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Campus Events: October, 1996 |
Tuesday, October 1
On Tuesday, October 1, duo-pianists Richard and John Contiguglia, Auburn natives and identical twins who have collaborated since they were five years old, will present a lecture and sampling of their music at Wells College in the Alice Barler Recital Hall at 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
They will also be giving a master lesson for Wells College piano students and anyone else who is interested at 8:30 am on Tuesday, October 1.
Sharing what many have termed the "ultimate partnership in music" for their unconscious bond as identical twins, the brothers are recognized as one of today's most brilliant piano duos. They have performed with major orchestras throughout the world, including the Atlanta Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. They have also given recitals at several prestigious locations, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New Tork City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Summa sum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduates of Yale University and honor graduates of the Yale School of Music, Richard and John Contiguglia studied in London with the legendary British pianist Dame Myra Hess. They are noted for discovering, performing, and recording many unusual or forgotten works for the duo-piano repertoire, including music of Bartok, Liszt, and Gershwin.
The Contiguglia brothers have recently released their latest CD, Music for Two Pianos. It features the piano music for two pianos of Percy Aldridge and Grainger and William Bolcom.
Tuesday, October 8
Exploding Boy, Rochester-based band will perform on Tuesday, October 8, at 8:00 p.m. in the Sommer Student Center on the Wells campus. The event is free and open to the public.
This pop/rock trio has shared the stage with everyone from the
Goo Goo Dolls and Joan Osborne to Joe Walsh and Flock of Seagulls.
The band released their first full-length album, New Generation, in 1992. After extensive touring, they took a hiatus and changed managers. In 1995, they formed their own company, Idle Records, as a vehicle for their music. Exploding Boy's second album, Communication is Dead, is due out later this year.
The group has been writing and performing together since they met in 1988. In 1990, they were chosen as semifinalists in Yamaha's Soundcheck Songwriter's Competition. The following year, they placed in the top five in a field of 2500 unsigned bands from across the country. Exploding Boy's performance was showcased on a syndicated television special.
October 9 through November 8
An opening reception for Three Women - Personal Narratives, an
exhibition containing paintings and prints by three contemporary
women artists, will be held on Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00 p.m.
in the String Room Gallery at Wells College. The show will be
on display through Friday, November 8.
Each painting serves as a journal entry, capturing events in the lives of the artists. Carol Cobb Caruso, Marie-Louise McHugh, and Gerri Pugliese Moore are all mothers living with their families and have made this an integral part of their lives as artists.
Carol Cobb Caruso, an independent figurative painter, grew up in Louisiana and currently resides in Schenectady, N.Y. In her paintings she uses elements of the world around her, though each piece is not completely autobiographical. Caruso mixes elements from her domestic life, other paintings, popular culture, and art history to create a unique world where imagination and reality are melded into a new experience.
Caruso has studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,
in Minneapolis, and in Paris, France. She has exhibited her work
in numerous galleries in New York City and surrounding areas.
A native of Switzerland, Marie-Louise McHugh currently resides
in Guilderland, N.Y. Her work can be characterized as contemporary
realism, with recent themes including pears and the aging woman's
body. She is always looking for strong images and finds them in
her relationships, her family, and her children.
McHugh studied at the University of Berne in Switzerland prior
to moving to the United States in 1970. Her work in represented
by the deHavilland Gallery in Boston and Greenhut Galleries in
Albany. Her paintings have been displayed in galleries and museums
throughout New York.
Gerri Pugliese Moore's work is a visual display of moods and aspects
of personality depicting the variety that exists in mentally handicapped
persons. The subject and main focus of her work is her 27-year-old
son and his companions.
Moore, who lives in Niskayuna, N.Y., received her MFA from the State University of New York at Albany and has exhibited extensively throughout New York. Most recently her work was featured at he Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, N.Y.
The String Room Gallery is located in Main Building on the Wells
College campus. Gallery hours are 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through
Friday; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Wednesday evenings; and 1:00 to 4:00
pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Thursday, October 10
On Thursday, October 10 at 8:00 p.m. poet R. S. Gwynn will read from his work in the Art Exhibit Room of Macmillan Hall on the Wells College campus. The event is free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the Visiting Writers Series.
Gwynn is an accomplished poet who has published and edited poetry textbooks and anthologies. He has been awarded two fellowships, the John Gould Fletcher Award for Poetry, and the Lamar University College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Scholarship Award. He has also been recognized by Phi Kappa Phi for his outstanding teaching.
Gwynn is currently a teacher in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
Tuesday, October 22
Stand-up comedian Jason Stuart will share his unique humor on
Tuesday, October 22 at 8:00 p.m. in the Sommer Student Center
on the Wells campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Stuart is an accomplished actor as well as comedian. He appeared such feature films as "Kindergarten Cop" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Eternity" with Jon Voight, and "Cross My Heart" with Martin Short. On television, Stuart has had guest roles on "The John Larroquette Show, "Murder, She Wrote," and "Seaquest."
Stuart has performed in the biggest comedy clubs in the country
including: the Laugh Factory, the Comedy Store, Catch a Rising Star, Dangerfields,
and Yuk Yuks. He has opened for the Village People, Sandra Bernhard,
and Joan Rivers.
