ENDACOTT
SOCIETY
January 2004
Retired
Faculty and Staff of the University of Kansas
www.ukans.edu/~emeritus
From
the Executive Committee: We hope that everyone has a Happy Holiday Season and is
looking forward to a glorious New Year—2004!
All activities meet at
the Adams Alumni Center unless otherwise
noted.
SNOW
POLICY REMINDER—There
will be no meeting on Wednesday morning if the Lawrence Public Schools are
closed due to bad weather. This will directly affect the Computer Study Group,
Gardening Seminar, Ten O'clock Scholars, and the Music Group. KANU, KLWN and
Channel 6 as well as the Alumni Center office will be informed. All other
interest groups should develop their own policies. The Executive
Committee
Armchair
Travel—Chris
and Bruce Linton (balinton@ku.edu
& 843-6796)
[Meets
the 4th Thursday of selected months].
Thursday,
January 22—Tea
or coffee at 2; program at 2:30 Dick Moore and Bobbie McCorkle will bring us
pictures from last summer’s trip to the northwest. Specifically, Seattle,
Glacier Park, the Canadian Rockies and Vancouver.
Card
& Game Theory—Edna & Karmie
Galle
(galle@ku.edu & 843-2950)
Thursday, January 15 at 2:00--Sign
up sheet will be available during the Ten-O-clock Scholars meetings after the
first of the year. If there any questions, contact the Galles.
Cinema
Studies—Bill
Kelly
(wkelly1301@aol.com & 842-0523) and Fred Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu &
841-4939)
January
7—Kathy
Pribbenow, Academic Computer Services (ACS) on "Word.”
January
14—Roger
E. Bell, Director of Information Systems, Kansas City Community College and VP
Cyber Security, Infra-Gard-KC, who will speak on "Cyber
Terrorism.”
January
21—Dave
Greenbaum of Doctor Dave (dave@calldrdave.com) will conduct a "Dr. Fixit"
program.
Monday, January 5 at
3:30 in the Library. Jim Seaver and Grant
Goodman will discuss the issue: "Military Service: Conscript or
Volunteer."
Having (not without an
unbecoming clash of gears) thrown its scheduling transmission into sudden
reverse and held its December meeting on its traditional second Friday (thus
shamefully contradicting what that month's Newsletter had trustingly
advertised), Drama Study Group now--fearlessly yet again--dares lightning to
strike twice by announcing it will move its January meeting to the third Friday,
i.e., January 16, 2004. Repeat: January 16. Hour and place remain the
same, i.e., and 1:30 P.M. in the Music Room. The vehicle will be John
Osborne's Look Back in Anger, begun at the December meeting. Since the
January meeting will likely see completion of the reading of that play, agenda
at that meeting will include determination of the next play to be undertaken;
suggestions will be welcome as always, and may be communicated to Arnold
Weiss.
Monday, January 12 at 3:30
P.M.—Allan Hanson, KU Professor of
Anthropology will be speaking to us about what he and a group of faculty have
been studying--understanding what lies behind the current administration's
foreign and domestic policies. Others in his group may join him. We look forward
to their shedding some light on this important
matter.
Gardening—Arno
Knapper (knapper@ku.edu & 312-9422) and Dick Shiefelbusch
(843
5869)
January
7, 14, 21, 28 at
9:00 A.M.
Wednesday,
January 14 at 1:30--Jane
and Earl Gates will lead the discussion of a selection from
Bhagavad-Gita.
Metropolitan Opera
Radio—Al
Sellen
(jnalsellen@aol.com & 841-7432) and Jim
Seaver
(843-4081 & jseaver@ku.edu)
Beginning
in January, Vic Wallace will use his computer and loudspeakers to give us fine
reception for the Saturday afternoon Met broadcasts. Come to 1509
Massachusetts with parking in the Methodist Church parking lot. Jim Seaver
will be there with all his operatic knowledge. These operas begin at 12:30 P.M.
except "Boris Godunov" which starts at noon.
January 3
"The Barber of Seville"
Rossini
January 10
"Werther"
Massenet
January 17
"The Merry Widow”
Lehár
January
24
"Madama Butterfly”
Puccini
January
31
"Boris Godunov”
Mussorgsky
Music—Arno
Knapper (knapper@ku.edu & 312-9422)
January
7, 14, 21, 28—Wednesdays—immediately
following Ten O’clock Scholars, Music Room.
Opera
Study—Jim
Seaver (843-4081 & jseaver@ku.edu) and Al Sellen
(jnalsellen@aol.com & 841-7432)
Our
study of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Niebelung will continue in 2004 on
Friday afternoon 16 January at 12:30 P.M. This music drama, which
is just about the same length as Die Walkure, should be over about 5:30
P.M.
If
we were dealing with a four-movement symphony, instead of a four-opera Ring
of the Niebelung, Siegfried might be considered to be the scherzo, the
relatively happy part of the Ring cycle. In Siegfried two of the more
unpleasant characters in the Ring of the Niebelung—Mime and Fafner (once
a Giant, now a dragon)--are slain by young Siegfried's sword, and the hero
breaks Wotan's spear of power and runic law when he goes through the magic fire
to awaken Brunnhilde from her sleep and to the joys of human
love.
Wagner
started to write the music for Siegfried in 1856 and finished Act I. In
despair at piling up one unperformed score after another, he stopped composing
music for Siegfried and The Ring, leaving Siegfried under the linden tree
in the "Forest Murmurs Scene" early in Act II. Wagner did not resume work on
Siegfried until 1864 and did not complete it until 1871. The musical
highlights of this work are probably Siegfried's forging of his sword Nothung
late in Act I, the "Forest Murmurs Scene" and the dragon-slaying scene in Act
II, and just about all of the magnificent music of the storm scene, the
awakening of Brunnhilde, and the climatic love duet in Act
III.
Our
presentation of Siegfried, which will start at 12:30, will begin with an
introduction to the new leit-motifs for this music drama. The video, starring
bass James Morris as Wotan and soprano Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde, will
last almost four hours. We will have short intermissions after Act I and Act II,
during which tea, coffee, and cookies will be served.
Ten
O’clock Scholars AKA Wednesday Coffee/Business Meeting—Margery
Lamb (marjlamb@earthlink.net & 749-4647)
January 7, 14, 21,
28—Wednesdays at 10:00 A.M.
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L O O K I N G F O R W A R
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*Pre-Concert
Dinner—Saturday, February 7
(Canadian Brass)—Sign-up for this pre-concert dinner
will be available at the Ten O'clock Scholars meetings on Wednesdays after the
first of the New Year. Or you may call Grant Goodman at 841-1066 to reserve.
The
final pre-concert dinner will be on Friday, March 5 (“La
Traviata”).
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