Carrie Wilson introducing "the poetry of Eli Siegel" at a reading conducted at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, 2002.
Carrie Wilson is an Aesthetic Realism Consultant and teaches the class “The Art of Singing: Technique and Feeling” at the Foundation. She studied Aesthetic Realism with its founder, Eli Siegel from 1969 to 1978, and now with Class Chairman Ellen Reiss. She is a graduate of Barnard College, with a degree in art history, and of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where she studied with Sanford Meisner.
A mezzo-soprano, she attended the Goldovsky Opera Institute and was featured artist in a Rachmaninoff program at Lincoln Center Library, under the auspices of Mrs. Serge Koussevitky and the Musician’s Club of New York, for whom she was also soloist in the New York premiere of Julian Orbon’s Tres Cantigas del Re at the Spanish Institute. Off-Broadway she appeared in The Pinter Plays, and in the Carmines-Fornes musical Promenade. She sang music by Sir Edward Elgar, including from "The Dream of Gerontius," at a conference on the composer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the music of Marcabru at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France. In 2007 she presented recitals of British and North American music in Rosario, Argentina, accompanied by her husband, composer Edward Green. Together they also presented a paper at Ithaca College as part of a symposioum on Music and Lifelong Learning, entitled "Aesthetic Realism and the Art of Singing."
She has taught for the educational organization Elder Hostel on “The History and Aesthetics of Opera.” In seminars at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation she has spoken on the lives and work of Emilie de Châtelet, Maria Malibran, Mary Garden, Mme. Roland, Georgette LeBlanc, Grace Kelly, and others.
Ms. Wilson performs regularly with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, in musical events and dramatic presentations based on Eli Siegel’s lectures on the great drama of the world, in which she has portrayed such diverse characters as Olivia in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Lady Teazle in Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, and the title role in Sudermann’s Magda, among others.
A coordinator for the Terrain Gallery, she has organized exhibitions of contemporary art based on Eli Siegel’s definitive Fifteen Questions, “Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?” and is the author of A Brief History of the Terrain Gallery 1955-2005.
As a public speaker, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office she presented, with co-author John Stern, their talk “The Brooklyn Bridge: A Study in Greatness” at the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Celebration on the 120th anniversary of the Bridge in 2003.
With her colleague, Dorothy Koppelman, she spoke at the 31st World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) about the Terrain Gallery’s groundbreaking series of talks, Aesthetic Realism Shows How Art Answers the Questions of Your Life. Their talk was published in International Conversations through Art, (Teachers College, Columbia University, 2003).
She was among the persons presenting “The Poetry of Eli Siegel: A Centennial Celebration!” at the Wheeler Auditorium of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library in 2002. In 2007 she presented the poetry of Eli Siegel at the Pontifical University in Buenos Aires, and in Rosario, Argentina.
Carrie Wilson is a contributing author of the book Goodbye Profit System: Update (Definition Press, 1970; 1984), and articles by her have appeared in The Journal of the Print World, Printmaking Today, and elsewhere on such subjects as Aesthetic Realism and Duke Ellington, the French actress "Rachel; and True Individuality," “The Surprising and Abiding Opposites,” and “The Most Popular Mistakes in Love, and How Not to Make Them.”
Ms.Wilson is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Actors Equity, the National Association for Music Education, the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, and the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), and is included in Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who of American Women, and Who’s Who in the World.
She and her husband, composer Dr. Edward Green, reside in New York City. |
Carrie Wilson
