Friday, March 6, 5:30 p.m., S & E N106. Rededication of W2UC.(story)
Friday, March 6, through Monday, March 9, 8 and 10 p.m., Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. Film, Bean, presented by film committee.
Through March 7, 8 p.m., Yulman Theater. Shakespeare in Cameo:
“Two Gentlemen of Verona.”
Saturday, March 7, 8 p.m., Memorial Chapel. Concert by Union
College Orchestra, directed by Prof. Hilary Tann. (story)
Tuesday, March 10, 8 p.m., Yulman Theater. Union College Dance
Program presents its winter concert. Tickets are $5. For more information, call ext. 6545.
Wednesday, March 11, 8 p.m., Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. Union
College Jazz Ensemble, directed by Prof. Tim Olsen.
Friday, March 13, 8 p.m., Reamer Campus Center Auditorium. Zen
Master Fukushima Roshi will speak on “Free in Zen.” (story)
Through April 5, Arts Atrium. Then to Now: Former Photography
Students Exhibit Recent Works.
They are called “Nazi hunters” for bringing Klaus Barbie and others to justice — and for their major role in the trial now making headlines in France of a former cabinet minister.
But Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have devoted themselves not just to catching the perpetrators of Nazi terror but to remembering their victims. Thus, Serge
Klarsfeld's recent 1,800-page book, French Children of the Holocaust, is
devoted to children sent from France to the death camps, a book “born of my obsession
that these children will not be forgotten,” the author said. It contains 2,500 photos
of the children.
The Klarsfelds will visit campus on March 15 to open a series of events
aimed at teaching the lessons of the Holocaust to a new generation. They are to receive
honorary degrees from Union in a special convocation at 8:15 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. They
also will hold a conversation with the audience about their work.
Many of the powerful photos from Serge Klarsfeld's book will be
featured in a Nott Memorial exhibit,which the Klarsfelds will open on March 15.
“This book is not about history. It is about memory,” wrote
the reviewer of French Children of the Holocaust in the Jan. 19 New Republic. Klarsfeld
“has produced something more humble than history, and yet more painstakingly
researched, and more devastating. The photographs of 2,500 murdered children are
reproduced in this volume … It took Klarsfeld more than 20 years to find names for
children who died nameless, and to put faces to names that were nothing more than
names.”
Lessons for Humanity at Union runs through April 23, ending with
a Day of Remembrance.
Also featured will be a photo exhibit titled Of Light Amidst the
Darkness — The Danish Rescue, whichfeatures photographs by Judith Ellis
Glickman, who in 1988 traveled and photographed in Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz, and
Birkenau, where millions of Jews were exterminated. In 1992 the Thanks to Scandinavia
Foundation commissioned her to photograph Danish resistance leaders, rescuers, survivors,
and sites relating to the Resistance.
Specially trained docents will lead exhibit tours and discussions for
local students and members of local organizations. A study guide will be available to help
teachers and students continue the discussion in their classrooms.
Lessons for Humanity is presented by Union College and the
Holocaust Survivors and Friends Education Center. Major support is provided by an
anonymous donor from the Union family.
Schenectady, N.Y. (March 4, 1998) — Pianist Mitsuko Uchida, violinist Mark Steinberg and cellist Peter Stumpf will perform as a trio on Tuesday, March 17, at 8 p.m. in Union College's Memorial Chapel.
The trio's appearance is part of this year's Schenectady Museum-Union College chamber music series.
The all-Mozart program is to include Trio in G Major, K. 564, Trio in B-flat Major, K. 502, and Trio in E Major, K.542.
Japanese-born pianist Mitsuko Uchida is an internationally renowned performer especially known for her performances of Mozart's piano sonatas and concertos. She comes to Schenectady after a performance of a Chopin concerto with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and has given recitals all over the world, making orchestral appearances with the London, Boston and Toronto Symphonies, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonia and the Orchestra de Paris. In October, she toured Japan with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Bernard Haitink. Miss Uchida lately recorded Beethoven's Piano Concertos No. 3 and No. 4 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Kurt Sanderling, and both sets of Schubert's Impromptus.
Violinist Mark Steinberg is an active chamber musician and recitalist. He has appeared in chamber music festivals in Holland, Germany, Austria and France, as well as in the Marlboro Music Festival. An advocate of contemporary music, Steinberg has worked closely with many composers and has performed with such 20th century music ensembles as the Guild of Composers, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Speculum Musicae and Continuum, with which he has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe. He is a faculty member of the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division and of New York University. In April 1995 Mr. Steinberg appeared in the Series with the Brentano String Quartet.
Peter Stumpf, associate principal cellist of The Philadelphia Orchestra, is an active recitalist and dedicated chamber musician. He has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras such as the Boston Symphony, the Colorado Philharmonic, the Boston Philharmonic, the Virginia Symphony and the National Repertory Orchestra. He has also participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, has performed with the Emerson String Quartet, and was a member of a prize-winning string quartet at the Evian International String Quartet Competition in France. Stumpf previously appeared in the Series with Music from Marlboro in April 1994.
Memorial Chapel is located near the center of the Union Campus. Parking is available on campus and on nearby side streets.
Tickets, at $20 each ($8 for students), are available in advance at the Schenectady Museum (518)382-7890 and at the door at 7 p.m. For more information, call 372-3651.
Nikki Stone '97, who used her training in psychology at Union College to visualize her spectacular gymnastic jumps on skis, no longer has to visualize wearing an Olympic gold medal.
The Westborough, Mass., native began celebrating her win from the moment she landed a twisting triple somersault in the women's freestyle aerials at the Nagano Olympic Games on Feb. 18.
“It's my dream,” she said through tears after the event. “Everything I dreamed of since I was five years old when I was in the gym training saying, 'I'm going to win a gold medal someday.' I can't believe this.”
With three jumpers left to go, Stone's combined score of 193 points gave her a solid lead that no one would catch. Xu Nannan of China took the silver medal with 186.97 points. Colette Brand of Switzerland took the bronze with 171.83 points. Stone was in the lead after her first jump – a back-full-double-full – with 98.15 points.
Stone finished the World Cup season on a high note on March 13, clinching the women's overall aerials title with a second place finish in Altenmarkt, Austria. “If you'd asked me a year ago if I'd be holding a crystal globe (symbolic of the World Cup championship) and an Olympic gold medal, I'd have said, 'No way.' It feels pretty good. It's been a good year,” Stone said. “I definitely wanted to win the overall.”
Stone, 27, graduated from Union last spring magna cum laude with a degree in psychology. (CBS incorrectly announced she received a degree from the University of Utah, where she has taken courses.)
In the day after her win, Stone was busy with the media, appearing on CBS This Morning and on a Late Night interview with David Letterman's mother. Locally, a number of reporters came to campus to get student reaction.
Stone was drawn to Union by family history; she is a descendent of Eliphalet Nott. She said she also found the College's trimester schedule allowed her to take leave during winter terms for World Cup events.
To read more about Stone's victory on CNN, click here.
