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Campus Events: September, 1997 |
Wednesday, September 3
Nancy Cody Gilbertson, lecturer in music at Wells, will present a piano concert on Wednesday, September 3 at 8:00 pm in the Alice Barler Recital Hall on the Wells College campus. The event is free, and the public is invited to attend.
Entitled "Romance, Passion and Excursions," Gilbertson's performance will include compositions by Johannes Brahms, Clara Wieck Schumann, Robert Schumann and Richard Cumming.
Gilbertson is an accomplished pianist who has performed for such distinguished composers and pianists as Aaron Copland, Lorin Holander and Ivan Davis.
She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Kent State University and has given many performances in Ohio and in the Finger Lakes region as a soloist and accompanist. Gilbertson has been teaching at Wells College since 1987.
Tuesday, September 9
Eric O'Shea kicks off the fall comedy season at Wells College
with a trip down memory lane on Tuesday, September 9 at 8:00 p.m.
in the Sommer Student Center. The event is free and open to the
public.
O'Shea takes his audience back to one of the best times of life - youth. Amidst all the innocence, creeps in the embarrassment, the childhood antics and humor. His show offers a chance to remember yourself in some awkward, hilarious situations. O'Shea's clean wit and priceless observations pick up where home movies left off.
From family reunions to board games, from shopping with mom to sibling squabbles, O'Shea's animated and clever humor turns back the clock while putting a unique perspective on life, unlike anything you have ever heard.
Friday, September 12
Symphonic Klezmer, a five-member band from Minnesota, will kick
off the Wells College 1997-98 Arts and Lecture Series with a concert
on Friday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Phipps Auditorium. Admission
is $2 for students and $6 for adults.
With programs like "Dancing Around the World," featuring tunes to keep the feet tapping, or a program of the "Klezmer Connection," featuring a tribute to Benny Goodman, Symphonic Klezmer is a pops favorite. Symphonic Klezmer has performed with Doc Severinsen, the Milwaukee Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Klezmer was originally a Yiddish word that was used to describe a professional musician who played at weddings and other social occasions in Eastern Europe. Today, klezmer refers to the style of music performed by those musicians. Klezmer is a mix of East meets West; traditional Jewish folk tunes are blended with Middle Eastern harmonies, and plenty of Jazz.
Between 1880 and 1925, the three million Jews who came to the United States from Eastern Europe included many klezmorium. Like most immigrant traditions, klezmer changed in this country, most obviously, in the switch of the lead instrument from fiddle to clarinet. Yet the music kept its highly improvised, often frenetic style. During the first half of the 20th century, there were 700 klezmer recordings released in America. Over time and assimilation, the Jewish community began to lose interest in klezmer.
"It was virtually dying," explains Symphonic Klezmer's conductor Shelley Hanson. "Then the baby boomers seized upon it, and now the Gen-Xers as well. The baby boom generation was trying to get in touch with their roots."
For tickets and more information, contact the Wells College Box Office at 315/364-3456.
Friday, September 19
(Please click on the image for an enlarged photo of the Rick Recht Band.)
The Rick Recht Band will bring their brand of organic, groove-oriented
rock to Wells College on Friday, September 19 at 9:00 p.m. in
the Sommer Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Frequently compared with the Counting Crows and the Dave Matthews Band, the St. Louis-based Rick Recht blows audiences away with their intense stage energy, dynamic originals, four-part harmonies and melodic grooves.
The band recently released a new album, Reality. Since then, they have spent most of their time on the road backing up such groups as Martin Sexton, America and the Samples.
Spotlight Magazine, the alternative monthly of St. Louis, recently ranked Recht the number one music act in St. Louis.
Thursday, September 25
Thursday, September 25
Belgian poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar will read from her work in Macmillan
Hall's Art Exhibit Room at Wells College on Thursday, September
25 at 8:00 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public.
Bosselaar is currently translating contemporary American poetry into French and Flemish poetry into English. Her latest poetry collection, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, was published in May.
Bosselaar's work has been published in Ploughshares, The Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, and Harvard Review. She received first prize in the 1996 National Poetry Contest. Fluent in five languages, Bosselaar worked for Belgian and Luxembourg radio and television and has also published a collection of French poems.
She received a bachelor's degree from Brussels Conservatory and a master's degree in theatre arts from the National Institute for the Performing Arts in Brussels.
Bosselaar's visit to Wells is made possible by a grant from The New York State Council on the Arts.
For more information on campus events call Wells College Public Relations at (315) 364-3209
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