UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 13, Page 4
December 5, 1991
Up and coming

Music faculty and students to present holiday gala
     A festive holiday concert featuring University of Delaware
Department of Music faculty and student artists and ensembles will
be held Sunday, Dec. 8, in Newark. Performers will celebrate the
season with music appropriate for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
     The gala will be held at 2 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. in St.
Thomas Episcopal Church, 276 South College Ave. Tickets are $8 for
the general public and $5 for faculty, staff and senior citizens.
Students are admitted free.
     To reserve tickets, call the Mitchell Hall box office at
451-2204.
     Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Department of Music
Scholarship Fund.
     Featured will be holiday music from J.S. Bach to traditional
carols, as well as music for Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
     The University of Delaware Chorale, directed by Andrew Cottle,
will perform Gaudete by Anders Ohrwall. Gaudete is based on
Christmas melodies from the 1582 Piae Caniones and was composed as
a Christmas story for narrator, choir, flute, bassoon and organ.
The program will conclude with an audience sing-along.
     Other featured artists will include organist David Herman;
soprano Marie Robinson; the University of Delaware Horn Ensemble,
directed by Cynthia Carr; the Delaware Brass Quintet;
Taggart-Grycky Flute and Guitar Duo; hornist Cynthia Carr; flutists
Eileen Grycky and Amy Brunski and bassoonist Holly Blake.
     The University of Delaware Chorale has performed twice for
Christmas at the White House, on numerous chamber music series and
on radio and television. After the group's 1988 performance at the
White House, Ronald Reagan wrote, "Dr. Cottle, the..performance was
beautiful, and it brought the Christmas spirit to life for both of
us and for our guests." Last Christmas, Barbara Bush wrote, "Your
wonderful music added so much joy to the celebration of this
Holiday Season."
     The concert will be repeated in Seaford at 7:30 p.m., Monday,
Dec. 9, at St. John's United Methodist Church.
     For ticket information for the Seaford concert, call 451-2577.

Talk on anti-poverty policies in 1990s
     "Anti-Poverty Policies for the 1990s" will be the subject of
an economic policy talk tonight by Rebecca M. Blank, former member
of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
     Scheduled at 7:30 p.m. in 140 Smith Hall, the free public talk
is being sponsored by the Department of Economics, the Visiting
Women Scholars Fund, the Minority Scholars Fund and the Committee
on Cultural Activities and Public Events of the Faculty Senate.
     Blank currently serves as professor of economics and education
at Northwestern University, where she is also a member of the
Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research research faculty.
     She teaches economics and policy research, poverty and public
policy, and income distribution. She previously taught at Princeton
University.
     From 1989-90, Blank was senior staff economist with the
Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C., where she
provided analytical assistance on issues relating to labor markets,
domestic social insurance and social assistance programs.
     She is currently a research fellow with Jerome Levy Economics
Institute and faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of
Economic Research.
     A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota,
Blank received her doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

Newark Symphony to perform Dec. 15
     The Newark Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premier
of Brian Cox's Rhapsody #1 for Orchestra, Op. 5, at its concert,
scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 15, in the Loudis Recital
Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
     The program also will feature de Falla's Nights in the Gardens
of Spain with pianist Julie Nishimura, faculty accompanist at the
University.
     The evening will open with  Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio
Espagnol.
     Cox is principal tubist and assistant conductor of the Newark
Symphony Orchestra.
     TIckets, at $8 for general admission and $6 for students and
senior citizens, can be purchased at the door.
     For advance ticket sales and information, call 455-1145.