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Volume 37, No. 16 |
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News Briefs |
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Faculty recognized at Hancher-Finkbine dinner |
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Nancy L. Baker named new University librarian |
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Ida Beam Visiting Lecturers for 2000-2001 announced |
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Deaths
Ph.D.
Thesis Defenses
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Arts
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Joselson, Lecuona perform Soprano Rachel Joselson will team up with pianist Réne Lecuona to perform cycles of songs by Robert Schumann and Samuel Barber in a free School of Music faculty recital at 8 p.m., May 8, in Clapp Recital Hall. Photo by John Purick. |
Percussionists get Last Chance The Percussion Ensemble (pictured here in a 1996 file photo) will have its "Last Chance" concert at 8:02 p.m., May 7, in Harper Hall VMB, making it the final student concert of the academic year at the School of Music. The performance is free and open to the public. Photo by Tom Jorgensen. |
Trombonist and band release CD
George Krem, trombonist and former member of the School of Music faculty, has released a compact disc entitled Music for Trombone and Band with the UI Symphony Band and the University of Arizona Wind Ensemble. Featured are works by Derek Bourgeois, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Simone Mantia.
The CD is available at Eble Music, 115 S. Linn St., and at J. Hall Keyboards,
1841 Lower Muscatine Rd. It will soon be available through Tap Music Sales
in Newton, Iowa, at (515)792-0352 or at www.tapmusic.com.
Steel Band Extravaganza
Steel Band Extravaganza, with performers from The University of Iowa
and Cornell College, will be held at 8pm, May 5, in Voxman Hall VMB. Pieces
will include "Mambo" from West Side Story and "Under
the Sea" from The Little Mermaid. The event is free and open
to the public.
Digital Worlds to be shown
Digital Worlds, a new program in art and art history, will have a screening
of student works at 7:30pm, May 6, at the Arts Iowa City Gallery, 129
E. Washington. Students in the program explore an array of 2D, 3D, and
interactive software to create whole digital realms. The event, which
will feature the screening of 40 student "worlds," is free and
open to the public.
MFA work at Museum of Art
MFA 1999-2000, an exhibition of works by recipients of the Master
of Fine Arts degree in art and art history, will be on view from May 6
through June 4 at the Museum of Art Carver Gallery. The exhibition and
the reception are free and open to the public.