Calendar

Events scheduled for Monday, July 23 (after 5 p.m.), through Monday, August 13 (before 5 p.m.)

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY EVENTS

MAG--x5-3081; www.rochester.edu/MAG

Summer Smorgasbord Lectures. Lucy Durkin speaks on "New York City's Frick Collection." Sydney Greaves speaks on "Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum." Pete Brown speaks on "Institutional Patronage: I Would Found a Museum."

Series of armchair tours are the last on great museums of the Northeast. The series ends August 8. Admission fee. Register by calling the Creative Workshop, ext. 3056. Cutler Union Conference Room, 10:15-11:45 a.m.

July 25, August 1, 8

July 29-October 7--Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000. This collection from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents 200 vessel forms and large-scale sculptures by internationally acclaimed artists Robert Arneson, Adrian Saxe, Wayne Higby, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, and John and Andrea Gill. The exhibition is a visual journey through the last 50 years of ceramic history.

July 28--Preview Party Color and Fire Performances include the Latin Jazz Project, On Clave, Native American traditional singer Chester B. Mahooty, storyteller Barbara Mahooty, Zuñi Rainbow Dancers, and flutist Dan Hill. Cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, specialty coffees, and desserts are available. Admission fee (MAG members free); call the Gallery, ext. 3510. 8 p.m.-midnight.

July 29--Free Admission Day. Opening day of Color and Fire. Admission and guided tour are free. Noon-5 p.m.

July 29--Creativity Carnival. This fourth annual midsummer festival features hands-on workshops in clay, painting, drawing, storytelling, roving performers, face painting, family tours of Gallery, and music. Noon-5 p.m.

August 7--What's Up. Marlene Hamann-Whitmore, assistant curator of education, speaks on James Henry Beard's 1865 painting The Night Before the Battle. A question-and-answer period will follow. Free with Gallery admission. 19th-century American gallery room, 5:30 p.m.

ONGOING EXHIBITS AND TOURS

At Memorial Art Gallery

Gallery Highlights Tours--Free with gallery admission. Meet at the admission desk. July 24, August 7, 6:30 p.m.

July 29, 31--Exhibition Tour. Free with Gallery admission. Sunday, 1, 3, and 4 p.m.; Tuesday, 6, 7, and 8 p.m.

Through July 31--Rochester Art Club Juried Exhibition. Every three years, the Memorial Art Gallery hosts the Rochester Art Club's annual juried exhibition. The show features works in all media by members of the club, which is one of the country's oldest.

Long-term installations

Through 2001--New Acquisitions for a New Millennium. Showcases 21 masterworks acquired during the last four years, including one of the most significant acquisitions in Gallery history--the Inner Coffin of Pa-debehu-Aset, an Egyptian official of the 4th century BCE.

Through 2002--About Face: Copley's Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith. An interactive installation about Colonial American portrait painter John Singleton Copley and silversmith Nathaniel Hurd. Dorothy McBride Gill Education Center.

At Rush Rhees Library

Through August 2001--Rochester's Hope: University Connection to Mt. Hope Cemetery. An exhibition tracing some of the physical and spiritual connections between the University and Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friedlander Lobby. Open during regular library hours; call x5-7600 for recorded information about library hours.

Through September 28--The Man Who Purchased Alaska: William Henry Seward's 200th Birthday. The exhibition displays manuscript and printed copies of speeches as well as correspondence from Seward and his political contemporaries, including President Lincoln's letter offering him the position of secretary of state. Monday through Friday in the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For details call 275-4477.

MUSIC

Eastman School of Music--24-hour MusicLine x4-1100; www.rochester.edu/Eastman (* tickets required)

Community Education Division Summer Concert Series--Concerts feature the talents of Eastman CED and faculty as well as other notable guest artists. Kilbourn Hall, 7:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted).

July 26-August 3--Eastman Summer Piano Festival. Solo concerts feature Eastman doctoral students and one faculty member: July 26, Thomas Rosenkranz; July 27, Zhe Tang; July 29, Tony Caramia; July 30, Zarina Melik-Stepanova; August 1, Howard Kim; August 2, Fang-Tzu Liu; August 3, Final Student Concert.

July 29--Brevin Trio. CED trio includes Charlene Biggs, piano; Jason Totzke, viola; and Janneke Hoogland, cello. 3 p.m.

Summer Sings--Series of choral music reading sessions. Open to singers of all ages and abilities. Free and open to the public (a $5 donation is suggested). Scores and refreshments are provided, and parking is free in the East End Garage. Kilbourn Hall, 7:30 p.m. For more information call x4-1440.

July 24--Bach, St. John Passion. William Weinert, conductor

July 31--Haydn, The Seasons. William Weinert, conductor

Other concerts at Eastman this summer--concerts feature student/amateur performers. Kilbourn Hall.

CED Harp Workshop
July 27--Final concert. Noon

Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition
July 24--Semi-finals. 1:30-6 p.m.
July 25--Finals. 7:30 p.m.

Piano Competition Winners Concert
July 28--2001 Winners Concert. Eastman Theater, 7:30 p.m.

River Campus
Hopeman Memorial Carillon Summer Recital Series--Outdoor concerts performed on the carillon in Rush Rhees tower. Sponsored by the Department of Music, x5-2828. Audience members can bring blankets, lawn chairs, and picnics. Free. Eastman Quadrangle, 7 p.m.

July 23, 30--July 23, Julianne VandenWyngaard, university carillonist at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, presents a program of classical music as well as compositions specifically for the carillon. Linda Dzuris, university carillonneur at Clemson University in South Carolina, wraps up the series on Monday, July 30.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Noon Hour Health Bites--Informal monthly series on topics related to health and wellness. Sponsored by the Strong Employee Assistance Program. No fee or preregistration is required. Feel free to bring a lunch. For more information call x5-4987 or visit www.urmc.rochester.edu/eap/eap.html.

August 14--Functional Foods: Beyond the Food Pyramid. Allyson Prace, RD, RN, store nutritionist at Lori's Natural Foods, and nutritionist in private practice at Highland's Center for Women, speaks on the "functional" properties of foods.

RELIGION

River Campus Interfaith Chapel--x5-4321; www.rochester.edu/chapel/services.html

Roman Catholic Mass
Sunday Mass: July 29, August 5, 12. 10:30 a.m., River Level

Medical Center Interfaith Chapel

Roman Catholic Mass
July 25, 30, August 1, 6, 8, 13. 12:30 p.m.
July 29, August 5, 12. 11:15 a.m.

Roman Catholic Communion Service
July 27, August 3, 10. 12:30 p.m.

Interdenominational Protestant Worship
July 29, August 5, 12. 10:15 a.m.

ACTIVITIES PROGRAM

Discounts for activities are available to all University staff, faculty, and students through the University Activities Program. All tickets are available at the hospital Cashier's Office and the Customer Service Center in the Susan B. Anthony Halls on the River Campus. The Eastman School and Memorial Art Gallery carry movie theater tickets only. For additional information check the University Activities Program flier or call x5-7942. The current list can be accessed at www.rochester.edu/working/services/auxops/Activities1.htm.

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