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Date: 10/12/00
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FANFARE'S WEEK FOUR FEATURES ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE
HAMMOND -- Fanfare's fourth week is a feast of dazzling theatre and classical music
delivered with a generous dash of humor.
Highlights of the annual Southeastern Louisiana University art festival's schedule from
Oct. 22-28 include an original folk musical by the acclaimed Alabama Shakespeare Festival, a
female chamber quintet plays the classics with MTV flare, a quartet whose classical repertoire is
spiced with wit and fun, tales of wonder and courage illustrated with breathtaking hand-crafted
masks, and a stirring "Battle Hymn of the Republic" performed by Southeastern vocalists and
musicians
The week begins with "An Afternoon of Guitar and Song" presented by two engaging
Southeastern faculty, soprano Emily Truckenbrod and guitarist Patrick Kerber. The final concert
in Fanfare's "Music for a Sunday Afternoon" series, the performance will be hosted by
Hammond's First Presbyterian Church, located at the corner of Charles and Spruce Streets. The
free performance is scheduled for 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 22.
On Monday, Oct. 23, Southeastern strings professor Yakov Voldman will conduct the
university's Chamber Orchestra in works by Bernstein, Hovanes, Barber, Gershwin, Kennan
and Hanson. The free concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Pottle Music Building
Auditorium.
Fanfare's Foreign Film Festival continues at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Music
Recital Hall with "Tango," a Spanish-language movie from Argentina that celebrates the
exhilarating art of the tango in a "backstage musical" that weaves plot and stunning dance
numbers in the tradition of "A Chorus Line" and "42nd Street."
Bimbetta, a quintet of three sopranos, a cellist and a harpsichordist, uses the heat and
humor of American popular culture to bring the passions of 17th century music straight into the
21st century. The young artists' performance combines original instruments of the early Baroque
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with an innovative, cabaret-style approach to the stage and uses the styles of pop, soul and
Country-Western to show that Baroque music is happening "now," not "then." Tickets for their
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct 24 concert in Pottle Music Building Auditorium are$12 for adults, $10
for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni and $5 for all students.
Of Quartetto Gelato, which will perform at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25, in Pottle
Music Building Auditorium, the critics have said, "They play together without scores, and with
the conversational ease of old friends. Very funny old friends." The quartet has been praised for
its virtuosity, energy and wit. The musicians' repertoire ranges from classical masterworks and
operatic arias to tangos, gypsy fiddling, a tear-your-heart-out "Oh, Danny Boy" and a show-
stopping "O Sole Mio." Tickets are$12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty,
staff and alumni and $5 for all students.
Southeastern faculty members will contribute to the Fanfare schedule at 2 p.m., Thursday,
Oct. 26, when sculptors Roy Blackwood, head of the visual arts department, and his colleague
Gary Keown host a panel discussion, "Toys and Art Playground," on the influence of
childhood toys on an artist's creations. Their free lecture, which will include examples of their
own toys and the art they inspired, is also scheduled for Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
The Southeastern Wind Symphony, conducted by Glen Hemberger, has titled their 7:30
p.m. concert on Thursday, Oct. 26 in Pottle Music Building Auditorium "American Salute." The
concert will feature two of the nation's most outstanding solo performers, euphonium soloist
Brian L. Bowman and pianist Willis Delony. Bowman enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist,
clinician, recording artist and educator and has earned an international reputation as a soloist
with
America's top military bands. In 1976, he presented the historic first euphonium recital in
Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City. He will join the Wind Symphony in three virtuoso
works and also plans to present a free masterclass and clinic at 2 p.m. in Pottle Music Building
Auditorium .
Delony will headline the Wind Symphony's performance of George Gershwin's immortal
work "Rhapsody in Blue." Delony, a long time director of Southeastern's jazz studies program,
recently joined the Louisiana State University music faculty. He has earned praise as a recitalist,
concerto soloist, jazz pianist and accompanist.
Also on the free concert's program is a rendition by the Wind Symphony and
Southeastern choirs, directed by Dirk Garner, of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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Danceworks, Southeastern's residence dance company, will again contribute an original
concert to the Fanfare schedule. "Unicorn," choreographed by Heather Breland, Nichole Brown,
Donya Chavanel and Grace Latino, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. performances on Thursday, Oct.
26 and Friday, Oct. 27 in Vonnie Borden Theatre. In the work, shadows and light, good and evil,
visible and invisible worlds are the settings for an original mythology of fairies and gargoyles
struggling with the balances of nature and the influences of power. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3
for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni, and non-SLU students. Southeastern
students are admitted free with their university I.D.
Presenting a special treat for families, "Miss Karen" Plauche, children's services
coordinator for the Tangipahoa Parish Library system, will make books come alive through
stories, sons and films in "For Little Ones at the Library" at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 28, at the
Tangipahoa Parish Library Hammond Library, 314 E. Thomas.
Combining the mythical and the autobiographical, Michael Cooper's one-man
extravaganza, "Masked Marvels and Wondertales," features his breathtaking handcrafted
masks, original stories of courage and wonder, outlandish stilt dancing and a physical repertoire
that ranges from the madcap to the sublime. The result is "moving sculpture" and wonderful
family entertainment. The event is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct 28, in Pottle Music
Building Auditorium. Tickets are $5 general admission, and $3 for children under 12.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival's acclaimed new touring production of the original folk
musical "Fair and Tender Ladies" will be presented at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 28, in Vonnie
Borden Theatre. Adapted from Lee Smith's beloved novel by playwright Eric Schmiedl, the
production features lively original music by Tommy Goldsmith, Tom House, and Karren Pell.
The original folk musical taps the rich oral and musical traditions of the Appalachian mountains
to tell the story of a strong and resolute woman through memories, letters, and the music of a
remarkable life. Tickets are$18 for adults, $15 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and
alumni and $8 for all students.
For a Fanfare brochure and ticket order form or for additional information, contact
Southeastern Public Information, 504-549-2341, publicinfo@selu.edu. Fanfare information is
available online at www.selu.edu/fanfare. Tickets are on sale at Gate 1 of the SLU University
Center on University Ave., 504-549-2323, from 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., weekdays.
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