Dialog, UA Faculty and Staff News

June 13, 2005

June 13 - July 11/Dialog welcomes help from readers in compiling a comprehensive calendar. All calendar material must be submitted for consideration by Wednesday, eight working days prior to publication dates. Send campus mail to: Dialog, Box 870144; e-mail: shibbard@ur.ua.edu; or call 348-5320. For general information about activities, events, and special announcements of upcoming calendar entries, go to events.ua.edu. Some UA colleges and schools maintain calendars. See, for example, the calendar site for the School of Music.

Activities
Exhibits
2005-2006 Celebrity Series
Events
Performances
Crimson Tide Sports

Activities

Japan Culture and Information Center, 121 B.B. Comer Hall, 348-5311

June 13 — Origami 3:30 p.m. $2.50 plus cost
June 16 — A Taste of Japan 3:30 p.m. $1
June 16 — Calligraphy 3:30 p.m. $2.50
June 16 — Manners in Japan 4 p.m. free
June 16 — Go 5 p.m. free
June 16 — Film Night 5 p.m. free
June 21 — Tea Ceremony 11:30 a.m. $2.50
June 21 — Kimono Appreciation 1 p.m. $2.50
June 21 — Japanese Gift Wrapping or Box-Making 1 p.m. $2.50
June 21 — Tie-dyeing 2 p.m. $2.50 plus cost
June 30 — A Taste of Japan 3:30 p.m. $1

International Center for Students

121 B.B. Comer — Capstone International Coffee Hour, every Friday, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m

Discovering Alabama

Discovering Alabama with Dr. Doug Phillips announces four new shows, which have aired on Alabama Public Television, and corresponding videos: Alabama Black Belt (Part I), Alabama Black Belt (Part 2), Covington County, and Lee County. Watch for future airings on Alabama Public Television. Featuring Dr. Doug Phillips, the series airs each Sunday at 6:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Alabama Public Television. For information about buying videos, call 348-2039.

Exhibits

UA Museums

Alabama Museum of Natural History, Smith Hall, 348-7550

Museum Expedition 27
Spend a week at the Museum Expedition field camp and discover the intrigue of working alongside scientific explorers on actual field research projects on the Cahaba River. Cost will be $400 per person. http://amnh.ua.edu/ For more information contact Judy Everett at 348- 2136 or museum.expedition@ua.edu. The expedition will be through June 18, all day.

The Gorgas House, on UA campus, 348-5906

Moundville Archaeological Park and Museum, Highway 69 South, 205/371-2572

Paul W. Bryant Museum, 300 Bryant Drive, 348-4668

Alabama Heritage Magazine, 348-7467 — The Web site provides information about the current issue of Alabama Heritage magazine, subscriptions, collecting back issues, the location on campus and more.

Black Warrior Review — The Black Warrior Review is a nationally respected literary magazine that publishes the best in contemporary fiction, poetry and essays.

Marr's Field Journal, 348-7264, MFJ@sa.ua.edu

Gorgas Library Book Arts Gallery, 1st Floor, Gorgas Library

Bounds Law Library, 101 Bryant Drive, 348-5925

W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, 208 Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, 50 Hackberry Lane, 348-0500

The Antebellum Architecture of Tuscaloosa: Images and Text from the 1929 Thesis of Sydnia Keene Smyth
This exhibition features images and text from the 1929 Masters’ Thesis by UA student Sydnia Keene Smyth. The photographs of antebellum homes and structures include homes and structures that survive and have been restored, structures in disrepair, and some homes that have not survived. Exhibit by Katie McAllister, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, and Kiya Holmes. This exhibit is held in conjunction with the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society's celebration of Heritage Week 2005.This exhibit will run through Sept. 30. For more information contact Jessica Lacher-Feldman at 348- 0500 or hooleinfo@bama.ua.edu.

Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, 348-1891

Farley Moody Galbraith Endowed Exhibition, Vernon Fisher: Notes for a New Novel
The UA Sarah Moody Gallery of Art presents the 2005 Farley Moody Galbraith Endowed Exhibition through June 15. This year’s exhibition will feature work by internationally acclaimed, Texas-based artist Vernon Fisher. For more information contact Vicki Rial at 348-1891 or vrial@art.as.ua.edu

Ferguson Center Art Gallery, 348-3250

Cartographic Research Laboratory, 324 Farrah Hall, also see alabamamaps.ua.edu

The University of Alabama Press, 20 Research Drive, 348-5180; the UA Press will provide a current catalog upon request.

2005-2006 Celebrity Series

UA’s School of Music has announced its Celebrity Series concert schedule for 2005-06. This season’s four offerings are the Emerson String Quartet, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, violinist Joshua Bell and Mark O’Connor’s Appalachia Waltz Trio.
All four performances are sponsored by the Gloria Narramore Moody Foundation, which marks the 17th year the Moody Foundation has brought internationally acclaimed talent to the University and underwritten the performances of world-class performers.
All performances are held in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building on the UA campus at 7:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Celebrity Series subscriptions are $72 and $55. Single tickets prices for the concerts are $22 and $15 for general admission and $7 for students. They are available for purchase at the box office at 348-7111.

