Gettysburg College professor of music Marta Robertson will be here on Sunday, March 8 to preview the lecture she has been chosen to give at the Library of Congress entitled “Fenced In!: Imagining Multiculturalism on the Western Frontier”.

This talk explores the iconic ballet “Appalachian Spring” (1944) through the lens of Japanese American influences on the initial production, especially via the dancing of Yuriko [Kikuchi] and set design of Isamu Noguchi. Having been detained in American incarceration camps during World War II, Yuriko and Noguchi offer political and artistic perspectives on the frontier and Americana varying from those of choreographer Martha Graham and composer Aaron Copland.