The late correspondent Eric Sevareid once said, “The chief cause of problems [in international affairs] is solutions.” The Middle East confirms that wisdom. Major sources of division today are a trail of failed solutions, according to Lisa Adeli, who will explore this theme in a 3:30 p.m. lecture at the Arizona Senior Academy on Thursday (Aug. 6)...
Tenor Edgar Ricaud was born in Nogales, Arizona and graduated from the University of Arizona – a true son of our state. Growing up in Nogales, Sonora, he became interested in music and in singing at age 13 through a project in his school. Continuing at UA, he was featured in “Toyupan” also appearing in “Don Giovanni” and the world premiere of...
Poet David Chorlton, originally from Austria and England, and now 30 years an Arizonan, will share some of his vast and varied writings with an audience at the Arizona Senior Academy Great Room at 3:30 p.m. Thursday (July 30). Chorlton is very much a poet of the desert: much of his work evokes—with a distinctive lyricism—the sights, voices and...
Harpist Christine Vivona returns to the Arizona Senior Academy in a solo recital on Tuesday (July 28) at 11:30 a.m. The program will mix classics with jazz, including an arrangement of themes from George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and “Rhapsody in Blue,” and standards such as “Honeysuckle Rose” and “Girl from Ipanema.” Vivona is principal...
More than 120,000 Tibetan refugees live in India, several thousand of them in Manipat, a cluster of refugee camps in rural eastern India. They followed the 14th Dali Lama who was offered asylum after China invaded their country in 1959. Dr. Eric Curtis, a dentist from Safford, Ariz., will present a travelogue about these refugee camps Friday...
The exciting duo of Toru Tagawa on violin and Shiho Takeda on piano will appear in concert at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday (July 21) in the Arizona Senior Academy’s Great Room. They plan to perform Mozart’s “Violin Sonata in G Major,” K. 301, and Schumann’s “Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor,” Op. 121. Tagawa has served as music director and conductor of the...
“People have no idea how many bats are flying around here in Tucson,” says biologist Sandy Wolf. In an Arizona Senior Academy lecture scheduled for Thursday (July 16) at 3:30 p.m., Wolf will give an overview of the bat species that reside in our area and explain why bats don’t deserve the poor image they have with so many of us. Wolf has studied...
In this age of social media and “selfies,” photography has become a defining element in our lives. Most of us would assume all that began in 1839 when Louis Daguerre developed the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced photographic process which required only minutes of exposure in the camera and produced clear, finely...
African-American spiritual music became a tremendously popular genre during the opening decades of the 20th century. The songs became a staple for American performers of all ethnicities as the music crossed from the folk music sphere into classical and popular music. At 3:30 p.m. Thursday (July 9), Brian Moon, an associate professor of music at...
The Tucson Repertory Orchestra Wind Quintet will bring their individual and combined talents to the Great Room of the Arizona Senior Academy at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday (July 7). Their evening program cuts a wide swath through the repertoire of the woodwind quintet, including music by Barthe, Klughardt, Jacques Ibert, Debussy, Paquito D’Rivera, Bach...
