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Stories from the Week of February 5-11, 2001
Monday:
The
Annual All-Night Marathon Bardic Reading Returns Sunday
Afternoon
In fall 1992 James Helm, professor of classics, was
lecturing on the Iliad. "I mentioned the fact that
someone had conjectured that the entire Iliad
could be read through in 24 hours," says Helm. "After
class a student came up and said, 'Let's do it!' 'Do
what?' I asked. 'Read the Iliad straight
through.'" And so began a tradition that will surface
again, beginning at 2:00 P.M.
this Sunday.
Monday:
Educause
Review Quotes Two Members of the Oberlin Faculty in
Current Issue
Gary Kornblith,
professor of history, and Anne Trubek, assistant
professor of rhetoric and composition, are quoted in the
January/February issue of Educause Review,
available on line in PDF files. Their quotations in
"Wireless:
Changing Teaching and Learning 'Everywhere,
Everytime'"
are from "Classroom
of the Future Arrives at Oberlin,"
published this past April on Oberlin Online.
Monday:
Faculty
and Staff Notes
Faculty and
staff are involved in publishing and
presenting.
Tuesday:
Oberlin
Celebrates Black History Month with Talks, Performances,
and Exhibitions
Talks by noted
human rights advocates, a concert by an internationally
renowned choral ensemble, exhibitions of outstanding
Africanart, a special Spike Lee film screening, and
other related events highlight this year's Oberlin
College and community observance of Black History Month.
Tuesday:
Moses
Hogan Singers Perform Tonight
Oberlin College
will celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
tonight with a concert by the internationally acclaimed
Moses Hogan Singers. The February 6 program is free and
open to the public. Hogan, a 1979 graduate of the
conservatory and a pianist, is the conductor and artistic
director of the choral group.
Tuesday:
1st
of 3 Composers to Give Master Class Tomorrow; Perform at
8:00 Concert
James Mobberley is the first of three composers--all
renowned for their work in film and electronic music--to
present lectures and master classes at Oberlin in
February and March. Related concerts will feature the
composers' works. The other two composers are Gary Chang
and Halim El-Dabh.
Tuesday:
3
Conservatory Students Receive Awards in Sorantin
Competition
Three Oberlin
students in the Conservatory of Music took awards in the
annual Sorantin Young Artist Competition, held in San
Angelo, Texas, November 17-19.
Tuesday:
Theater
Project Brings Together College and Middle-School
Students
Theater and
kids are a successful mix, as four Oberlin College
students discovered during Winter Term. The
students--participants in a Winter Term project at
Langston Middle School--worked with middle-school classes
to transform fairy tales (including a recent retelling of
a traditional story) into four short plays.
Tuesday:
The
Economist Remembers Willard Quine
'30
Philosopher and alumnus Willard Quine was the subject of
an article in the January 13 edition of the Economist.
The obituary
begins, "Who came after Wittgenstein? The answer is
Willard Quine." One of Quine's theories, the magazine
says, "had revolutionary implications in philosophy,"
namely, the "theory of language according to which truths
of fact blend into truths of meaning, so that there is no
absolute distinction between the two."
Tuesday:
Weekly
Sports Report
The basketball
and track and field teams competed last week.
Wednesday:
Godspell
Opens Tomorrow, February 8
Humanity. Community. Compassion. The themes of
Godspell, a contemporary retelling of the life of
Jesus, are revealed in a musical production aimed at
audiences of all ages. Oberlin's splashy interpretation
of the off-Broadway sensation debuts Thursday, February
8, at 8:00 P.M.
in Wilder Main and continues February 9 and 10 at the
same time and location.
Wednesday:
Equus
Opens Tonight, Closes Saturday
Rob Ross's Winter Term project, his direction of
Equus, will meet the public in Hall Auditorium
Wednesday, February 7, at 8:00
P.M.,
Friday at 8:00, and Saturday at 2:00. "Equus is
the epitome of everything that I think theater should
be," says Ross, a senior from Oakland, California . "It
combines realism and ritual, it asks questions that can't
be ignored, and--at the same time--it provides a visual
and intellectual spectacle for the audience."
Wednesday:
Apollo's
Fire to Perform Mozart on Campus February
13
Cleveland's
Baroque ensemble, Apollo's
Fire,
led by alumna Jeannette Sorrell, will perform the works
of Mozart on campus February 13. The concert marks the
beginning of the 2001 spring season of Oberlin's Artist
Recital Series. Apollo's Fire will present Mozart's most
exuberant works, including the fiery and dramatic
"Overture to Don Giovanni."
Thursday:
Students
Organizers of February 24 Climate-Change Symposium
Solicit Questions for Panel
Oberlin experts in environmental studies, economics, and
geology will examine global warming and its implications
in an interactive symposium on climate change Saturday,
February 24. The organizers invite those interested in
specific issues to submit questions by e-mail before the
event.
Thursday:
Jon
Jang and David Murray to Give Free Public Jazz Concert
February 8
Internationally
acclaimed composer and pianist Jon Jang '78 and renowned
saxophonist David Murray, a founding member of the World
Saxophone Quartet, will perform in Finney Chapel tonight.
The free public concert is part of Jang's several-day
visit to the campus, during which he will receive
Oberlin's 2001 Alumni Distinguished Achievement
Award.
Thursday:
Venus
Debuts in Hall Auditorium February 9
Suzan-Lori
Parks's 1996 play, Venus, is the story of Sarah
Baartman, a South African woman brought to England during
the early 1800s and exhibited in a London sideshow. The
Oberlin production of Venus, directed by Shannon
Forney, a senior from Harpswell, Maine, debuts tonight in
Hall Auditorium.
Friday:
February 13 Art Museum Talk to Proceed Despite Absence of
Sculpture
The February 13
Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) Tuesday Tea will feature
a talk about Edmonia Lewis (1845?-1911), a sculptor who
worked in the neoclassical style. Museum docent Hannah
Weinberg, a sophomore from San Francisco, will give her
talk using slides of Cleopatra and other Lewis
sculptures. Lewis, the first African-American sculptor to
achieve international recognition, attended Oberlin
College in the 1800s. Sharon Patton, Cowles director of
the AMAM, covered Lewis and her work in her
African-American
Art (Oxford
University Press 1998).
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