UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 12, Page 4
November 21, 1991
Up and coming
Alumni tours scheduled in Europe, Asia and U.S.A.
Ireland, China, Alaska, Paris, America's national parks and
the Santa Fe Opera are all destinations available this year through
the University of Delaware's 1992 Alumni Association travel
program.
The trip to Paris, planned for March 19-26, includes eight
days and seven nights in the famed CIty of Lights. Highlights
include a sightseeing tour of the city, a cruise on the River
Seine, and full-day excursions to the Palace of Versailles,
Chartres Cathedral, the chateau country of the Loire Valley, and
Giverny, former home of Monet.
Cost is $1,599 per person. For more information, call 4
Seasons Tours and Travel at 594-1030 from New Castle County;
1-800-732-3232 from Kent and Sussex counties and 1-800-458-1030
from out-of-state.
The trip to Ireland, scheduled from May 23-June 4, will be
hosted by Philip Daniel Flynn, professor of English at the
University. Flynn will present a slide lecture prior to the tour
and will be available for informal discussions throughout.
The itinerary includes visits to Shannon, Limerick, Killarney,
Waterford, Dublin, Ballyshannon, Donegal, Galway and Connemara,
with stops at Ireland's most famous attractions such as the Blarney
Stone, the Waterford Crystal Showrooms, St. Patrick's Cathedral and
Trinity College Library.
Cost is $1,865 for 13 days and 12 nights. Accommodations are
in combinations of first-class hotels and bed-and-breakfasts.
For more information, contact 4 Seasons Travel at the numbers
listed above.
David Pong, professor of history and director of East Asian
Studies at the University, will conduct a 15-day all-inclusive tour
of China and a three-day excursion to Hong Kong from June 6-23.
Extensive sightseeing, most meals and deluxe hotels are
included in the fee of $3,198 per person. Highlights include the
Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Ming Tombs, the Great Wall
and the 2,000-year-old terra-cotta figures unearthed in Xian.
For more information, contact Travelgroups Inc. at (215)
444-0818 or (302) 654-8898.
From June 22 through July 6, there's a chance to explore
America's magnificent national parks. Cost of the 15-day, 14-night
tour is $1,995 from Bozeman, Mont., or $2,465 from Philadelphia.
Air-conditioned motor coaches will depart from Bozeman with
stops scheduled in Yellowstone National Park (two nights), Salt
Lake City, Arches National Park with its astonishing sandstone
arches and spires, Moab, Utah, the Colorado River, Monument Valley,
the Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion National Parks and a final stay in
glittery Las Vegas.
For more information, call Vantage Travel at 1-800-322-6677.
A trip to Alaska with an inside passage cruise is scheduled
from July 23-Aug. 6 at a cost of $3,599 per person or from July 29-
Aug. 6 at a cost of $2,149 per person.
Participants will be able to view Alaska's crystal fjords,
misty rain forests, awe-inspiring mountains, winding rivers,
glaciers and fresh-water lakes. Highlights include a ride on the
Midnight Sun Express train in the Ultradome cars, Denali National
Park Wildlife Search and overnight stay, World Eskimo Indian
Olympics demonstrations, a two-day journey on the Dalton Highway to
Prudhoe Bay and an eight-day inside passage cruise on the Island
Princess, a member of the Love Boat fleet.
For more information, contact Travelgroups Inc. at the numbers
listed above.
The final trip, planned for Aug. 24-31 to the Santa Fe Opera,
costs $1,429. This trip includes stops in Santa Fe, N. M.,
southern Colorado and northeastern Arizona.
Participants will have an opportunity to hear Der
Rosenkavalier and Die Fledermaus at the Santa Fe Opera, world
renowned for its fine performers, magnificent music and its unusual
opera house with open-air theatre set in the foothills of the
surrounding mountains.
Stops are included at the Museum of International Folk Art;
Durango, an old Colorado mining town; Mesa Verde, with its cliff
dwellings and pit houses of the Pueblo Indians; Canyon de Chelly
and Albuquerque.
For more information, contact 4 Seasons Travel at the numbers
listed above.
For information or brochures on any of the trips planned by
the Alumni Association, contact Bill Clark at 451-2341.
Tribute to Mozart in Loudis Dec. 4
In commemoration of the bicentennial of Mozart's death, the
Department of Music will present "Mozart: A Tribute" at 8 p.m.,
Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont
Music Building.
The program will feature representative examples from Mozart's
solo keyboard, choral and orchestral masterworks and opera and
chamber ensemble pieces.
The program will feature sopranos Melanie DeMent and Marie
Robinson; Charles Salinger, clarinet; Lloyd Shorter, oboe; pianists
Christine Delbeau, Julie Nishimura and Michael Steinberg; the
Taggart-Grycky Flute and Guitar Duo; the Mendelssohn String
Quartet; Del'Arte Wind Quintet; narrators Charles Clark and J.
Michael Foster; Robert Streckfuss conducting the chamber orchestra
in collaboration with the Curtis Institute of Music; and members of
the Coro'Allegro, directed by Jack Warren Burnam.
The program was conceived by Steinberg, professor of music,
who selected the program, wrote the narration and designed the
stage setting.
On the evening of Dec. 4, 1791, Mozart was suffering in his
deathbed and he lost consciousness shortly after midnight, on Dec. 5.
The date of the concert was selected to coincide with the
death of the great composer.
The theatrical-style musical program commemorates the close of
the Mozart bicentennial year.
Concert admission is $5 for adults; $3 for U.D. staff and
senior citizens; and $2 for students.
Tickets are available at the Department of Music in the Amy E.
du Pont Music Building.
For information, call 451-2577.
Taylor Gym hosts undergraduate art
Kunstwollen, the annual interdepartmental, unjuried
undergraduate art exhibition, will be held from 7 p.m.-midnight,
Friday, Nov. 22, and from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Nov.
23-24, in Taylor Gym.
The program started in 1989 and, this year, features 130
pieces from 100 undergraduates representing various departments
throughout the campus.
Olympic skating stars on ice Monday
Olympic champions Katarina Witt and Scott Hamilton, along with
Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, will be among the ice skaters
featured from 7-9 p.m., Monday, Nov. 25, in the University of
Delaware Ice Arena.
Tickets, at $40 per person, are 80 percent tax-deductible, and
can be purchased at the door.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Boys Clubs of
Delaware.