10/15/96
Christina Chapple 52j
Editors: Photos accompany release (mailed 10/16)
SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FANFARE -- WEEK FIVE
HAMMOND -- After a month's worth of excitement and entertainment, don't expect
Southeastern Louisiana University's October arts festival to go quietly. Fanfare has saved some
of the best for last.
As October winds to a close, Fanfare's final four days include one of the festival's
perennially popular events, Picnic-n-Pops!; a "wunderkind" violist; an encore of the huge Fanfare
1995 hit, "Always...Patsy Cline"; and gala performances by Southeastern's own dance company
and its music faculty.
Fanfare at night
Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., University Center. Under the baton of personable young guest
conductor Timothy Muffitt, conductor of the University of Texas Symphony orchestra and
assistant conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, New Orleans' Louisiana Philharmonic
Orchestra will present a special evening straight from Broadway. The LPO will begin its
"Symphonic Dances to Broadway" program with Leonard Bernstein's overture to "Candide" and
his "Symphonic Dances" from "West Side Story" and conclude it with "All I Ask of You" from
"Phantom of the Opera" and Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Ladies.
Soprano (and Louisiana native) Amy Pfrimmer will join the orchestra for "Glitter or Be
Gay" from Candide and, after intermission, will in turn be joined by Southeastern's own Stephen
Rushing, baritone, in "If I Love You" from Rogers and Hammerstein's "Carousel." Rushing will
also perform "Impossible Dream" from "Man of La Mancha."
Bass Alfred Walker, a native of New Orleans, will be the third soloist, performing two
songs by Jerome Kern, "Lonesome Walk" and "Old Man River" from "Show Boat."
The University Center's doors will open for Picnic-n-Pops! picnickers at 5 p.m. The
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entertainment, sponsored, as always, by the Hammond Rotary Club, begins at 7:30 p.m.
Floor seating for Picnic-n-Pops! is sold out, but arena tickets are available for $5.
Children under 12 get in free if accompanied by an adult.
Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., Pottle Music Building Auditorium. The name of Nokuthula
Ngwenyama is worth making the effort to memorize. At the age of 19, she is already a major
talent, a marvelous young champion of a neglected instrument--the viola. At 17, Nokuthula was
the first violist in more than a decade to win the 1994 Young Concert Artists International
Auditions. Debuts at the Kennedy Center and in New York's Young Concert Artists Series
followed, to rave reviews. Said the Washington Post, Ngwenyama has "the extra fire and
commitment that are the hallmarks of a serious artist...When (she) plays, energy flows from her
into the instrument as though they were surgically linked." Tickets for her performance, co-
sponsored by Shell Oil Company, are $6 general admission; $4 senior citizens, SLU faculty and
staff and all students.
Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., Vonnie Borden Theatre. Southeastern's resident dance company,
"danceworks," presents a concert called "Events," an evening of new works choreographed and
performed by Southeastern students and by two quest companies. headed by "danceworks"
alumni.
Izzy Moving Dance Company, directed by Southeastern dance instructor and graduate
Dana Brewer, will perform "Flight," danced by Brewer, Stacie Dautrerive, Nicole Fassbender,
Lillian Gray and Jeanne Labourdette. COREmovement Project artistic director Keith "Skip"
Costa. will perform his own "This Movement is a Special Place."
Student choreographers showcased in the concert include Nicole Fassbender of New
Orleans, Lillian Gray of Slidell, and George Traylor of Ponchatoula.
Tickets for "Events" are $5 general admission, $3 senior citizens, non-SLU students and
SLU faculty and staff. SLU students are admitted free with their university I.D.
Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., Ponchatoula High School Auditorium. In a repeat performance
from last year, Fanfare will bring the late great "first lady of country music" Patsy Cline back to
life in the Arkansas Repertory Theatre's unique tribute, Always...Patsy Cline. The two-act play
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filled with Cline's music is based on the story of Louise Seger, a Cline fan who became the
singer's fast friend and correspondent. Until her tragic death in March 1963, Cline signed her
letters to Louise, "Love always...Patsy Cline." Starring as Patsy Cline is Alice Spencer, while
Candyce Hinkle will portray Louise. Tickets for the show are $12 general admission. Corporate
sponsors are McKneely Funeral Home, Tangipahoa Tourist Commission, Tom Anderson, Bank
One and Charter Communications.
Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Southeastern faculty
musicians combine their talents for a special evening featuring the works of the great composer
Igor Stravinsky, including L'Histoire du Soldat and Octet for Wind Instruments. The concert is
free.
Fanfare by day
Oct. 28, 2 p.m., Music Recital Hall. As the final lecturer in the annual Regional
Research Lectures series, Southeastern English professor Mary Sue Ply will look at "The
Depiction of the Experience of Vietnamese Immigrants to New Orleans in Robert Olen Butler's
A
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain."
Oct 30, 4-7 p.m., Clark Hall Gallery. Fanfare closes with an event that continues into
November. Through December 3, Clark Hall Gallery will host an exhibit of works--textiles,
baskets, sculpture and beautifully wrought weapons--from the collection of Southern University
in New Orleans. The exhibit, which opens with a reception from 4-7 p.m. in Clark Hall Gallery,
is part of the University's celebration of November as "International Arts Month."
For a Fanfare brochure and ticket order form or for additional information about Fanfare
events, call the SLU Public Information Office, 504-549-2341, or send e-mail to
publicinfo@selu.edu. Fanfare tickets are available at the Fanfare box office, 504-549-2323, at
Gate 1 of the SLU University Center on University Ave. Fanfare information is also available on
the World Wide Web: www.selu.edu/fanfare/opening.htm.
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