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The Servant of Two Masters, an 18th-century Venetian comedy of errors by Carlo Goldoni, opens tonight (March 5) at the IU Mainstage Theatre, with a performance tomorrow night and continuing March 8-13.
It seems Truffaldino tries to serve two masters at once--one of whom is a mistress. The play is a theatrical game that has delighted audiences for more than 200 years, and this production is filled with irreverent spirit, rambunctious physicality, and dashes of melodrama and dance. The director is Murray McGibbon; scene designer is Wes Peters; and costumes are by Jeanette deJong. All three are on the Department of Theatre and Drama faculty. Graduate student David Lapham is in charge of lighting. Curtain time for all shows will be 8 p.m.
Tickets are available at the IU Theatre box office in the northeast corner of the IU Auditorium. Tickets may also be purchased by phone through TicketMaster.
Richard Strauss' Arabella continues tonight (March 5) and tomorrow, performed by the IU Opera Theater at the Musical Arts Center. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Imre Pallo conducts, Vincent Liotta is the stage director, and Robert O'Hearn is the designer.
The story of Arabella takes place in 1860 in Vienna, where the Walder family is visiting to find a suitable (and wealthy) husband for their eldest daughter, Arabella. She finds her three initial suitors boring, however, and sets her sights on a mysterious man. What she does not know is that this same man has already asked for her hand in marriage. A plot full of comedy, love, jealousy and mistaken identities combines with a score full of waltz tunes and Balkan folk songs. Tickets are available at the MAC Box Office or through TicketMaster.
Celebrate Jazz Heritage Days with alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett and his quartet in performances sponsored by the IU Students for the Preservation of Jazz, the African American Arts Institute and other campus and community organizations.
A free concert featuring the Kenny Garrett Quartet is scheduled at 8 p.m. Sunday (March 7) at the Creative Arts Auditorium (corner of 10th Street and the State Road 46 Bypass).
Garrett was JazzTimes magazine's best artist of the year in 1998.
A lecture/clinic is scheduled Monday (March 8) at 11:30 a.m. at the IU School of Music's Annex, Room 464. Another will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the auditorium of Bloomington High School North. Both are free and open to the public.
New York Philharmonic music director Kurt Masur will be on the Bloomington campus Sunday (March 7) to conduct a performance by the IU Concert Orchestra. The concert is free and begins at 8 p.m. in the Musical Arts Center.
Featured works will be Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Both works are "by composers who were responding to political oppression by leaders initially hailed (Napoleon and Stalin) but then rejected by freedom-loving peoples," Masur explained.
Masur received an honorary doctorate from the IU School of Music during his last visit to Bloomington in 1996. He is the newly appointed principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the first-ever conductor laureate of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Since 1992, he has held the lifetime title of honorary guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The Peg Zeglin Brand Lecture is scheduled March 24 at 4 p.m. at Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union. The speaker will be Helen Gremillion, Peg Brand Chair of gender studies at IUB.
The title of her lecture will be "Gendered Bodies and Psychiatric Power: Anorexia Nervosa in Cultural Context."
Read more about Gremillion at this Home Pages archival site:
"A chair is born" Home Pages September 18, 1998
The Peer Panel, an award-winning comedy by IUB theater professor Dennis Reardon, will open in IU's T300 Studio Theater on March 26 and run through April 3 (including Sunday).
Five extremely diverse playwrights assemble under the guidance of a Manhattan arts administrator to choose three recipients of $15,000 state funded playwriting fellowships. Beneath the play's comedy of manners are various unsettling issues including government funding of the arts, the fragmentation of America and the future of the theater. The play resulted from Reardon's examination of the effects of multiculturalism on American theater. The director is Russell Muth, with scene design by Christopher Berg, costumes by Sarah Conte and lighting by Rob Shakespeare. Curtain time is 8 p.m. for all evening shows and 2 p.m. for Saturday matinees. For ticket information, call 812-855-1103.
The IU Singing Hoosiers' spring concert is scheduled March 27 at 8 p.m. in the Musical Arts Center. The concert will feature a wide variety of selections, including music from popular musicals past and present, as well as tributes to Leonard Bernstein's 80th birthday anniversary and the 100th birthday anniversary of IU alum Hoagy Carmichael.
