Princeton Weekly Bulletin April 27, 1998
Nassau Notes
Ensemble presents Relâche
The Composers Ensemble will present the new music ensemble
Relâche at 8:00 p.m. on April 27 in Taplin
Auditorium, Fine Hall. Their program will include music by
graduate student composers at Princeton.
Founded in 1977, Relâche
performs multimedia works and works that integrate electronic and
computer technologies. With a repertory of over 500 pieces, the
group has been featured on radio broadcasts in North America,
Europe, Japan and Australia and has toured throughout the United
States.
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Thesis show
"Visualizing the Invisible: A Photographic Study of Homelessness in an American City" is part of an exhibit of photographs by Missy Wyant in the senior student exhibit on display in the Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St. from April 28 through May 5.
Roaming gods
An exhibit of Indian artist M.F. Husain entitled "Chine Colles: Where Gods Roam" is on display in the Bernstein Gallery of Robertson Hall through May 9.
Kamm speaks on Chinese prisoners
John Kamm will give a lecture entitled "Counterrevolution in
One Country: The Prisoner Information Project with China's
Ministry of Justice" at 4:30 p.m. on April 28 in 1
Robertson Hall.
As chair of Market Access Ltd. (Hong
Kong) and president of Asia Pacific Resources Inc. (San
Francisco), Kamm focuses on trade and investment opportunities,
government affairs and U.S.-China relations.
A member of the Class of 1972, Kamm
has written and spoken widely on the possibilities of business
activism in the area of human rights. Since 1991 he has made some
40 trips to Beijing in a private effort to engage the Chinese
government in a dialogue on human rights. In 1997 Asia Pacific
Resources received the U.S. Department of Com-merce's first Best
Global Practices Award. "I applaud your efforts," wrote President
Clinton, "both for the principles your work embodies and for the
lives you have affected."
Kamm's lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School.
U-Store talk, book signings
The Princeton University Store offers readers a chance to meet
and talk with faculty authors.
On April 30 Professor of
Geophysics Samuel Philander will discuss his new book Is the
Temperature Rising?
On May 7, an author's party will
include psychology professors Charles Gross and Susan Sugarman,
Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres Lee Mitchell, history professor
Daniel Rodgers and African American Studies Professor Claudia
Tate.
The authors will be on hand from
7:00 to 8:30 p.m. to sign copies of their books, which will be
offered at discounted prices.
Shakespeare Co. performs'Tis Pity She's a
Whore
'Tis Pity She's a Whore is the Princeton Shakespeare
Company's spring production, presented outdoors at Lockhart Arch
at 8:00 p.m. on April 30 and at 8:30 p.m. May 1 and 2.
Written by Shakespeare's
contempo-rary John Ford, the play addresses "issues of incest,
adultery and revenge," says director Brian Bennett '99. The May 1
performance will feature live music by the Abrams Crescent Jazz
Band.
For reservations call 258-2255 and
then spell SHAKESPEARE on your phone pad.
Improv appears in Murray-Dodge
The University's improvisional comedy group Quipfire! will
perform at 8:00 p.m. on April 30 and at 9:30 p.m. on May 1
and 2 in Theatre Intime at Murray-Dodge.
"Working with improv games as a
foundation," the 12-member group incorporates audience suggestions
and props to create "hilarious routines," they promise. "Though
the show is unscripted and unpredictable, it is usually rated
PG-13."
Purchase tickets at the door, or for
reservations call 258-2255 and then press or dial IMPROV.
Chamber players feature German Romantic
era
The Richardson Chamber Players will give a concert entitled
"Liebeslieder!" featuring music for a quartet of solo voices and
piano at 8:00 p.m. on May 1 in Richardson Auditorium,
Alexander Hall.
The program will focus on music of
the German Romantic era, including works by Brahms, Dvorak,
Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann. The perform-ers, who teach at
Princeton, include sopranos Martha Elliott and Barbara Rearick,
tenor David Kellett and baritone James Demler; pianists will be
Jennifer Tao and Masako Hayashi-Ebbesen.
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U League benefit
The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers will perform at 10:30 a.m. on May 2 in Wood Auditorium, McCosh 10. All proceeds will support the University League Nursery School's scholarship fund.
Twenty-eight students perform for Music
213
Twenty-eight students will perform in a series of concerts
offered in conjunction with Music 213: Projects in Instrumental
Performance. The concerts will take place at 8:00 p.m. on April
30 and at 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. on May 5 in Taplin Auditorium,
Fine Hall.
Each semester, Music 213 is under
the general supervision of one or more teachers; this spring the
course focused on chamber music for strings and for strings with
piano, under the direction of violinist Isidore Cohen and pianist
Elizabeth DiFelice. The concerts will include piano quintets by
Dvorak and Schumann, trios by Mozart and Beethoven, Beethoven's
String Quartet in F Major, Schubert's C Major String Quintet and
the Telemann Flute Trio in C Minor.
DiFelice, who is currently
coordinator of piano instruction at Princeton, is an active solo
recitalist as well as a chamber musician. Cohen, a faculty member
of the Manhattan School, is also a member of the Beaux Arts Trio
and the Schneider and Juilliard string quartets.
Friends present concerts in Taplin
The Friends of Music will present two concerts at 8:00 p.m. in
Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
On May 2 clarinetist Reinier
Leushuis, cellist Adam Davis and pianist Misako Toda will present
works by Beethoven and Brahms.
Leushuis is a graduate student in
Romance languages and literatures who began studying the clarinet
at the age of eight in the Netherlands. Davis, a graduate student
in history, did his undergraduate work at Yale University and was
co-principal cellist of the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Toda, who
received her BA from International Christian University in Tokyo
and attended the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot,
lives in Princeton and teaches.
On May 4 pianist Stephanie Chou '98
will present a program of works by Bach, Chopin and Beethoven. A
native of Taiwan, she attended the Juilliard School at the age of
14 and is the winner of numerous competitions, including Taiwan's
1989 National Piano Competition.
Library requests all reserve orders
Reserve requests for the fall semester are due in the Reserve
Department of Firestone Library by August 1, to ensure that
they will be filled by the start of classes. Faculty are reminded
that book orders require additional processing time--often two
months--and should be turned in as soon as possible.
Printouts have been mailed and may
be submitted for renewal with any corrections or deletions. If a
course was not taught in the fall of 1997, a printout of reserve
materials previously used can be obtained from the Reserve
Department upon request. Any new requests should be submitted on
the pink request forms.
Reserve forms and instruction sheets
are available from departmental secretaries or the Reserve
Department.