In addition to Darity, a number of Cornell students will perform at the event. Freeman and the Staceys (Zach Freeman, and Jordan and Julian Stacey), Ariel Harris and Neisha Croffitt, Heather Pavlu, and Julio “Kid Supreme” Miramontes will offer artistic performances ranging from musical selections to poetry to installation graffiti.

Non-Cornellian acts will include The Original Man, Young Ezzy, and DJ ISE.

A dance party hosted by DJ ISE will take place after the show. “Rock the Box” is sponsored by Intercultural Life and KRNL.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.

A preview of the kind of high-energy Latin jazz Tiempo Libre will bring to King Chapel can be seen on “Dancing with the Stars” on Tuesday, Oct. 27, where the band will perform “Tu Conga Bach” from their latest album “Bach in Havana,” a fusion of Bach and Afro-Cuban rhythms.

The Miami-based Tiempo Libre hails originally from Cuba, where they were classically trained at La ENA, Cuba’s premiere conservatory. Twice-nominated for a Grammy, Tiempo Libre mixes jazz, classical works, and the musical traditions of Cuba to create a group that was named “Best Latin Band 2008” by the Miami New Times.

For more information on Tiempo Libre, visit their Web site.

The rest of the 2009-10 Music Mondays schedule is:

Monday, Feb.  8, 2010
Quink, five-member Dutch a cappella vocal ensemble

Monday, March 8, 2010
The all-female Moscow String Quartet

Admission is free and open to the public.

Phil and Jan Sultz live and work in Dennysville, Maine. They moved to Maine in 1990 after raising two daughters and teaching studio art at Webster University, St. Louis, from 1966 to 1989.

Phil Sultz studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Albright Art School in Buffalo, N.Y., where he studied with Charles Burchfield. In 1958 he began teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design before taking leave to enroll in the Accademia De Bella Arte in Rome. In the following decades he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Webster University, St. Louis, where he is professor emeritus. He received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in painting in 1975, and in 1976, was included in a bicentennial exhibition in New York titled “Forty Years of American Collage” at Buecker and Harpsichords Gallery.  He has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally and is represented in New York by the Allan Stone Gallery.

Jan Sultz initiated and developed the ceramics program at the Kansas City Art Institute in the late 1950s, and later at Webster University, St. Louis, where she taught for 24 years. Since leaving teaching she has continued to make stoneware ceramics at her studio in Maine.

She began her career in art under the tutelage of Warren Robinson at Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., culminating in an early exhibit of paintings at Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York City. Her direction toward clay forms developed later as a graduate student at Cranbrook Academy of Art, under the influence of Maija Grotell. Jan’s work has been shown in numerous venues including A. J. Bueche Fine Art, Northeast Harbor; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; Allan Stone Gallery, New York City; and Lill Street Gallery, Chicago.

Jeff Lewis serves as professor of painting and drawing at Auburn University. He received his master of fine arts and master of arts at the University of Iowa and his bachelor of arts at SUNY Brockport, N.Y. Other teaching experience includes positions at Dartmouth College and Cornell University, as well as guest lecturing/workshops at Robert Wesleyan College, American University, Mississippi State University, The American School, Surrey, England, and The University of Iowa. His encaustic paintings and silverpoint drawings have been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, in public and corporate collections, as well as private collections in Great Britain, Italy, Scandinavia, and the United States.

This exhibition is made possible through a generous endowment from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Gallery hours are Monday–Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sundays 2-4 p.m.

For more information contact: scoleman@cornellcollege.edu or call 319-895-4491.

Saar will deliver the lecture “Whither, Hither and Yon” in the Keyes Art History Classroom, room 222. The lecture is free and open to the public.

This distinguished artist lecture is made possible through the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.  Admission is free and open to the public.

Saar’s sculptures, mostly carved of wood and covered with copper, make use of found materials from the street. At first this was all she could afford, but now she does it as a way of recycling, as well as for the history it brings.

