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USA professor of music, Dr. Robert Holm, will present a solo recital on June 17, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Laidlaw Recital Hall, featuring ragtime dances, marches and waltzes by African-American composer Scott Joplin. Beginning in 1899 with Original Rags and the Maple Leaf Rag, Joplin composed more than 40 rags in the following 15 years. The program will include The Cascades, Weeping Willow, Leola, Palm Leaf Rag, Combination March, Harmony Club Waltz, Eugenia, The Sycamore, Cleopha, Bink's Waltz, The Favorite, March Majestic, Peacherine Rag, Antoinette and The Entertainer.
Tickets for this Department of Music event will be sold at the door only. Admission is $5 general and $3 for USA faculty, staff, students and all seniors. MAS passes will be honored for this concert. Persons needing more information about this event or in need of special accommodation may call (251) 460-7116 or (251) 460-6136, or go online at www.southalabama.edu/music and click on the word "calendar."
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| April 22, 2010 |
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The IFS will present the last film of the semester,
Zhang Yimou's The Story of Qiu Ju (China, 2003, in Cantonese with
English subtitles), on Thursday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the USA Main Library Auditorium.
Film Synopsis: A peasant woman, Qiu Ju, lives with her husband's family in a rural
village. Qiu Ju's life is unexceptional until her husband is physically
attacked by the village elder. When the elder refuses to apologize, Qiu
Ju decides to seek legal action with the help of a local magistrate.
What she gets, however, is a harsh lesson in "be careful of what you ask
for." In the end she finds that life can frustrate our attempts at
harmony in the simplest, cruelest ways. Director Zhang Yimou adopts an
unadorned, realistic style that allows the film's increasingly absurd
situations to speak for themselves. Indeed, while the look at government
gone wrong has serious underpinnings, the overall tone remains one of
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| April 15, 2010 |
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The University of South Alabama Department of Music will present the Spring Woodwind Ensemble Concert, under the direction of Dr. Andra Bohnet, on Saturday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Laidlaw Performing Arts Center. The concert will feature chamber music for a variety of instrumental combinations including flute, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone. Composers represented on the program include C.P.E Bach, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, Jean Francaix, Gary Schocker and Robert Muczynski.
Admission to this Department of Music concert is free and open to the public. Persons needing more information about this event or in need of special accommodation may call (251) 460-7116 or (251) 460-6136, or go online at www.southalabama.edu/music and click on the word "calendar."
For further information about the woodwinds program at USA, contact Dr. Bohnet at (251) 460-6696 or by e-mail.
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| April 14, 2010 |
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The History Department and the Department of International Studies at the University of South Alabama will host a public screening of The Armenian Genocide, a documentary by Andrew Goldberg, on Wednesday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the USA Library Auditorium. Dr. Mara Kozelsky will introduce the event and a discussion will follow. Students, staff, and members of the public are invited to attend. Please contact the History Department for more information: (251) 460-6210. |
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| April 13, 2010 |
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The University of South Alabama Opera Theatre, under the direction of Thomas L. Rowell, will present two performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta, "The Mikado," on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 18, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall of Laidlaw Performing Arts Center. The production stars tenor Marshall Richards as "Nanki-Poo," soprano Aimee Riemersma as "Yum-Yum," mezzo-soprano Victoria Turner as "Katisha" and bass Nicholas Brownlee as "The Mikado." This favorite of opera audiences and Gilbert and Sullivan aficionados is stage directed by Fulton Burns of USA's Department of Dramatic Arts and features the talents of both USA's vocal and instrumental students and faculty.
Tickets for these Musical Arts Series events will be sold at the door only. Admission is $5 general and $3 for USA faculty, staff, students and all seniors. Persons needing more information about this event or in need of special accommodation may call (251) 460-7116 or (251) 460-6136, or go online at www.southalabama.edu/music and click on "calendar. |
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| March 24, 2010 |
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The University of South Alabama's Music Business Student Association
(Dr. Andra Bohnet, faculty advisor) announces their first annual arts
showcase, Arts Inspired: The Road to Creation!, which will take place
on March 30th at 7:30 p.m. in USA Laidlaw Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall. All proceeds from this event will be donated to the
Mobile Arts Council in an effort to support their Arts in Education
programs. The theme, The Road to Creation, encourages artists to
revisit and explore the first person, idea, or event that inspired
them to create.
The evening will showcase a variety of performance art forms including
poetry, dance, music, theatre and comedy. In addition, works from
several visual artists will be on display at the event. Tickets can
be purchased in advance or at the door for $10 general admission or $5
students/faculty/staff/seniors. Please call (228) 217-4088 or visit our
website, www.southalabama.edu/music/artsinspired for further
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| March 22, 2010 |
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Heather Maurer will present a talk titled "Visual Imagery in Soviet Propaganda" on Wednesday, March 24. The coloquium will be held in the Department of Communication lobby from 12:15 -1:15 p.m. Free lunch will be served. |
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| February 19, 2010 |
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The USA Department of Physics presents colloquium speaker Dr. Sytske Kimball, University of South Alabama, Center for Hurricane Intensity and Landfall Investigation, speaking on "Observing the Atmosphere with the University of South Alabama Mesonet." The talk will be Thursday, February 25, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in ILB 250. Refreshments are served at 3:45 p.m.
On Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Laidlaw Performing Arts
Center, the Department of History will present the Ninth Annual Howard
F. Mahan Lecture. This year's lecturer will be Dr. Susan Reverby of
Wellesley College. Professor Reverby's lecture, "Race, Medicine and
Research: Re-examining the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Its
Legacy," will be based upon her research focusing on the infamous study
conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service beginning in the 1930's.
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| January 26, 2010 |
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The History Department and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of South Alabama welcome historian and critic John H. Summers for a presentation on Thursday, January 28, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library Auditorium, titled "C. Wright Mills and the Politics of Truth." Please visit http://jsummers.net/ for more information. |
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| January 25, 2010 |
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Shepard Krech III, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, will give a free public lecture titled "Spirits of the Air: Birds & Indians in the South" on Thursday, February 11at 7:00 p.m. in the Laidlaw Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. The Annual Mardi Gras Lecture is hosted by the University of South Alabama Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work and sponsored by the USA Foundation. |
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