In "A Season to Sing," on Septmeber 11, retiring pianist and teacher Victoria Covington of the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, will make her debut as a vocal artist. Her degenerating condition has left her unable to play the piano, the instrument that defined her long career.
Willie Morris, immortalized for his intellect, sweetness and generosity, posthumously donated his corneas has restored sight to two transplant recipients. The transplants were performed by a University of Mississippi Medical Center physician.
American premiere of Twyla Tharp's 'Diabelli' is official kick-off of UI Millennium Festival
Composer Hi Kyung Kim has six commissions to complete in the next few years, including two in which she is representing her native South Korea: A piece for the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota and cellist Yo-Yo Ma honoring victims of the Nanjing Massacre and a piece set to the work of South Korean dissident poet Ko'Un.
A Shakespeare scholar at Lafayette College has discovered that the oldest surviving image of a Shakespeare play doesn't represent his work at all.
U-M classics Prof. David S. Potter, whose research and most recent book concentrates on "Life, Death, and Entertainment in Ancient Rome," was the star of an hour-long special on "Blood Sports: The Life of a Gladiator" on The Learning Channel in February.
The National Archives and Records Administration has selected the University of Iowa Center for the Book to produce a special quality paper that will be used to help preserve the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
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Penn State's Civil War Era Center is shedding new light on the causes of the Civil War, as well as other unexplored topics expected to modify established views of the war.
The traditional turf war between athletics and academics will call a truce Oct. 15-17 when The University of Tulsa presents a conference on sports and literature in its new $28 million sports arena.
In H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, the Time Traveler began his journey to the future on the last day of the 19th century. As we approach the end of this century (and the millennium), the history of science fiction has been written. But what of the history of science fiction criticism?
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Hancher Auditorium Millennium Festival during the 1999-2000 performing arts season at the University of Iowa is one of the world's most ambitious artistic celebrations of the millennium and features 16 major commissions in music, theater and dance.
Reviewers are raving about Jean Thompson's new collection of short stories, "Who Do You Love" (Harcourt Brace), but many of their reviews come with a warning label: "Caution, stories may seem sad and depressing."
Are jealousy and greed enough to cause a father to allow his son to die? That is the question regarding Charles Wilson Peale posed by a Texas Tech Univeristy art historian. The mystery contains controversy & intrique.
If you think folklore is static -- charming but antiquated with no place in the new millennium -- experts have news for you: Folklore is growing and ubiquitous. Moreover, new forms of lore are emerging, even in high-tech environments.
Sarah Caldwell, hailed by Newsweek as "Opera's First Lady", has joined the University of Arkansas Music Department as a distinguished professor, effective with the fall semester. She will oversee the opera program.
From braided hairstyles to the design of housing settlements, the geometric structures known as fractals permeate African culture. In a new book, an Ohio State scholar examines the unlikely pairing of this mathematical concept and the culture and art of Africa.
A new study of Ernest Hemingway's personal letters by a Univ of Arkansas researcher reveals the author's active involvement in radical politics, including donations to finance the rise of the Communist Party in Cuba.
Lawrence, Kan. -- Historians know that during the battle of Mine Creek, more than 300 Confederate soldiers were killed, many buried where they fell in unmarked graves. The curator of the battlefield site near Pleasanton, Kan., about 50 miles south of Olathe, is hoping that with some help from researchers and their sophisticated equipment at the University of Kansas, he'll learn more about the 1864 battle.
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James are the subjects of Cornell University professor and author's latest work of literary criticism, CITIZENS OF SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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A hundred years ago, John Philip Sousa was the most popular musician in America, and not just because marches were more popular then. "Sousa's secret," says the leader of the Blawenburg Band, and a professor of music at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, "is simple, but often lost on people who people who put together programs of orchestral music today."
Coordinators of the art galleries at Educational Testing Service have issued a call for artists for 2000, the corporate art program's 25th year.
Writer James Farl (J.F.) Powers, considered one of the most celebrated Catholic writers in America during the 1950s and recipient of the 1963 National Book Award for his novel "Morte D'Urban," was found dead on Monday, June 14, at his home in Collegeville, Minn.
Summer is hot time for adults and children to read together, according a children's literacy expert at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of education and human development.