“One piece (of ceiling tin) I really adored came out of a phone booth across from Madison Square Garden,” she told artworsmagazine.com. “There were layers and layers of paint, and where some had chipped off you could see phone numbers–really cryptic because they didn’t look like contemporary phone numbers. I love to think about the conversations that were had in that phone booth.”

Her work combines artistic skill with multicultural references, revealing empathy for the harshness of life and a passion for the mythic.

Saar was born in 1956 and grew up in Laurel Canyon, Ca. She sees her upbringing as rural and her understanding and love of nature are rooted in that experience. At Scripps College, she studied with Dr. Samella Lewis, a noted scholar in the field of African and Caribbean Art. Having taken more art history courses than studio classes, she graduated with a thesis on Southern African American Folk Art. Saar did graduate work at Otis-Parsons Institute.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.

The program at Cornell includes more traditional works by Praetorius, Scarlatti, Chopin, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev,  and Grieg, as well as “Linus and Lucy” by Vince Guaraldi, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” by Radiohead, and the traditional Irish piece “The Road to Lisdoonvarna.”

Borrowing from both the past and present, the Georgia Guitar Quartet draws inspiration from a wide variety of influences, from classical masters to experimentalists to contemporary rock icons. The Quartet has been featured on American Public Media’s “Performance Today” and has released four critically acclaimed recordings, the most recent consisting exclusively of music composed by the Georgia Guitar Quartet.

The rest of the 2009-10 Music Mondays schedule is:

Monday, Nov.  2, 2009
Tiempo Libre, a Cubin-Latin group

Monday, Feb.  8, 2010
Quink, five-member Dutch a cappella vocal ensemble

Monday, March 8, 2010
The all-female Moscow String Quartet

Miller and the three other contest winners will read their poems on Sept. 29 at the “Crossroads of the World” together with readings by other poets and literary luminaries.

The prize-winning pieces, selected from nearly 500 entries, represent different Times Square experiences and impressions – from a family of sparrows nesting in an unlikely urban environment to a meditation on intimacy and estrangement inspired by the famous photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square at the end of World War II.

Miller’s writing has appeared in outlets such as Best American Essays, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, Raritan, AGNI, One Story and An Introduction to the Prose Poem. He is also the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Miller, a native of Davenport who has lived in New York since graduating from Cornell, has remained close to his mentor, Cornell Professor Emeritus of English and Poet-in-Residence Robert Dana.

As part of his prize, Miller received $750 and accommodations at the Millennium Broadway Hotel.

For more information, visit timessquarenyc.org/about_us/brightpoetry.html.

Read the L.A. Times story on the event.

Pipe Birds

Sparrows fly in and out a cove atop the corner pole.
Feather ruffle unscrolled, beaks chirping, stitching…

The family stuck like a burr on 43rd and Broadway.
No home-style fantasy like my restaurant. Each week

an at-risk heritage–Moldavian, Iowan, Senegalese–
invited to bake and cook in the kitchen of 35 stoves.

The reality of where a nest can fit, what lineage abide
without falling apart into old recipes needing saving.

Curl of metal curtains. Hidden weave of twigs, wire.
Truck traffic–how does it resound in their little hole?

More vibration than noise? A massage or a message?
Pipe birds exit like bumbling bullets, enter like moles.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Additionally, a Homecoming reception will be held Saturday, Oct. 10, 3-5 p.m.

Featured artists include Doug Hanson, Sandy Dyas, Tony Plaut, Susan Coleman and Maria Schutt, with works in a variety of media, including: ceramics, assemblage, drawing, painting, photography and installation art.

Doug Hanson’s functional clay pieces meld Western and Eastern influences to create objects both beautiful and useful. Among his most stunning works are his large-scale platters, which incorporate form and color reminiscent of water, earth and sky.

Sandy Dyas uses collage and juxtaposition to form hybrid thematic relationships, incorporating both traditional and digital photographic techniques in a monumental two- dimensional installation spanning two walls.

Tony Plaut’s assemblages and drawings employ diverse materials and fabrication processes, with thematic strands that point to the very act of perception, prompting the viewer to “look and listen.”

