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Date: 10/9/98
Contact: Christina Chapple 52L
Editors: Photos accompany release
BRASS, BALLET, DARWIN AND TOGAS ON TAP FOR FANFARE WEEK FOUR
HAMMOND -- Science set to music, brash brass players, ballet with an accent on
Hispanic culture and tales of the Roman toga are among the highlights of the fourth week of
Fanfare, Southeastern Louisiana University s annual October celebration of the arts, humanities
and sciences.
Here is Week Four s entertaining lineup....
Fanfare at night
Science historian, songwriter, author, anthropologist and entertainer Richard Milner,
who is senior editor of the American Museum of Natural History s Natural History Magazine,
has hit upon a special way to communicate his interest in science and his voluminous knowledge
about his favorite scientist, Charles Darwin. Through a unique musical theater experience,
Charles Darwin: Live and in Concert, Milner brings to life the famous Victorian naturalist, his
friends and adversaries and his historical voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle.
Charles Darwin: Live and in Concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Oct. 19, in the Pottle
Music Building Auditorium. Reserved seat tickets are $6, $5 for senior citizens, Southeastern
faculty and staff and all students.
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, an 18-member string orchestra founded by Russian
violinist Misha Rachievsky, will perform at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 20, in Pottle Music Building
Auditorium. Often noted for its ability to charge the hall and hold its audience, the ensemble is
composed of some of the finest young musicians in Moscow. Reserved seat tickets for Chamber
Orchestra Kremlin s performance are $10, $8 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty and staff
and all students.
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Canadian Brass offers its audiences a wonderful blend of musicianship and fun. The
quintet is known the world over for mixing classical virtuosity with high-spirited entertainment.
Music lovers who attend the group s 7:30 p.m., Oct. 21 concert at the Pottle Music Building
Auditorium can plan to react to the program with equal measures of laughter and admiration.
Canadian Brass virtuosity, musicality, comedy and wit brings music to the people through fine
performances delivered all in good fun.
Reserved seat tickets for Canadian Brass are $18, $15 for senior citizens, Southeastern
faculty and staff and all students.
Fanfare s special film series spotlighting notable recent films continues at 7 p.m., Oct.
22, with The Full Monty, the story of steelworkers who become male dancers as an alternative
to unemployment. The special film series takes place at University Cinema, 1006 N. Oak, and is
free.
Ballet Hispanico of New York, which performs at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 22, in Vonnie
Borden Theatre, has been recognized around the world as the foremost dance interpreter of
Hispanic culture in the United States. Founded in 1970 by artistic director Tina Ramirez, Ballet
Hispanico s innovative repertory blends ballet and ethnic dance forms into a spirited image of
contemporary Hispanic-American culture. Reserved seat tickets for Ballet Hispanico are $12,
$10 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty and staff and all students.
In addition to the Thursday night concert, Ballet Hispanico dancers will offer two free and
fun classes for area residents and dancers. At 5:30 p.m., Oct. 21, at the Paris Parker Movement
Studio, 101 E. Thomas in downtown Hammond, Ballet Hispanico will sponsor of Latin Social
Dance for Adults, a chance for would-be dancers to learn fun and spirited Latin dance steps.
Those interested in attending the one-hour session should call Martie Fellom at 504-549-2133 to
register.
Dancers ages 13 and older can also attend a Ballet Hispanico master class at 4 p.m., Oct.
21 in the Southeastern Kinesiology and Health Studies Building, Room 153. The class will offer
instruction in Afro-Caribbean movement and samples of the company s repertoire. Participants
may register by calling Fellom at 549-2133.
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Fractured, funny and folk is how the Los Angeles Times described the musical
political satire quartet, the Foremen, who will appear at Fanfare at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 23, in Pottle
Music Building Auditorium. These political pundits with perfect pitch take a scathingly funny
look at America s social and political landscape through wickedly funny original songs spanning
rock n roll to show tunes, all delivered in the four-part folk harmony tradition.
Reserved seat tickets for the Foremen are $12, $10 for senior citizens, Southeastern
faculty and staff and non-Southeastern students. SLU students will be admitted free with their
university I.D.
Fanfare by day
Harpist Rachel Van Voorhees has teamed up with flutist Dean Miller, violinist Amy
Thiaville, violist Suzanne Lefevre and cellist Ann Cohen for the third Music for a Sunday
Afternoon church concert series. Van Voorhees ensemble, The Music of Angels, will be
hosted by the First United Methodist Church, 2200 Rue Denise, at 3 p.m., Oct. 18.
In The Toga: It s not Clothing, It s a Concept, Southeastern English professor Wade
Heaton dons his custom-made, authentic Roman toga to examine 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. Heaton s free lecture is scheduled for 2 p.m., Oct. 19, in the Student Union
Theatre.
Fanfare s annual foreign film festival continues at 3:30 p.m., Oct. 20, with Madame
Bovary, based on Flaubert s masterpiece about a beautiful woman whose affairs conflict with
mores of conservative 19th century France. The free film is scheduled for the Music Recital Hall.
Fanfare always gives an enthusiastic welcome and round of applause to Louisiana-born
tenor Joseph Evans, who will present a free recital at 2 p.m., Oct. 22, in Pottle Music Building
Auditorium. Evans, who has charmed previous Fanfare audiences with programs blending the
classics and Broadway, has performed throughout the world and gained fame as a principal with
the New York City Opera.
Karen Plauche, children s services coordinator for the Tangipahoa Parish Library
system, will host a fun morning of activities aimed at making books come alive for area children.
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Storytime with Miss Karen is scheduled for 10:30 a.m., Oct. 24, at the Tangipahoa Parish
Library Hammond branch, 314 E. Thomas.
For more information about Fanfare, call the Southeastern Public Information Office for a
free brochure and ticket order form or visit the Fanfare web site at www.selu.edu/fanfare. Fanfare
tickets are available at the Fanfare Box Office, located at Gate 1 of the SLU University Center on
University Ave., 504-549-2323. Hours are 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., weekdays.
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