UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 17, Page 10
January 21, 1993
Up and coming

World-famous American Boychoir to present concerts in February
     Recognized as one of the world's finest choirs, the American Boychoir
will present a concert at the University next month.
     If you've enjoyed hearing the choir on the award-winning Kodak
television commercial "True Colors," you can hear more on Saturday, Feb.
13, when the ensemble performs at 8 p.m. in Newark Hall auditorium.
     On Friday, Feb. 12, the University is presenting the American Boychoir
in a Dover concert, scheduled at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church.
     The American Boychoir is considered America's foremost concert boys'
choir. It was founded in 1937 as the Columbus Boychoir and has always been
composed of talented boys ages 9 to 14 from throughout the United States.
All members are enrolled at The American Boychoir School in Princeton,
N.J., the only non-sectarian boarding choir school in the Western
Hemisphere.
     Its engaging performances of classical and light repertoire have
entertained audiences in thousands of cities and towns in 48 states, in 25
countries and on dozens of national television and radio broadcasts.
     The group of talented youngsters has performed with major orchestras,
at the White House, the Vatican, Westminster Abbey and in numerous other
programs for special audiences. The choir has made more than 30 records,
including a complete Messiah for the Smithsonian Collection and
"Christmastide," recorded with Jessye Norman.
     The choir has been seen on PBS stations nationwide and 200 other
stations around the world. It was featured with the Boston Pops on its
"Christmas at the Pops" special which aired in 1990-1992.
     James Litton, widely regarded as one of America's leading trainers of
boys' choirs, joined the choir as musical director in l985. He has been on
the faculty of Westminster Choir College and was director of music at
Trinity Church, Princeton and the Princeton Theological Seminary.
     Tickets for the Newark concert are $15 for the general public, $10 for
University faculty, staff and senior citizens and $5 for students.
     Tickets are available at the Hartshorn Gym. Box office hours are noon
to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. Tickets also can be reserved by phoning
831-2204. The Newark concert is part of the 1992-93 Performing Arts Series.
     Tickets for the Dover concert are $12.50 for adults and $6.50 for
students and U.D. faculty and staff. For ticket information, call the
Office of University Relations at 735-8200 in Dover or at 855-1620 in
Georgetown.

Cold War series continues tonight
     European security, democracy in Latin America and the role of Congress
in the series "The World After the Cold War" continues tonight with a
presentation by Louis Goodman, dean of the School of International Service
at American University. His talk, "Prospects for Democracy in Latin America
After the Cold War," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in 115 Purnell Hall.
     Goodman has been both dean and professor at American University since
1986. In 1992, he was president of the Association of Professional Schools
of International Affairs. He previously served on the senior staff of the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on the faculty of Yale
University and was director of the Social Science Research Council's
Program on Latin American and the Caribbean.
     Goodman also taught at Georgetown, Princeton and Northwestern
universities, as well as at the Facultad Latinoamericana de las Ciencias
Sociales in Santiago, Chile.
     He has published 11 books and numerous scholarly articles.
     He earned his Ph.D. in sociology with concentrations in economics and
political science from Northwestern University in 1970. His major
continuing research interest is international influences on national
development in the global south.
     Speaking on Monday, Jan. 24, will be Thomas E. Mann, director of the
Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. His talk,
"Making Foreign Policy After the Cold War: The Role of Congress," will
begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 128 of Clayton Hall.
     In November 1991, Mann was named the first recipient of the W. Averell
Harriman Chair in American Governance. He is a former executive director of
the American Political Science Association.
     He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and first came to
Washington in 1969 as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Sen. Philip
A. Hart and Rep. James G. O'Hara.
     Mann has taught courses at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown
University and the University of Virginia; conducted political polls for
the Democratic Study Group Campaign Fund; served on the Democratic National
Committee's Winograd and Hunt Commissions dealing with presidential
selection; worked as a consultant to IBM and the Public Broadcasting
Service; and served as an expert witness on redistricting cases in Alaska
and New Jersey.
     He lectures frequently in the U.S. and abroad on various aspects of
American politics.

Pianist Scott Cossu in concert Jan. 30
     Pianist/composer Scott Cossu will appear in concert at 8 p.m.,
Saturday, Jan. 30, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music
Building.
     A pianist/composer who records for Windham Hill, Cossu performs music
that has been described as a melodic blend of jazz, classical and ethnic
influences. He has been categorized as a progressive adult contemporary
artist, and his music is most often labeled New Age-a designation he
lightheartedly disputes.
     "People have been trying to categorize my music for a decade or more,"
he explains. "I'm not anti-New Age but like to tell people that I don't do
any channeling, I have no mantras, I'm not even a vegetarian, and there
aren't going to be any crystals at my concerts."
     Cossu's latest album, Stained Glass Memories, is his first since a
1989 pedestrian accident in southern California left him with severe brain
injuries that required four operations, two months of hospitalization and
four months of intensive rehabilitation. The injuries left him without
sight in his right eye and significant memory loss.
     Cossu's earlier recordings include "Still Moments," "Wind Dance,"
"Islands," "Reunion," "She Describes Infinity" and "Switchback."
     Appearing with Cossu at the University will be guitarist Van Manakas.
The concert is part of the University's Performing Arts Series.
     General admission tickets for this concert are $12 for the public, $10
for University faculty, staff and senior citizens and $6 for University
students and children.
     For tickets or more information, call 831-2204.

Phish to appear at Carpenter Center
     Alternative rock band Phish will perform at 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 13,
at the University's Bob Carpenter Center.
     Tickets, at $18 for the general public, $16 for University faculty and
staff and $14 for U.D. students, are on sale from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays,
at the Carpenter Center box office or by phone from Ticketmaster at
984-2000.
     Ticket service charges may apply. There is a ticket limit of four.
     Phish has attracted loyal and articulate fans who have described its
music as "jazz and rock intertwined with chilling crescendos and
diminuendos and climaxes that make you think" and as "a roller coaster ride
for the senses."
     One fan sums up the band's recipe simply: "Add a little calypso,
reggae, barbershop and a vacuum cleaner...."
     Praise from the critics has been no less enthusiastic. CD Review
called the band's latest album "a jam-packed jewel bursting with brilliant
musical surprises," and a reviewer in the Los Angeles Times wrote, "This
quartet has chops, imagination and a lot of humor that give its wittily
surreal songs and intricate jams an idiosyncratic character."
     The New Yorker called the group "a strange collision of the solemn and
the silly, of earnest musicianship and a sort of hippie abandon."
     Originally formed by several students at the University of Vermont,
Phish completed two national tours before signing its first recording
contract. The group's first album, Lawn Boy released on Absolute A Go-Go
Records, was called "goofy and brilliant" by East Coast Rocker and
"Vermont's premier export (after Ben & Jerry's)" by the Boston Phoenix.
     The band's latest release and its debut on the Elektra label is called
"A Picture of Nectar," named in honor of a Burlington, Vt., bar that
supported its early efforts.
     Phish's aim is to sneak more complex music into the ears of the
seemingly unreceptive. "People's attention spans and ability to listen are
being systematically lowered by TV," guitarist and vocalist Trey Anastasio
says. Other members of Phish are Mike Gordon, bass, vocals; Page McConnell,
piano, Hammond organ, vocals; and Jon "Fish" Fishman, drums, trombone,
vocals, vacuum cleaner.
     The Feb. 13 concert is sponsored by the University of Delaware.