowledged individually as well as publicly here, and we thank his family for their thoughtfulness in making this suggestion. As of June 9th, generous gifts in Myles's memory have been gratefully received from Nancy A. Hamilton, John M. Jablonski, and Harvey J. & Deborah Breverman.
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IN THE GALLERY:
From Jul. 30, 2010
through Aug. 31, 2010

Gallery hours:
Tues.—Fri. 11-6
Sat. 11-2
Sun. & Mon. closed

Hallwalls Members Exhibition: Faster Pussycat, Spill! Spill!

Wed., Oct. 28, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Harris Eisenstadt's Canada Day
$12 general, $8 members/students/seniors

Harris Eisenstadt (drums)
Nate Wooley (trumpet)
Matt Bauder (tenor saxophone)
Chris Dingman (vibraphone)
Eivind Opsvik (bass)

Canada Day is the eponymous debut of Brooklyn-based drummer/ composer Harris Eisenstadt's two year-old working quintet. This release, the Toronto native's eighth as a bandleader, documents his book of originals for the band, developed at gigs around New York and beyond. Built around the specific personalities of its members, trumpeter Nate Wooley, saxophonist Matt Bauder, vibraphonist Chris Dingman and bassist Eivind Opsvik, this group has been his primary focus as a bandleader since returning to New York in 2005. "Nate and Matt are known for their experimental sides," explains Eisenstadt, "yet both are lyrical players with totally personal sounds in more jazz/song form-oriented contexts. Chris, who I've worked with since my 2007 record, The All Seeing Eye + Octets (Poobah), brings harmonic sophistication and a skeletal, shimmering texture that only vibraphone can provide. Eivind is one of the premier young bassists working in New York and I felt instantly at home with his lyrical and rock solid approach. He thinks in song forms even when abstracting material, making him the perfect bass player for these compositions."

Nominated for up and coming artist of the year for 2009 by the jazz journalists association, "Harris Eisenstadt is strong proof that jazz is still young and growing," (Greg Burk, L.A. Weekly). Critics have called him "a rising presence as a composer of note" (Troy Collins, allaboutjazz.com), "vital and increasingly influential" (Glenn Astarita, jazzreview.com) and "one of the most creative and skilled musician/composers incorporating traditional material to create new and vital improvised music" (Robert Iannapollo, allaboutjazz-new york). The Village Voice's Jim Macnie adds, "he's perpetually building new ensembles to suit the variety of music he hears in his head-that's what composers do. "One of only a handful of drummers equally well-known for his work as a composer, Eisenstadt is among the most versatile and prolific musicians of his generation. His eclectic resume includes studies with some of the most respected names in both improvised music and West African drumming, and performances in genres ranging from film and theater to poetry and dance to contemporary classical and opera. Most active in jazz and improvised music, as both an in-demand sideman and a bandleader, he has performed all over the globe, earned commissions from organizations such as Meet The Composer and the American Composers Forum, and appeared on more than 35 recordings over the past decade. His latest, Guewel (clean feed, 2008), was named one of the year's best in publications such as allaboutjazz.com, Time Out New York and the Village Voice.

Learn more at www.harriseisenstadt.com
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