October
Sunday, October 5, 4 p.m.
The Faculty Jazz Quartet
Steve Strawley (trumpet), Tim James (piano), Jim Miller (bass) and Dave Zygmunt (drums) perform music from the great American songbook.
The Depot. Free Music Department
Friday, October 17, 7 p.m.
Florestan Recital Project, Musical Artists-in-Residence: The World of Italian Song
The centerpiece of this program will be Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free Music Department
Sunday, October 19, 4 p.m.
Guest Artist Recital: Lauren Schack Clark, Piano
The program will include works by Rosey Mei-Kuei Lee, Schubert, Debussy and Chopin.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free Music Department
October 19–23
Semana Poética VII
Semana Poética is a weeklong international and multilingual poetry festival, originally organized by the Spanish and Portuguese department, and now co-sponsored by the departments of Spanish and Portuguese, German, French and Italian, Russian, English and Judaic Studies. Each event includes a reading by two poets and is conducted bilingually, followed by a question and answer session. Bios of the participants can be found on page 8.
Semana Poética VII – Schedule of Events
Sunday, October 19, 6 p.m.
Sujata Bhatt (India) and Natalya Handal (Palestine)
Bosler Hall Atrium. Free
Monday October 20, noon.
Rafael Ballesteros (Spain) followed by a roundtable presented by the literary critic Julio Neira (Spain): “Historia de la poesía contemporánea española” – Poetry reading will by bilingual; roundtable will be presented in Spanish
Waidner Spahr Library, Blumber Reading Area. Free
Monday, October 20, 7 p.m.
Steve Gehrke (U.S.A.) and Nitsa Kann (Israel)
Great Room, The Stern Center. Free
Tuesday, October 21, 7 p.m.
Michael Augustin (Germany) and Alessandro Carrera (Italy)
Great Room, The Stern Center. Free
Wednesday October 22, noon.
Utz Rachowski (Germany), followed by a roundtable presented by the literary critic Jorge Chen (Costa Rica): “La dimensión de la traducción poética para los poetas de las vanguardias y las razones por las cuales la traducción se convierte en un ejercicio de filiación estética y de homenaje– Poetry reading will by bilingual; roundtable will be presented in Spanish
Waidner Spahr Library, Blumber Reading Area. Free
Wednesday, October 22, 7 p.m
Uwe Kolbe (Germany) and Aurora Luque (Spain)
Great Room, The Stern Center. Free
Thursday, October 23, noon
Alexei Tsvetkov (Russia) and Vera Pavlova (Russia)
Rubendall Recital Hall,Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Thursday, October 23, 7 p.m.
Each participating poet in Semana Poética VII will read one poem.
Bosler Hall Atrium. Free
Poets’ biographies
Michael Augustin works as a writer and broadcaster with Radio Bremen. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, mini plays, and short prose; he has also published several audio books. Translations of his books have appeared in many languages, and his drawings have appeared in literary magazines around the globe. He has read at numerous international literature festivals and is the recipient of the Friedrich-Hebbel-Prize and the Kurt-Magnus-Prize. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa and Dickinson College.
Rafael Ballesteros born in Málaga, Spain, in 1938. Received a M.A. degree in Literature and Philosophy from Unversidad de Granada and has been a guest lecturer in many universities. He has published several collections of poetry, among them: Las contracifras, Testamenta, and Los dominios de la emoción.
Sujata Bhatt has published seven collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, UK. The recipient of numerous awards, she was one of the judges for the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize, administered by Eliot’s widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot, and the Poetry Book Society, London. Currently, Bhatt lives in Germany. She is an Honorary Fellow of Dickinson College.
Alessandro Carrera was born in Lodi, Italy. Between 1978 and 1984 he traveled extensively in Italy and Germany as a lecturer and singer-songwriter. He released an album of songs, Le cartoline, in 1981, and in 1998 his short story, La stagione della strega, was awarded the Arturo Loria Prize for Short Fiction.
Steve Gehrke’s third book of poetry, Michelangelo’s Seizure, was selected for the National Poetry Series and published in 2007. His second book, The Pyramids of Malpighi, won the Philip Levine Prize. He teaches at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
Natalya Handal is a poet, playwright and writer who has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines and has been translated into more than 15 languages. She has been featured on NPR and PBS Radio as well as in The NewYork Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and Reuters.
Nitsa Kann is a professor of religion at Dickinson College. She is the author of two Hebrew books of poems, Black Soul Singer and AWomanWith Child, and two Hebrew novels, A LoveableWoman and Sexsophone.