Sue Coleman’s intimate landscapes are based on her immediate environment, and draw from an awareness of nature as a living presence. Her works for this exhibition are primarily in pastel, but featured are a select group of new oils on canvas.

Maria Schutt’s current work is inspired by puppetry and informed by the observation of a young child, RJ, as he plays without interruption. Using drawing and assemblage, the figures are crafted in a posture of doing, implying the potential for action, but the nature of the action is not revealed.

This exhibition is made possible through a generous endowment from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sundays: 2 – 4 p.m.

Above: Sandy Dyas, Elvis is the Light, digital photograph

The Cornell theatre department was also ranked 16^th in the nation. Reviews and rankings are based on surveys of students.

“We’re very passionate about the theatre at Cornell, as are our students,” said theatre professor Mark Hunter. “We’re pleased when that passion is appreciated.”

Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the annual college guide.

“As many students begin their college search by referencing college guides, we are pleased that Cornell is annually recognized among the nation’s finest colleges in such publications,” said Jonathan Stroud, vice president for enrollment.

“Although we take great pride in the excellence of all of our academic programs, we are nonetheless delighted by the special mention of the college’s dynamic theatre program,” he added.

Cornell has consistently been recognized as a top institution and as highly affordable by various college ranking guides. Cornell was ranked in the U.S. News & World Report’s top tier for liberal arts colleges and was featured as among “Schools to Watch” and “Great Schools, Great Prices.” Most recently The Fiske Guide to Colleges ranked Cornell as a “Top Financial Find” and ranked the art department as one of the best in the nation.

Cornell was also 21st in a Forbes ranking of the best liberal arts schools in nation and 71st among all universities and colleges, and has been named a College of Distinction, and one of the 40 Colleges That Change Lives.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.

Other groups performing this season include Tiempo Libre, a two-time Grammy nominated Latin group, Quink, a Dutch vocal ensemble, and the Moscow String Quartet.

The schedule for the 2009-10 season is:

Monday, October 12, 2009
Georgia Guitar Quartet

Monday, November 2, 2009
Tiempo Libre

Monday, February 8, 2010
Quink

Monday, March 8, 2010
Moscow String Quartet

The concert, which is free to the public, will open with “African Celebration” for women’s chorus. The featured men’s chorus piece is Pablo Casals’ “O vos omnes” on the biblical lamentations of Jeremiah.

Chamber Singers will present two choruses from Handel’s Messiah, accompanied by pianist Joyce Strabala. Other selections include pieces by Fauré, Britten, and Haydn, and a vocal jazz arrangement of “Fields of Gold” by Sting.

Concert Choir selections include Erb’s “Shenandoah,” Poulenc’s “Exultate Deo,” and the dramatic narrative “Saul” on the conversion of St. Paul, featuring college organist Lynda Hakken and narrator Natalie Kropf, a sophomore from Wilton, Conn. The concert will close with African-American composer William Dawson’s “Ezekiel Saw de Wheel,” with tenor soloist Alexander LeFebvre, a sophomore from Caledonia, Minn.

The evening will celebrate Dana’s contributions to the world of poetry as a Cornell professor and Poet-in-Residence, as Iowa Poet Laureate, and as a distinguished author.

Dana will read a selection of poems from his new book, The Other, as well as earlier works.

A reception and book signing will follow in the Berry Lobby.

In 1954, at the age of 25, Robert Dana arrived on campus as the youngest ever tenure-track faculty member. He taught English at Cornell for the next 40 years, inspiring generations of young Cornellians.

Dana received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for Poetry in 1985 and 1993 and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for Poetry in 1989. He is the author of 10 collections of poetry and two works of literary nonfiction, and the founding editor of the revived North American Review. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Now, The New England Review, Mother Jones, The Georgia Review, and others. Two of his poems were memorialized in 2008 on monuments in Des Moines and Coralville.

Dana served as distinguished visiting writer at five American universities and Stockholm University. He has remained prolific in retirement, serving two terms as Poet Laureate of Iowa and publishing four books of poetry, most recently The Other.