October 24-26
The Wells College Arts and Performance Department presents Top Girls, Thursday, October 24 through Saturday October 26 at 8:00 p.m. in Phipps Auditorium inside Macmillan Hall on the Wells campus. Tickets are $3 for students with ID and senior citizens, and $7 for the general public.
Top Girls, the dark comedy by British feminist playwright Caryl Churchill, presents significant scenes along the career-track of Marlene, Top Girls' protagonist and struggling heroine. Opening with a dinner between Marlene and representative female characters from history, Top Girls demonstrates the sacrifices and regrets of a corporate ladder-climbing woman in the years after the 1970s Women's Liberation Movement; and how her choices affect her personal and family relationships and create a steely exterior impenetrable by anything or anyone who stands in her way.
Top Girls includes a unique series of twists which lighten and intensify the darkened auditorium at Wells College. Beginning with the dinner party and moving all the way to her office and the home of her sister, Joyce, the scenes change to portray the past and present of Marlene's life.
Each actress in the all-women cast plays a variety of roles with the exception of junior Katharine Schlist, who plays Marlene. "Although Marlene is considered the 'leading role,'" says Schlist, "all of the other actresses play at least two characters and have to switch between as many as three different dialects, socio-economic classes, and family roles. All the parts are a great challenge."
Other cast members include Aurora resident MacKenzie Keenan (Isabella Bird, Mrs. Kidd, Joyce), senior Gabrielle C. Seailles (Pope Joan, Nell), sophomore Disha Mookherjee (Lady Nijo, Win, Jeannie), associate professor of theater and director of Top Girls Susan Forbes (Dull Gret), first year student Kristi Profetti (Patient Griselda), and sophomore Tina Kubasta (Waitress, Angie).
The fun begins at the dinner party where Marlene and a variety of other "Top Girls" gather together to celebrate Marlene's recent promotion to managing director of the Top Girls employment agency in London. They reflect on some of the challenges and experiences they have had as "Top Girls." Some of the "Top Girls" arriving at dinner are: Isabella Bird, a single woman who traveled the world during the Victorian Era between the ages of 40 and 70; Lady Nijo, an Emperor's courtesan who later became a Buddhist nun and traveled through Japan on foot for 20 years; Dull Gret from Brueghel's painting, Dulle Griet, depicting a woman in armor and apron leading a crowd of women charging through hell and fighting the devils;
Pope Joan, who disguised herself as a man and became Pope during the ninth century; and Patient Griselda, the obedient wife, a character portrayed from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Top Girls features an original soundtrack by Stephen Kent Murphy - and assisted by first-year student Clarissa Breen - composed in conjunction with the specific interpretations of the director and the cast. The score was created during the rehearsal process, and is a tailored and organic presence within the production.
Designer Joe DeForest also worked closely with Forbes to create a sparse and futuristic set that displays Top Girls' feminine influence and mythological inspirations, particularly that of the Egyptian goddess Isis, who's symbol is incorporated as the featured set piece.
Top Girls is designed by Wells College faculty and staff, with the aide of Murphy, and built and installed almost entirely by the students.
Throughout Top Girls, the various items of significance to look out for - in addition to the original score and set design - include the costuming (old and new), the works and thoughts of Angie, Joyce's "daughter," and the variety of all the roles the women in the story play.
Women in society are expected to take on the traditional roles of wife and mother, involving a life of sacrifice and self-denial for the advancement of the husband and children. Among the "Top Girls," all of their lives were composed of very different experiences from that presumption.
For tickets or more information, please contact the Wells College Ticket Office at 315/364-3330 or the Theater Department at 315/364-3232.
Tuesday, October 28
Theodore J. Lowi will deliver the annual Beckman Lecture in Macmillan Hall on the Wells campus Monday, October 28 at 8:00 p.m. His address, "American Political Parties: Why Nixon was the Last Democrat and Clinton is the Last Republican," is free and open to the public.
In 1964, Lowi co-authored The Pursuit of Justice with Robert Kennedy. His book, The Personal President - Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled, won the 1986 Neustadt Prize for the best book published on the presidency. He is the co-author of one of the leading American government texts, American Government - Freedom and Power (1990, 1996.) Lowi wrote The End of the Republican Era in 1995. His new book, We The People which he co-authored, will be published in 1997.
Lowi has been the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University since 1972. He previously served on the Cornell faculty from 1959 to 1965. He also taught political science at the University of Chicago from 1965 to 1972 before returning to Cornell.
Lowi has contributed to the study of politics in a variety of areas, including political theory, public policy analysis, and American political institutions. A survey of members of the American Political Science Association listed him as the political scientist who made the most significant contribution during the 1970s.
Last month, Lowi received the Outstanding Mentor of Women in Political Science Award from the Women's Caucus for Political Science. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and his B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Lowi received honorary degrees from Oakland University and from SUNY Stony Brook. In 1991 the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques of the University of Paris conferred on him the Doctorat honoris causa. Lowi has served as president of the American Political Science Association. He is currently first vice-president of the International Political Science Association.
The Beckman Visiting Lectureship was established at Wells College in 1953 by the Bernard C. Beckman family of Naperville, Illinois, who believe in the lifelong inspiration of creative teaching. The Beckman Lecture is selected annually, and is distinguished for creative work, original thought, and the ability to communicate and teach with enthusiasm.
For more information on campus events call Wells College Public Relations at (315) 364-3209
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