The Budapest Strings, with guest
pianist Frederic Chiu, will give a concert on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m., in Union
College's Memorial Chapel.
The concert, part of the Union
College chamber concert series, will feature a program of works including
Purcell's Chacony; Bach's Keyboard Concerto in D Minor (BWV
1052); Mozart's Divertimento in F Major (K 138); Rozsavolgyi's Three
Tsardas; and Dvorák's Serenade for Strings in E, Opus 22.
Tickets, at $20 ($8 for students),
are available at the door. For more information, call (518) 372-3651.
Samuel Beckett's “Waiting
for Godot,” a play in which the characters lose grasp of history, struggle to
prove their own existence, and spend their time waiting for something or
someone that never comes, runs through Sunday in Yulman Theater.
It is directed by Prof. William Finlay.
The production – with only five
actors — will be staged in the more intimate Actor's Studio (or Second Stage)
at the north end of the Yulman Theater. “The play seemed to dictate a more
intimate performance space,” Finlay explained. “This is a good
challenge for our actors and a chance for our students to see what is
considered a classic, an extremely important work in theater,” Finlay said.
Actors are Benjamin Infantino
(Estragon), Marty Albert (Vladimir), Aneesah Dambreville (Pozzo), Fred Countz
(Lucky) and Cooper Braun-Enos (boy).
Set
design is by Charles Steckler, lighting by John Miller, and costumes by Lloyd
Waiwaiole.
Performances are through 9 at 8 p.m., and Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. All performances are in the Actors Studio (Second
Stage) at the north end of Yulman Theater. Tickets are $5 for members of the
Union community and seniors, $7 for the public. For
information call the Yulman box office at (518) 388-6545.
George Butterstein,
the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Sciences, gave a paper titled “The
Influence of the number of fetal/placental units on maternal hormone leptin in
the pregnant rat” at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of
Reproduction in Baltimore. He also
gave a seminar on “Hormones, Adiposity, and Reproduction” at the Center for the
Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES) at the San Diego Zoo, where he is a visiting
research scientist.
David C. Ogawa,
assistant professor of visual arts, presented a lecture on “Modernism and
Memory: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and the Transformation of the Viewer” at
the fall lecture series at the Hyde Collection in Glens
Falls.
David
Hemmendinger,
associate professor of computer science, has written two long articles for Encyclopedia Britannica. “Programming Languages” and
“Computers”, the lead article on its topic, both will appear in the
online and printed versions of the encyclopedia. Last month, he wrote three
shorter articles for the EB, “Data Compression,” “Computer
Graphics,” and “Computer Memory.” He has been commissioned to write five more
entries.
