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Date: 10/18/01
Contact: Christina Chapple 52-O
Editors: Photo to accompany release are available on the Fanfare CD and online at
www.selu.edu/fanfare/media/media.html
FANFARE FINALE FEATURES "POPS," FIDDLER, SHAKESPEARE, DANCE
HAMMOND -- Fanfare, Southeastern Louisiana University's fall festival of the arts,
humanities and sciences, enters its final days with a cultural line-up that includes a popular pops
"picnic," a Grammy Award-winning fiddler, Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and modern dance
concert full of "wishes."
The final week kicks off on Sunday, October 28, with Fanfare's ever-popular Picnic 'n
Pops, co-sponsored by the Hammond Rotary Club. This year, Southeastern's north shore cultural
partner, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, will present a "Salute to American," a program
featuring American composers and patriotic tunes.
Conducted by Klauspeter Seibel, LPO will perform Copland's "Fanfare for the Common
Man"; Custer's "Salute to the Big Apple"; "A Tribute to America's Armed Forces," an
arrangement of military marches; Gould's "American Salute" and"Yankee Doodle"; and an
arrangement of Sousa marches.
Soprano Elizabeth Argus will join the orchestra for the patriotic favorites "Grand Old
Flag," "God Bless America," and "America the Beautiful," and a trio of uplifting Rogers and
Hammerstein songs, "You'll Never Walk Alone," "Whistle a Happy Tune," and "Cock-Eyed
Optimist."
Doors will open for picnickers who have obtained table seating from Hammond Rotary
Club members at 5 p.m. General admission arena tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance are $5,
$3 for students age 13 and older. Children under 13 will be admitted free, if accompanied by an
adult.
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The innovative and dynamic Aquila Theatre Company will stage Shakespeare's "The
Tempest" at 7:30 p.m., Monday, October 29, at Vonnie Borden Theatre in D Vickers Hall.
Heralded by the "New York Times" as "an extraordinarily inventive and disciplined
outfit," the Aquila Theatre Company will use its praised ensemble acting techniques, imaginative
staging, original music and Shakespearean expertise to retell the compelling story of Prospero,
Miranda, Caliban and Ariel.
Aquila actors will also host a pre-performance discussion at 6:30 p.m., in D Vickers Hall,
Room 125.
Aquila, the company-in-residence at New York University's Center for Ancient Studies,
will stage a highly original and imaginative production of Shakespeare's great play. The
company has an international reputation as one of the foremost producers of touring classical
theatre. Founded in London in 1991 by Peter Meineck, Aquila has won both critical and
academic acclaim for its world-wide work, which includes extensive touring throughout Europe,
the United States and Canada.
Tickets are $18 adults for adults, $15 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty staff and
alumni and $10 for all students. There is a $12 rate for groups of ten or more.
Fanfare's classic and foreign film series will conclude on Tuesday, October 30, with the
Marilyn Monroe flick "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" at 7:30 p.m. at East Gate Caf‚ & Cinema,
1006 N. Oak in Hammond, and the Spanish film "My Family" at 3:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall.
The film series are free and the Spanish film will have English subtitles.
Bill Robison, head of the Department of History and Political Sciences, will take a look
at how Hollywood garbles history in a free lecture, "Bad History Goes to the Movies" at 2 p.m.,
Wednesday, October 31, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Robison gives a "thumbs down"
to Hollywood's treatment of history and historical figures such as England's Sir Thomas More
and Elizabeth I and Scottish heros William Wallace and Robert Roy MacGregor in movies such
as "A Man for All Seasons," "Braveheart," "Elizabeth" and "Rob Roy."
Violinist, composer and fiddler Mark O'Connor, 2001 Grammy Award winner for Best
Classical Crossover Album for "Appalachian Journey," will join the Metamorphosen Chamber
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Orchestra at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, November 1, at Pottle Music Building Auditorium. O'Connor,
considered one of the country's most gifted contemporary composers and brightest talents, is a
regular feature on the Nashville Network. He will join the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra,
conducted by Scott Yoo, in his "American Seasons," a composition buoyed by jazzy rhythms and
O'Connor's unstoppable melodic gift.
Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni
and $10 for all students. The group rate is $12.
O'Connor also will present a master class at 11 a.m., November 1, in Pottle Music
Building Auditorium.
Fanfare's finale is "Wish," a concert of three works choreographed by Southeastern dance
professor Martie Fellom and performed by the university's resident company, Danceworks.
Wishes is the concert's theme and Fellom has designed a comic piece, " "Fuss Budgets,"
about pet peeves, and "One Deep Breath," a lyrical modern dance. The evening also will feature,
"Wish," a ten-minute film by Alan Marsh that tells a tender hearted tale of a little girl's birthday
wish.
Tickets for "Wish" are $5 general admission, $3 senior citizens, faculty and staff, and
non-SLU students. Southeastern students are admitted free with their university I.D. In addition
to the Fanfare box office, tickets also will be available at the box office in D Vickers Hall lobby
beginning at 7 p.m. on performance nights.
For a Fanfare brochure and ticket order form or for additional information about Fanfare
events, call the Southeastern Public Information Office, 985-549-2341, or email
publicinfo@selu.edu. Fanfare information is available online at www.selu.edu/fanfare. Tickets
are available at Gate 1 of the Southeastern University Center on University Ave., 985-549-2323.
Box office hours are 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., weekdays.
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