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Date: 10/2/98
Contact: Christina Chapple 52L
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FANFARE'S 3RD WEEK FEATURES GRAY, GUITARISTS, RADIO NOSTALGIA
HAMMOND The author who realigned the planets in terms of relationships; a Fifties
version of one of the Bard s best; a swinging return to radio s Golden Age; great guitarists and
high-powered Russian dancers will all take the stage during Fanfare s third week.
Southeastern Louisiana University s annual October festival of the arts, humanities and
sciences continues Oct. 11-17 with an accent on variety.
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Pianist Alexander Bonduriansky, violinist Vladimir Ivanov and cellist Mikhail Utkin,
the Moscow Piano Trio, will solo with the Southeastern Chamber Orchestra, which will perform
works by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart under the baton of Southeastern strings professor and
conductor Yakov Voldman. Reserved seat tickets for the 7:30 p.m., Oct. 12 performance in the
Pottle Music Building Auditorium are $8 general admission, $5 senior citizens, SLU faculty and
staff and all students.
The famed Alabama Shakespeare Festival s touring production of The Taming of the
Shrew, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Oct. 13, in Vonnie Borden Theatre, features a contemporary
twist on the Bard s classic battle of the sexes. ASF Artistic Director Kent Thomas has set the
play in the 1950s because, There s a lot about America in the 1950s that reminds me of the
Elizabethan Italy presented in the play, he said. In a time of growing affluence and prosperity,
the proper behavior and roles for men and women were conventional and widely accepted.
Everyone expected men to act one way and women to act another.
If you believe our nostalgia about the 50s, Thomas said, everything was better
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because people behaved better and knew their place. Men were men and women were ...
housewives. So I have plunged the play into the 1950s, with strong male and female archetypes
in an affluent society on the verge of tremendous change.
Reserved seat tickets for The Taming of the Shrew are $15 general admission, $12
senior citizens, Southeastern faculty and staff and all students.
An internationally recognized expert in the fields of communication, relationships and
personal growth, John Gray soared to fame in the early 1990s with his book, Men Are From
Mars, Women Are From Venus. According to Gray, pretending that men and women are from
different planets helps us to deal with the opposite sex in a loving and accepting way, leading to
better relationships.
Since the success of his first book, Gray has expanded upon his theme in Mars and
Venus in the Bedroom, Mars and Venus Together Forever, Mars and Venus in Love and
his most recent works, Mars and Venus on a Date and Mars and Venus Single Again.
Gray will entertain and inspire audiences with his practical insights and easy-to-use
techniques for enriching relationships at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 14, in the SLU University Center.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty and staff and
non-SLU students. Southeastern students are admitted free with their university I.D.
Following his lecture, Gray will sign books purchased on site.
Fanfare s Special Film Series continues at 7 p.m., Oct. 15, with The Wings of the
Dove, a critically-acclaimed adaption of Henry James novel starring Helena Bonham Carter.
The free film series is shown at University Cinema, 1006 N. Oak in Hammond
Featuring the vocal artistry of Five By Design, Radio Days, scheduled for 7:30 p.m.,
Oct. 15, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium, interweaves the music of Glenn Miller s
Modernaires and Tommy Dorsey s Pied Pipers with vintage serials, quiz shows, comedies and
cameos from Carmen Miranda and Betty Grable. Gathered around vintage microphones and
sound-effects tables, the five singer/actors perform a repertoire spanning the war years, including
swing tunes, romantic ballads and flag-waving patriotic numbers.
Backed by live Big Band sound, they offer plenty of skits and shtick from jingles for
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sponsors such as Halo Shampoo and Pepsi-Cola to live vintage radio show dramas. Reserved seat
tickets for Radio Days are $12 general admission, $10 senior citizens, Southeastern faculty and
staff and all students.
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, which will perform at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 16, in Pottle
Music Building Auditorium, is recognized as one of America s premier instrumental ensembles
four musicians who have set new standards for the guitar quartet medium. John Dearman,
William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant and Andrew York have been called one of the most
charismatic and versatile groups performing today. Their inventive, critically-acclaimed
transcriptions of concert masterworks are said to provide a fresh new look at the music of the
past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms
continually break new ground.
Reserved seat tickets for the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet are $15 general admission, $12
senior citizens, Southeastern faculty and staff and all students.
Zabava means entertainment or fun in Russian and that is exactly what this
internationally renowned dance group offers. Zabava s athletic and elegant dances embody the
best of Russian folk dance and their multitude of exquisitely detailed handmade costumes are as
colorful as their high-powered dancing.
The toupe will make a back-by-popular-demand return to Fanfare with a 7:30 p.m.
performance on Oct. 17 at Ponchatoula High School, Hwy. 22. Reserved seat tickets are $12.
Fanfare by day
The Art and All That Jazz weekend continues Oct. 11 with Gallery Stroll, the
popular art- and fun-filled family day in downtown Hammond. The day begins with jazz
brunches from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hammond s Cafe and Bakery 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. The David Bivens Band will entertain art lovers as they view area artists works at
downtown 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
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hands-on art activities guided by Southeastern art and education students.
While the travails of Prince Charles and his ill-fated Princess Diana have dominated
headlines and shocked Royalty-watchers during the 1980s and 1990s, the current British Royal
Family s news-making squabbles and scandals are nothing new. History shows that more than
one head that has worn the crown in England has been notorious. Southeastern history professor
Bill Robison, known as a lively lecturer and gifted teacher, will have all the details in Scandal
and British Royalty: Past and Present, a free presentation scheduled for 2 p.m., Oct. 12, in the
Student Union Theatre.
Fanfare s Foreign Film Series continues at 3:30 p.m., Oct. 13, in the Music Recital
Hall with Nuovo Cinema, an Oscar-nominated celebration from Italy of youth, friendship and
the everlasting magic of the movies.
Southeastern history professor Judith Fai-Podlipnik, who has conducted extensive
research on 20th century Hungary and on Hungarian Holocaust survivors, will look at another
chapter of the Holocaust in a special lecture titled Genocide Beyond Nazi German Borders: the
Role of East European Collaborators in the Holocaust at 2 p.m., Oct. 14, in the Music Recital
Hall.
An acknowledged music leader, the Verdehr Trio will perform a free concert at 2 p.m.,
Oct. 15, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. The trio Gary Kirkpatrick, piano; Elsa Ludewig-
Verdehr, clarinet, and Walter Verdehr, violin has concentrated on defining the personality of
the violin-clarinet-piano trio. Through its commissioning efforts, more than 75 new works
written by some of the world s most prominent composers have been added to the chamber
music repertoire and the trio has rediscovered and transcribed many 18th and 19th century
pieces.
Sweet Home Baptist Church, located at 11427 C.B. Temple Road in Kentwood, will
celebrate Kentwood s African-American community at Sweet Home Folklife Days, scheduled
for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Oct. 17. Activities will include gospel music and demonstrations of crafts
passed down from generation to generation. Home-cooked food such as chicken n dumplings
and fried sweet potato pies, will also be sold. For additional information, call 504-229-5437.
A downtown Amite celebration of Art and Architecture from 9 a.m. to noon on Oct.
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17 will feature demonstrations of water color and oils by members of the Southeastern Louisiana
Art Guild, as well as demonstrations of the arts of quilting, tanning furs, making honey and
flinting. Centered at the old First Guaranty Bank Building at 101 Southeast Central Ave. in
Amite, the celebration also will showcase dance and drama performances and a driving tour of
extraordinary Amite homes. For additional information, contact the Amite Chamber of
Commerce at 504-748-5537.
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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