The man introducing Dana in the video is Tom Lynner ‘66, co-founder of the Des Moines National Poetry Festival.

The traveling exhibit is part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of the ACM. The consortium sponsored the ACM Off-Campus Study Photo Contest, inviting students at ACM colleges to share the images and impressions they gathered from studying in locations around the world.

The traveling exhibit of the ten winning photos and a selection of honorable mention photos is being hosted by ACM campuses through April and will be shown at the ACM 50th Anniversary Student Symposium on Off-Campus Study in Chicago on April 17-18, 2009. The photos also can be viewed on the ACM website at www.acm.edu/photocontest.

Peterson received honorable mention for her photo titled “Shipwrecked!” The winning photos and a selection of honorable mention photos will be on display in the exhibit area in the Commons near Hedges at Cornell College from April 6 to 10, 2009.

The Grand Prize was awarded to Kevin Close of Carleton College for “A Long Car Ride,” a photo taken during his studies in Mongolia and simply described as “One student, one translator, and ten goats.” First, second, and third place prizes were awarded in three categories: people, places, and stories.

The contest judges were Will Pittinos, Web content coordinator at Lake Forest College, and Dave Amrein, director of the ACM Chicago Arts Program. The judges specifically looked for photos that captured a true liberal arts education – a unique, hands-on experience that allows students to step outside of the box and to do so experientially.

The winners in the 2008-09 ACM Off-Campus Study Photo Contest are:

Grand Prize
A Long Car Ride, Kevin Close, Carleton College

People
First place: Freedom, Christina Demenshina, Beloit College
Second place: Learning to Chew, Christopher Ruder, Beloit College
Third place: Drying Persimmons, Ting Ting Yang, St. Olaf College

Places
First place: Climbing the Perito Moreno Glacier, Anna Hainzea, Lawrence University
Second place: Aotearoa, Jen Milius, Knox College
Third place: Weißglas, Erin McBurney, Grinnell College

Stories
First place: Caught in Midair, Po Ling Pauline Chan, Knox College
Second place: Aventura en el fin del mundo (Adventure at the End of the World), Heather Kopec, Knox College
Third place: First Communion in Lourdes, Po Ling Pauline Chan, Knox College

Honorable Mention
Abandoned, Ben Barclay, Carleton College
Dusk, Sarah Diefendorf, Colorado College
Incognito, Tabitha Hrynick, Colorado College
Carnivale, Ellen Kokontis, Knox College
Bula Fiji!, Ashleigh Martinez, Lake Forest College
Rural Transportation, Jeannette Osterweil, Colorado College
Shipwrecked!, Myka Peterson, Cornell College
Stone Town Hopes, Kathleen Quigley, Monmouth College
Botas de hule y pies descalzos (Rubber Boots and Bare Feet), Karen Skadow, Monmouth College
The Spice of Life, Amelia Sternitzky, Ripon College

ACM, a consortium of academically excellent, independent liberal arts colleges, has been a pioneer in off-campus study, operating domestic and international programs since the early 1960s. The current ACM members are Beloit College, Carleton College, Coe College, Colorado College, Cornell College, Grinnell College, Knox College, Lake Forest College, Lawrence University, Macalester College, Monmouth College, Ripon College, and St. Olaf College.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell College campus. General admission is $10 at the door for adults and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, retired staff and their families, and to holders of the Purple Pass.

The Aviv Quartet will perform three quartets: Beethoven’s op. 95 (“Serioso”), Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden,” and Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 2 op. 68.

Formed in Israel in 1997, the Aviv String Quartet has performed across the globe, from Cape Town to Stockholm, and from China to Brazil. It took top prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.

Aviv has received critical praise for its performances at Wigmore Hall in London, the Louvre in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wien Konzerthaus, Zurich Tonhalle, Tel Aviv Museum, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Members of Aviv include Sergey Ostrovsky (violin), Evgenia Epshtein (violin), Shuli Waterman (viola), and Rachel Mercer (cello).

“It’s a dream come true,” Lindsay was quoted in the article as saying. “Just talking to her every day and hearing about the process and having kids I know playing the roles — I couldn’t have been happier.”

