Lectures to cover music and culture

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities is sponsoring a new lecture series, called Music and Culture.

The series begins with Lewis Lockwood, a research professor from Harvard University, who will discuss "Beethoven and His Royal Disciple," at 4 p.m. September 29 in room 206 of Clark Hall. A reception will follow.

This talk will explore the mutually dependent nature of the relationship between Beethoven and Archduke Rudolph, the youngest brother of Emperor Franz I of Austria. In return for Rudolph's generosity and recognition, Beethoven became his composition teacher and dedicated more works to him than to anyone else.

Lockwood is the author of Beethoven: The Music and the Life (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003), which was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in biography. He taught at Princeton from 1958 to 1980, at which time he joined Harvard, where he was named Fanny Peabody Professor of Music in 1985.

He served as President of the American Musicological Society (AMS) from 1987-1988, Lockwood was named an honorary member of the society in 1993. He has won the Einstein and Kinkeldey awards from the AMS and received an Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for his book, Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).

Lockwood earned a bachelor's degree fomr Queens College in New York, studying with Edward Lowinsky, and did his graduate work at Princeton University.

Morley lecture tickets on sale

Tickets are on sale now for the 2003 Michelson-Morley Award and Lecture, featuring Stephen Hawking.

As the recipient of the award, Hawking will discuss a "Brane New World" at 8 p.m. October 13 at Severance Hall.

Tickets, which are available on a first-come, first-served basis through the Severance Hall box office at 231-1111, are $30, $50 and $150 each. The $150 ticket entitles the bearer to a box level
seat and a pre-lecture reception with Hawking. Students with a Case ID can purchase tickets for $7 at the Severance Hall Box Office until September 30.

For details, visit http://www.case.edu/events/mml, e-mail mmlecture@case.edu or call 368-4303.

Eldred to open theater season

Case Western Reserve University's department of theater and dance opens its 2003-2004 season with Beth Henley's comedy, "The Miss Firecracker Contest" at Eldred Theater.

Performances are at 8 p.m. October 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11, with two matinees noon and 2:30 p.m. October 5 and October 12.

General admission is $10, with discounted prices of $7 for adults over 60 and University personnel and $5 for students. For ticket or information, call 368-6262.

Consort to make city debut

The Case Western Reserve University department of music opens its 18th Chapel, Court & Countryside: Early Music at Harkness season with the Cleveland debut of Second City Musick, a viol consort featuring three virtuosi from Chicago: Mary Springfels, John Mark Rozendaal and Craig Trompeter.

They will perform the program, "Flights of Fantasy," at 7:30 p.m. October 18 in Harkness Chapel. Following the concert, the audience is invited to an informal question-and-answer period with the artists.

In addition, the artists will give a free, public master class for students in the Case/Cleveland Institute of Music joint program at 12:30 p.m. October 17, also in Harkness, and will meet with students at the Cleveland School of the Arts.

Tickets for the viol consort are $20 for the general public and $18 for students, seniors and members of Early Music America. They can be purchased through the Case music department or at the door.

For more information, call 368-2402, e-mail chapel@case.edu or visit http://music.cwru.edu/ccc.

Art studio to host collage exhibit

Case Western Reserve University will host the 19th Annual Juried Collage Exhibition in October at its Art Studio.

Sponsored by Case's Art Education Program, Ohio Art Education Association Northeast Region and The National Collage Society, the exhibition will officially open with a public reception from 2-4 p.m. October 12 at Case's Art Studio, 2215 Adelbert Road.

Also at the studio, Chris Pekoc, nationally known artist and part-time Case art studio lecturer, will speak from 4-5 p.m. October 12. Pekoc, along with artists and full-time Case lecturers Al Aitken and Tim Shuckerow-who is a National Collage Society signature member-served as judges for the exhibition, which is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 6 through October 31.

For more information, contact Shuckerow, Case's director of art education/art studio, at 368-2714 or txs10@case.edu or go to the National Collage Society's Web site at http://www.nationalcollage.com.

Case to show film premiere

During a two-week residency with Case Western Reserve University's
Max Kade Workshop "The Making of a Documentary," Austrian filmmaker, musician and author Harald Friedl will host the American premiere of his recent documentary "Africa Representa."

The free showing is at 4:30 p.m.September 26 in the lecture hall at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Also making a Cleveland debut at the film's showing will be Case's new French professor Gilbert Doho, a playwright and author from Cameroon.

In addition to writing plays and using theater for social change, Doho is an authority on African film and will offer insights into "Africa Representa."

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