ENDACOTT
SOCIETY — January 2008
Retired
Faculty and Staff of The University of Kansas —
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SCHEDULED EVENTS
All
activities meet at the Adams Alumni Center unless otherwise noted.
Afternoon Lecture Series
Maxine Patterson
(843-7905), Mary Schweppe (schweppe@ku.edu,
842-1147), and Howard O'Connor (843-1884). Stan and Janet Roth (sdroth@ku.edu, jroth@ku.edu,
843-4764), and Bill Hambleton (wwhamble@ku.edu,
843-2508) are in charge of programs.
January 10—Program at 2:30,
sherry at 2:00, in the Summerfield Room. Following the celebration of January
birthdays, Dr. Richard Schrock, chairman of biology and director of biology
teacher training at Emporia State University, will speak on "The Shortage
of Teachers in Kansas Public Schools."
Armchair Travel
Stitt
Robinson (wsrobin@ku.edu, 843-1499)
January 24—Program at 2:30,
coffee and tea at 2:00. "Russia, Including Travel Along the Volga and Don
Rivers," will be presented by Hal and Charlyn Orel.
Card and Game Theory
Art Lamb
(artlamb@sunflower.com, 749-4647)
January 17—1:30 in the Paul
Adam Lounge. The usual games of bridge and scrabble and whatever will be
played. A sign-up sheet is available at the Wednesday Coffee.
Cinema Studies
Grant
Goodman (plim@ku.edu, 841-1066) and Fred Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu, 841-4939)
January 15—Film at 2:00,
coffee at 1:45, in the Paul Adam Lounge. We will show San Francisco, with Jeanette
MacDonald, Clark Gable, and Spencer Tracy. This wonderful old film features the San Francisco
earthquake on the back lot of MGM.
Bring your friends!
Computer Study
Jerry
Niebaum (jniebaum@wizardofkansas.com,
842-3127)
All meetings are at
9:00 in the Paul Adam Lounge. Check out our year's tentative schedule at our
Web site at www.wizardofkansas.com—OLDKU
January 2—Introduction to
Word processing, Part 2.
January 9—Introduction to
Macintosh (Vic Wallace).
January 16—Introduction to Mac OSX
10.5: Leopard (Vic
Wallace).
January 23—What's inside?
Dismantling your computer (Jerry Niebaum).
January 30—Dr. Fixit: (Jerry
Niebaum).
Domestic Public Policy Study
Jim Drury
(jdrury@ku.edu, 842-3308), John Poertner (jpoertner@sunflower.com, 749-2599) and Ev
Swartz (evswartz@ku.edu, 841-4065)
January 7—3:30.
Topic: "The State of the University" by Richard Lariviere,
Provost.
Drama Study Group
Arnold
Weiss (ahweiss@ku.edu, 842-5502)
January 11—1:30 in the music
room. The group will conclude the reading of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession. Copies will be
available at Wednesday Coffee. The
group will also settle on play(s) to be read at forthcoming meetings.
Evening Lecture Series
Tom Eblen
(teblen@sunflower.com,
865-3634) and John Mullens (841-0958)
January 31—5:30 wine and
cheese, 6:00 dinner, 7:00 presentation. The speaker will be Rex Buchanan,
associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey. His topic:
"Water".
Foreign Policy Study
Marilyn
Bradt (mbradt@carrollsweb.com,
843-7751)
January 14—3:30 in the
McGinnis Library. Jim Seaver will lead the discussion on "Talking
Turkey: The U.S.–Turkey
Relationship".
Gardening
Arno
Knapper (knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422)
and Dick Schiefelbusch (843-5869)
January 2, 9, 16,
23, 30—9:00
in the Music Room.
Great Books Study Group
Dave
Hiebert (gundave@sunflower.com,
842-8706) and Ellen Gold (843-6933)
January 9—1:45. The subject
is Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance. The discussion will be led by Art Lamb.
Metropolitan Opera Radio
Al Sellen
(jnalsellen@aol.com, 841-7432)
Radio broadcasts of the
Met at the home of Vic and Mary Wallace, 1509 Massachusetts St., begin in
January. The Saturday broadcasts are received live over the internet and played
in comfortable surroundings with fine audio equipment. Jim Seaver brings his
expert knowledge and librettos. Snacks are served too. All are welcome!
(Parking is available in the church lot next door.)
January 5—12:30. Un
Ballo in Maschera,
Verdi.
January 12—12:30. Macbeth, Verdi. (New
production, also live in theaters)
January 19—12:30. La
Bohème,
Puccini. (Rebroadcast from 1977, with Scotto, Pavarotti, and Plishka in their
prime.)
January 26—12:30. Il
Barbiere di Siviglia,
Rossini.
Music
Arno
Knapper (knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422)
January 2, 9, 16,
23, 30—Immediately
following coffee.
Opera Study
Jim
Seaver (jseaver@ku.edu, 843-4081)
and Al Sellen (jnalsellen@aol.com,
841-7432)
January 18—1:30, on the
second floor. The third opera presentation in our series concerning the Italian
verismo operas will be Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. The
composer–Cilea–was born at Padua, Italy, in 1866 and died at his
home in Verazza, Italy, in 1950. He was much admired by the Italian
public. He wrote his first opera–Gina–in 1889 while attending the
Naples Conservatory of Music. In 1892 his opera La Tilda was a failure, but his L'Arlesiana
of 1896
was successful and is still heard occasionally in Italy. His next work
was his masterpiece, Adriana Lecouvreur, which is still heard at La Scala,
Milan, Covent Garden, London, and the Metropolitan, New York. Adriana had its premiere at the
Teatro Lirico of Milan in 1902, with Caruso singing the leading tenor
role. Cilea's last opera–Gloria ( 1932)--was not
successful.
The action of the opera
takes place in Paris in 1730, when Adriana Lecouvreur was a famous actress at
the Comedie Francaise. Adriana is a rival of the Princesse de Bouillon
for the love of Maurice, Count of Saxony. The princesse kills Adriana by
sending her a bouquet of poisoned flowers. In the finale, Adriana dies in
the arms of Count Maurice. The opera is very melodious, with splendid
arias for all of the major singers.
Our lavish production
comes from La Scala, Milan, in 1989. Soprano Mirella Freni sings and acts
the part of Adriana very well. Mezzo-soprano Friorenza Cossotto
is Adriana's angry, vengeful enemy, and the handsome Czech tenor Peter
Dvorsky is Maurice, Adriana's lover. The opera takes about two hours and
forty minutes. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served at the end of Act
II.
Singing for Fun
Roberta Spires
(rspires@ku.edu, 842-6820)
January 3—2:00 in the Music
Room. Please join us for a fun-filled song fest down memory lane with
Winnie Gallup on the piano and Roberta Spires leading.
Ten O'clock Scholars, AKA “Wednesday Coffee”
Genevieve
McMahon (841-2116).
January 2, 9, 16,
23, 30—10:00.
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