The one-act play, which was set in the 1950s and examined themes of segregation through the eyes of teenagers, was put on by the Rapid City Stevens High School drama club. Lindsay formerly went to Rapid City Stevens High, where her sister now attends.

The full article can be read here.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell College campus. General admission is $10 at the door for adults and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, retired staff and their families, and to holders of the Purple Pass.

Bruns and Schulze will perform a selection of songs of love and life on poetry by Hafiz, including pieces by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms.

Bruns has won acclaim for his concert, oratorio, and opera appearances at major concert halls and festivals for his “warm, open voice” and “magnificent interpretations.” Schulze, a professor at the Musikhochschule in Hanover, Germany, has received awards at international competitions in Italy, Spain, and South Africa.

An artist’s reception will be held Sunday, Jan. 11, from 2-4 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.

Admission is free and open to the public.

In Korean artist Sukjin Choi’s work there is a delicate balance between traditional Korean surfacing methods, and references to contemporary objects. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group shows, and teaches as an assistant professor at James Madison University in Harrisburg, Va. Choi received her master of fine arts degree from Ewha Womans University in Seoul Korea before continuing post-graduate work in ceramics at Virginia Commonwealth University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work deals with memory and the tracing of time.

AL Holen’s installation at Cornell College deals with the toil and pleasure of labor, as well as the fragility of both the artist and artisan’s role in a consumer-driven society. Her opulent presentation strives to romanticize the objects, changing their context, and giving them a metaphorical, if somewhat ironic resonance. Holen received her master of fine arts in ceramics from the University of Iowa in 2004, and has since then taught as visiting assistant professor at the University of Nebraska and the University of Iowa, among other schools. Holen now serves as assistant professor at Mississippi University for Women. Her

Chinese artist Ying Zhu chooses labor-intensive processes in her work to demonstrate the timeless, tedious, and tiresome facts that everyone faces. She removes ordinary materials from their original context to evoke metaphorical, emotional and symbolic connotations. Zhu is a master of fine arts candidate at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Zhu has shown regionally in the United States, most recently at the Bemis Underground, Omaha, Neb.

This exhibition is funded through the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. For more information contact Sue Coleman at scoleman@cornellcollege.edu or (319) 895-4491.

Image shown above: Recollection, Sukjin Choi, mixed media installation

Tickets range from $8 for adults to $5 for non-Cornell students. Faculty, staff, and students of Cornell are admitted without charge. All evening performances are at 7:30 and the Sunday matinee begins at 2:00.

Baby With the Bathwater is a dark comedy about how difficult it is to be a parent, and how scary it is to be a baby and a child. The play is written in an absurdist, playful style. As the play opens Helen and John are arguing over their new baby: what name to call it, how to stop it crying, and whether it is a boy or a girl. To their rescue comes Nanny, a sometimes terrifying woman of mysterious origins who arrives as if by magic to help the totally unprepared parents. The play contains some adult language.

Baby With the Bathwater premiered March 31, 1983 at the American Repertory Theatre. It has received considerable acclaim since then and was produced in New York City as recently as 2002. Christopher Durang is famous for his madcap, often absurdist or disturbing comedies, such as Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All and, more recently, Betty’s Summer Vacation, also previously produced by Cornell College.

Lindsay Tornquist plays Helen and Jordan Stacey her husband John in Cornell College’s production. Laura Tatar portrays Nanny. Costumes designs are by Casey Harris and Risa Alecci, both students at Cornell College. Scenic and Lighting Designer is professional guest artist Ben Schmidt. Sound design is by Cornell faculty member Don Schneider, who also serves as the production’s Technical Director.

Admission to the Holiday Concert is free and open to the public.

The brass ensemble will also join the choir for Giovanni Gabrieli’s double-choir anthem “Come Let Us Sing,” composed for St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice.

Concert Choir will perform two versions of the Russian hymn “Bogoroditse Djevo,” one by Sergei Rachmaninoff, the other by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Another carol, “In the bleak mid-winter,” features soloists Matt Roberts, senior from Dunlap, Iowa, and Lindsay Robinson, sophomore from Centennial, Colo.

