Volume 31, No.23
March 10, 2000
Contact: Terry Day (570) 662-4844
tday@mnsfld.edu
Country, blues and traditional Appalachian music fans will
have a rare opportunity to experience the music of four leading guitarists Tuesday, March
28 at 8 p.m. in Steadman Theatre. "Masters of the Steel String Guitar" will
feature four of the genre’s most respected musicians.
Eddie Pennington performs in a thumb picking guitar style made
famous by Merle Travis and Chet Atkins. Fully developed by black and white performers in
and around Kentucky, the intricate flowing style is based on the artist playing rhythm
parts with the thumb and the melody with the fingers. Pennington lives in Kentucky but
performs regularly in Europe.
Johnny Bellar is a virtuoso performer on resophonic and lap steel
guitar, better known as the Dobro. The composer and Nashville session musician has
appeared regularly on "Nashville Now" and the Grand Ol’ Opry.
Wayne Henderson is a legend among Nashville pickers. He still
lives in the tiny town of Rugby, Virginia where he was born. He is revered among
guitarists for his speed and fluidity, as well as for making steel-string guitars.
Musicians on his waiting list for guitars include Eric Clapton.
John Cephas plays the Piedmont blues, the oldest form of the
blues with repertoire and performance links to black string bands that date back to
Colonial America. He earned the prestigious W.C. Handy Award twice as well as the National
Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the arts.
"Masters of the Steel String Guitar" is free and open
to the public. The tour is sponsored by the National Council for the Traditional Arts. The
Mansfield performance is coordinated by the Northern Tier Cultural Alliance, based at the
university's Center for Arts and Folklife, with support from the Mansfield Activities
Council, the MU President's Advisory Board for Diversity and the Pine Creek Arts Council.
Dedicated Performance
The MU Festival Chorus, under the direction of Peggy
Dettwiler, will present "Requiem" by Amadeus Mozart on Saturday, April 8, at 8
p.m. and Sunday, April 9, at 3 p.m. in Steadman Theatre.
The concerts will be dedicated to the memory of Edward Brown,
Professor of Theory and Piano at Mansfield from 1971 to 1998, and will feature Jennifer
Schmid, soprano; Fran Shumway, mezzo-soprano; William Cutter, tenor, and Thomas Jones,
bass. A large orchestra of student and professional players will accompany the soloists
and chorus.
The Festival Chorus comprises more than 100 singers, including MU
faculty, students and staff, and members of the surrounding communities.
Mozart’s "Requiem," the composer’s last and
unfinished work, is known to the general public in the version undertaken immediately
after Mozart’s death by his pupil, Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Musicians have studied the
work for many years, speculating on the parts that came from Mozart’s pen and those
that may have not. Robert Levin, a musician and historian from Harvard University who has
deeply immersed himself in Mozart’s music, completed the version the chorus will
perform. Dettwiler studied the work at the Oregon Bach
Festival last summer under Helmut Rilling, renowned conductor from Germany, with Robert
Levin at his side, in a masterclass of 14 professional conductors from six countries
around the world. During the two-week festival, she conducted excerpts of the
"Requiem" in two concert performances.
Tickets are $5 for adults and senior citizens and $3 for students
and children. All proceeds will benefit the Edward Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund. For
information call x4710.
Your Vote Counts
The MU Women’s Commission will hold an open meeting to
celebrate Women’s Awareness-History Month on Wednesday, March 15, noon, in 204
Memorial Hall.
The meeting will feature the award winning film "How We Got
The Vote." The film, narrated by Jean Stapleton, chronicles the struggle by women to
be included in the electoral process, resulting in gaining the right to vote in 1920. It
includes interviews and historic footage.
The meeting is open to all members of campus community.
Refreshments will be served.
Celebrating Sisterhood
The Women's Studies Program is holding its seventh
annual Women's Arts and Cultures Celebration with a series of events in March and April.
The first event is a concert, "Women Composing Today,"
on Friday, March 17, 8 p.m., in Steadman Theatre. Kenneth Sarch, Jean-Anne Teal, Joseph
Murphy, and Youngsuck Kim, accompanied by Nancy Boston, will perform works by
distinguished American and Korean composers. A range of styles will be represented,
from the intensity of Ellen Taafe Zwilich in the piece "Romance," performed by
Kenneth Sarch, to traditional American influences in "Three Cowboy Songs,"
performed by Jean-Anne Teal.
Other events in the series are the showing of "Fire,"
an award-winning film by Deepa Mehta about two sisters-in-law in contemporary New Delhi,
Thursday, March 30, 7:30 p.m. in Allen Lecture Hall.
On Monday, April 10, 4 p.m. in the Women's Center, 102 Pinecrest,
Ruth Copans of Skidmore College will present an illustrated lecture entitled "Dream
Blocks: American Women Illustrators from the Golden Age, 1890-1925."
A workshop entitled "We Are Family: Legal Rights of Lesbian
and Gay Couples and Parents in Pennsylvania" will take place on Tuesday, April 18, at
7 p.m in the North Hall sixth floor community room. The workshop is presented by
Pennsylvania National Organization of Women/Women's Law Project and is co-sponsored by
Tioga County NOW.
All events are free and refreshments will be served. For
information call x4641 or 4686.
Sandra Woolley, Education, gave two presentations at the annual meeting of the
Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), February 12-16, in Orlando, FL. The first session
featured the authors of a monograph on assessment published by The Pennsylvania
Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators. Woolley's paper is titled "A Survey of
Teachers' Beliefs Related to Constructivist and Behaviorist Learning Theories." The
second ATE session featured the members of a commission, formed by current ATE president
Edi Guyton, to look at constructivist teaching and learning theories and practices as a
model for teacher education. The commission is working toward publication of a document in
2001. Woolley's chapter focuses on the dimension of power and issues in shifting the
balance of power from teachers to students in the context of primarily hierarchical
organizations.
Nancy Sidel, Social Work, Anthropology and Sociology, had her clinical comment,
"The experience of community dwelling spouses of nursing home users: Marital
satisfaction, coping and mental health" published in Clinical Gerontologist.
The baseball team is 7-5 after nearly completing its Spring
Break trip to Fort Myers, FL. The Mounties are ranked #23 in NCAA Division II – the
ninth-straight season MU has been listed in the national poll.
Scott Costa has been leading MU at the plate, with three doubles
and two homers, including a game-winning grand slam against Bloomsburg. Eddie Frame has
three home runs, while Mark Bell is 2-0 on the mound.
The softball team has started off the season 4-0 with two games
left in its North Carolina trip. Kelly Morris and Angie Crater are each 2-0 on the hill,
while a balanced hitting attack has led to 40 hits and 40 runs in the four games.
The fourth time was the charm for Tommy Harvey, as the senior
guard was named to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division
first-team squad after three seasons of earning second-team honors. He ends his MU career
as the school record-holder in points, steals, free throws made, and three pointers made.
Sophomore guard Jen Nichols earned PSAC Eastern Division
second-team honors-the first Mountie to receive a conference honor since the 1990-91
season. She was second on the team in scoring and rebounding and led the team in assists
and steals.
LIBRARY LISTINGS
These bestsellers are now on the shelves at North Hall:
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
The Lion’s Game by Nelson DeMille
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
The Cat Who Robbed A Bank by Lilian Jackson
The Rock Says… by The Rock with Joe Layden
"Knowledge increases in proportion to its use -- that is, the more we teach the
more we learn."
--Helena Petrova Blavatsky