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Art, Music, Prose, Poetry, Politics, and Pop Culture Featured in 2004-2005 Arts & Letters Series at Embry-Riddle
Daytona Beach, Fla., Aug. 17, 2004 -- Graham Force began drawing
airplanes at age 5 and has looked to the skies for inspiration ever since.
Force, who calls himself an "aeronautical artist," kicks off the Embry-Riddle Arts & Letters Series with an exhibit that is now on display and will remain through October 2004 in the university's Willie Miller Instructional Center. Force also has performance art in his repertoire. He uses "extreme aerospace art," for example, to create his signature abstract backgrounds by painting on huge canvases behind fighter jets, using the blast from the jet to create the effect.
Of the 15 new countries established from the former Soviet Union, Moses says 12 never existed before the modern era. "It is remarkable the progress they [new countries] have made in the past 12 years because of the very difficult challenges they have faced," Moses said.
Deaver's book of short fiction is Silent Retreats, which won the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award. He's also an O. Henry Award winner for his story "Arcola Girls," and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He's just completed a novel, Past Tense, and his first collection of poetry, How Men Pray, is set for publication in spring 2005.
Opera Extragavanza will satisfy the opera aficionado while providing an entertaining introduction to the opera for those who haven't enjoyed the powerful, sensory experience of a live opera performance.
The multicultural performance, which involves a collection of exotic instruments, draws on influences from the Middle East, Armenia, North Africa, and Spain. The musical style encompasses Moorish flamenco as well as Indian, Balkan, and African melodies and dances. At times, the trio's work crosses and blends traditional styles to create new forms through improvisation. The group features dancer/choreographer Myriam Eli, musician/composer Joe Zeytoonian, and percussionist Abbey Rader.
Butts received a Ph.D. in poetry writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 2001.
"Poets have always couched such abstractions as 'love' in very concrete terms, using such mundane and/or strange concrete symbols as drunks, flying cats, brown dresses, watches, and lost continents as symbols for that old abstraction, love," Straubel said. Straubel began her teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she received her Ph.D. in English. She has taught composition, literature, and creative writing and has published articles and presented papers on the fiction of Margaret Atwood, Gustav Flaubert, and Kate Chopin. Norman Brown holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Union Institute in Cincinnati. He is co-author of Love and Intimate Relationships: Journeys of the Heart. All events begin at 7 p.m. in the Willie Miller Instructional Center auditorium with the exception of Philip Deaver and Anthony Butts who are scheduled for Building A-109. Admission is free but donations are appreciated. For more information, call (386) 226-6668 or go to www.erau.edu/arts. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world's largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs through its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering and meets the needs of students and industry through education, training, research, and consulting activities. Embry-Riddle educates more than 28,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through its Extended Campus at more than 130 teaching centers in the United States and Europe, and worldwide through distance learning. |
On Thursday,
Sept. 23, Joel Moses, one of the nation's leading specialists
on Russian regional politics, will discuss political change in the former
Soviet Union. Moses has been a professor at Iowa State University for
more than 30 years and is the author of several publications on Russian
politics and government. Most recently he was editor and contributing
writer of the book Dilemmas of Transition in Post-Soviet Countries.
On
Thursday, Oct. 7, Philip Deaver, an award-winning writer, associate
professor, and writer in residence at Rollins College, will discuss
fiction writing and read from one of his published works.
Friday,
Oct. 22, the Orlando Opera Company's Opera Extravaganza will delight
the audience with vignettes from some of the world's greatest operas.
The Orlando Opera Company has been entertaining Central Floridians since
1958 and has featured many renowned guest performers, including Luciano
Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Beverly Sills, Richard Tucker, Jessye Norman,
and Denyce Graves.
On
Thursday, Nov. 18, the Harmonic Motion Trio will perform a progressive
blend of international music and dance, bridging Eastern and Western
musical forms.
Monday,
Jan. 31, Quartet D'Amore, made up of members of the Jacksonville
Symphony Orchestra (JSO), will perform works by Haydn, Borodin, and
Dvorak. The quartet is composed of violinist Melissa Pierson Barrett,
associate concertmaster with the JSO since 1989; Merryn Ledbetter Corsat,
principal viola with the JSO since 1980; violinist Ruxandra Marquardt-Simionescue,
a Gold Medal winner at the 1981 Concertino Prague International Competition;
and cellist Betsy Federman, a former member of the New World Symphony
in Miami who also plays cello with the Michelle Payne Band.
Valentine's
Day, Monday, Feb. 14, the National Players will present Shakespeare's
"Romeo and Juliet." Then, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, "Oedipus"
takes center stage. This Sophocles folktale, like "Romeo and Juliet,"
has stood the test of time and then some. "Oepidus" is as dynamic
today as when it was written 2,500 years ago.
The National
Players have given more than 6,500 performances in 35 states and several
nations. Accolades for the National Players have come from such luminaries
as the late Broadway legend Helen Hayes and Walter Kerr, New York Times
drama critic emeritus. Among its famous alumni are actors John Heard
and Laurence Luckinbill, as well as Stan Wojewodski, former dean of
the Yale School of Drama.
On
Thursday, March 3, Anthony Butts, a Poetry Society of America
William Carlos Williams award winner for his book Little Low Heaven,
will discuss his work as a poet and as a creative writing teacher at
Carnegie Mellon University. "The Poetry Society of America represents
the elite among the nation's poets," said William Scott, director of New
Issues Press, the publisher of Little Low Heaven. "This is a great
honor for Anthony Butts," Scott said.
Wednesday,
April 6, Embry-Riddle Humanities and Social Sciences faculty members
Norman Brown and Linda Straubel look at love in all its many
facets -- from psychological and poetic to neuroscience theory on the
chemistry of emotions. The audience will be taken on a multimedia journey
into this basic but complex subject.
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