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Date: 10/2/98
Contact: Christina Chapple 52L
FANFARE'S 13TH SEASON IN FULL SWING
HAMMOND -- A soaring young soprano from Covington, tunes from the Crescent City,
trios from here and abroad, a history-maker's descendant, candy art and the Pillsbury Doughboy
fill the first full week of Fanfare. Southeastern Louisiana University's annual October arts festival
is now in full swing.
October 4-11 highlights include...
Fanfare at night
The Oct. 6-10 run of Southeastern Theatre's production of "Private Eyes" is
scheduled for 7:30 p.m. nightly in Vonnie Borden Theatre. Director Kay files will stage the
regional premier of Steven Dietz's exiting new play, an acclaimed hit at last year's Louisville
Humana Festival. Southeastern's theatre professor Steve Schepker has designed the set and
lighting, while costumes were designed by his colleague, Rebecca Boyles.
In "Private Eyes," File says, "nothing is ever quite what it seems. It's a relationships
thriller' about love, lust and the power of deception."
Reserved seat tickets for the play are $5 general admission and $3 for senior citizens,
Southeastern faculty and staff and non-SLU students. Southeastern students are admitted free
with their university I.D. Tickets are available at Southeastern Theatre's D Vickers Hall box
office, 504-549-2115, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays.
Covington-born Elizabeth Futral, a young opera star who has already earned fame
and acclaim for her rich, vibrant voice, captivating stage personality and radiant beauty, will
perform at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 6, in the Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Noted as one of her
generation's leading lyric-coloratura sopranos, Futral also will treat Southeastern voice students
to a master class at 11 a.m, Oct. 7, in Pottle Auditorium. The master class is open to the public.
Futral comes to Fanfare after starring as Stella in the San Francisco Opera's world premier of
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Andre Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire." She will make her Metropolitan Opera debut later
this year.
Reserved seat tickets for her recital are $10 general admission, $8 senior citizens,
Southeastern faculty and staff and all students.
While the musicians hail from the former Soviet Union, the Moscow Piano Trio, like
Futral, has a local connection. Their Fanfare concert, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Oct. 7, in the Pottle
Music Building Auditorium, will again reunite one of the trio's members, pianist Alexander
Bonduriansky with his sister, Southeastern staff accompanist Raisa Voldman, and brother-in-law,
Southeastern strings professor Yakov Voldman.
Together with violinist Vladimir Ivanov and cellist Mikhail Utkin, Bonduriansky, a hit at
Fanfare 1997 and highly honored in Europe, will also solo with the Southeastern Orchestra at
7:30 p.m., Oct. 12, in the Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
Tickets for each performance are $8 general admission, $5 senior citizens, SLU faculty
and staff and all students.
Samuel Pieh, the great-great grandson of the slave ship "Amistad's" Joseph
Cinque, will present "Putting a Face on History: the Lessons of "Amistad" at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 8,
in the Student Union Theatre. A tireless humanitarian, Pieh will explore the reasons why the
landmark U.S. Supreme Court trial of the "Amistad" mutineers was largely forgotten by history
until the release of Stephen Speilberg's award-winning film. His lecture is free.
A Fanfare favorite, the Missoula Children's Theatre will return to cast local children
in "Wiz of the West," a Wild West musical version of the Oz classic in which there's no place like
home on the range. Auditions are scheduled for 4 p.m., Oct. 5, Room 162A of the Pottle Music
Annex. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m., Oct. 9, and 2 p.m., Oct. 10, Pottle Music Building
Auditorium. Reserved seat tickets are $5 general admission, $3 senior citizens, Southeastern
faculty and staff and all students.
The Art and All That Jazz weekend begins at 5:30 p.m., Oct. 10, in front of Deposit
Guaranty Bank in downtown Hammond with Jazz Downtown, featuring the always popular New
Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra, Cajun favorite Bruce Daigrepont and his band, trumpeter
Marvin Stamm and the Tangipahoa All Stars and vocalist Wanda Rouzan. Jazz Downtown is free.
