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Date: 9/23/99
Contact: Christina Chapple 52M
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FANFARE WEEK ONE FEATURES MUSICAL REVIEW, TRIO, VICTIMS' ADVOCATE
HAMMOND -- A trio of musicians as attractive as they are talented, a FrancoFete inspired
musical review and a nationally known crusader for victims' rights and missing children
highlight the first full week of Fanfare, Southeastern Louisiana University's fall celebration of
the arts.
Fanfare's 14th season of theatre, art, classical and chamber music, jazz, films, lectures,
ballet and modern dance, writers, lecturers, and community events officially begins Sept. 29 with
the opening of the musical review "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris."
Scheduled for 7:30 p.m. each night through Oct. 2 at Southeastern's Pottle Music Building
Auditorium, the show is being staged by Southeastern's acclaimed Opera-Music Theatre
Program."Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" features some 20 songs by the late
Belgian composer, whose works celebrate love, dreams and the humor of everyday life.
Reserved seat tickets for "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" are $10 for
adults and $5 for senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff, alumni and non-SLU students.
Southeastern students are admitted free with their university I.D.
Among Fanfare's first guest artists are the three striking young women who make up the
Eroica Trio, a world class chamber ensemble that electrifies the concert stage with a combination
of technical virtuosity, vivid artistic interpretation and contagious exuberance. The Eroica Trio
will perform at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 5 at Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
Carnegie Hall recently named the Eroica Trio "America's Rising Stars," a distinction which
brought the Trio a debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in 1997 and a critically-acclaimed tour
of Europe's great concert halls. Named for Beethoven's passionate Third Symphony, the trio is
one of the first all-female chamber ensembles to reach the top echelons of their field. Critics say
the group is rocking the classical music world with expressive performances that pulsate with
pop influenced
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rhythms.
Reserved seat tickets for the Eroica Trio are $10 adults, $8 senior citizens, Southeastern
faculty, staff and alumni and $5 for all students. The performance is part of Fanfare's new
"Classic Series" ticket package, which also includes countertenor David Daniels, the Vienna
Choir Boys and clarinetist Pete Fountain and can be purchased for $40, adults, and $35, senior
citizens and Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni.
A tireless advocate for victims' rights and missing children, John Walsh has turned his
passion for justice into the nation's number-one crime fighting show, "The New America's Most
Wanted: America Fights Back." In an appearance sponsored by Southeastern's Campus Activities
Board, Walsh will lecture at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 6, at the SLU University Center. Tickets are $10
adults, $5 senior citizens, faculty, staff, alumni and non-SLU students. Southeastern students are
admitted free with their university I.D.
Walsh is no stranger to violent crime. His successful career as a host of a nationally
televised program and as an advocate for victims rights was born when his six-year old son was
abducted and murdered, a crime that has gone unsolved. Walsh and his wife turned their grief
into positive energy to help missing and exploited children, including campaigning for passage
of the Missing Children Act of 1982 and the Missing Children's Assistance Act of 1984.
Fanfare's first week also includes:
* A Fanfare encore performance of the acclaimed Moses Hogan Chorale, which fuses all
the elements of African American musical traditions: classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz and blues.
Reserved tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance on Oct. 4 at Pottle Music Building Auditorium
are $5 adults, $3 students.
* Jazz Downtown at 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 9 in front of Deposit Guaranty Bank in
downtown Hammond. Headliners at the popular outdoor mini-jazz fest are the SLU Jazz
Ensemble, directed by Willis Delony, which will offer Big Band tunes, and the two-stepping
Cajun sounds of Bruce Daigrepont. Free swing dance lessons will be offered from 6-7 p.m.
* Openings of five exhibits, including "One Hundred Years of Sunshine," honoring
former Governor and singer Jimmy Davis (3-5 p.m., Sept. 29, Sims Library Center for Regional
Studies); "Gun-Cotton and Ether," photographs by Claude Levet, master of "wet collodion"
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photography (3-5 p.m., Oct. 4, Sims Library); "Where Land Meets the Sky," a retrospective of
Elemore Morgan (3-5 p.m., Oct. 6, Clark Hall Gallery); "North Oaks Collection," works by
Florida Parish artists (4-6 p.m., North Oaks Medical Center); "Viva la France! Viva la
Louisiane!," a celebration of flowers and gardens (1-6 p.m., Le Fleur de Lis, Ponchatoula.)
* Auditions for local children and performances of the Missoula Children's Theatre's
"Sleeping Beauty." Auditions are scheduled for 4 p.m., Oct. 4 in Music Annex room 162A.
Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Oct. 8, and 2 p.m., Oct. 9, in Pottle Music Building
Auditorium. Tickets are $5 adults, $3 children.
* The Hungarian Settlement Celebration in Hungarian Settlement, La., on Oct. 2, including
an authentic Hungarian dinner from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Arpadhon Hungarian Association
Building on Highway 43, and a Harvest Dance at 5 p.m. at the American Legion Hall. Call
(504)567-9670/2869/2087.
* "Shadow Puppet Fun," for young children, led by Tangipahoa Parish Library children's
services coordinator Karen Plauche at 10:30 a.m., at the Hammond branch, 314 E. Thomas.
* The acclaimed Centenary Choir, at 3 p.m., Oct. 3, at the First United Methodist Church,
220 Rue Denise in Hammond.
* Trio Mississippi -- pianist Lois Leventhal, violinist Stephen Redfield and cellist Paul
York, at 2 p.m., Oct. 7, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
* A showing of the film "The Eighth Day," at 3:30 p.m., Oct. 5, in the Music Recital Hall.
A lecture on "Humor is Art" by self-styled "humorologist," author and art humor
advocate Nicholas Roukes, at 10:30 a.m., Oct. 9, in the Music Recital Hall. Roukes address is
part of the Louisiana Art Education Association's fall conference.
For a Fanfare brochure and ticket order form or for additional information about Fanfare
events, call the SLU Public Information Office, 504-549-2341, send e-mail to
publicinfo@selu.edu, or visit the Fanfare web site, www.selu.edu/fanfare. Fanfare tickets are
available at the Fanfare box office 504-549-2323, Gate 1, SLU University Center, 700 W.
University Ave. Box office hours are 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., weekdays. All seats are reserved.
Alumni discount applies to dues-paying (active) Alumni Association members.
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