LIBRARY NOTES
Programs
Wednesday, June 1, 1994
The Author/Member Lecture Series concluded on May 17, 1994 with a talk by Mac Griswold, garden writer, historian, and author with Elenor C. Weller of The Golden Age of American Gardens. Mrs. Griswold spoke about the ideas and meaning that have connected women and gardens throughout Western history.
Maynard Solomon, an independent scholar who lives in New York and is presently Visiting Professor of Music at Yale University, commenced the series with a talk on March 8, 1994 about Mozart and his use of the "Adagio archetype" in such compositions as the A-minor Sonata and the Sonata in C Major.
On April 19, 1994, Allen Mandelbaum, author of twelve volumes of verse translation and currently the W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University, mixed poetry and narrative in discussing the ancient poets' evolving expressions of love.
The first two lectures were taped and are available to borrow.
Next fall the Library will initiate a three-part investigation of the art of biography, as mentioned above. This program, developed with Geoffrey Ward and funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, will be sponsored as well by the National Humanities Center, which will broadcast portions of it on their National Public Radio series "Soundings."
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