The weekend continues on Oct. 11 with Gallery Stroll. The art- and fun-filled family day
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will feature jazz brunches from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hammond's Cafe and Baker Edelweiss,
Jordan's on Cate, LaCarreta Mexican Restaurant, Brady's Restaurant, Coffee Rani and Mariner's
Inn. From 1-5 p.m., regional artists will display their work on Artisan's Row behind the
Hammond Chamber of Commerce and the David Bivens Band will play while art lovers stroll the
sidewalks of downtown Hammond viewing area artists' works at galleries, restaurants and
business. A children's tent will host the New Orleans Museum of Art's "Van Go," flower pot
decorating and planting by Airport Garden Center and hands-on art activities guided by
Southeastern art and education students.
Fanfare by day
Since the first Music for a Sunday Afternoon concert, featuring organist Richard Webb
at Hammond's First Christian Church, was tossed to Nov. 1 by Hurricane Georges, the annual
Fanfare series of concerts at local churches will begin with an appearance at the First Baptist
Church by the Louisiana State University's nationally-acclaimed A Cappella Choir, directed
by Kenneth Fulton. The choir will perform at 3 p.m., Oct. 4, in the church sanctuary at 401 W.
Morris in Hammond. Admission is free.
His voice and face are familiar, but unless you cast movies, make commericals or
produce corporate training films, his name draws a blank. But without JoBe Cerny, head of
Cerny American Creations, there would be no Cheers man and no giggly voice for the Pillsbury
Doughboy. Cerny, who has written many award winning stage plays, industrial films, commericals
and motion picture scripts and won virtually every advertising award given, will tell Fanfare
audiences "When You Start With Nothing, You Learn to Appreciate Nothing More." His free
lecture is scheduled for 2 p.m., Oct. 5, in the Student Union Theatre.
"Sims & Sims @ Sims," a mother-daughter exhibit by photographers Julia and Scotty
Sims, will open with a reception from 3-5 p.m., Oct. 5, in Sims Memorial Library. The exhibit will
be on display through Oct. 30.
Fanfare's popular foreign film series begins Oct. 6 with the Spanish movie "La
Historia Oficial (The Official Story)," winner of the 1986 Oscar for Best Foreign Language
Film, at 3:30 p.m., Oct. 6, in the Music Recital Hall. Set in Argentina in the early 1980s, the film
chronicles one woman's realization of her unknowing complicity in the country's reign of terror.
The foreign film series is free.
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Andre Codrescu of New Orleans -- by way of Romania -- is a renowned
commentator for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." As an author, he has created
the national bestseller "The Blood Countess" and memoirs such as "The Hole in the Flag" about
the collapse of communism in his native country. Also praised for his poety and essays and as the
author and star of the Peabody Award-winning move "Road Scholar," Codrescu will give a free
lecture entitled "Whose Memory is This? CyberSpace and the Reptile Defense League," at 2
p.m., Oct. 7, in the Student Union Theatre.
Famed "bubblegum artist" Franz Spohn will guide the children of Hammond's
Westside Primary as they create a permanent mural for their school, one gumball at a time. If his
visual arts vision is difficult to imagine, think of a gumball as a pixel, one of the thousands of dots
of color that make up a photograph. From 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Oct. 8-9, Spohn will help
Westside's students taste the "sweet" satisfaction of creativity. He will also demonstrate his candy
art technique at Art and All That Jazz's Gallery Stroll on Oct. 11.
The acclaimed Triangle Baroque Ensemble of North Carolina will present a free
concert at 2 p.m., Oct. 8, at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium. The ensemble combines the
talents of former Southeastern music professor Brooks de Wetter-Smith, soprano Penelope
Jensen, harpsichordist Elaine Funaro and cellist Brent Wissick.
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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