Uwe Kolbe Uwe Kolbe was born and raised in East Berlin, undertook military service after leaving school in 1976, and first published his poetry in the journal Sinn und Form in June 1976. Between 1982 and 1985 he was banned from publishing because of anti-government statements. He survived this period by taking up literary translation. From 1982-1987 he published the underground magazine Mikado with Lothar Trolle and Bernd Wagner. In 1985 he was granted a visa, which permitted him to travel to Western Europe and the USA. In the summer of 1988 he left East Berlin for Hamburg, but returned to a united Berlin in 1993. From 1997-2004 he was Director of the Literature and Theatre Studio at the University of Tübingen. Uwe Kolbe has held guest lectureships at the Universities of Texas at Austin, Vienna, and Essen, and has been awarded a number of prestigious literary prizes. In addition to his many books of poetry, such as his first and most well-known Heineingeboren (Born Into) of 1980 and Heimliche Feste (Secret Celebrations) of 2008, he has also published detective fiction and a number of essays.
Born in Almería, Spain, Aurora Luque teaches Greek and is a frequent collaborator for Diario Sur in Málaga, Spain. Her books of poetry include Hiperiónida, Problemas de doblaje, Carpe noctem, Transitoria, Camaradas de Ícaro and Haikus de Narila.
Born inMoscow, Vera Pavlova completed Advanced Studies ofMusic in the Schnittke Academy ofMusic, specializing in the history of music. Her poems have been published in numerous newspapers and periodicals. Her first book, Celestial Animal, came out in 1997 and was followed by Second Language, Line of Detachment and Fourth Sleep. The latter, published in 2000, won the Apollo Grigoryev Prize for poetry.
Born in 1954, Utz Rachowski is a German writer who grew up in East Germany. He studied medicine, worked at odd jobs, and was sentenced to 27 months in jail for copying and distributing literary texts by dissident writer friends such as Jürgen Fuchs, Wolf Biermann, and Reiner Kunze. He was released from jail because of the West German government’s intervention and left East Germany in 1980. He then studied art history and philosophy in Göttingen and West Berlin, where he still resides as a free lance writer.
AlexeiTsvetkov is a Russian poet who lives inWashington, D.C. He was awarded theAndrei Bely Prize for poetry for his most recent collection of poems, Names of Love, published in 2007.
Friday, October 24, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 25, 8 p.m.
Monday, October 27, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, October 28, 8 p.m.
A Little Night Music
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Hugh Wheeler.
Featuring one of Stephen Sondheim’s most admired scores, the romantic and achingly beautiful A Little Night Music deals with the universal subject of love, in all its wondrous, humorous and ironic permutations. Based on Ingmar Bergmann’s screenplay for his film Smiles of a Summer Night, this stylish musical brings us to turn-of-the-century Sweden, where middle-aged Fredrik Egerman brings his 18-year-old bride Anne to a play starring his former mistress, Desirée Armfeldt. Soon, Fredrik and Desirée resume their romance, incurring the wrath of her current lover, a pompous Count. The situation culminates in a weekend at a country estate for the summer solstice, where, under the perpetual sunset of this summer night, things are set right. The musical score features some of Broadway’s most beautiful and complex songs, including Send in the Clowns. Sophisticated, literate and stylish, A Little Night Music is also disarmingly warm, funny, charming and very human. Presented by the Department of Theatre & Dance and the Department of Music, with The Mermaid Players.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB). $5; $3 for student advance purchase
Sunday, October 26, 4 p.m.
Novus
Chris Beaudry (bass trombone), Michael Clayville, Sean Reed and Michael Selover (tenor trombone). Novus, former artists-in-residence at Rice University and winners of the International Trombone Association’s Quartet Competition, will present a concert of original music. The program will feature works by Chris Brubeck, Michael Patterson, Michael Davis and Robert Pound among others.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free Music Department
Thursday, October 30, noon
Noonday Concert
This concert features students in Dickinson College’s Performance Studies program.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free Music Department
October 31–January 10, 2009
Joyce Kozloff: CO+ORDINATES
Artist’s Lecture: Friday, October 31, 4-5 p.m.
(Room 235, Weiss Center)
Opening Reception: Friday, October 31, 5-7 p.m.
Joyce Kozloff considers relationships of power and global politics through the imagery of maps and cartography. Her paintings, some of which cover spherical surfaces and globes, often resemble maps from antiquity as well as from the Age of Exploration dotted with contemporary references to examine issues of territorial conquest, identity and the topography of power. Kozloff has been active in the women artists’ movement since the 1970s. A winner of multiple awards, she is a peace activist, a member of the New York-based collective Artists Against the War and a founding member of the Heresies publishing collective. She shows widely in the United States and Europe, most recently at the Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice.
