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Date: 9/30/99
Contact: Christina Chapple 52M
Editors: Photos accompany release
FANFARE'S SECOND WEEK FEATURES VOICES, ACTORS
HAMMOND -- A Grammy Award-winning Cajun band; a burly alto wowing the opera
world; master word smiths both local and national; musical fairytales and legends; a French
masterpiece and an African American view of the 1900s all fill the second full week of Fanfare.
Southeastern Louisiana University's annual fall arts festival is now in full swing.
October 10-17 highlights include...
Fanfare at night
The award-winning Dog & Pony Theatre Company of New Orleans will bring its
production of Emily Mann's "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" to Pottle
Music Building Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 11. The production stars two of Louisiana's finest
actors, Carol Sutton as Sadie Delany and Adella Gautier as Bessie Delany. The Delany sister's
best-selling oral history was adapted into an award winning play in which Sadie and Bessie
"have
their say" about their history American history from the perspective of two pioneering
professional black women. Tickets are $5, adults, and $3, children.
Countertenor David Daniels has achieved international prominence for his talents,
winning the prestigious Richard Tucker Music Foundation award in 1997. The New York Times
said, "Daniels has the voice of a boy soprano, clear and beautifully produced, yet projected with
the virility and lung power of an adult." Daniels' 7:30 p.m. performance on Oct. 12 in Pottle
Music Building Auditorium is part of Fanfare's new "Classics Series," which offers a special
ticket price of $40 adults, $35 senior citizens, SLU faculty, staff and alumni for tickets to his
performance, the Eroica Trio (Oct. 5), Pete Fountain (Nov. 4) and the Vienna Choir Boys (Nov.
11).
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Individual reserved seat tickets are $10 adults, $8 senior citizens, Southeastern faculty,
staff and alumni, and $5, all students.
Daniels' pianist, Martin Katz, will present a master class at 10 a.m., Oct. 12, in Pottle
Auditorium.
Southeastern Theatre is contributing Moliere's masterpiece, "Tartuffe," to the Fanfare
schedule. The performance opens Oct. 12 and runs through Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Vonnie
Borden Theatre. Written in the 17th century for the fabulous court of King Louis XIV, "Tartuffe"
is Moliere's masterful and bawdy satirical comedy of manners, which takes deadly accurate aim
at hypocrisy, lust and betrayal. The production is directed by Southeastern faculty member Kay
Files and the university's new faculty member, Margaret Whedon is designing period costumes
and wigs. Technical direction is by Steve Schepker and theatre student Misty Pelas designed the
lighting.
Reserved seat tickets are $5 adults, $3 senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and
alumni and non-SLU students. Southeastern students are admitted free with their university I.D.
Tickets are available at theatre's box office in the lobby of D Vickers Hall, 504-549-2105, from
11 a.m.-3 p.m., weekdays and beginning at 6 p.m. on performance nights.
Southeastern English professor Tim Gautreaux, whose short stories and novel have won
international praise, will read from his new collection of stories, "Welding With Children," at
7:30 p.m., Oct. 13, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Gautreaux's writing has delighted
readers of publications such as "GQ" and "Atlantic Monthly" by capturing present-day Louisiana
with the force and authority of a master.
Bayou Booksellers will host a book-signing of Gautreaux's eagerly-anticipated new short
story collection in the Pottle Auditorium lobby following his appearance.
America's premiere Cajun band, Beau Soleil avec Michael Doucet, joins the Fanfare
schedule in a season that is joining the statewide salute to FrancoFete, the 300th anniversary of
the arrival of the French in Louisiana. The Grammy-Award winning group is led by vocalist-
fiddler Michael Doucet, who says BeauSoleil's goal is to preserve authentic Cajun music and
spread its joys beyond the bayous.
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BeauSoleil will bring its lively combination of instrumental talent and undeniable soul to
Pottle Music Building Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 15. Reserved seat tickets are $10 adults, $8
senior citizens, Southeastern faculty, staff and alumni, and $5 all students.
The city of Amite joins Fanfare with "Amite's Art Explosion," from 6:30-9 p.m. at the
Amite Community Center, 101 W. Chestnut. Literally exploding with local actors, artists,
dancers, musicians and singers, the event will offer an evening of entertainment, including
Louisiana's premiere storyteller, Rose Anne St. Romain, and a pictorial history of the
Tangipahoa Parish Fair, all catered by local restaurants. Admission is $5 adults, $3 children and
additional information is available from Charley Vance at 504-748-6600 or 504-748-7549.
Fanfare by day
Fanfare's popular downtown event, Gallery Stroll, returns from 1-5 p.m., Oct. 11.
Approximately 20 downtown businesses will showcase the paintings, pastels, watercolors,
photography, wood turning, digital artwork and performance art of two dozens local artists.
Gallery Stroll patrons can enjoy a jazz brunch downtown, then stroll the historic district to view
the visual talent, along with street corner music, food booths and a variety of fun, hands-on
activities for children. The annual event is sponsored by the Hammond Downtown Development
District.
Continuing Fanfare's FrancoFete theme, the annual Fanfare film festival continues at
3:30 p.m., Oct. 12 in the Music Recital Hall with the French Canadian movie, "La Rue Cases
Negres. The film is free.
Richard Lederer, author of best-selling books such as "Anguished English," has been
called "America's wittiest herbalist" by Book-of-the-Month Club and the "Abbot of Absurdity"
by the Boston Globe. William F. Buckley places him in the company of William Safire, Struck
and White, Edwin Newman and James Kilpatrick as "best-selling guardians of American
English" Often heard on public and commercial radio, Lederer's weekly column "Looking at
Language" reaches more than one million readers through newspapers and magazines across the
United States.
He will offer Fanfare audiences "An Afternoon of Language and Laughter" at 2 p.m., Oct.
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13, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. His lecture is free.
With the idea of entertaining young people and building future audiences, Fanfare will
host a free performance on the mini-opera "Evangeline," at 2 p.m., Oct. 14, in Pottle Music
Building Auditorium. The musical performance is based on Longfellow's famous tale of lovers
parted during the Acadians' sojourn
Two noted scholars, Van Burns and former Southeastern Dean of the College of
Humanities Jerome Salomone will take an in-depth look at Cajun history, pride and contributions
of American culture in "Cajuns Revisited: Their Origins and Recent Transformation," at 3:30
p.m., Oct. 14, Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
Also for children of all ages, the American Family Theatre will presents an original
contemporary theatre version of the perennial favorite, "Beauty and the Beast," at 2 p.m., Oct.
16, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Tickets are $5 adults, $3 children.
Hammond Square Mall will host a Fanfare Family Arts Festival, a day of family fun in
the mall, from 12:30-5:30 p.m., Oct. 17. Families can enjoy performances on the "Kids Stage,"
tour mini galleries featuring school art displays and participate in interactive art projects
throughout the mall.
Fanfare's tradition of Sunday afternoon concerts continues Oct. 17 with a 3 p.m.
performance by mezzo soprano Marie-Therese Savignol in Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
The award-winning actress-singer's repertoire extends from the 17th to the early 20th century,
focusing on great operatic mezzo-soprano arias and sacred and secular songs.
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., 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., weekdays. Alumni discount applies to dues-paying (active)
Alumni Association members.
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