UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 11, Page 3
November 14, 1991
Up and coming

Lester Bowie's Fantasy to take stage in Newark Hall
     Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, billed as a brass band like no
other, will take to the stage of Newark Hall's auditorium at 8
p.m., Saturday, Nov. 23.
     Bowie's band boasts 10 assorted trumpets, trombones, French
horns, tuba and drums.
     The repertoire is an assortment of free, obscure standards of
decades past, funk, Latin and r&b. Brass Fantasy plays them and
pokes fun at them all, but always in good taste.
     "All's fair in love and war...and music is both. So use
anything, as long as it works," Bowie says.
     The University appearance is part of the 1991-92 Performing
Arts Series. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for
University faculty, staff and senior citizens and $5 for students.
    Born in Frederick, Md., in l941, Bowie was raised in St. Louis.
His trumpet-playing dad was a high school band director and one of
few black men in his day to hold a master's degree.
     Bowie started playing trumpet at age 5 and, by age 14, was
studying with jazz musician Bobby Danzie.
     He joined the Air Force at l7 and spent his free time playing
in r&b clubs in Texas.
     Later, he went on the road with blues bands, r&b bands, circus
bands and carnival tent shows, ending up in St. Louis where he
formed a hard-bop group. He later helped form the Black Artists
Group (BAG).
     In l965, he moved to Chicago where he started exploring the
"free-jazz" movement. He helped form the Association for the
Advancement of Creative Musicians, which was the forerunner of the
Art Ensemble of Chicago, one of the most influential and creative
groups in modern music.
     In the '70s and '80s, Bowie cut several albums, including
"Rope-A-Dope" (named for Muhammad Ali), "Let The Good Times Roll,"
"The Great Pretender," "It's Howdy Doody Time" and "Miles Davis
Meets Donald Duck."
     Currently, Bowie is a Yale University fellow and a visiting
professor at Harvard University and Dartmouth College, as well as
a clinician and lecturer.
     Tickets for the Nov. 23 performance at the University are
available at the Mitchell Hall box office, located on South College
Avenue.
     Box office hours are noon-5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. For
more information, call the box office at 451-2204.

Philadelphia alumni meeting Nov. 21
     The University's Philadelphia Alumni Chapter will hold a
reception featuring President David P. Roselle from 7-9 p.m.,
Thursday, Nov. 21, at Bookbinders 15th Street, located at 215 South
15th St. in Philadelphia.
     Roselle will provide an update for alumni on student and
faculty accomplishments, as well as on new campus programs and
projects.
     Refreshments will be served, and a cash bar will be available.
    Cost is $5 per person.
     To register, contact the Office of Alumni Relations, telephone
451-2341.

Lunchtime lecture on healthy lifestyle
     "Women and Healthy Lifestyles" is the topic of the Lunch and
Learn Program, sponsored by the Employee Assistance and Wellness
Program (EAWP), at 12:10 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the Collins
Room of the Perkins Students.
     Facilitators for the program will be Donna Tuites of the
Office of Women's Affairs and Cecily Sawyer Harmon of EAWP.

Symposium, exhibit planned this month
     Dalkke Maharidge and Michael Williamson, both journalists with
the Sacramento Bee, will be featured speakers at a symposium to
reconsider the James Agee/Walter Evans classic, "Let Us Now Praise
Famous Men."
     The free symposium, scheduled from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday, Nov.
22, in 106 Clayton Hal, will include scholars from other fields,
incuding history, English and American civilization.
     An exhibition, "Let Us Now Praise Famouse Men/And Their
Children After Them: Photographs by Walker Evans and Michael
Williamson," is on display in the University Gallery through Nov.
27.
     For information on the symposium and exhibition, call
451-8242.

Course available on monthly statements
     "Understanding and Utilizing Monthly Account Statements," an
introduction to the University accounting system, is being offered
from 8:45 a.m.-noon, Thursday, Dec. 5, in the Ewing Room of the
Perkins Student Center.
      This session is designed to benefit employees responsible for
monitoring monthly account statements, those in administrative/
support positions desiring greater knowledge of monthly account
statement and new principal investigators unfamiliar with the
University's internal accounting statements. Topics covered include
object and transaction codes and recent accounting system changes.
    Registration deadline is Nov. 28. Call 451-8725 to register.
Participants will be notified of their enrollment by a course
confirmation letter.
     The Office of Employee Relations will be providing an insert
in the Dec. 5 issue of UpDate announcing programs for January,
February and March 1992.
     Please call 451-8725 or 451-2022 for additional copies of the
insert after Dec. 5.

Israel Gallery show in Student Center
     The Delaware Israel Public Affairs Committee is sponsoring an
Israel Gallery in the Perkins Student Center Gallery from 10 a.m.-9
p.m., Thursday, Nov. 21, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22.
A wide variety of books about Israel will be on sale. In addition,
the exhibit will include a photo display, video and cassette tapes,
food and other unique gift items. The event is open to all members
of the University community.