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Hello everyone, I'm Jim Longworth and
welcome to another edition of Triad Today
Coming up later on, our infamous
round table gets together. We'll see what
they have to say about a wide range of
topics. But between then and now we have
a lot to get to including talking about
an understanding more about foster care.
We'll do that and we'll also tell you
some things about workers comp that you
might want to know. There's a lot in
store for you and I hope you'll stay
tuned with us. But first I want to turn
our attention to something that's been
around for a long time. Not this
gentleman, he's still young, but what
we're going to talk about has been. On my
right: Lawrence Jenkens is associate dean
for the College of Visual and Performing
Arts at UNCG and we're going to talk
about the concert lecture series, which
has been around a long time. You've been
around UNCG for what, four years or eight
years?
I've been here since 2010.
Good to see you. Appreciate you coming.
My pleasure.
Up from New Orleans and we're so glad
you made the decision to come up here.
Now for as long as I've been around I
can remember the UNCG concert lecture
series; it's great every year. What I like
to do is sort of run down a menu of
things that I'm interested in. I want to
ask about, you can give me a couple of
statements about. Let's start with Alan
Alda on September 21 tell me something
about that.
Well I think we all know Alan
Alda as the as the star of M*A*S*H, that
blockbuster TV series that I think even
people watch today. He's also obviously a
distinguished film and television actor.
In more recent times he's turned his
attention to science, hosting Scientific
American on PBS and he's interested in
the skills of communication, especially
how scientists communicate their ideas
with the public. So we're very excited to
have him come.
And it really fits in with
one of the missions that we do at UNCG
which is it's a probably
interdisciplinary approach to learning.
To have somebody you know cross those lines
Then an evening with Leonard
Bernstein on October 12.
And this is the hundredth anniversary of the
maestro's birth and we're very
privileged to have his son Alex, who will
come and present
I think reminiscences and stories about
about his life. And then Lara Downes, who
has a new CD out with sort of the
highlights of Bernstein's music but she
will play as Alex talks, so it's a chance
to reconnect with that extraordinary
figure of the 20th century.
Some personal stories
from them too, maybe hear about "West Side
Story" and how he created that.
Herbie Hancock comes on February 12
He needs hardly any introduction. He's a jazz legend, he played with
Miles Davis. He is responsible for what
we think of as the rhythm section in
jazz now and certainly for that post bop
sound that, that dominates jazz now.
And long before your time and you probably
weren't even born, but in, I think it
was '74 or something, I was at UNCG and Miles Davis
was part of the concert lecture series,
so we saw that. Mark Morris dance group
February 27th.
They're a wonderful example of contemporary dance. They work very nicely with our program in
dance, which focuses primarily on
contemporary. And I think it's important
to say with all of these guests who come
that they not only perform but they also
interact with our students. They offer
master classes, they offer student
round tables. The point here is to bring
not just big names and exciting
entertainers but to bring people who
will leave something for the students when they go.
Absolutely and somebody can
really do that it's also closing out the
new season, Audra McDonald. I'm a big fan
of hers. I think the date is up in the
air right now, but it's sometime in the
spring and she closes out. Tell me something about that.
She is terrific and we are so excited that she is, that
she is coming obviously she is an
actress and a singer. She has six Tony
Awards for roles in "Porgy and Bess," and
"Raisin in the Sun," "Ragtime," "Carousel."
She's also an accomplished opera singer,
so she she seems like a great
person to close out what will be a truly
exciting UCLS season.
For anybody who has DVDs at home, she
was on did the TV movie from Annie, I
think was on there too.
Now let me ask a stupid question before we run out of time, this is for the public, it's not
just students right?
Absolutely for the public. Students have
student-priced admissions and students from
other institutions can come at a
student rate, and then the the season is
currently on sale either individual
tickets or season tickets.
And up on screen vpa.uncg.edu is where you can
find out about tickets and I hope
everybody will do that and get season
tickets. This is a strong lineup and I
really appreciate all you do and come
back give us an update, will you?
Thank you, I will.
Thanks and I appreciate it.
We'll be
right back after this.
