Vol. 19, No. 25 |
March 23, 2000 |
Pat McGee Band to perform April 5 in Trabant CenterThe Pat McGee Band will bring its rich harmonies and energized acoustic rock to a concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 5, in the Multipurpose Room of the Trabant University Center. Since its formation in early 1996, the Pat McGee Band has been a college favorite, selling out clubs, such as House of Blues in Chicago and the Bayou in Washington, D.C. The band performed at the H.O.R.D.E. tour in Charlotte, N.C., and opened for the Allman Brothers Band in Buffalo and Toronto. The band’s CD, Revel, was released in 1997. Of the band’s popularity, Billboard Magazine said, “From humble beginnings as a singer/songwriter armed only with a guitar and the ability to turn an inventive phrase, Pat McGee’s rise to East Coast college darling has been nothing short of meteoric.” Tickets, at $10 for UD students and $12 for general public, are on sale at University box offices and through Ticketmaster. For tickets or more information, call UD1-HENS. Chamber music concert in Loudis Recital Hall April 2Intermusica, a free concert of chamber music featuring unusual instrumental combinations, will be presented at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 2, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. This is the second concert in a series of chamber music programs directed by faculty member Cynthia Carr and sponsored by the Department of Music. The program encompasses music from the Baroque period through the modern era by Carl Reinecke, Johann Molter, Malcolm Arnold, Johann Kalliwoda and Franz Doppler on flute, clarinet, horn, oboe, bassoon, guitar and piano. For information, call 831-2577. Caribbean music, dance at fest on Harrington BeachThe University of Delaware’s Caribbean Student Alliance will hold its first annual, free, public Caribbean Student Alliance Festival from noon-5 p.m., Saturday, April 8, on Harrington Beach, near the Perkins Student Center. The day will feature Caribbean music, dancing and storytelling. Arts, crafts and food also will be available for purchase. For information, call 837-1969. Jewish scholar, author will present campus lecturesJewish scholar Rela Mintz Geffen will speak twice on Tuesday, April 4, at the University of Delaware. Her first talk, “Why Don’t Jewish Men and Women like Each Other?,” will be presented at 12:30 p.m. in Room 108 Memorial Hall. Her second program, “Feminism and Contemporary American Judaism: Interactions and Implications,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in 104 Gore Hall. Both talks are free and open to the public. In her afternoon talk, Geffen will examine stereotypes within the Jewish community. Her evening talk will look at how the gender role revolution shaped American Jewish life during the last quarter of the 20th century. Geffen is a graduate of Columbia University, the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University of Florida. She is a professor of sociology and coordinator of programs in Jewish community studies at Gratz College in Philadelphia, where she served as dean for academic affairs for five years. This year, while on sabbatical, she is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. She has served as president of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry and as vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies, a major organization of professors of Jewish studies in North America. She is a contributing editor of Sh’ma, an associate editor of the AJS Review and on the editorial boards of Lilith and the Jewish Political Studies Review. Her most recent book, The Conservative Movement in Judaism, will be published by SUNY Press this fall. For more information on Geffen’s midday presentation, send an e-mail message to <gds@udel.edu>. For more information on the evening program, call 831- 3324. East Asian Studies lecture marks 10th anniversaryRussell Trood, professor of international relations and director of the Centre for the Study of Australian-Asia Relations at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, will present a free public lecture on “Indonesia: The Rise of Asia’s New Democracy and Its Implications for Australia and the U.S.” at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 3, in 104 Gore Hall. Trood is the author of Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific, Bilateralism in a Multilateral Era, The Asia-Australia Survey 1996-97, The Future Pacific Economic Order: Australia’s Role and The Indian Ocean: Perspectives on a Strategic Arena. He has just returned from a visit to Indonesia. The program is sponsored by the Australian Education Affairs Office in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the East Asian Studies Program at the Univeristy of Delaware. Student’s clothing collection offers glimpse of historyThe more things change, the more they stay the same. This old adage is nowhere more true than in the hustle-bustle world of the fashion industry. Just when you thought tie-dyed jeans and paisley print shirts had become items to the thrift store, there they are on television and in fashion magazines and mail-order catalogs. A look at changing consumer tastes and fashion trends during the later decades of the 20th century has been assembled in a current exhibit by a student in the UD’s apparel design program. “Dirk Kreider’s Vintage Costume Collection,” now on display on the second and third floors of Alison Hall West, takes viewers on a trip down fashion’s memory lane. Kreider, a junior fashion apparel student, organized this chronological survey of fashions from the early 1960s, typified by the Jackie Kennedy look, to the 1970s, with gowns such as those worn by movie stars like Raquel Welch. The second floor display features a mink-collared coat and a red chiffon gown with pink underlay, complete with empire waist, prominent in fashions of the time by well-known designers. “The early to mid-60s period was really a classy dressing era, with clothes created by such designers as Oleg Cassini and Chanel,” Kreider said. “Another big influence on fashion was the disco era of the late 1970s and early 1980s, a style that featured brown-and-rust colored clothing worn with flesh-colored footware.” The display moves from the “Camelot” years of the Kennedy presidency (1961-63) to the early 1970s, with a flowered evening gown featuring a vibrant exaggerated pattern. Further into the decade, a bright orange-red jumpsuit with a metal necklace brings back disco-era memories. For Kreider, who began by collecting men’s vintage 1970s clothing complete with butterfly collar shirts and bell-bottom pants, amassing the items on display has been something of an ongoing adventure. “About two years ago, when I came to the University, I started collecting women’s vintage clothing from all different years,” Kreider said. “I was amazed at the really unique designs and embellishments on some of these clothes. These are not your everyday wardrobe items.” To find items for his collection, Kreider shops at thrift stores, church sales and antique malls from Georgia and Tennessee to Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as closer to home. “I try to find clothes pretty much everywhere I go,” Kreider said. “I try to find them in Goodwill stores and resale shops.” Career plans for Kreider include operating a business that combines the design and retail aspects of the fashion industry with his love of collecting vintage clothing. “I want to continue what I’m doing now and keep an eye out for outfits for my collection,” Kreider said. “I would like to open my own store and sell my own designs along with items from my collection.” –Jerry Rhodes Successful results
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