March 26, 2007
Robert Krulwich lecture
 | Monday, March 26, 8:00p.m. in the University Center's Shiloh Room: The College of Communication and Information's Alfred and Julia Hill science writing lecture hosts Robert Krulwich, Emmy-winning ABC and National Public Radio correspondent. Topic: "What a Reporter Learns from Dylan, Coltrane, and Chumbawamba -- Journalism as Music." For more info call 974-8156. |
Posted by Matt Jordan at 01:16 PM
Distinguished Lecture Series With A. J. Racy and Souhail Kaspar
Lecture Demonstration: Fri., March 30th from 1:30-2:30PM
Concert: Fri., March 30th at 7:30PM
This event is FREE and open to the general public. Sponsors include: the Haines-Morris Grant, School of Music, Dept. of History, Center for International Education, Arab American Club of Knoxville, MARCO Institute, Arts and Sciences Outreach, and the Ramallah Club of Knoxville.
You can also download the flier.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 08:19 AM
February 22, 2007
Distinguished Lecture Series
This event is FREE and open to the general public. Distinguished Lecture Series Calendar 2006-2007
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June 26, 2006
Organ Installation at UT
 The new organ has 41 sets of pipes and three keyboards. | June 23, 2006
One-of-a-Kind Concert Organ Installed at UT KNOXVILLE -- The University of Tennessee's handcrafted, one-of-a-kind concert organ is an awe-inspiring instrument. At more than 20 feet tall, with nearly 2,500 pipes and three keyboards, the organ will be a beautiful addition to the recently renovated Alumni Memorial Building. Built by Richards Fowkes & Co. in Ooltewah, Tenn., craftsmen began installation of the organ Friday, June 16, to the left of the stage in Alumni Memorial Building's Cox Auditorium. Pre-installation work began in late May as the wind system was installed and pieces of the instrument were brought to Knoxville. Each piece of the organ is hand-made and was already assembled once in its entirety in Ooltewah to ensure everything works as it should, explained John Brock, a sacred music professor in the School of Music. The craftsmen then disassembled the organ to move each piece and reconstruct it in the auditorium, he said. Plans to renovate the Cox Auditorium began in the mid-1990s, said Brock, and the plan has always included an organ. The auditorium's renovations were completed in 2003, transforming the school's historical basketball gymnasium into a state-of-the-art auditorium. Read the full story at The Tennessee Today: Current News from UT. |
View the original concept drawings of the organ at Richards, Fowkes & Co.
More articles about this organ and the installation can be found in The Tennessee Alumnus, The Knoxville News Sentinel, The Daily Beacon, and on WATE, Channel 6 news website.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
February 03, 2006
Recital: "Composers Who Chose the Viola for their Final Farewell."
 | On Wednesday, March 15 there will be a Faculty Centripetals Luncheon Recital on "Composers Who Chose the Viola for their Final Farewell," performing will be violist, Sheila Browne. It will be held in the Crest Room at the University Center. If interested please RSVP to unistudy@utk.edu or 974-8177, or visit http://web.utk.edu/~unistudy/ for more information. |
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January 25, 2006
Dendrochronology and the violin: "Stradivarius and Tree Rings: The Hype, the Debate, and the Resolution."
 | On Wednesday, February 15 there will be a Faculty Centripetals Luncheon on "Dendrochronology and the violin," presented by Henri Grissino-Mayer of the geography department. It will be held in the Executive Dining Room at the University Center. If interested please RSVP to unistudy@utk.edu or 974-8177, or visit http://web.utk.edu/~unistudy/ for more information. |
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
January 18, 2006
Country rocker Steve Earle will be January 30 Writer in the Library
 | Country rock musician Steve Earle will display some of his alternate talents -- writer, poet, playwright -- as the first reader in the spring Writers in the Library series. Earle will entertain us at 7pm on Monday, January 30, 2006, in the Hodges Library auditorium on the University of Tennessee campus. The event is free and open to the public. The UT Libraries' Writer in Residence, RB Morris, who organizes the Writers in the Library series, is thrilled to bring Steve Earle to campus. "Steve sold out the Tennessee Theater at a pretty steep ticket price last winter playing with his band. Now we have him coming back to town to lay some spoken word on us at Hodges Library auditorium that seats maybe 200 people and is free and open to the public. I just hope the Library's still there when it's over," quipped Morris. |
From Steve Earle's web site:"For those who don't know, Steve Earle has been, for the past two decades, one of the more compellingly engaged figures on the American cultural landscape. Steve is the author of best-selling works of fiction ("Doghouse Roses"), a playwright, and a well-known speaker and presence in a variety of left-leaning populist movements. But it is in his persona as an exceedingly thoughtful, yet fun, country rocker that most people know him, and rightly so. His contribution to the merging of progressive country to the wider rock audience remains huge. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that the entire genre of "alt. Country" would not exist without Earle's ground-breaking extension of what used to be called "folk-rock." His recorded work, from the classic 1986 Guitartown onward through such excitingly heartfelt/redemptive works as Copperhead Road, I Feel Alright, El Corazon, Transcendental Blues, to the current The Revolution Starts...Now, represents an extraordinary catalogue of deeply personal music which compares favorably with such esteemed heroes as Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, or even Bob Dylan.
"Few artists have been able and/or willing to put themselves so consistently on the line, or to forthrightly speak their minds as Earle has, while continuing to maintain a commercial presence."
For more details about Writers in the Library, visit www.lib.utk.edu/writersinthelibrary/.
The Writers in the Library series is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the Creative Writing Program of the UT English Department. For further information, please contact Jo Anne Deeken, Head of Technical Services, UT Libraries, at 974-6905 or deeken@aztec.lib.utk.edu, or R.B. Morris, Jack Reese Writer in Residence, UT Libraries, at 974-3004 or rbmorris@utk.edu.
Posted by Connie Steigenga at 07:45 AM
January 10, 2006
The Banjo: from Africa to America and beyond
Levi Collins, courtesy of Museum of Appalachia. Photographer - Robin Hood. | From January 14, 2006 - April 30, 2006 the McClung Museum will have a special exhibit on the banjo titled "The Banjo: From Africa to America and Beyond." On Saturday, January 14,2006 from 2-5 pm there will be a lecture and performance. Performing will be Bob Carlin, former John Hartford banjoist and specialist on 19th and early 20th Century banjos. The lecture presented by Ulf Jägfors, world specialist on African lutes, and Pete Ross, specialist on early African-American banjos, will focus on the birth of the banjo. |
See http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/newspecial_exhibit/banjos/index.htm for more information on this event.
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