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Princeton Weekly Bulletin November 13, 2006, Vol. 96, No. 9 prev next current
- Page One
- • Eigenvalue-hugging ecologist seeks solutions in numbers
- • VP takes personal approach to human resources
- Inside
- • CIEE continues agenda with Malik at helm
- • Food choices explored at Nov. 16-17 conference
- • Program provides backup for caregiving needs
- • OSHA ensures access to records
- Almanac
- • Calendar of events
- • Nassau notes
- • By the numbers
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Nassau notes
Food choices explored at Nov. 16-17 conference
Some of the nation’s leading thinkers on issues surrounding food will convene on campus Thursday and Friday, Nov. 16-17, to explore how eating choices affect not only people’s health, but also the world’s climate, animal welfare and the survival of the family farm.
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Dancer Soledad Barrio (photo: Courtesy of Noche Flamenca)
Madrid-based Noche Flamenca will return to McCarter
The Madrid-based Noche Flamenca will return to the McCarter Theatre Center with its star dancer Soledad Barrio (pictured) at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14.
The troupe was founded in 1993 by Barrio and her husband, Martin Santangelo, who is the artistic director. It has developed into one of Spain’s most successful flamenco companies. For ticket information, call the McCarter box office at 258-2787 or visit www.mccarter.org.
Talk focuses on New York City school reform
Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, will discuss efforts to reform the country’s largest public school system in a lecture scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Klein will speak alongside Eric Nadelstern, chief executive officer of the city’s Empowerment Schools initiative, an effort launched by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to give hundreds of New York City schools more direct control over hiring, curriculum, budgets and other key functions if they meet certain performance standards.
The talk is titled “A Daring Reform: Turning Around New York City’s Public Schools.”
Klein, who was appointed chancellor in 2002, oversees a system of more than 1,450 schools with some 1.1 million students. He has led an extensive reform program, called “Children First,” which includes the Empowerment Schools initiative as well as an array of academic support services for struggling students.
Nadelstern was the founding principal of the International High School at LaGuardia Community College and created an innovative public secondary school for English-language learners that has been widely replicated throughout the city and around the country.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Program in Teacher Preparation and the Education Research Section.
Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Roy Hargrove (photo: Ian Gittler)
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band to perform at McCarter
Grammy Award-winning trumpeter/composer Roy Hargrove (pictured) and several other top jazz musicians will perform as part of the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the McCarter Theatre Center.
Under the direction of legendary trombonist Slide Hampton, the band is devoted to recreating vintage arrangements written for the legendary Gillespie big bands of the 1940s and 1950s.
For ticket information, call the McCarter box office at 258-2787 or visit www.mccarter.org.
Plutz to perform ‘Musique Héroïque’
University Organist Eric Plutz will perform “Musique Héroïque,” a concert of works that contain “héroïque” or “eroica” in their titles, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, in the University Chapel.
Heroic works by Dupré, Stanford, Franck, Langlais and Dubois will be presented, and a six-piece brass ensemble will join with the organ for several selections. Plutz’s CD recording “Musique Héroïque,” which contains many of the works to be performed, will be available for purchase following the concert.
Plutz came to Princeton in 2005 from the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C., where he had been organist and director of music since 1995. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Westminster Choir College of Rider University and his master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music.
The concert is sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and funded, in part, by Frank Totten, a member of the chapel congregation, in celebration of his 75th birthday. Admission is free for students, $15 for the general public and $10 for senior citizens.
“St. Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols” by 17th-century artist Pietro da Cortona
Art Museum’s Italian paintings focus of exhibit
One of the most striking works among the University Art Museum’s holdings in Italian paintings, “St. Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols” by 17th-century artist Pietro da Cortona, is the focus of an exhibition on view through Jan. 21.
Organized by Jörg Merz, an authority on the artist, the exhibition, titled “A Painting in Context,” brings together more than 20 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and books that document Cortona’s working process, his other images of the saint, the origins of his devotion to this Roman virgin and martyr of the early Christian period, and the influence of his works on his student Ciro Ferri. For more information, visit the art museum’s website at www.princeton artmuseum.org or call 258-3788.