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Closed November 27 through December 1, and December 24 through January 5, 2009
November
November 4–December 12
Senior Studio Art Seminar Works in Progress
Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 4, 5-7 p.m.
Senior Studio Art majors will exhibit their works in progress in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, drawing, painting and clay. The artists will be on hand at the opening to discuss their ideas for a body of work to be exhibited in The Trout Gallery in May 2009.
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building. Free
Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.
Friday, November 7, 7 p.m.
Dickinson College Jazz Ensemble and Symphonic Band Winter Concert
Dickinson College students will present an evening of music for winds, brass and percussion under the direction of Michael Clayville.
Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St. Free Music Department
Monday, November 10, 7 p.m.
The Trout Gallery Lectures in the History of Art
Marcia Kupfer: Medieval Art and World Maps—A Disenchanting
Marcia Kupfer is the 2007–08 Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, where she is working on medieval maps and mapping. Her research considers ancient and medieval maps and cartographies, imagining the orbis terrarum, and the Christianization of space. She has published important studies on the subject of medieval art and maps including articles in Art Bulletin and Word & Image. Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Great Room, The Stern Center. Free
Friday, November 14, 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 15, 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 16, 2 p.m.
Dance Theatre Group’s Fall Concert
This concert features an evening of dance and will include special guest and faculty choreography. The works are performed by the Dance Theater Group (DTG), Dickinson’s student dance company. The concert includes a variety of dance styles highlighting the unique and expressive power of movement.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB). $5; $3 for student advance purchase
Sunday, November 16, 4 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Lynn Helding
Composer Dominic Argento has made a career of assembling seemingly “unmusical” texts from diaries, letters, and even newspaper columns, to create short vocal dramatic works. Mezzo-soprano Lynn Helding, joined by baritone Aaron Engebreth and pianist Alison d’Amato, present two of his finest monodramas: A Few Words About Chekov and The Diary of Virginia Woolf, for which Mr. Argento won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free Music Department
Thursday, November 20, noon
Noonday Concert
This concert features students in Dickinson College’s Performance Studies program.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free Music Department
Saturday, November 22, 7 p.m.
Dickinson Choir and Orchestra—
Tracing the Viennese Tradition: Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Strauss
The Dickinson Orchestra and College Choir, under the direction of Jeremy Gill and Amy Wlodarski, present a concert dedicated to four pioneers of German music influenced by the Viennese tradition: Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Strauss. The concert features choral
selections from Haydn’s Creation as well as Beethoven’s Coriolanus Overture and Haydn’s Symphony No. 90.
First Lutheran Church, High and Bedford streets. Free Music Department
Sunday, November 23, 4 p.m.
Faculty Bassoon Recital: Kimberly D. Buchar-Kelley
Kimberly Buchar-Kelley will demonstrate the unique mellow tone of the bassoon through a variety of compositions. She will be joined by Dickinson faculty pianist Eun Ae Baik-Kim, oboist Jill Marchione and guest bassoonist Truman Bullard.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free Music Department
December
The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars and Writers Program
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and literary critic, is the 2008 recipient of The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars and Writers Program award. Vargas Llosa is one of Spanish America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Spanish American boom.
Vargas Llosa rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (1963), The Green House (1965) and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral (1969). He continues to write prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973-78) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977), have been adapted as feature films.
Like many Spanish American authors, Vargas Llosa has been politically active throughout his career; over the course of his life, he has gradually moved from the political left towards the right. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted. He ran for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrático coalition, advocating neoliberal reforms.
Wednesday, December 3, 4 p.m.
Book signing
The Whistlestop Bookshop, 129 W. High St.
Wednesday, December 3, 7 p.m.
An Evening with Mario Vargas Llosa
Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium. Free
Thursday, December 4, noon
Lecture: Mario Vargas Llosa
Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium. Free
Saturday, December 6, 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 7, 4 p.m.
Dickinson Collegium Annual Holiday Concert
Blake Wilson, director
A concert of seasonal choral music will be performed by the college’s chamber choir, the Dickinson Collegium. During the 15 years under Music Professor Blake Wilson’s direction, the Collegium has developed a reputation for polished performances of varied and demanding repertoire. Memorial Hall is decorated for the occasion, and fills quickly, while St. Paul’s church accommodates a larger crowd. A free-will offering at both events will benefit Project S.H.A.R.E.
Saturday, December 6 – Memorial Hall, Old West
Sunday, December 7 – St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 201 W. Louther St. Music Department