PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 23, No. 18, April 22, 2004

brief notes

SOUND ONE (Open New Ears)
UI New Music Ensemble featured
Three concerts featuring the latest in music written for live performers and live and prerecorded electronics will be presented on the UI campus on April 26, 28 and 29. Billed as the SOUND ONE (Open New Ears) Festival, the concerts feature five distinguished guest artists performing their works with the UI New Music Ensemble with co-directors Zack Browning and Stephen Taylor.

The first concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. April 26 in the Music Building Auditorium. Free and open to the public, it will feature “Rendezvous IV,” by Emory University professor Steven Everett; “Panic,” by New York composer and visiting UI professor Drew Krause; and “Sole Injection,” by Browning.

The second concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. April 28 in the Colwell Playhouse Theater of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. It will feature San Francisco composer/pianist Janis Mercer in a performance of contemporary piano works titled “Variations on Political Themes and Other Themes.” This is a collection of works written especially for her and by her, including her solo work “Kinderzzenen” and UI professor Erik Lund’s “Aftermath.” Concert tickets are $5 for the public, $4 for seniors and $2 for students.

The third and final concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. April 29 in the Colwell Playhouse Theater. It will present the UI New Music Ensemble with virtuoso clarinetist Eric Mandat in a performance of new works using an eight-channel sound system to push the sonic boundaries of computer-generated sounds with live performers. Concert tickets are $5 for the public, $4 for seniors and $2 for students.

Staff Advisory Council
Nominations due April 23
The Staff Advisory Council is seeking nominations for two representatives from EEO group 04 (clerical/secretarial) and one representative from EEO group 03 (executive/administrative/managerial and professional) to serve a four-year term beginning July 1, 2004. To be considered, candidates must pick up petitions at the Personnel Services Office and return them by April 23. Information about the council is available at www.pso.uiuc.edu/Sac/default.htm.

Student Health Concerns Committee
Health fair is April 29
McKinley Health Center’s Special Populations’ Student Health Concerns Committee invites UI students, staff and faculty members to participate in its 11th annual Health Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 29 in Illini Union Rooms A, B and C. This year’s theme is “Passport to Health.” A variety of free services, from cholesterol screenings to massages and makeovers, as well as presentations from different dance and exercise groups, and door-prize giveaways will be available.

Champaign-Urbana Symphony
‘The Great Romantics’ to end season
At 7:30 p.m. on April 23, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony with director Steven Larsen will end its 2003-2004 season with a concert highlighting the Romantic era’s greatest composers. Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Chigas and the UI Men’s Glee Club will join the orchestra in the Great Hall of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts for Brahms’ “Alto Rhapsody,” Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer” and Johann Strauss Jr.’s “On the Beautiful Blue Danube.” Completing the program will be Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2.

Chigas, an alumna of the UI Opera program, performs with the Boston University Opera Institute and recently sang the title role in “La Tragedie de Carmen.” She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2001 as a soloist in Maurice Durufle’s “Requiem.”

At 6:45 p.m., there will be a Young Artist Showcase in the Krannert Center lobby.

Social issues theater
Play addresses sexual assault, survival
The INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre will present a series of performances titled “Breaking the Silence: Scenes Addressing Sexual Assault, Survival, Support and Speaking Out.” Each scene helps promote insight into the complex issues of resolution and moving on for survivors of sexual assault.

INNER VOICES will present its scenes at 7 p.m. April 27 in the Allen Hall South Recreation Room, at 8 p.m. April 28 at the Busey-Evans Residence Hall and at 8 p.m. April 29 at the Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall.

Each performance will be free and open to the public, and each will feature an audience discussion afterward.

INNER VOICES is sponsored by the Counseling Center, McKinley Health Center and the department of theater. These performances also are sponsored in part by the Office of Women’s Programs. For further information call 244-5919.

Theater music club
‘Joseph’ production hits stage
The UI’s Christian Theater Music Club will perform “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at 7:30 p.m. April 23, at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. April 24, and at 2:30 p.m. April 25, all at Urbana Middle School.

“Joseph” has been performed for more than 30 years and follows the rags-to-riches story of the biblical Joseph, the youngest of 11 brothers and an object of their constant jealousy. The “rock opera” is the conception of Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice.

Tickets are on sale through e-mail reservation at www.uiuc.edu/ro/ctmc or by phone at 721-7118. Prices are $7 for students and children and $10 for adults, with group rates available for groups of more than 15 at the Saturday and Sunday matinee performances.

Center for Advanced Study forum
Panel to discuss taxing hospitals
The UI Center for Advanced Study will present a forum titled “Hospitals: To Tax or Not to Tax” from 7-9 p.m. April 28 on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center. The forum was organized in the wake of the recent decision by the Illinois Department of Revenue to revoke tax-exempt status for the property of Provena Covenant Medical Center in Urbana.

Panelists and members of the public will have the chance to discuss the ramifications of that decision for all hospitals, as well as other not-for-profit organizations.