Emerson String Quartet
Sept. 30
The Emerson String Quartet’s four members have been playing together since 1979. To keep their sound fresh and vibrant, Eugene Drucker and Phillip Setzer alternate as first violin. Another innovation by the group has the two violinists and violist Lawrence Dutton stand while playing; cellist David Finckel performs from a podium. Using this radical stance and positioning themselves farther apart on stage gives the musicians greater projection while providing greater clarity to the music.

Last year the Emerson String Quartet was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize, the only chamber ensemble to win the Avery Fisher Prize for best classical recording and they have received it twice in 28 years. Their selection underscores their strengths as individual instrumentalists, as previously only soloists were eligible, and highlights their collective achievements as recognized by six Grammy awards.

Frank Moody Memorial Concert with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Justin Brown, conductor, and Daniel Szasz, violin Oct. 16 at 3 p.m.
Established as one of Britain’s leading young conductors, Justin Brown has worked with most of that country’s top orchestras. He is a familiar figure in Europe, conducting in Scandinavia, Russia, Germany, France and Luxembourg, and his career has taken him worldwide to Israel, Singapore, Taipei and Australia. Brown studied at Cambridge University and at Tanglewood with Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein.

Recent engagements included debuts in Asia with the Tokyo Philharmonic and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras and in Europe with the Oslo and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestras. Brown made his highly successful conducting debut in America with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

Violinist and ASO concertmaster Daniel Szasz performed his first concerto with a professional orchestra at age 13. Szasz is a winner of the Public Prize at the prestigious Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition in Florence, Italy. He has participated in many music festivals, including those in Graz, Austria; Sopron, Hungary; the Blossom of Ohio; Chautauqua, New York and the New Hampshire Music Festival.

Joshua Bell, violin
March 11, 2006
At home as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestra leader and collaborator with MIT’s Tod Machover on the invention of a hyperviolin and electronically enhanced bow, Joshua Bell’s talent has proved exceptionally varied. His performance selections are equally varied - from arrangements of compositions by Couperin to those of Bernstein.

Whether it’s a concerto written for him or a cadenza he has written, Bell plays his 1713 Gibson ex Huberman violin with technical skill, artistic grace and sensitive interpretation that fulfill his promise as a child prodigy. How poetic that the musician who performed the music of a fictional red violin in an Academy Award winning film now plays the very Stradivarius that inspired the movie.

Mark O’Connor’s Appalachia Waltz Trio with Carol Cook and Natalie Haas
April 15, 2006
The Appalachia Waltz Trio seems an unlikely name for a chamber ensemble unless you know that Mark O’Connor is the foremost practitioner of the American school of string playing - a phrase he uses to describe a performance style that melds the aspects of several centuries of American musical culture with the European classical tradition.

Violinist Carol Cook and cellist Natalie Haas complete the trio who play the music O’Connor created for “Appalachia Waltz” and “Appalachian Journey,” his recording projects with Yo-Yo Ma and Edger Meyer. As composer, violinist and fiddler, O’Connor acknowledges his mentors Benny Thomasson and Stephane Grappelli, but he has created a distinctive genre that is unmistakably his own.

Events

Crimson Music Camp
University of Alabama School of Music Faculty present a week-long camp setting full of new musical experiences for young musicians from 8th grade through high school seniors. See Web site for registration fees http://www.music.ua.edu/. For more information contact Jane Weigel at 348-6741 or jweigel@music.ua.edu. The camp will run through June 17, all day.

Flintknapping
July 16 Flintknapping is the art of making arrow and spear points (and much more) from rocks that break like glass. In this one-day class, an expert guides participants through this remarkable technology that has recently resurged as a modern art form. Participants will have one or more arrowheads and a growing fascination. Class limited to 8 students, ages 12 and up. The flintknapping class is $35 ($30 for members of the Alabama Museum of Natural History). A starter tool kit (which includes 2 billets, a pressure flaker, an abrader, a leg pad and a hand pad) is available for purchase for $40. Visit the Web site at http://www.museums.ua.edu/moundville/classes.html.

UA’s Summertide Theatre Returns To Gulf Shores With “Anything Goes”
For the second summer in a row, Gulf Shores residents and visitors will be able to spend the evening entertained by live theatre provided by UA’s department of theatre and dance. SummerTide, UA’s professional summer theatre company, will perform the classic musical “Anything Goes,” each evening except Sunday at the George C. Meyers Theatre Arts Center in Gulf Shores through July 2. SummerTide’s first season in Gulf Shores was a resounding success, with many sold-out evenings. Performances will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets prices are $15 for adults and $7.50 for children 12 and under. Reservations can be made by calling the George C. Meyers Theatre Art Center at 251/968- 6721. Information and reservations also are available online at www.SummerTide.org. The theatre is located at 2022 West 2nd Street in Gulf Shores.

Performances

School of Music
All performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Moody Music Building Concert Hall unless otherwise indicated.

July 10 — David Buice, Harpsichord 2 p.m.

Crimson Tide Sports

Complete sports information is available via The University of Alabama official athletic Web site at www.rolltide.com. The site includes information about all sports, schedules, pricing information on faculty/staff tickets as well as tickets available to the public. General information on schedules and other news from Alabama athletics is also available at the site.

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