UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 26, Page 4
April 7, 1994
Up and coming

Field studies are offered in Maine
     Jade Elliott, Delaware '76, assistant director of the Salt Center for
Documentary Field Studies of Portland, Maine, will present an informational
session from 4-5:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 19, in 110 Memorial Hall.
     The Salt Center conducts an educational program that offers field
study opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Participants
have come from across the country and abroad to combine their academic
talents and interests to study the lives of Maine people and to document
the last great frontier of the East.
     Their research results in written articles or documentary photographs
published in Salt, the organization's magazine.
     The informational meeting is sponsored by the departments of English
and history. A reception will follow the presentation in the English
department lounge.
     An exhibition of Salt photographs, "The Art of Documentary
Photography," is on display through April 19 in the History Media Center,
located in 201 Kirkbride Lecture Hall.
     For information on the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies, call
(207) 761-0660, or write to Salt, P.O. Box 4077, Portland, ME 04101.

Music is focus of Slavic seminar
     Caryl Emerson, professor of slavic languages and literatures and of
comparative literature at Princeton University, will present a public
lecture entitled, "Shostakovich's Tsvetaeva Cycle in the Shadow (or Echo)
of Mussorgsky and Pushkin: Songs and Dances of Death and Survival," at 4
p.m., Friday, April 15, in 211 Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
     The musically illustrated presentation will focus on Mussorgsky's
Songs and Dances of Death and Shostakovich's vocal cycle, Six Poems of
Marina Tavetaeva, both of which will be performed in Russian and placed in
a cultural context. Emerson will explore how these composers, writing one
century apart, arranged a set of poem texts to comment on the possibility
of survival through art. Poetic texts and translations will be provided.
     Emerson, a mezzo-soprano, will be accompanied by pianist Constance
Cooper, a post-doctoral fellow in composition at Princeton.
     The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures is presenting the
program as its 16th public lecture in the Distinguished Scholars Series.
Partial support is being provided by the Faculty Senate Committee on
Cultural Activities and Public Events and the Visiting Women Scholars Award
Program.

Philip Roth to give reading April 20
     Distinguished writer Philip Roth will read from his 1991 book
Patrimony at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in Mitchell Hall.
     Co-sponsored by the University's Jewish Studies Program and Department
of English and the Delaware Humanities Forum, the program is free and open
to the public.
     Patrimony, which won the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, is
the true story of Roth and his 86-year-old father, as he battled a brain
tumor that would kill him. The powerful book-of a son's love, anxiety and
dread and a father's long, stubborn fight for life-met with universal
praise from the critics. A critic in the Chicago Tribune called it "a
deeply resonant portrait of a father and son," and a critic in The New York
Times Book Review praised it as "a marvel of artful wit and vigor." Time
magazine chose it as the single best non-fiction book of the year.
     Since 1959, Roth has published 20 books. His first, Goodbye, Columbus,
won the National Book Award for Fiction, and since then, he has written
such books as Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, the trilogy and
epilogue Zuckerman Bound and Operation Shylock, which is one of five
nominees for this year's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
     Roth has twice received the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in
1991 he received the National Medal for Literature from the National Arts
Club.
     Roth has taught at several American universities, among them the
University of Chicago, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. Most
recently, he has been Distinguished Professor of Literature at Hunter
College of the City University of New York.
     He received a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University in 1954 and a
master's degree in literature from the University of Chicago in 1955.

Faculty programs set in Georgetown
     Three University of Delaware professors will speak in Georgetown this
spring in two separate talks on April 13 and May 17. Both talks, free and
open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 529 of the Higher
Education Building in Georgetown.
     On Wednesday, April 13, David Smith, associate professor of life and
health sciences, will discuss "What Did Copernicus and Galileo Do: What
Difference Did It Make?"
     Smith is a much sought-after community speaker who frequently talks on
the relationship between science and society, concentrating on the
constraints placed on scientists today. A member of the University faculty
since 1975, he is a recipient of the University's excellence-in-teaching
award and a former president of the Faculty Senate.
     He has worked extensively in the development of secondary science
teachers at the University and currently works with biology students hoping
to become high school biology teachers.
     Other professors speaking in Southern Delaware this spring are James
Oliver, professor of political science and international relations, and
Raymond Callahan, professor of history and director of the Master of Arts
in Liberal Studies Program, who will examine the Cold War in retrospect on
Tuesday, May 17. Their talk is entitled "1944-1994: From D-Day to the New
World Order."
     The talks are sponsored by the College of Arts and Science Southern
Delaware Outreach Committee and the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
(MALS) Program.

Music recital tonight in Loudis
     The Department of Music will sponsor a free faculty and guest artist
recital at 8 tonight in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music
Building. The concert will feature Melanie DeMent, soprano, accompanied by
the early music duo Pan's Fancy, with Edwin George on the recorder and
bagpipes and Karen Myers on the lute and hurdy-gurdy. DeMent is associate
professor in the Department of Music.
     The program will include Baroque cantatas, songs and arias by Caccini,
Monteverdi, Purcell, Cesti, Barbara Strozzi and Arne.

Pirasti trio in memorial concert
     The Newark Symphony Society will present the Pirasti Trio in a
memorial concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 14, in Loudis Recital Hall
of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. The concert will honor the late
Harley Hastings former director, Jeanette Woodhouse and others who worked
to establish the Newark Symphony Orchestra in the early 1970s.
     The Pirasti Trio is based in England where its members are on the
faculty of Wells Cathedral Music School. Jeff Sharkey, who plays piano in
the trio, is the son of Stuart Sharkey, vice president for student life.
The pianist attended the University of Delaware then he went to the Boston
School of Music and Cambridge to complete his education. Jeff's wife,
Alison Wells, plays cello and Nicholas Miller plays violin. The program
will include works by Hayden and Brahms.
     Tickets are $10, and may be purchased in advance by calling 731-4931.

First State Band program April 10
     The First State Symphonic Band will present its spring concert under
the direction of Harvey Price, at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 10, at Newark High
School.
     The band will perform various music from the theatre. Selections will
include Little Threepenny Music by Kurt Weill; Russlan and Ludmilla by
Glinka; Prayer and Dream Pantomime from "Hansel and Gretel" by Englebert
Humperdinck; Four Dances from "West Side Story" by Leonard Bernstein; and
An American in Paris by George Gershwin.