Performers include Jay Whatley, Keith Weise, Luvanna Brown, Trent Hanna, Rochelle Sennett, and Robert Boston, all SHSU students, and Joey Liaw, a student in St. John's School in Houston.
The performers have all won local, state, regional, national and international awards which enabled them to play concertos with the Moscow Philharmonic and the Dallas, Houston Civic, Corpus Christi, and Victoria symphony orchestras.
All are students of Dr. John Paul, chairman of the keyboard area at Sam Houston State. They will be playing concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Prokofiev, Khatchaturian and Corigliano.
Admission for both evenings will be $5 for adults, with Friends of Music and SHSU and public school students admitted free.
In recent years individuals and groups have brought non-perishable food to the ceremony for donation to the Good Shepherd Mission and SAAFE House. The ceremony is coordinated by the Department of Student Activities.
Solomon is a major international choreographer from New York City and Taylor is with the Dance Alloy dance company from Pittsburgh.
The group Dance Spectrum, under the direction of Dana Nicolay, will perform Solomon and Taylor's works as well as choreography by the dance program's Nicolay, Cindy Carpenter and Teresa Walshak Trump.
Admission is $7 and $5 for students and seniors.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Killinger Auditorium in the Beto Criminal Justice Center. Admission is $5 for adults, with Friends of Music and SHSU and public school students admitted free.
"This unique concert will explore the influences of pop music upon the 'classical' world over the past eight decades," said Dr. Gary Sousa, ensemble director.
The program begins with the German composer Weill's 1929 "Little Threepenny Music." This suite, taken from Weill's "The Threepenny Opera," features the well known song "Mack the Knife."
Next on the program will be Bernstein's "Prelude, Fugue & Riffs." Written in 1949 for Woody Herman and his 'First Herd,' the work will feature SHSU faculty members Tamara Raatz on clarinet and Trent Hanna on piano.
The final piece on the evening's program will be a performance of a work entitled "Three City Blocks" by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Harbison. A faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he wrote "Three City Blocks" in 1991 reflecting his childhood memories of the sounds of the city as they permeated the radio waves in the 1950s.
Sousa said that Harbison's work represents the influences of urban life on rural America.
Activities will include a filmed welcome by Dan Rather, competitions in lead writing and judging of yearbooks, newspapers, photos and advertisements, and roundtable discussions hosted by professionals in a number of communications areas.
Discussion groups include newspaper reporting, public relations/marketing, public relations/corporate; advertising/public relations/journalism clubs, advertising, magazine journalism, photography, television journalism, radio journalism, journalism education, sports writing, computers in journalism, and film production.
Activities will include a tour of the Dan Rather Communications Building and meetings with student workers in the areas of newspaper, yearbook, photography, radio station and Cable Channel 7. The event will conclude with an awards ceremony.
Employees have the option, however, of working on Jan. 15 and taking another day, such as March 21, with approval of their supervisors. Other optional holidays for 1995-'96 included Sept. 25 & 26 (Rosh Hashanah), Oct. 4 (Yom Kippur), and April 5 (Good Friday).
The remainder of the 1995-'96 Sam Houston State University holiday schedule for employees thus becomes: Christmas - Dec. 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29; New Year's - Jan. 1; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Jan. 15; Spring Break (for non-faculty) - March 22; Memorial Day - May 27; Independence Day - July 4.
The week of March 18-22 is Spring Break for faculty and students.
Collins authored a paper entitled "Ya'll and All: Ann Richards and the Rhetorical Power of Folk Speech." Hatton's paper was entitled "Women and the 'L': A Study of the Relationship Between Communication Apprehension and Gender." Both participated in discussion groups relating to their topics.
While visiting and lecturing last week at SHSU, Lee was interviewed by Cable Channel 7. The interview will be shown Nov. 27-30 at 12:30 and 6:30 p.m.
Lee's visit, lectures and exhibition were sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences.
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