Included on the panel assembled for the forum will be John Colombo, professor of law at Illinois; Claudia Lennhoff, executive director of Champaign County Health Care Consumers; Dr. James Leonard, president and CEO of Carle Foundation; Dan Stebbins from the Champaign County Board of Review; James Unland, president of The Health Capital Group; and Mark Wiener, president and CEO of Provena Covenant Medical Center. The moderators will be Dr. Brad Schwartz, regional dean of the Medical College at Illinois, and Noreen Sugrue, senior research analyst in the Nursing Institute at UIC.

The event is part of a yearlong Center for Advanced Study initiative, “Who Gets What? The Interactions of Health Policy and Social Welfare Policy.” For more information, contact CAS at 333-6729.

Town hall meeting
School achievement gap addressed
WILL AM-FM-TV and The News-Gazette will co-sponsor a town hall meeting on the racial gap in achievement at 7:30 p.m. May 3 at Stratton Elementary School, 902 N. Randolph St., Champaign.

The public is invited to participate in “Bridging the Achievement Gap: A Champaign-Urbana Town Hall,” an open discussion among parents, teachers, school administrators and students moderated by David Inge of WILL. The meeting will focus on findings from a federal report that confirmed concerns that African-American students in Champaign score disproportionately lower on standardized tests, are underrepresented in honors classes, over-represented in special education classes, and are suspended and drop out more often than their white counterparts.

The town hall meeting will air live on WILL-AM (580) and will be broadcast on WILL-TV at 9 p.m. on May 7.

Jazz Threads finale
Jazz celebrated with May 2 concert
The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts’ yearlong Jazz Threads project – a celebration of the Champaign-Urbana jazz scene through images, conversation and music – will come to a conclusion with a free Celebration Concert at 2 p.m. May 2 at the Virginia Theater, 203 W. Park St., Champaign.

Participants include three local ensembles, each performing with a prominent, Illinois-born-and-raised jazz musician, all of whom are alumni of the UI. Parkland College’s In Your Ear Big Band will open the concert, followed by the jazz ensemble Chambana and concluding with the UI Illinois Concert Band.

Jazz Threads is the biggest community engagement project in Krannert’s 35-year history. It has been a yearlong exploration of the living art of jazz in Champaign-Urbana and has aimed to stimulate those who already love jazz and to engage those who have had little or no exposure to this great American art form.

The concert is a free event, but tickets are required. Tickets are available from the Virginia Theater box office.

Biochemistry
2004 Ada Doisy Lectures set
The 2004 Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry will be at 4 p.m April 29 and noon on April 30 in the Medical Sciences Auditorium.

The first lecture, “Hsp70 Molecular Chaperones: Beyond General Protein Folding,” will be presented by Elizabeth A. Craig, the Steenbock Professor of Microbiological Sciences in the department of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The second lecture, “Prion Proteins: One Surprise After Another,” will be presented by Susan L. Lindquist, director of the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Craig and Lindquist are widely recognized for their significant achievements in the areas of protein maturation, protein folding and misfolding, and chaperone proteins. Both have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

The Doisy Lectures were established by the late Edward A. Doisy in honor of his mother, Ada. They are the most distinguished lectureship in the department of biochemistry.

Overlooked Film Festival
Panel discussions during Ebertfest
In addition to the 12 film screenings Roger Ebert has announced for his Overlooked Film Festival, there will be six panel discussions or presentations and his annual book signing, all free and open to the public.

Scheduled:

• April 22, 9 to 10:30 a.m., “How to Make a Movie for Peanuts,” moderated by Ebert in the Pine Lounge of the Illini Union.
• April 22, 10:45 a.m. to noon, “Impact of Digital Technology,” with Jack Valenti, president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America in the Pine Lounge.
• April 23, 9 to 10:30 a.m., “Publicists and the Movies,” moderated by Nate Kohn, the festival director and professor of journalism at the University of Georgia, in the Pine Lounge.
• April 23, 10:45 a.m. to noon, “Once Upon a Time” with the Brown v. Board of Education Commemorative Year panel, moderated by Eric Pierson, professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego, in the Pine Lounge.
• April 23, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Ebert will hold a book signing for his books “The Great Movies” and “Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2004” on the second floor of the Illini Union Bookstore.
• April 24, 9 to 10:30 a.m., “Looking Over the Past: Film, History and Memory,” moderated by Christine Catanzarite, associate director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, in the General Lounge on the second floor of the Illini Union.
• April 24, 9 a.m. to noon, a mini-seminar titled “The Principles of Independent Filmmaking,” conducted by Michael Wise, a Champaign-bred filmmaker, author and publisher, in the Pine Lounge.

‘Fifteenth Century Conference’
Conference to focus on Medieval times
For a few days in May, the UI’s Urbana-Champaign campus will be rocked by scandal, religious unrest and war.

Such events will play out May 2-4 during the fourth “Fifteenth Century Conference,” sponsored by the Richard III Society and the Medieval Studies Program at Illinois.

The conference is free and open to all UI students, faculty and staff members. A registration fee of $40 is required of all others. All sessions will be in the Illini Union.

Sharon Michalove, conference organizer, said various aspects of medieval history, literature and art will be featured. In addition, a concert of 15th century music is scheduled, organized by UI music professor Chester Alwes.

Jean-Philippe Genet, a history professor at the University of Paris, will give the keynote address on the development of the modern state in England.

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