ENDACOTT
SOCIETY — July/August 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.
July 17—Program at 2:30,
sherry at 2:00, in the Bruckmiller Room. Following the celebration of July
birthdays, the program will be provided by outstanding young pianists attending
the International Institute for Young Musicians that is sponsored by the KU
School of Fine Arts during the month of July. In its fourth year at KU,
the prestigious IIYM Piano Competition has become one of the premiere musical
events in the world for young pianists.
August 14—Program at 2:30,
sherry at 2:00, in the Summerfield Room. Following the celebration of
August birthdays, William Hambleton, Director Emeritus of the Kansas Geological
Survey, will speak on "Everybody's Digitizing It."
Card
and Game Theory
Art
Lamb (artlamb@sunflower.com, 749-4647)
July 24 and
August 21—1:30
in the Paul Adam Lounge. The usual games of bridge and scrabble will be
played. A sign-up sheet is available at the Wednesday Coffee, or call Ruth Ann
Culvahouse, 840-0626.
Cinema
Studies
Grant
Goodman
(plim@ku.edu, 841-1066) and Fred Madaus (fmadaus@ku.edu, 841-4939)
July 15—Film at 2:00,
coffee at 1:45, in the Paul Adam Lounge. Cinema Studies will show the first of
three Otto Preminger films: Laura (1944). This thrilling, mysterious
and romantic film stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
and Judith Anderson. Guests are welcome.
August 19—Film at 2:00,
coffee at 1:45, in the Paul Adam Lounge. We will see the second Otto Preminger
film: Anatomy of a Murder (1959). This riveting and remarkable
courtroom drama stars James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden and
George C. Scott, and has music by Duke Ellington. Guests are welcome.
Computer
Study
Jerry
Niebaum
(jniebaum@wizardofkansas.com,
842-3127)
The Computer
Study Group will resume at 9 a.m. on September 3. Again this year the first
Wednesday of each month will focus on items for new or beginning users, but
often even experienced users re-learn a few things. Our computer lab at the
Alumni Center has four computers available for walk-in use. Our very tentative
fall schedule is at oldku.org.
Drama
Study Group
Arnold
Weiss (ahweiss@ku.edu, 842-5502)
August 8—1:30 in the music
room. For a variety of
reasons, among them the fact of its having dispatched Winnie-the-Pooh more speedily than
anticipated (surely due to the fun the play generated in all quarters at its
recent reading), the group will take a July break, and will resume its regular
schedule in August. New vehicle to be undertaken at that time is currently
being determined, and will be announced at forthcoming Wednesday Coffees.
Evening
Lecture Series
Tom
Eblen (teblen@sunflower.com, 865-3634) and John
Mullens
(841-0958)
August 28—5:30 wine and
cheese, 6:00 dinner, 7:00 presentation. The speaker will be Dale Seuferling,
president of the KU Endowment Association, on "How KU Endowment
Works."
Gardening
Arno
Knapper
(knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422) and Dick
Schiefelbusch
(843-5869)
July 2, 9, 16,
23, 30—9:00
in the Music Room.
August 6, 13, 20,
27—9:00
in the Music Room.
Music
Arno
Knapper
(knapper@ku.edu, 312-9422)
July
2, 9, 16, 23, 30—Immediately
following coffee.
August
6, 13, 20, 27—Immediately
following coffee.
Opera
Study
Jim
Seaver
(jseaver@ku.edu, 843-4081) and Al Sellen (jnalsellen@aol.com, 841-7432)
At its March 7
meeting the group decided to devote its programs in 2008/2009 to a study
of Central European--primarily Czech--opera of the late-nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. The schedule for the season will include the
following opera DVDs:
•Bedrich
Smetana's Prodana Novesta (The Bartered Bride), 1866, discussed
below.
•Antonin
Dvoarak's Russalka
(The Water Nymph),
1908, on October 7.
•Leos Janacek's Jenufa, 1904, on January 15
(2009).
•Janacek's The
Cunning Little Vixen,
1924, on March 6.
August 15—1:30, on the
second floor. The Bartered Bride is probably the best-known of all of these
Czech or Bohemian works. Its composer, Bedrich Smetana, is considered to
be the founder of Czech operatic music. The opera is about small-town
village life in mid-nineteenth-century Bohemia. A peasant's daughter,
Marenka, with the use of a marriage broker, is seeking a husband. The
marriage broker is trying (for a big bribe) to marry her off to a silly,
suttering young man named Vasek. Finally the plot is revealed, and
Marenka is married to her true love, Jenik, Vasek's older brother.
The Deutsche
Grammaphon
DVD will be sung in German by artists of the Vienna Staatsoper, featuring the Czech
soprano Lucia Popp and the German tenor Siegfried Jerusalem. The
orchestra and chorus of the Vienna Staatsoper will be conducted by Adam
Fischer. The opera will last 155 minutes; coffee, tea, and cookies will
be served after Act I.
Singing
for Fun
Roberta
Spires
(rspires@ku.edu, 842-6820)
Winnie Gallup
will be our gifted and accommodating accompanist (changing key whenever needed)
and Roberta Spires will be boss (HA!), aided by the invaluable assistants
Edwyna Gilbert and Al Gallup. Please join us.
July 10 and
August 7—2:00
in the Music Room.
Ten
O'clock Scholars, AKA “Wednesday Coffee”
Genevieve
McMahon
(841-2116).
July 2, 9, 16,
23, 30—10:00.
August 6, 13, 20,
27—10:00.
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