Dunster House Music Society
Dunster House Library
Tomorrow night at 5:30
Soprano Julie Wu '88 returns to Dunster House this weekend to present works by Haydn, Debussy, Brahms, Strauss and Walton. Wu, who was a Literature concentrator while a resident of Dunster, has studied voice at the Longy School of Music for several years and has performed locally with the Tanglewood Chorus. Earlier this year, Wu sang the soprano lead in Dunster's Christmas presentation of Handel's Messiah. Saturday's voice recital is free and open to the public.
Warren Sonbert
Presentation of his films
Carpenter Center
Tonight
Warren Sonbert is considered to be one of the most prominent avant-grade film directors in the United States. and will present a series of his recent works this afternoon at the Carpenter Center. Sonbert, whose works have recently been shwn at the New York Film Festival and at the Anthology Film Archive, will discuss his works after the showing.
First in the series is Honor and Obey (1988), a silent film that features brightly colored authority figures blending into scenes of extravagance and cocktail parties. The striking images are set against backgrounds of soldiers marching in formation, tigers stalking in the snow and religious processions.
Sonbert's most serious work, The Cup and the Lip (1986) focuses on the forces behind demonstrations and mass gatherings in the modern world. The film opens with a scene from a military parade in Budapest during the Chernobyl disaster and ends with Sandra Day O'Connor's visit to a San Francisco rally the week after the Supreme Court ruled on the sodomy law.
Sri Chimoy
Paine Hall
Tonight at 7:30, 10:00
Sri Chimoy will offer a concert at Paine Hall tonight to honor the public contributions of several Boston citizens. He will first play a series of seven instruments, after which he will present a speech on spiritual philosophy. Following the concert, Sri Chimoy will lift up with one hand Harvard professors Diana Eyk and James Luther Adams in honor of their spiritual contributions.