Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series

Abstract Performed by the Houston Ebony Opera Guild. Performers: Jason Oby, tenor; Marion Vernette Moore, Soprano; Shana Mashego, Soprano; Leon Turner, Bass; and John Cornelius II, pianoAmerican Portraits I too sing...the darker brother featuring Houston Ebony Opera GuildThursday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. The Houston Ebony Opera Guild is an organization of classically trained African American singers based in Houston, Texas. Founded to provide opportunities for minority...

Abstract with Amiri BarakaAmiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, NJ. After leaving Howard University and the Air Force, he moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1957 and co-edited the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.He published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. Blues People: Negro Music in White America...

Abstract The Rothko Chapel and the Transformative Power of Art, A Series "Acts of Faith" The Reverend Susan J. BarnesThis series will celebrate the artistic and spiritual import of the Rothko Chapel, bringing three speakers with close ties to Mark Rothko and the Chapel.The Reverend Susan J. Barnes will address the overarching issue of faith and spirituality in the lives and enterprises of the Menils—of which the Rothko Chapel was the first outward and visible sign: the first...

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University of St. Thomas

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Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.

Abstract with Internationally Acclaimed Poet AdonisAdonis has been called "today's most daring and provocative Arab poet," while his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T.S. Eliot's on English-language verse.Experimental in form and prophetic in tone, Adonis's poetry sings exultantly of both the sweet promise of eros and the angusih of exile. The just released English-language anthology, Adonis: Selected Poems, offers the first comprehensive survey of...

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Author John Taggart will read “The Rothko Chapel Poem” from his book Loop (1991). Â This American poet and author has written fourteen volumes of poetry, a study of the painter Edward Hopper, and a collection of essays on contemporary poetry. Winner of numerous prizes for his writing as well as NEA fellowships, Taggart’s Is Music: Selected Poems was recognized as one of the most important poetry books of 2010.

A book signing and reception for the public will follow the program.

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With Houston Grand Opera