Rounce & Coffin Club – 2003 Western Books: 62 nd Annual Exhibition

June 27 – July 22, 2004

Featured examples of books from fine presses, handmade books, and museum and university press books which were winners in the 2003 competition.

The Revolutionary Ball

Saturday, July 24, 2004

Approximately 75 people including summer international students attended this historical dance in which the minuet and Virginia Reel were among the 18 th century social dances taught. Cynthia Harper gave a demonstration of the minuet with her dance teacher.

“Parental Advisory: This Music May Be Offensive to Some…”: Selections from the Archive of Popular American Music

September 30 – October 31, 2004

David Gilbert from Music Library Special Collections curated this powerful exhibit which displayed examples of racist American sheet music covers and lyrics from the late 19 th century to the present.

Classical Guitarist Heday Mercury

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Afternoon Concert - 4pm

Talented Heday Mercury began as a rock musician in Japan and in this country studied classical guitarist under Peter Yates at UCLA. He performed eclectic and difficult standard pieces for an audience of more than fifty students and faculty. Included were “Sunburst” by Andrew York, “Svensk Skog” by Heday Mercury, “The Frog Galliard” by John Dowland, “Gymnopedie” by Eric Satie, “Variation Sur L’air de Flute Enchantee” Op. 9 by Fernando Sor, “In My Life” by Lennon and McCartney, “Cavatina” by Stanley Myers, and J.S. Bach’s Lute Suite no. 4, Prelude. It was his second appearance in Powell: he performed as part of the Monday@One series the previous year.

Photo by C. Brown

2nd Annual Valentino’s Tango & Ragtime Ball

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Eighty students, staff, and community members enjoyed learning the tango, waltz, foxtrot and various “animal” dances. Participants were also treated to a brief video of Rudolph Valentino dancing the tango from the 1921 silent film “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

Authors and Actors: Signed Books from the Collection of Lawrence Grobel

November 1 – December 23, 2004

Forty-seven inscribed first editions from the collection of noted journalist and English Department faculty member Lawrence Grobel were displayed in this one-time exhibit. Some significant examples were Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, Schindler’s Ark, the basis for the film “Schindler’s List,” signed by both Liam Neeson and Author Thomas Keneally, as well as an extensive collection of books signed by actors such as Diane Keaton, Elliott Gould and Al Pacino on which their various movie roles were based. A third category of books were those both signed and illustrated by authors.

Photo by C. Brown

4th Annual Waltz Through Time

Saturday, November 20, 2004

This very popular historical dance was attended by 127 people, beginning with the Regency Period dances of Jane Austen’s time through to the present day. Special guest teacher Michael Espinoza taught the Argentine waltz “Vals Cruzado.”

Collegium Musicum: Medieval and Early Renaissance

Elisabeth Le Guin, Director

Friday, December 3, 2004

Afternoon Concert - 2:30 pm

Ninety students, staff and members of the community crowded into the Rotunda on a Friday afternoon during 9 th week to hear students from Music History 28A perform vocal and instrumental music by composers Hildegard of Bingen; Adam de la Halle; Beatriz, Comtesse de Dia, Guiraut de Borneih; and Guillaume de Machaut. Performers Stephen Beck, William Chu, Matthew Nolan, Collin Cooney, Mari Kartalyan, Erica Rood, Kalpa Bhattacharjee, and Julia Wells were jointed by special guest Gordon Haramaki. Professor Le Guin gave small talks which provided background as well as providing accompaniment with the organ and viola da gamba.

Gordon Haramaki

Photo by C. Brown

Victorian Cotillion

Saturday, December 18, 2004

On the Saturday after final exams, sixty-five staff, students and members of the Los Angeles community came to celebrate the holidays 19 th century style by dancing the waltz, polka, mazurka, gallop, schottische, redowa and Virginia Reel.