“Intersections: The Art of Jan Zach”

Jan Zach (Czech-American, 1914-1986) was a highly regarded Oregon sculptor and professor of art at the University of Oregon. A major retrospective of his work, "Intersections: The Art of Jan Zach," opens Saturday, Feb.1, and continues through March 29, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. A free lecture series is also offered.

Organized by Professor Roger Hull, the exhibition will explore the range of Zach's work from his early drawings and paintings to his large-scale sculpture in metal and wood.

Born in Slany, Czechoslovakia, in 1914, Zach trained as a painter and decorator in Prague during the 1930s and came to the United States in 1938 to work on the Czech Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. Because of the Nazi invasion in 1939 and the Communist takeover in 1948, he never returned to Czechoslovakia. In 1940, Zach moved to Brazil and spent the next 11 years in Rio de Janeiro and in the nearby Brazilian countryside.

In 1951, he and his wife Judith moved to her hometown of Victoria, British Columbia, and in 1958, at the encouragement of Mark Sponenburgh, he joined the art faculty at the University of Oregon. Over the next 21 years, Zach emerged as an important teacher and mentor and trained several generations of sculptors, many of whom are still active in the region.

In addition to the drawings, paintings, and sculptures on display, many of which are part of the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the exhibition will be accompanied by text panels, annotated labels, a small companion exhibition of maquettes and small sculptures by the artist, a lecture series that attempts to place Zach's work within the context of his times, and a 96-page exhibition catalogue written by Professor Hull. The exhibition catalogue will retail for $24.95 and will be distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London.

The free lectures, all held in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the Museum at 5 p.m., begin Friday, Jan. 31, with Roger Hull who will present an illustrated slide lecture on the life and art of Jan Zach.

On Thursday, Feb. 20, Dr. Jaroslav Andel, and independent curator and writer in New York, will deliver an illustrated slide lecture on Czech modern art in the early 20th century, with an emphasis on Prague art of the 1930s and the artistic milieu from which Jan Zach emerged.

On Thursday, March 6, Michael Hall, a collector and scholar from Michigan, will present an illustrated slide lecture on Jan Zach and American sculptural developments of the 1950s and 1960s.

"Intersections: The Art of Jan Zach" is supported by contributions from friends, relatives, and former students of Zach, with additional support provided by the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is located at 700 State Street (corner of State and Cottage Streets) in downtown Salem near the campus of Willamette University. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are free and Tuesday is a free day.

For further information, please call 503/370-6855.

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Faculty Colloquium Spring 2003

Coordinated by David P. Craig

Dr. Martin Behnke
Department of Music
Chants: Metamorphosis of a Composition
January 29, Wednesday @ 10:20 AM
Rogers Rehearsal Hall

Dr. Sue Koger
Department of Psychology
What on earth are we doing? The psychology of environmental problems and solutions
January 31 @ 3:00 PM
Alumni Lounge - Third Floor of the Putnam University Center

Dr. April Overstreet
Department of Spanish
The 'Trinity in Crisis' of Spanish Author Luis Landero
February 7 @ 3:00 PM
Alumni Lounge - Third Floor of the Putnam University Center

Dr. Gary Tallman
Department of Biology
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the lab! Cultured guard cells as a model of plant thermotolerance
February 21 @ 3:00 PM
Alumni Lounge - Third Floor of the Putnam University Center

Dr. Andrea Wallace
Department of Art and Art History
Rochell and Brian +5 / Community Based Art
March 14 @ 3:00 PM
Alumni Lounge - Third Floor of the Putnam University Center

Dr. John Uggen
Department of Spanish
The Expansion of British Investment in Ecuador: From the Ecuadorian Association to the Ecuadorian Corporation
April 4 @ 3:00 PM
Alumni Lounge - Third Floor of the Putnam University Center

Drs. Mike Nord & Genevieve Orr
Department of Music & Department of Computer Science
Transitions:A Professional Development Model for Collaborative Multimedia Creation
April 11 @ 3:00 PM
Alumni Lounge - Third Floor of the Putnam University Center

Dr. Thabiti Lewis
Department of English
New Jack Athletes: Race, Sport and American Culture
May 2 @ 3:00 PM
Alumni Lounge - Third Floor of the Putnam University Center

Other Notes
All talks, except for Dr. Behnke's, start at 3:00 PM in the Alumni Lounge immediately preceding the TGIF. This is an intentional effort to encourage a synergy between our scholarly and social lives.

Most of these dates do not conflict with the Asian Studies Lecture/Workshop Series in an effort to reduce scheduling conflicts.

