UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 28, Page 4
April 22, 1993
Up and coming
Symphony to offer Gershwin program
Pianist Marianne M. Mastics, soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the
Vermont Symphony and the Springfield Symphony, will present a concert of
Gershwin greats from 3-5 p.m., Sunday, April 25, in Arsht Hall on the
University's Wilmington Campus on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Tickets are $8 each and may be purchased at the door.
The concert is sponsored by the University's Academy of Lifelong
Learning, a continuing education program for older adults.
Mastics, who is known worldwide for her work, is donating her time for
the concert because of her support for the academy and its programs.
For information, call the Academy of Lifelong Learning at 573-4433.
English prof to give lecture in Memorial
Donald H. Reiman, adjunct professor of English, will discuss "The
French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the 'Lower Empire':
English Literature in the Age of the Hobbyhorse," at 4 p.m., Thursday,
April 29, in 110 Memorial Hall.
Reiman is currently conducting extensive research on the life and
works of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley for a critical edition of Shelley's
works that he is writing, to be published by the Johns Hopkins University
Press. Reiman also is the author, editor and compiler of over 150 books
dealing with the English Romantics. The talk is free and open to the
public.
String quartet in concert Wednesday
The Department of Music will sponsor a free chamber music concert
featuring the Mendelssohn String Quartet at 8:15 p.m., Wednesday, April 28,
in Newark Hall auditorium. Two faculty guest artists will be featured with
the quartet: Vincent Marinelli will play the clarinet, and Douglas Mapp
will perform on the double bass.
The program will include Mozart's Quintet in A for Clarinet and
Strings, K. 581 and Dvorak's Quintet in G for Strings, Op. 77.
Marinelli, a noted performer on clarinet and bass clarinet, is heard
frequently throughout the Delaware Valley as a soloist and chamber
musician. He also performs with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the
OperaDelaware orchestra and the I Fiati Wind Quintet. In addition to
teaching music privately, Marinelli teaches Music Appreciation in the
Department of Music.
Mapp is widely respected as a double bass virtuoso. He is the
principal double bassist with Reading Symphony Orchestra. He also is a
member of the Delaware Symphony and the Chamber Symphony of Princeton. Mapp
also performs as a substitute musician with the Philadelphia Orchestra and
The Philly Pops.
The Mendelssohn String Quartet will again this year present a series
in Merkin Concert Hall in New York, where it has served as
quartet-in-residence since 1979, and will tour throughout the United States
and Canada with concerts in Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri, New
Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, D.C, Quebec and
Ontario. The quartet will also go to England and will make its first tour
of Russia.
In addition to its other residencies, the Mendelssohn String Quartet
was appointed quartet-in-residence at the University of Delaware in 1989,
and to the Blodgett Artists Residency at Harvard University in 1992.
Thermodynamics conference April 30
The Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics will host the
1993 Mid Atlantic Thermodynamics Conference, Friday, April 30, in Colburn
Laboratory.
This annual conference is organized by chemical engineering faculty
from several area universities to exchange information regarding research
that is currently being conducted in thermodynamics and statistical
mechanics, and to provide an opportunity for dialogue between faculty and
graduate students in the region.
This year's participants are from the University of Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania State University, the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins
University, Princeton University, Rutgers University and the University of
Delaware's Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics.
The conference will consist of oral presentations by graduate students
from each research group and a poster session.
For information, call 831-4500.
Activist, historian, author to give lecture
Martin Duberman, founder and director of the Center for Lesbian and
Gay Studies and distinguished professor of history at Lehman/The Graduate
Center, City University of New York, will speak at 7 p.m., Monday, April
26, at the University.
His lecture, "Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past," will be presented
in Clayton Hall on the Laird campus.
He also will present an informal colloquium at 3 p.m. in the Blue and
Gold Room of the Perkins Student Center.
Both talks are free and open to the public. Copies of his book,
Stonewall, will be available at each appearance.
Historian, playwright and activist, Duberman has been widely acclaimed
for his recent book, Cures. His other works include Charles Francis Adams,
for which he won the Bancroft Prize, and the award-winning Paul Robeson. He
edited Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians and his play, In White
America, won the Vernon Rice/Drama Desk Award.
His appearance at the University is sponsored by the Campus Diversity
Unit and Out/Right: The Gay and Lesbian Academic Coalition..
For information, call 831-2835.
Master's exhibitions on view in Gallery
Graduate students receiving the Master of Fine Arts degree from the
Department of Art will exhibit their work in two consecutive theses
exhibitions beginning May 3 and continuing through June 4 at the University
Gallery in Old College.
Participants in the first exhibit, scheduled May 3-16, include Marne
Ryan-Brook, sculpture; Alyn Fenn, painting; Philip Guilfoyle, ceramics;
Gretchen Hupfel, painting/mixed media; Jane E. Levine, photography; Cathy
Raymond, painting; and Brad Sunnarborg, ceramics.
A reception to honor the artists will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m.,
Friday, May 7, in the Gallery. A brown-bag lunchtime talk will be given by
several participating artists at noon, Wednesday, May 12.
A reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m., Friday, May 21, will open the second
exhibition, which will continue through June 4. Students exhibiting in this
show include Rob Burgess, painting; Robert Cornelius, photography;
Christopher Ransom, photography; and Kurt Waechter, painting. Several of
these artists will speak about their work in a noon lecture, Wednesday, May
26.
The University Gallery is located on the second floor of Old College.
Hours for the two exhibitions are 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, and 1-5
p.m., Saturday and Sunday. The gallery will be closed Memorial Day weekend,
as well as Monday, May 31. The gallery is wheelchair accessible, and
individuals with special needs are encouraged to call 831-8242 before
visiting.