In our collective exuberance over the astonishing explosion in the field of information technology during the past two decades, we may overlook something just as important -- the investigation of its meaning.
Albanian refugees from Kosovo are beginning to arrive in America, but it isn't the first time ethnic cleansing victims have found safe haven here.
The College of Saint Benedict has received a grant of $325,000 from the Teagle Foundation to establish a literary center at CSB. The center will support four programs including the Writers Writing program, Reader's Theater, Inside Books: The CSB Publishing Institute and the First Book Writing Contest.
Surely nowhere is poetry a more transporting medium than in the work of Laurence Lieberman. Nearly every poem in his latest volume, "The Regatta in the Skies: Selected Long Poems" (University of Georgia Press), is a voyage to an exotic island landscape.
Due to some anthropological sleuthing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Oneida Nation near Green Bay, Wis., now holds copies of 167 long-lost notebooks filled with descriptions of Oneida life during the first half of this century.
Boston Artists and the Big Dig, an exhibition of work by 12 artists who have been inspired by Boston's largest construction project, will be shown at the Boston University Art Gallery beginning Friday, June 4-27.
Nearly 33 years after his death, Carl Sandburg suddenly takes on the world's most common objects and most inexplicable mysteries in 19 newly discovered poems he wrote for children in the 1930s.
This May, the Truman Capote Literary Trust awarded the University of Arkansas $18,000 to benefit two writers pursuing MFAs in creative writing.
Cornell University Library has acquired a rare set of William Wordsworth's "Poetical Works" (1827), annotated with the poet's largely unpublished handwritten revisions.
What do you get when you combine the improvisational style of hip-hop music with a new theoretical approach to architecture that emphasizes spontaneity and flexibility? Hip-hopitecture -- of course!
In celebration of Labor History Month a coalition of academic, labor, business and arts organizations, among them Cornell University, will sponsor a performance Saturday, May 15, from 11 a.m. to noon in New York City's Union Square about the square's central role in the American trade union movement.
Two slave narratives -- one "lost," the other famous, among the best and most-read ever -- have been paired for the first time in a single volume. Together, the compelling stories, written by a sister and brother, "expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and, in their cases, later ordeals in flight."
A Rider University professor has published a new book that finally should put America's cultural inferiority complex to rest. "New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music" proves that it was the New World that changed the Old--and created the Modern World in the process.
An exhibition of Luminage(tm) Prints by Ken Huff and Gateway to Spirited Ruins, a new multi-user virtual reality experience, will be presented by Boston University as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival being held at cultural institutions throughout Boston during the month of May.
Philadelphia -- Famed biographer, historian and PBS host David McCullough will deliver the keynote address on Wednesday, May 19, for Bartram 300: A Gathering, a 3-day international symposium.
Steve Shiffrin says in his new book "Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America" that flag burning, other forms of public dissent protect core American values that we should encourage, not merely tolerate, but that our institutions wrongly try to limit.
Wake Forest University's head of preservation is a mechanic, but you won't find him in a garage. Instead, he is tucked away inside the library tinkering on books rather than cars.
Organizers of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities' first annual spring conference are not only expecting trouble, they're welcoming it.
When European readers of Chateaubriand's famous "Atala" looked into the Mississippi Valley, they saw not the bustling trade of Yankee frontiersmen, but the noble image of Indians upholding an honorable code of conduct.
A Cornell professor of history and classics and director of the Peace Studies Program threw himself into a difficult new sport and then wrote a book about it. Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty is a memoir that navigates through mid-life rites of passage as it meditates on the techniques and history of rowing.
The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University announces the launch of an international campaign to archive millennial documents and memorabilia pertaining to the year 2000.
On May 14-16, eminent scholars from around the world will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for the conference "Sarira: Aspects of Embodiment in the Arts and Cultures of India."
A batch of often angry, but sometimes tender, newly found poems has been found and published, adding to the current revival of interest in the poet of the people, Carl Sandburg.
Somehow, in his new slim volume of 23 trim poems, the award-winning poet Michael Van Walleghen has packed a world of animals, a universe of heavenly bodies, and beyond that, a lifetime of personal memories and the echoes of our prehistoric fears.
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