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Richard J. Lopez 3016 French Street Erie, PA 16504 rick@bb10k.com |
814-455-1808 (home) 814-440-7358 (cell) Web-site: The Whole Shebang |
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Assistant Editor / Baseball Prospectus Online. Baseball Prospectus, Inc. WRITING AND PUBLICATION (Print and On-Line)An account of my Grandmother dying in my home, 2000-2001. Time Stops: A Book About Baseball. Text by Rick Lopez, photographs by Art Becker, Forty Publishing, 1998. Baseball & the 10,000 Things. A state-of-mind periodical with subscribers on four continents, 1994-1995. Kangaroo Court Publishing, Founder, publisher, editor. A small press specializing in limited edition chapbooks, freelance book and graphic design, and the initial volumes of Todd Moore's Dillinger Series.
Design for Airs & Tributes, by South African expatriate Dennis Brutus (Whirlwind Press, Philadelphia). A limited edition presentation volume, First Annual Paul Robeson Award, 1988. Feature article on Kangaroo Court Publishing, Small Press Magazine, 1988. Formica Corporation Grant, for first application of Formica Color-Core as a book boards material, for the limited edition of Tony Moffeitt's Boogie Alley, 1988. Cover story on Kangaroo Court Publishing, Chicago Reader (Todd Moore's Dillinger Series), 1989. Book, music, and theatre reviews of local and regional publications and performances, The Erie Times-News, 1980-1985. Poetic Wax, a record review column, in the monthly Tic Toc Rock, 1982-1984. Common Carrier, a cab driving diary and tapes transcription column, in the weekly City Voice, 1980-1982. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (Writing)
H. O. Hirt Auditorium, Raymond M. Blasco Memorial Library, 1998. Art Works Theatre, 1983-1988. California University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Art Works Theatre, 1983-1988. MUSIC AND MUSIC RESEARCHSessionographies (all known play dates and media): "Attempting a complete historical arc." Pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist William Parker (and the related artist A.R. Penck's LP discography), tenor sax legend Sam Rivers, the late reedman Glenn Spearman, and free-jazz titan David S. Ware. Discographies (Official releases only): Bassist Reggie Workman, pianist Matthew Shipp, guitarist Joe Morris, drummer Susie Ibarra, and violinist Mat Maneri. Began a decade-long project to put into print The Sam Rivers Sessionography, with the assistance of Sam Rivers, the RivBea Studios and Archive, Columbia University's WKCR-FM in New York, and the newly created RivBea Research Collective, 2006-present. Research assistant for Dr. Brent Hayes Edwards of Rutgers University. Book forthcoming on the loft jazz scene, Alternate Tracks: The Politics of Experimentation and Collaboration in New York Jazz, 1972-1982, 2006-present. Research assistant for jazz writer Ed Hazell. Book forthcoming from University of Michigan Press on one of my main research subjects, musician William Parker, 2004-present. Founding member of The Cecil Taylor Research Group and the Cecil Taylor Online Sessionography along with researchers in the United States, Austria, Sweden, and Spain, 2005-present. Member of the AnthonyBraxtonProject Research Group, creating the Anthony Braxton Gigography, 2006-2007. Discographies and Sessionographies cited and referenced in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz: 3 Volumes, ed. Barry Kernfeld (Second Edition, Oxford University Press), 2003. Marilyn Crispell Sessionography used on Parker / Guy / Lytton and Marilyn Crispell: Evan Parker's High Tide, a CD-ROM multimedia adaptation of BBC Radio 3's Jazz on 3 (British Broadcasting Company, London, UK), 2000. CD-ROM was included as a special subscriber insert with The WIRE Magazine Issue #200, December 2002. Essay on research involved in the Sam Rivers Sessionography, published in BimHUIS 25: Stories of Twenty-Five Years, ed. Kevin Whitehead (BIMHUIS, Amsterdam), 1999. Notations, mentions, and references to these documents appear both on issued recordings, and in print articles in The WIRE (UK), Coda (Canada), Signal to Noise (US), and numerous other publications. PERFORMANCE HISTORY (Percussionist)Joseph Allen Popp's Weirdo Theatre Orkeztra, rock/improv sextet, 2003-present. Innumerable performances in electronic, orchestral, ethnic, and experimental musical ensembles, 1974-present. Blood Pudding, rock quartet, 1990-1992. Field Theory, jazz power trio, 1984-1993. Ape, new music duo, 1983-1987. (Included on Virgin Records' New American Music cassette samplers released in Europe.) Charles Ventrello's Concourse, jazz quintet, 1974-1984. (Soundtrack for PBS Documentary Law Day.) THEATRE AND PRODUCTIONNumerous theatrical productions as sound and lighting technician, props master, orchestra member, and production assistant, 1980-1984. Co-Director, "Alternative Arts Series," a five-month long, 68 production extravaganza for the Erie Art Museum, which included film series, dance programs, jazz concerts, installation art, comedy improv, guest director series, benefit concerts, gallery exhibits, and workshops, 1984. PROFESSIONAL SERVICEPanelist, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Panel, 1986-1989. Member, The Samuel Beckett Scholarly Society, 1980-1989. EDUCATIONI have been a professional writer, publisher, editor, performing artist, researcher, and scholar, largely self-educated, yet recognized by my peers locally and internationally for over three decades. Created a course for Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA: "I Can't Go On; I'll Go On..." The Works of Samuel Beckett, 1983. COMPUTER SKILLS:INTERESTSPERSONALMale, happily married for fifteen years to Sandra MacGlaughlin-Lopez Son: Aaron G. Lopez, Grandson: Dominic A. Lopez REFERENCES(APBA Journal, Negro Leagues Researcher, Advisor to Hall of Fame Veterans Commitee) POB 357 Saratoga, CA 95071-0357 408-892-2199; pawsmode@aol.com Dr. Diana Hume George Professor of English Emerita Faculty Mentor, Goucher College MFA Program in Nonfiction Co-Director, Chautauqua Writers' Festival 814-398-4964; jved@surferie.net (Call for phone reference or request letter via e-mail.) Dr. Suzanne Richard Associate Professor, Theology Department and History Department Director, Gannon University Institute for Archaeological Research Principal Investigator and Co-Director, Archaeological Expedition to Khirbet Iskander, Jordan Gannon University Erie, PA 16541 814-871-5605; richard@gannon.edu Brent Hayes Edwards Associate Professor of English Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167 732-932-7133; bedwards@rci.rutgers.edu John Vanco Director, Erie Art Museum 411 State Street, Erie, PA 16501 814-459-5477; jvanco@erieartmuseum.org Ed Hazell Freelance Writer 38 Alpine Street Somerville, MA 02144 617-628-4342; edhazell@earthlink.net Alan Saul (Eric Dolphy Discography) Dept. of Ophthalmology Medical College of Georgia Augusta, GA 30912 706-721-0695; Alan@adale.org |