The 24-voice Chamber Singers will open the program with a set that includes a “There Will Be Rest,” a 1999 piece on the poetry of Sara Teasdale, composed by Frank Ticheli; “Walk a Mile,” a gospel waltz by Pepper Choplin; and “A Spotless Rose,” by Herbert Howells, featuring baritone Matt Roberts as soloist.

Chamber Singers will be joined by organist Lynda Hakken, violinists Dali Cao and Keith Ellington, and cellist Anna Yeagle for Telemann’s “Laudate Jehovam, omnes gentes,” a concert work of the late Baroque era.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.

Pianists Aglika Genova and LIuben Dimitrov have toured internationally as a duo since 1995. Both artists were born in Bulgaria and made their orchestra debuts at age 9.

Genova & Dimitrov have performed world-wide, including at the 2002 opening of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and the EXPO 2000 world exhibition in Hanover. Genova & Dimitrov have released eight CDs, including world premiere recordings of piano duo works by Shostakovich, Johann Christian Bach, Clementi, Vladigerov, and Casadesus. These releases have won critical acclaim from major international music magazines and radio stations, especially the duo’s recordings with the NDR Philharmonic led by Eiji Oue and with the SWR Orchestra led by Alun Francis.

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The rest of the 2003-2004 Music Mondays schedule is:
March 2, 2009 – Martin Bruns, baritone and Jan Philip Schulze, piano
March 23, 2009 – Aviv String Quartet

An opening reception will be held Sunday, Nov. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Born in Jamaica and deeply inspired by its history, culture, rituals, and street life, Keith Morrison’s watercolors merge the motifs of landscape, still life, and genre scenes with the syncopated rhythms and hypnotic beauty of a tropical dream. His works deal with issues close to his heart, yet historically relevant across cultures.

Morrison has exhibited his work across the United States and abroad, and was selected to represent Jamaica at the 2001 Venice Biennale. His works are included in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Cincinnati Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Pennsylvania Academy, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Monterrey, Mexico, and numerous others.

Morrison’s work has been featured in many publications, including the Getty Museum’s Mortality / Immortality; Myth and Magic in the Americas: the Eighties, by the Museum of Modern Art, Monterrey, Mexico; Lucy Lippard’s Mixed Blessings; Regina Perry’s, Free within Ourselves; David Driscell’s Contemporary Visual Expressions; Samuella Lewis’ Caribbean Visions; and Richard Powell’s Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century.

He has lectured widely across the country, and has served as a professor or assistant professor of art at a number of universities and art institutes. He currently holds a rank of professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, where he serves as Dean of the college.

This exhibition and lecture are funded through the generosity of the Peter Paul Luce Foundation, Inc. For more information contact Sue Coleman at scoleman@cornellcollege.edu or (319) 895-4491.

Shows are at 8 p.m. on Oct. 31, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Nov. 1, and 2 p.m. on Nov. 2. Tickets are available at the door one hour before each performance for $10 (adults) and $5 (students and seniors). Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty and staff. Tickets can be reserved by calling (763) 226-4392.

In this exciting production presented by Cornell College’s English department, Shakespeare’s tale of romance and rivalry explodes across the Wild West in an 1880 frontier town, where trigger-happy gunslingers, love-crazed cowboys, and bawdy saloon gals compete for love in a land ravaged by territorial wars.

The Cornell production is directed by Lisa Wolpe, Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, an award-winning all-female, multi-cultural theatre company that she founded in 1993. Wolpe has performed twenty leading male roles in the Shakespeare canon, and is internationally considered a master teacher of Shakespeare. Other credits include Berkeley Repertory Theater, Shakespeare & Company, Boston Center for the Arts, Arizona Theater Company, San Diego Repertory Company, Boston Theater Works, California Shakespeare Festival, Southwest Shakespeare, Sedona Shakespeare, and various films and television shows. An accomplished playwright, she created an award-winning clown version of Parzival, an adaptation of Macbeth for three actors which just toured London and the Edinburgh Festival, and is currently working on a documentary of her company, and writing a one-woman show for herself to perform in London next summer.

