CFA Announcements

In Concert: The Old and the New Bach and Haydn

Nancy Galbraith Carnegie Mellon Baroque Ensemble & Cellofourte

Sunday April 27 2008, 7 p.m.

Kresge Recital Hall

Stephen Schultz, director for more information visit link: http://music.web.cmu.edu/index.php?sub_page=events

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MAY 2 - MAY 18, 2008 MAYDAY! BFA SENIOR EXHIBITION 2008

Opening reception: MAY 2, 6-8PM

For more information visit link: http://artschool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~miller/exhibitions/

Free Bus Ride To Philharmonic Concert ______________________________________

Anyone with a Carnegie Mellon i.d. can take a free bus ride to the Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic performance at 8 p.m., April 29 at the famed John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This offer includes a free ticket to the concert!

Hurry and reserve your place today, e-mail music-office@andrew.cmu.edu for your spot.

The bus departs at the University Center turnaround at 12:30 p.m.

They will play works by Edgard Varse (Arcana) and Giacinto Scelsi (Quattro Pezzi), as well as the Stravinsky favorite, "The Rite of Spring."

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The School of Drama continues Commedia Dell Arte.

Servant of Two Masters

5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 24 on Carnegie Mellons Cut, near the tennis courts

Performances at the SouthSide Works: Scapino

5:30 p.m., Friday, April 25, and Saturday April 26

Servant of Two Masters

1 p.m., Saturday, April 26

Campus Events ______________________________________________________________

CIT, EPP To Host Media Panel About Politics, Public Policy Issues

Carnegie Mellons College of Engineering and its Department of Engineering and Public Policy will host the first in a series of panel discussions, dubbed The Fourth Estate, about how the news media cover politics and impact critical public policy issues from the economy to healthcare and clean air.

The panel discussion will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 23 in the Singleton Room of the Roberts Hall of Engineering.

Jon Peha, a professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, will moderate an expert panel that includes: David Biello, an associate editor of Scientific American; Jon Delano, political editor at KDKA-TV; Doug Heuck, editor and publisher of The Pittsburgh Quarterly; and Tim Hayes, a freelance reporter for TEQ Magazine.

PGH events _________________________________________________________________

Gift To America: SEE THE MURALS, HEAR THE STORY

In celebration of Pittsburghs 250th anniversary, actors and theatrical lighting will bring the murals of Maxo Vanka to life in the play Gift To America, which will run at 8:30 p.m., May 7-10 at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale. The play is written, acted (in part), directed, lit and supported by faculty and alumni of The College of Fine Arts faculty.

The one-hour play is a conversation about the murals among Vanka and Father Albert Zagar, the priest who commissioned the murals, and two female characters. The dramatic reading, which will be accompanied by Tamburitzan music, is scripted by Carnegie Mellon University Professor Emeritus of English David Demarest, and was originally staged in 1981. Described by Time magazine as one of the few distinguished sets of murals in the U.S., the murals depict the ravages of war and the sacrifices of immigrant workers in early 20th century industrial America. They also honor the congregations Croatian heritage and Christian faith. Vanka had recently immigrated when he began to paint the murals in 1937, and called them his gift to America.

The vivid imagery depicted on the walls and ceilings of the Millvale church reveal a passion that is universal and uniquely Croatian. After seeing the murals, Talking Heads rock musician David Byrne of the group The Talking Heads called Vanka the Diego Rivera of Pittsburgh.

The Society to Preserve The Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka is staging the play, and hopes to raise greater awareness of the paintings. The performance will launch a campaign to fund the illumination, restoration and preservation of the murals.

Tickets are $10 and will be available before performances at the church, which is in Millvale off of Route 28. For more information, call Diane Novosel at 724-845-2907.