B. Warren "Grant" Barnes:
CLASS OF 1966
Stephenville High SchoolClass of 1966
Stephenville, TX
Harvard Law SchoolClass of 1982
Cambridge, MA
Harvard University - Arts & SciencesClass of 1981
Cambridge, MA
University of Texas - Plan IIClass of 1972
Austin, TX
B. Warren "Grant"'s Story
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Activities:Board member, Corporate Secretary, Legal Counsel, U.S. Servas; Servas International, Archivist; much pro bono counseling and litigation. RPCV Friend
Interests:
Social justice initiatives;
opera, symphonic and chamber music;
social and moral philosophy;
sweep rowing and sculling (lapsed -- bad knee);
skydiving (lapsed -- bad knee);
hula dancing (lapsed -- bad knee);
scuba diving;
lyric poetry;
independent theater, especially acting and directing;
admire almost everything by Peter Sellars, Robert Wilson, Gulu Monteiro, Philip Littell, Ken Roht, Bill McIntosh and Peter Stein;
have created opera libretti based on Plato's "Phaedrus", the life of San Juan de la Cruz, Camus's "La Peste", and Hesse's "Narziss und Goldmund"; subsequent project a film/organ recreation of "Phantom of the Opera"
Collect artists like Sam Scott, Michael Newberry, Tom Savage, John Connell and George Feiner.Favorite Music:Mozart piano concertos and sonatas;
Schubert chamber and piano music;
Beethoven, Hayden and Shostakovich string quartets;
Balinese and Javanese gamelan music and Sundanese pop music;
most works by John Adams, Jake Heggie, Steve Reich and Luciano Chessa;
Richard Strauss' "Ariadne" and "Rosenkavalier";
Richard Wagner's "Tristan" and "Meistersinger";
Monteverdi's "Incoronazione di Poppea";
Britten's "Death in Venice" and "War Requiem";
Verdi's "Don Carlo" and "Falstaff";
Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio;
Rachmaninoff's Cello/Piano sonata;
Bach's cello suites;
Brazilian chorinos
Favorite singers include sopranos Dawn Upshaw, Cecilia Bartoli, Renee Fleming, Karita Mattila, and Elizabeth Futral; mezzos Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade and Mitsuko Shirai; tenors Kurt Streit, Rolando Villazon, Placido Domingo and Anthony Dean Griffey, Michael Bragg, Nicholas Phan, Kalil Wilson; baritones Gerald Finley, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Brian Leerhuber, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Justin Lee Miller and Andrew Gordon; basses Feruccio Furlanetto and Rene Pape; also Perla Batalla; Leonard Cohen; Facundo Cabral; Eliot Douglass; Joao Manuel Serrat; Madredeus
Favorite instrumentals include organists Cameron Carpenter, Christoph Bull, S. Wayne Foster; cellists Ruslan Biryakov, Peter Wispelwey, Carter Brey, Alban Gerhardt and Lars Hoef; pianists Marino Formenti, Andras Schiff, Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Piotr Anderszewski, Mitsuko Uchida, Chrisopher O'Riley, Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Favorite TV Shows:CSPAN and Bravo (when in hotels) and telenovelas (when traveling to other countries), otherwise don't watch
Favorite Movies:Most anything by Renoir, especially "Rules of the Game"; most anything by Wim Wenders, especially "Wings of Desire";
most anything by Ingmar Bergman, especially "Smiles of a Summer Night" and "Wild Strawberries";
1930's screwball comedies;
most recently Berlocucci's "1900, " "Central Station, " "Das Leben der Anderen" ("The Lives of Others"), "Control Room, " "Friday Night Lights, " "La meglio gioventu" ("the Best of Youth")
Favorite Books:Have taught Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Homer and the Greeks;
always enjoy Plato, Kant, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, and the Greek plays in general;
in poetry, especially resonate with Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruds, Juan Jimenez, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Musil, Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, Richard Dehmel, Carlos Drummond de Andrade;
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ovels and plays, almost always excited by new works of Don DeLillo, Tony Kushner, Nick Salamone, Philip Littell;
also non-fiction writing about places, periods and idea I don't have much awareness about before reading
About Me:
Personal philosophy is to live lightly on the face of the earth but as deeply in the hearts of other people and they do in me.
Current mission is to know and appreciate the world without too much prejudgment
Frequent traveler (have been in about 75 countries, including five continents in 2006, seven countries in seven weeks in 2006, and four continents in four weeks in 2006); would love to commute from Indonesia to Italy with stop-overs in Hawaii, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe; feel it's important to be a good friend through loyalty and objective counsel
Education and Work
Grad Schools:
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA '82
J.D., A.M., Sociology, Law, International Relations
Universitaet Hamburg '74
European Law
Technische Universitaet Berlin (West) '73
Fulbright Scholarship, Urban Sociology
Colleges:
University of Texas, Austin '72
Plan II, Sociology of Music, Comparative Literature
Tarleton State University '67
Liberal Arts
High Schools:
Stephenville High School '66
Odessa High School '66
Employer:
Law Office of Grant Barnes
Position:Attorney
Time Period:January 1992 -
PresentLocation:Los Angeles, CA
Description: International business law; non-profit organizations; civil litigation.
Active admissions to the practce of law in California, District of Columbia, Hawai'i and New York. Inactive in Massachusetts and New Mexico.
Former Employers:
McKenna, Conner & Cuneo
Position: Associate
Time Period:December 1985 - May 1990
Location:Los Angeles, CA
Description:Compliance; government contracts; export
Stanford University
Position:Adjunct Instructor (SWOPSI)
Time Period:September 1987 - June 1988
Location:Palo Alto, CA
Description:Taught undergraduate international human rights law and practice seminars for two quarters
Secretary of the Air Force
Position:Attorney-Advisor
Time Period:December 1983 - October 1985
Location:Washington, DC
Description:Government contracts; international civil aviation; air and space law
Harvard University
Position:Teaching Assistant and Assistant Senior Tutor
Time Period:September 1976 - August 1983
Location:Cambridge, MA
Description:assisted in undergraduate courses in international conflict management, the sociology of professions, Michael Sandel's "Justice," Sam Beer's survey of Western history and thought, and "Moral Dilemmas in a Repressive Society: The Case of Nazi Germany"; Resident Tutor and Assistant Senior Tutor, John Winthrop House; Non-Resident Tutor, Eliot House; Summer School Proctor; Let's Go: Europe (Reporter, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia)
Harvard Law School
Position:Coordinator, International Human Rights and Development
Time Period:August 1982 - July 1983
Location:Cambridge, MA
Description:Worked with Ambassador Clarence Clyde Ferguson in setting up new HLS institute; assisted in UN Law/International Human Rights seminar
City of Hamburg, Germany, Paedagogical Exchange Service
Position:High School TeacherTime Period:August 1973 - July 1974
Location:Wentorf bei Hamburg, Germany
Description:taught English literature at Berufsschule Schlankreye and English conversation in Mittelschule Bergedorf
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