UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 16, Page 3
January 6, 1994
Up and coming
Borneo Horns in Mitchell Jan. 21
The Borneo Horns, led by Saturday Night Live saxophone soloist and
arranger Lenny Pickett, will appear at 8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 21 in Mitchell
Hall auditorium.
The Borneo Horns originated as the horn section for David Bowie's 1983
world tour. While performing together, the musicians discovered shared
musical interests and have continued working together in New York City
performing their own compositions.
Pickett was raised in Berkeley, Calif., and at l8 was a member of the
legendary rhythm and blues group Tower of Power. In 1981, he moved to New
York where he has continued to perform and work with well-known popular
artists such as the Talking Heads and Paul Simon.
A highly regarded composer, Pickett has written music for dance,
theatre, film and concert pieces.
The group's first album was released in l987 by Carthage Records.
Tickets for the University concert are $10 for the general public, $8
for University faculty, staff and all senior citizens and $4 for students.
For reservations or more information, call the University box office at
831-2204.
This concert is the first 1994 offering in the University's continuing
Performing Arts Series.
Branagh film fest on Sunday nights
Three films by Academy Award-nominated director and actor Kenneth
Branagh will be screened at 7:30 p.m. on Sundays in January. The films,
free and open to the public, will be shown in 100 Kirkbride Lecture Hall.
The series opens Jan. 9 with a screening of Peter's Friends, a comedy
starring Branagh, Emma Thompson and Rita Rudner.
The film festival continues on Jan. 16 with Henry V, which won Branagh
Academy Award nominations for best actor (as King Henry) and for best
director. Also starring Emma Thompson and Paul Scofield.
Concluding the festival will be Swan Song, scheduled for Jan. 23.
Nominated for the 1992 Oscar for best short film, the adaptation of an
Anton Chekov play was directed by Branagh. Sir John Gielgud stars as an
aging actor who wanders onto center stage after-hours to revisit the great
Shakespearean characters of his long and luminous career. There he finds a
true fan in the theatre's homeless prompter (played by Richard Briers), who
relishes the elderly actor's stories of days gone by. In addition to the
regular 7:30 p.m. screening, this film will be repeated at 8:15 p.m.
The Branagh film festival is sponsored by Winter Session and the
University's Performing Arts Series. For information, call 831-8741.
New World Order focus of series
"Leadership in the New World Order" is the topic of a seven-part
January lecture series being offered to the public. All presentations will
begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 125 of Clayton Hall.
James Chance, Henry Luce Professor of Freedom of Inquiry and
Expression at Bard College and editor of the World Policy Journal, will
open the series tonight with a talk on "The American National Interest in a
Disordered World."
On Monday, Jan. 10, Gary C. Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at
the Institute for International Economics, will speak on "Lessons from the
NAFTA Debate."
Continuing the series on Thursday, Jan. 13, will be Andrew F.
Krepinevich, director of the Defense Budget Project, who will speak on "The
Coming Military Revolution."
Also scheduled for the series later in January are Geoffrey Kemp,
senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who
will speak Tuesday, Jan. 18, on "The Middle East and the New World Order";
Katherine McArdle Kelleher, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who
will speak Thursday, Jan. 20, on "A Renewed Security Partnership?"; John
Stremlau, deputy director of the policy planning staff of the U.S.
Department of State, who will speak Monday, Jan. 24, on "U.S. Policy in the
New World Order"; and Michael Nacht, dean of the School of Public Affairs
at the University of Maryland, who will speak Monday, Jan. 31, on "The
Clinton Nuclear Agenda: How New?"
The lecture series is sponsored by the World Affairs Council of
Wilmington, the University's Office of International Programs and Special
Sessions and the Department of Political Science and International
Relations.
For information, call 831-1463.
String institute to include concerts
The public will have several chances to hear the music of string
quartets in January as the University holds its 1994 Winter Institute for
String Quartets. The institute will feature the Mendelssohn String Quartet,
in residence at the University, and guest artists Robert Mann, first
violinist with the Juilliard String Quartet, and Bonnie Hampton, cellist of
the Francesco Trio.
Events open to the public include:
* An open rehearsal by the Mendelssohn String Quartet, Hampton and
Mann at 7:30 tonight. No admission charge.
* A master class with Mann at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 7. The public
is invited to observe, and there is no admission charge.
* A recital by the Mendelssohn String Quartet, Mann and Hampton at
8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 8. Admission is $15 for the general
public; $10 for University faculty and staff and senior citizens;
and $6 for students. Tickets will be sold at the door or may be
reserved in advance by calling 831-2204.
* An Emerging Artists Concert at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 9, featuring
the young professional string quartets participating in the
institute. Admission is free.
All events will take place in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du
Pont Music Building.
Program for the Jan. 8 concert includes String Quartet Op. 41, No. 1
in A minor by Robert Schumann; J. S. Bach's "Chaconne" from the Partita in
D minor, No. 2; Six Pieces for Solo Cello by Roger Sessions; and Brahms'
String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18. This concert is co-sponsored
by University of Delaware Performing Arts Series.
Now in its 14th season, the Mendelssohn String Quartet has established
a reputation as one of the most imaginative, vital and exciting quartets of
its generation. It presents an annual series at New York City's Merkin
Concert Hall, where it has served as quartet-in-residence since its
formation in 1979. It continues its appointment as quartet-in-residence at
the University of Delaware and as the Blodgett Artists in Residence at
Harvard University.
The quartet has a strong interest in contemporary music and has given
world premieres of many works commissioned by and for them.
Hampton was a student of the great Pablo Casals and frequently
participated in the Casals and Marlboro Festivals and several Music from
Marlboro tours of the United States and Europe. After her solo debut with
the San Francisco Symphony, she continues to appear frequently as a guest
artist with several well-known string quartets.
An artist faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
since 1972, she is a founder of the Chamber Music/West Festival and a
cellist with the Naumberg Award-winning Francesco Trio. She also performs
regularly as part of the Hampton/Schwartz Duo.
Mann is founder and first violinist with the Juilliard String Quartet.
In 1941, he won the Walter W. Naumberg Foundation Competition and made his
New York recital debut.
For information on the Winter Institute for String Quartets or any of
the performances, call the Department of Music at 831-2577.
'Barbie' returns to stage in January
The new musical As She Dreams It (Barbie: The Musical), well received
by audiences and critics alike in its premiere this fall, is coming back to
the University for another run in January.
The musical, with book by Scott F. Mason and music/lyrics by Joyce
Hill Stoner, will be presented at 8:15 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, Jan.
14-15 and 21-22, in the Bacchus Cabaret Theatre of the Perkins Student
Center on Academy Street in Newark. Originally sponsored by the Office of
University Relations, with support from the Delaware State Arts Council,
the Winter Session run is sponsored by the Perkins Student Center. Tickets
are $10 for the general public; $7 for U.D. faculty and staff and senior
citizens; and $5 for students.
For information, contact Mason at 831-2428 or Stoner at 831-2479.
CTE schedules teaching seminar
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness will offer a workshop on
"Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios," taught by Peter Seldin from Pace
University, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 18, in the Rodney Room of the
Perkins Student Center.
Seldin is a distinguished professor of the mangagement department at
Pace University in Pleasantville, N.Y.
This workshop will explain and demonstrate the portfolio concept and
help individuals and small groups develop actual portfolios.
For information, call 831-2027.