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Date: 10/5/01
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
LECTURES, SOUTHEASTERN MUSICIANS STAR IN FANFARE'S THIRD WEEK
HAMMOND -- Three guest lecturers who will address timely and provocative topics,
plus a Southeastern Louisiana University professor's popular hands-on talk about togas, will be
in the forefront in the third week of Fanfare, Southeastern's annual festival of the arts,
humanities and sciences.
Sharing the Week Three spotlight with the four lectures will be performances by two
premier Southeastern orchestras, an exciting young Metropolitan Opera tenor, and a popular
college choir; dance and storytelling for children (and young-at-heart adults); foreign and classic
films; and special arts events in Hammond and neighboring Amite.
First up in Week Three is the Family Arts Festival, hosted by Hammond Square Mall
from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 14. The free event features an entire day of art education,
including art work by local students showcased in the International House of Blues Foundation
art gallery. Families can also enjoy performances by Dancingly Yours Studio, the Reg Sanders
Jazz Band, the Y Knots Square Dance Club, "the Cat in the Hat" and interactive art stations.
The Music for a Sunday Afternoon series of concerts at Hammond churches will continue
at 3 p.m., Sunday, October 14, with the acclaimed Centenary Choir at the First United
Methodist Church, 2200 Rue Denise. Directed by Will K. Andress, the 60-year-old choir has
earned the title "America's Singing Ambassadors" by performing throughout the world for
front-line troops in Korea, American and European heads of state, international civic and church
conventions, and at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Their free concert will feature a
varied repertory of sacred and secular music, from Bach to Broadway, folk to contemporary, and
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opera to oratorio.
At 7:30 p.m., Monday, October 15 conductor Yakov Voldman and the 41-member
Southeastern Chamber Orchestra will present a free concert titled, "A Night of Encores."
Voldman explains that the evening's program will feature classical "favorites" by composers
such as Verdi and Strauss. The light-hearted repertoire will include some tongue-in-cheek
moments such as a soloist on anvil in Strauss' "Feurfest" as well as numerous violin solos
and "Laughing Song" from "Die Fledermaus" by Southeastern soprano Summer Grest.
Fanfare's foreign and classic film festivals will continue with free showings of "All
Quiet on the Western Front" at 7:30 p.m., Monday, October 15 at the East Gate Caf‚ and
Cinema on North Oak Street and the French film "Madame Rosa" at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday,
October 16 in the Music Recital Hall. The film will have English subtitles.
English professor Wade Heaton's popular lecture explains that the classic Roman toga
was not just what Romans wore, but was a symbol of life and honor. Heaton dons an authentic
toga to detail the garment's meaning, symbolism, legal status, care, the art of toga draping and
why Romans never wore the sacred robe of peace to a party. His free lecture, "The Toga: It's Not
Just Clothing, it's a Concept," is scheduled for 2 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 16, in the Pottle Music
Building Auditorium.
Father Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest, has been imprisoned numerous times for
non-violently protesting U.S. military policy in Central America. Bourgeois, who will speak at 2
p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 17 at Pottle Music Building Auditorium, particularly
targets the training carried out at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning,
Ga. As director of SOA Watch, Bourgeois has been featured in the Oscar-nominated
documentary "School of Assassins." His lecture, "A School for Democracy Or a School of
Assassins?", is free to the public.
"The Strange Death of American Liberalism" will be the topic of award-wining author
William Brands' lecture at 2 p.m. Thursday, October 18 in Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
Brands, editor of "Presidential Studies Quarterly" at Texas A & M University, is a familiar face
on the History Channel, C-SPAN's "Booknotes," and national public radio and television. His
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lecture is also free.
Young tenor Eric Cutler was a 1998 winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions, the same year in which he joined the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development
Program. He made his Met debut last season as the First Prisoner in "Fidelio" and also performed
roles in "Doktor Faust," "Parsifal" and "Ariadne auf Naxos." His Fanfare performance is
scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 18 at Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Tickets are
$8 for adults, $6 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni, $3 for groups of ten
or more, and $3 for all students.
In his lecture at 2 p.m., Friday, October 19 in Pottle Music Building Auditorium, Jerry
Sanson, a professor of history and political science at Louisiana State University-Alexandria,
will expand upon his recent book, "Louisiana during WWII: Politics and Society 1939-1945."
He will illustrate how Louisiana and its politics, education, agriculture, industry and society
fared
while the world was at war. Sanson's lecture is free.
The unique dance company Of Moving Colors combines movement, visual arts,
literature and music in its educating and stimulating performances. "White," which Of Moving
Colors will present at 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 19 in D Vickers Hall's Vonnie Borden Theatre,
boldly poses the question "What does White mean to you?" Dancers, musicians, poets and
painters simultaneously explore the different perspectives of the color white on a beautiful
surface layer of white images such as light, linens, sugar, magnolias even nurses shoes. Tickets
for the unique performance are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff
and alumni, $6 for groups of ten or more and $5 for all students.
As a special treat for children, storyteller John Milligan, one of the country's most
experienced character actors, will bring to life the tale of "Riki Tikki Tavi" from Rudyard
Kipling's "Just So Stories." The free event is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, October 20, at the
Tangipahoa Parish Library's Hammond branch, 314 E. Thomas Street.
The city of Amite will join the Fanfare schedule on Saturday, October 20, with the third
annual Explosion of the Arts. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Amite Community Center, the
evening, catered by local restaurants, will feature an exhibit of artwork by area students and
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artists and performances by more than 100 elementary and high school singers, dancers, actors
and musicians. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students. For additional information about
the event, call 985-747-6000 or 985-748-7549.
Rounding out Week Three is the Southeastern Wind Symphony's concert "Bugler's
Jubilee," scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Saturday, October 20, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
The symphony, conducted by Glen Hemberger, will welcome guest artist Philip Smith, principal
trumpet of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra since 1988 and the leading trumpet player of
his generation. He will join the Southeastern Wind Symphony in works for trumpet and wind
band such as "Concertpiece" by James Curnow, "Evensong" by Stephen Michael Gryc, and
Herman Bellstedt's classic selection, "Napoli."
The free concert will also include the Louisiana premiere of "Scossa Elettrica March" by
Giacomo Puccini, a 1899 work discovered in Italy two years ago that is the only known march by
Puccini. Emily Truckenbrod of the Southeastern music faculty will be featured in a performance
of Ron Nelson's masterwork, "Aspen Jubilee." The evening will conclude with a special
performance of Leroy Anderson's classic, "Bugler's Holiday," showcasing Smith, Southeastern
trumpet professor Bryan DePoy, and several other guests.
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. Fanfare
tickets are available at Gate 1 of the SLU 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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