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Monday, October 30, 2000
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‘Ancient’ Music |
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Andrew Manze will direct the Academy of Ancient Music, as well as performing the violin solos,  when the Academy performs Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall. Tickets are $33 and $37, available in the Performing Arts Center box office (542-4400, open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and two hours before concerts).
The original Academy of Ancient Music was established in 1726 for the purpose of studying and performing “old” music, defined initially as anything composed at least a century earlier. The Academy was revived by Christopher Hogwood in 1973 to give audiences music as it might have sounded at the time it was written. The ensemble brings together specialists in every branch of baroque and classical performance style.
At this concert, the Academy will mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach by performing his Canons and Violin Concerto in E Major. Also on the program are Handel’s Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 6, No. 9, and Concerto Grosso in A Major, Op. 6, No. 11; and Leclair’s Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 7, No. 3.
A pre-concert lecture will be given by Egbert Ennulat, faculty member in the School of Music. The lecture begins at 7:15 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
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 Bonnie Rideout returns Nov. 4 to the Performing Arts Center following her sold-out performance with the Celtic group Hesperus in 1999. She is one of the most fiery Scottish fiddlers of our time. Her fiddling charms audiences with a vast array of dance tunes, bagpipe marches and ancient Gaelic melodies.
Rideout is the first woman to hold a national Scottish fiddle title and the youngest to be named U.S. Scottish Fiddle Champion, winning the competition for three consecutive years. She was invited to present 18th-century and Highland fiddle styles at the prestigious Edinburgh International Festival in 1996, the first American so honored.
She performs throughout North America and Europe and is a sanctioned Scottish F.I.R.E. (Fiddler’s Revival) teacher and adjudicator for Scottish festivals throughout the United States. She has authored six music books and released seven solo recordings in addition to appearing as guest musician on dozens of CDs. Her solo recordings include the newly released Scottish Fire; the New York Times “Top 10” holiday bestseller A Scottish Christmas; the Parents’ Choice Gold Winner Gi’me Elbow Room; and several others.
The Bonnie Rideout Scottish Trio includes percussionist Paddy League and guitarist Bryan Aspey.
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Round Table |
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The next University Round Table, on Nov. 1, will feature Louis Hollaway, the superintendent of the Clarke County school system, Dean Louis Castenell of UGA’s College of Education and Carol Williams, a member of the Georgia state board of education. Each speaker will address issues regarding the relationship between the university and Clarke County and how the two entities can work together to mutual benefit.
University Round Table, with a member base of more than 200, consists of approximately 50 percent UGA students, 25 percent UGA faculty and 25 percent business and community leaders. The group is organized by a board of five student officers, three community members and three faculty. Other members also contribute to organizing the group’s three dinners as well as their less formal “ice cream discussions” that take place throughout the year.
URT’s first meeting in 1989 drew more than 200 students to hear speaker Billy Payne, then director of the Atlanta Olympic Organizing Committee. Other speakers have included Georgia Supreme Court Justice Leah Sears-Collins; Kenny Leon, the artistic director of the Alliance Theatre Company; and Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond.
Topics for meetings have ranged from crime in the Athens community to the media’s influence on society’s perceptions of world events to the Athens music scene, which was the topic for URT’s summer ice cream discussion in August.
Membership in URT is open to everyone in the Athens community. Dues are $20 per year, with an additional $10 cost for each dinner. The dinners also are open to non-members for a fee of $15. The ice cream discussions are free for all members and $5 for non-members.
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Dialogue |
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Dorinda Dallmeyer, associate director of the Rusk Center, will moderate this year’s environmental ethics dialogue on Nov. 3. The sixth annual dialogue will feature Alejandro Nadal Egea of El Colegio de México and Dr. Michael McCally of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. They will discuss the expansion of environmental ethics and justice across international boundaries.
McCally, a public health physician, is professor of community and preventive medicine at Mount Sinai. He is an active member of Physicians for Human Rights, the American Public Health Association, and several other policy organizations. He is currently chairman of the board of Greenpeace, USA, and is a co-author of Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment (1993).
Nadal is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Economic Studies and coordinator of the science and technology program at El Colegio de México. He is the author of several books dealing with the effects of technological change, and his latest, Zea Mays: The Social and Environmental Consequences of Corn in NAFTA, will be published soon.
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