The Singing Hoosiers, directed by Michael Schwartzkopf, professor of music, includes 125 student vocalists and instrumentalists who have diverse academic majors. For 49 years, the Singing Hoosiers have traveled across the United States and Europe. In addition to live performances, the group has recorded four albums with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, two of which received Grammy nominations--A Disney Spectacular in 1989 and The Music Man in 1991. The Singing Hoosiers and Cincinnati Pops also collaborated for Holiday with Mel Torme, a nationally broadcast performance on PBS in December 1995. Tickets range from $5 to $10 for reserved seating. They are available at the MAC box office or through TicketMaster.
Chau Hiix: A Maya Site in Belize, an exhibit of artifacts uncovered by IU researchers and on loan from the government of Belize, will continue at the William Hammond Mathers Museum through Feb. 6, 2000. IU anthropologist Anne Pyburn has been leading the exploration and documentation of the site since 1990. The site is in a dense rain forest in northern Belize along a lagoon about 25 miles northwest of Belize City near Crooked Tree Village.
Pyburn named the site Chau Hiix (pronounced "Chow Heesh") from the Mayan term for the jaguarundi that inhabit the area. It is one of the last known untouched and unlooted Mayan sites, because local residents had kept it secret and protected the site for generations. Excavations of tombs have turned up beads, containers, blades and ornamental objects that are providing a glimpse into everyday life in one of the last inhabited Mayan settlements. Admission is free. For more information, or to schedule a guided group tour, call 812-855-6873.
Seminole Patchwork is also at the Mathers and will continue through May 2.
The Seminole people of Florida are renowned for their decorated clothing, which has long been one of their primary forms of artistic expression. The exhibit features a sampling of artifacts from two of the museum's major collections. The first is a collection of clothing and other artifacts assembled by Hilda Davis, an anthropologist and IU graduate who studied Seminole craft work during the 1950s. The second is a collection of photographs taken by Deaconess Harriet Bedell, a missionary who lived among the Seminole from the 1930s through the 1950s. Bedell's photographs provide a record of patchwork techniques and changing styles through those decades.
Looking for a Saturday afternoon outing? Try the Children's Gallery at Mathers Museum. Here's some stuff on display:
http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/
Bushman Prints and Paintings from South Africa: The Art of the !Xu and Khwe Art Project opened earlier this week and continues through March 12 at the IU School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery. The gallery will reopen after spring break (March 13-22) and run through March 28.
A reception is planned March 26, 7-9 p.m., at the gallery.
The show is curated by MFA printmaking student Bill Hosterman and features more than 20 lino-cut and dry point prints and acrylic paintings. The works were collected by Hosterman while on a Fulbright scholarship studying printmaking. Central themes in the exhibit focus on the struggle between the traditional and modern Bushman ways of life, magic and man's relationship to the natural world. For gallery information, call 812 855-8490.
Geneticist Virginia Walbot of Stanford University is the next presenter in the Joan Wood Lecture Series, which promotes women in science. Her presentation will be March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in Jordan Hall A100. The title of her presentation will be "Jumping Genes of Corn."
Walbot's research group at Stanford investigates the expression of plant genes using transposon mutations. Using a two-acre corn field on campus and a winter crop in Hawaii, the laboratory selects mutants in maize using the aggressive mutator transposable element family.
The lab's model gene is Bronze-2, the last genetically defined step in anthocyanin pigment synthesis. In the plant, anthocyanins serve as shields against UV damage, and these colorful red and blue pigments provide a powerful assay for gene expression studies.
This is the 15th lecture in a series sponsored by the IUB Department of Biology. The lecture series provides a forum for undergraduates to interact with female professionals in science-related careers. Pizza will be served in the atrium following the presentation.
Dr. Joan Wood maintained a private practice as a consultant in prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders. She died in 1990 and memorial contributions made in her honor helped establish the series.
Sixty percent of all voluntary contributions to Indiana University last year came from corporations and foundations, a figure amounting to some $84 million, according to Doug Wilson, executive director of corporate and foundation relations for the IU Foundation in Bloomington.
And for IU faculty and administrators interested in finding out about current trends in corporate and foundation philanthropy, two free, half day seminars are planned this spring, the first at the Frangipani Room of the Indiana Memorial Union March 29.
The gathering will begin at noon with a buffet luncheon, and Tom King, president of Eli Lilly Company Foundation,will speak at 3 p.m.
Break-out sessions will answer questions about assistance from the foundation; ways to develop winning proposals; the need for proper corporate/foundation research before submitting proposals and similar subjects.
The second seminar is planned April 12 at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
For reservation information, contact Wilson at E-mail domwilso@indiana.edu
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