This is Cornell’s biennial Shakespeare play produced by students in the course “Shakespeare after Shakespeare: Performance and Cultural Criticism,” taught by Katy Stavreva, associate professor of English. Besides staging the production, the students engage in discussions of the aesthetics and politics of performing Shakespeare in English and other world languages.

The Shakespeare production in conjunction with a course was originated in 1978 by Stephen Lacey, a 1965 graduate of Cornell who returned in 1977 as an English instructor. Following his death in 2000, the Stephen Lacey Memorial Shakespeare Fund was established to help support continuation of the production, which celebrates the love of learning, art and laughter of a beloved teacher and colleague.

Tickets prices are $8 for adults and $5 for non-Cornell students. Cornell students, faculty, and staff are admitted without charge. Show times are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and 24-25, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 19.

The play is set in the 18th century, among the French aristocracy. The story concerns the schemes and machinations of La Marquise de Merteuil and her former lover Le Vicomte de Valmont, as they work together and against each other, both to amuse themselves and to exact revenge for perceived past wrongs. The play is a delicious exercise in seduction and treachery – and the dangers inherent therein.

The play was originally produced in London in 1985 with Alan Rickman as Valmont, and received considerable critical commendation. It has been revived many times since, including as an award-winning film starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer, and in a 2007 Broadway revival starring Academy Award nominee Laura Linney. The playwright, Christopher Hampton recently won a screen-writing Oscar for the 2007 film Atonement.

In the Cornell production La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont are played by Sarah Levy and Alex Williams. Other cast members include Erin Daly as the virtuous Madame de Tourvel, the object of Valmont’s scheming, and Daniella Wallace as Cecile Volanges. The sumptuous costumes are designed by Jenny Kelchen. Scenic design is by Chicago artist Edward Matthew Walter, and lighting design is by Cornell Theatre professor Scott Olinger.

This play is intended for a mature audience. It has strong sexual themes and some nudity. Tickets can be purchased at the door or by calling the Cornell box office in advance at (319) 895-4293.

The performance is free and open to the public.

Called a pianist of “impressive musicianship” and “refined sensibility and exquisite pianism, fascinating to watch and hear” by the Boston Globe and New York Concert Reviews, Nosikova has performed in concert halls all over the world.

Among her recordings are the complete Years of Pilgrimage by Franz Liszt, released by Centaur Records to critical acclaim. Her latest release, Flight and Fire (2007), has been well received by national and international critics alike.

A graduate of Moscow Conservatory, Nosikova is an associate professor of piano at the University of Iowa.

Nosikova’s performance is sponsored by the Cornell College department of music.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.

Marchionda will perform five songs from a variety of eras and composers, including Domenico Scarlatti’s “Four Sonatas” and Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Invocation y Danza.”

Marchionda is emerging on the international concert scene as a performer who combines the expressive, colourist playing of the past with a modern technique, flair, imagination, and scholarship. Trained at Yale University’s School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, he has won many international prizes including the Guitar Foundation of America’s International Solo, the Segovia International, and the Manuel de Falla.

The rest of the 2003-2004 Music Mondays schedule is:
November 17, 2008 – Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo
March 2, 2009 – Martin Bruns, baritone and Jan Philip Schulze, piano
March 23, 2009 – Aviv String Quartet

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General admission is $10 at the door. Admission is free to Cornell students with college ID, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, retired staff and their families, and to holders of the Purple Pass. Purple Passes will be available to Mount Vernon and Lisbon residents at the door. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. There are no advanced tickets or seating.

The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. Since they began in 1981, the Capitol Steps have recorded 28 albums, including their latest, Campaign and Suffering. They’ve been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.

Capitol Steps is the second event and first this year in an annual series of performances and lectures funded by a gift from alumnus Richard Williams ’63 and his wife, Marlene. The annual series will sponsor one lecture and one performance each year.