UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 13, Page 4
December 3, 1992
Up and coming
'Sounds of Season' in two concerts
The University's Department of Music will present three holiday
concerts featuring "Sounds of the Season" in early December in Milford
and Newark.
Concerts are scheduled at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 5, in the
Milford High School auditorium; and at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 6,
in Newark in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music
Building.
Performing will be the Delaware Women's Chorus, Delaware Men's
Chorus and U.D. Chorale, under the direction of Andrew Cottle, and the
University Singers, directed by Ruth Oatman. Also performing will be
the Delaware Brass and the Del'Arte Wind Quintet, in residence at the
University.
The program will include Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols,
with evocative harp accompaniment.
Tickets for the Milford concert are $8 for the general public and
$6 for students. For information, call 855-1620 in Georgetown or
735-8200 in Dover. This program is sponsored by the Office of
University Relations and the Department of Music.
Tickets for the Newark performances are $8 for the general
public, $5 for University faculty and staff and senior citizens, and
$2 for students.
For tickets, call 831-2204. The Newark concerts are presented by
the University's Performing Arts Series, and proceeds benefit the
Music Scholarship Fund.
Kwanzaa celebration to continue Dec. 8
The University of Delaware will celebrate Kwanzaa Tuesday, Dec.
8.
KUUMBA, or creativity, will be celebrated at 7 p.m., Dec. 8, when
the Dinizulu African Dancers perform in Newark Hall auditorium, also
on Academy Street. The appearance is free and open to the public.
Dinizulu and his African Dancers, Drummers and Singers is a dance
company based in Queens, N.Y., that travels around the country and the
world to perform traditional African dance.
A narrator explains the dances and provides information on their
origins.
The group's audiences have ranged from African heads of state to
thousands of school children first exposed to African heritage through
Dinizulu.
Dinizulu himself is a lecturer on African dance and music at
Queens College and Bronx Community College.
He has been welcomed into traditional society in Ghana where he
has been initiated into the sacred life of the Akonnedi Shrine and has
been made a chief at the sacred temples.
The appearance of Dinizulu at the University is sponsored by the
Cultural Programming Advisory Board.
For more information, call 831-2991.
SDALL Winterim Jan. 19-Feb. 11
The University of Delaware's Southern Delaware Academy of
Lifelong Learning (SDALL) will again offer an abbreviated mid-winter
program of lectures and instruction.
Designated "Winterim," this program, to run from Jan. 19-Feb. 11,
will feature an array of guest lecturers addressing such varied
subjects as "Great Decisions on Foreign and Domestic Matters" and such
special-interest topics as "Gardening-Ground Covers," "Investments"
and chair caning.
Winterim, which will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the
University's Milford Center, is open to individuals 55 years and
older.
Cost is $15 for academy members and $25 for non-members. Mail-in
registrations are encouraged.
For a schedule and registration form, call the University's
Milford Center at 424-5000.
Local art loop to show student works
The University will offer its own version of the Wilmington art
loop from 5-8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4, when a shuttle bus will carry
passengers free of charge to the openings of four student art
exhibitions at various locations throughout the Newark campus.
The openings are free and open to the public.
Undergraduate work will be displayed at Taylor Gymnasium,
Recitation Hall and the Janvier Gallery, and a graduate student art
exhibit will open that night at Clayton Hall.
The bus will make a continuous loop from Taylor Gym parking area
to Clayton Hall and to the parking area behind Janvier.
The undergraduate exhibit will include the artworks of six
students who are completing their studies toward a bachelor of fine
arts degree
Painters Beryl Bouck, Gregory Kelly and Dragonfly Leathrum, all
of Newark, will have their works displayed in Taylor Gym.
Fabric artist Valery Leigh Bollman of Claymont will share floor
space with Kathleen Lear of Newark, who will have works in several
media displayed on the first floor of Recitation Hall.
Photographs by Lynn Pursell of Wilmington will be on display at
the Janvier Gallery, 56 West Delaware Ave.
At Clayton Hall on the Laird Campus, a variety of works by
graduate students working toward their master of fine arts degrees
will be on display through Jan. 8.
The undergraduate exhibitions will continue at their various
sites as space is available. For specific dates and times, call
831-2244.
In Taylor Gym, visitors can see Bouck's oils and watercolors that
reflect a moody, soft, impressionistic style. Kelly's paintings are
done in oil on wood panels, with some of his large figurative work
measuring up to 3 feet by 9 feet.
Leathrum's paintings of oil and spray paint are social statements
in response to what angers and frustrates her.
In Recitation Hall, Bollman will exhibit weavings, silk hangings
and photo images scanned and manipulated by computer and applied to
fabric.
Lear's collection includes teapots and other ceramic pieces that
incorporate formed copper and electroformed copper.
She also will show small textile pieces and prints.
At the Janvier Galley, Pursell will show large color photographs
and signs and symbols relating to inner consciousness.
For information on the shows and gallery hours, call 831-2244.
Campus string group to perform
The Mendelssohn String Quartet, in residence at the University,
will present a program featuring works by Schubert, Mozart and Dvorak
at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 9, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E.
du Pont Music Building. Tickets-at $6 for adults, $4 for faculty,
staff and senior citizens, and $2 for students-may be purchased in
advance in Room 209 of the music building. They also will be available
at the door.
A NoonNotes performance/lecture will be presented from 12:10-1:10
p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 8, in the Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student
Center. The topic is "Op. 135 and the Late String Quartets of
Beethoven." Admission is free.
Members of the quartet include Ida Levin and Nicholas Mann,
violins; Katherine Murdock, viola; and Marcy Rosen, cello.
Washington writer to speak Dec. 7
Joel Garreau, Washington Post reporter and two-time Pulitzer
Prize nominee, will speak at 6 p.m., Monday, Dec. 7, in Clayton Hall.
A social hour will begin at 5 p.m.
The free public presentation by the author of Edge City-Life on
the New Frontier is being sponsored by the Delaware Transportation
Center at the University and the state Department of Transportation's
T2 Center.
For information, call 831-1446 or 739-3267.