A related exhibition of University Master of Fine Arts candidates will
be held April 23-May 27 at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art,
located at 103 East 16th St., Wilmington. For more information, call
656-6466.
Susan Felix to make two appearances
Susan Felix, Jewish artist and social activist, will make two campus
appearances on April 28. The first, from 3:30-4:45 p.m., in the Kirkwood
Room of the Perkins Student Center, is sponsored by the Honors Program and
the Office of Women's Affairs. This visit will provide faculty and students
with an opportunity to meet with Felix, and to talk about her work as a
Jewish artist and as a social activist.
The second appearance, sponsored by the Honors Program, Office of
Women's Affairs, Hillel and the Jewish Studies Program will be held from
5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Abe and Pearl Kristol Hillel Center which is located
at 47 Delaware Ave.
Felix will show some of her spiritual art and present a slide-show on
her work. She also will also give a talk, entitled "Darkness to Light:
Healing Our World," which will encompass both her art and social activism,
enabling homeless people to live with dignity and with access to social and
arts programs. A reception will follow.
'Guarding Garden' set for Wolf Hall
A program on Judaism and the ecology will be held at the Abe and Pearl
Kristol Hillel Center, April 30-May 1.
The highlight of the weekend will be a production from Philadelphia
entitled Guarding the Garden, to be performed at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 1,
in Wolf Hall. This musical theatre interpretation of the Garden of Eden
story reveals the roots of the environmental crisis and dramatizes the
challenge to recycle resources.
Other events include a lecture by Arthur Waskow, director of the
Shalom Center in Philadelphia and author of the forthcoming book Down to
Earth Judaism, at 7:15 p.m., Friday, April 30, at the Shabbat dinner and
services; and a brunch/study session at noon, Saturday, May 1, with Rabbi
David Azen, co-author of Guarding the Garden. Both of these events will be
held at the Hillel Center.
For further information, call 453-0479.
Former curator at annual library fete
Clement E. Conger, former curator of the U.S. Department of State's
Diplomatic Reception Rooms, will present a slide show and talk on the
department's extensive collection of antique American furnishings at the
annual dinner of the University of Delaware Library Associates on Tuesday,
April 27.
"Masterpieces of Americana in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the
Department of State, Washington, D.C.," will be presented in the Buxbaum
Room of Arsht Hall on the Wilmington campus.
Curator of the Diplomatic Receptions Rooms from 1961-1992, Conger also
served as curator of the Blair House from 1976-1992 and of the White House
from 1970-1986.
He originated "Project Americana" for furnishing the diplomatic
reception rooms in l961, and his lecture will highlight the superb
collection, considered as unquestionably the finest in the Washington,
D.C., area and the third largest collection of Americana in the country.
All of the pieces are the highest caliber 18th- and 19th-century
American art and cabinetmaking, and they have been obtained by gifts and
loans from patriotically-minded individuals and organizations.
The dinner is open to the public by invitation. For more information,
call the Office of the Director, University of Delaware Library, at
831-2231.
Managing better in the '90s and beyond
People don't always learn from their mistakes and that can be costly
to business, especially when those people are managers.
University of Chicago behavioral scientist Robin Hogarth will visit
the Newark campus on Wednesday, April 28, to tell students and regional
business managers how to let experience guide them to better decisions.
His free public talk, set for 3:30 p.m. in 004 Kirkbride Lecture Hall,
is the last in a series of distinguished guest speaker sponsored by the
Department of Business Administration in the College of Business and
Economics.
The lecture series is designed to provide regional business managers
with highly researched, practical information not often available to the
public.
Gospelrama Sunday in Mitchell Hall
The Gospel Choir at the University and the Wilmington/Chester Mass
Choir will perform in the 13th annual Gospelrama, "Spreading the Word
Through Song," at 5 p.m., Sunday, April 25, in Mitchell Hall auditorium.
The performance is part of the University's annual Black Arts
Festival.
Advance tickets, on sale now, cost $8 for the general public and $5
for students with I.D., and are available from the University's Center for
Black Culture at 192 South College Ave. and from B&B Tickettown in
Wilmington. At the door, tickets will be $10 for the general public and $7
for students with I.D.
The Gospel Choir, a group of 70 students whose purpose is to spread
the good news of the gospel through music, was founded in 1979, when a
handful of students got together to sing in the annual Black Arts Festival
variety show.
The Gospel Choir has performed at Delaware State College, Lincoln and
Drexel universities and at the University of Pennsylvania, and also
performed in January before a crowd of some 2,500 people at the Bob
Carpenter Center during the DuPont Co.'s annual "Day of Celebration"
commemorating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
'Not famous' artists (yet) exhibit theme
"Not Yet Famous Artists Revealed" is the theme of the University's
annual, juried undergraduate art exhibition, on display through April 23 at
the University Gallery in Old College.
This annual celebration of student talent, revealing the best
undergraduate work produced during the past year, is sponsored by the
Department of Art.
The art department offers concentrations in ceramics, fibers, metals,
painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, advertising design, applied
photography, graphic design and illustration.
Works selected for the exhibit, which represent a cross-section of the
department, are eligible to win the Award for Artistic Excellence, the
Eugene F. and Catherine Melk Award, arts organization memberships and
merchant gift certificates.
Jurors are Jeffrey Chapp, a nationally known ceramic sculptor, who
earned his MFA from the University in 1988, and Diane Gottardi, senior
graphic designer for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who graduated from
Delaware in 1984. The two will present a free, public talk at 5:30 p.m.,
Monday, April 19, in the Gallery.
For additional information, call 831-8242.