Highlights of the Asian Studies Lecture/Workshop Series

(6) Special Faculty Presentation: Reading Movies: Film and Narrative in Kishino Junko's Memoir
by Professor Ron Loftus
Time: Feb. 14, 2:30-4:00
Place: TBA (Refreshments provided)

(7) Special Faculty Presentation: Formation of National Culture and the Classicization of Music: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia.
by Professor Pamela Moro
Time: Feb. 21, 2:30-4:00
Place: TBA (Refreshments provided)

(8) Special Faculty Presentation: Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road
by Professor Xijuan Zhou
Time: Feb. 28, 2:30-4:00
Place: TBA (Refreshments provided)

(9) Special Faculty Presentation: Textile Weaving in India and Laos: Globalization and Gender
by Professors Carol Ireson-Doolittle and Suresht Bald
Time: March. 7, 2:30-4:00
Place: TBA (Refreshments provided)

(10) Special Faculty Presentation: Group Harmony "WA" and Japanese Language
by Professor Miho Fujiwara
Time: March 14, 2:30-4:00
Place: TBA (Refreshments provided)

(11) Horses and Societies in Medieval Eurasia
by Professor Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College
Internationally renowned scholar of Chinese history and ethnicity
Time: April 3
Place: TBA (Refreshments provided)

(12) Special Faculty Presentation: From Fengshui to the Pursuit of Harmony
by Professor J. Zhang
Time: April 11, 2:30-4:00
Place: TBA (Refreshments provided)

(13) Special Faculty Presentation: Healing the Body, Saving the Soul: Medical Missionaries and Opium Refuges in China, 1859 - 1906
by Professor P. Howard
Time: April 18, 2:30-4:00
Place: TBA (Refreshments provided)

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Filmmaker to Show and Discuss His Work at Willamette

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Macky Alston will screen two films at Willamette University.

“Family Name” will be shown Wednesday, Feb. 5, and “Questioning Faith” will be shown Thursday, Feb. 6. Both programs begin at 7 p.m. in Hudson Hall in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center. The free screenings are sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Programs and The Lilly Project at Willamette University.

Alston will answer questions after each screening, and will discuss his vocation as a filmmaker at Convocation Feb. 6 in Willamette’s Cone Chapel at 12:45 p.m.

“Family Name,” described by Rolling Stone as “a moving, unforgettable film,” chronicles Alston’s pursuit of a family secret of a slaveholding past, embodied by the number of African-American children in his town who shared his last name.

In “Questioning Faith,” Alston, a seminary dropout, returns to seminary to pursue the questions: How can anyone believe in God, any god, after experiencing life at its most devastating? And what is it about human nature that leads one person to find religion in the midst of such chaos and another to lose it? Interviews with theologians and others – Buddhists, Muslims, Jews and Christians – illuminate very different perspectives on these questions.

Alston comes from three generations of Presbyterian ministers and is himself a seminary dropout. Upon the death of his former seminary classmate and close friend Alan Smith, a young inner-city chaplain, Alston returned to seminary to try to find meaning in his demise, to wrestle with his own faith, and to make this film.

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Asian Film Series At Willamette

Five free films will be shown in the Hull Lecture Hall at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. All films begin at 6:30 p.m. and each one will be introduced by a member of the Willamette faculty. The museum is located on the corner of State and Winter Streets. No food or drinks are allowed in the Museum.

Jan. 31 (Friday): "Maborosi" (1995, directed by Koreeda Hirokazu, in Japanese with English subtitles; 110 min.) A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village and continues to search for meaning in a lonely world. Maborosi means "the beckoning light." This film won awards at film festivals in Vancouver and Venice.

Feb. 14 (Friday): "Not One Less" (1999, directed by Zhang Yimou, in Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles; 106 min.) A young woman is ordered to a remote Chinese village to be the substitute teacher and is told that she must keep the class intact for one month or she won't be paid. When one of her students disappears into the city to find work, she goes after him. This film won awards at film festivals in Sao Paulo and Venice.

March 7 (Friday): "Pather Panchali" (1955, directed by Satyajit Ray, B&W, in Bengali with English subtitles; 115 min.) Sometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal. The father, a poet and priest, cannot earn enough to keep his family going. Apu's sister, Durga, is forever stealing mangoes from the neighbour's orchards. All these add to the daily struggles of the mother's life, notwithstanding her constant bickering with an old aunt who lives with the family. This is the first film in Ray's celebrated Apu Trilogy, and won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Music by Ravi Shankar.

April 4 (Friday): "Afterlife" (1998, directed by Koreeda Hirokazu, in Japanese with English subtitles; 118 min.) In Koreeda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth. With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task. The film won awards at several smaller film festivals & praise from major film critics.

April 18 (Friday): "Baran" (2001, directed by Majid Majidi, in Farsi with English subtitles; 91 min.) Baran ("rain") takes place in the years following the 1989 Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan, amid the rise of the Taliban. Set in Iran, it tells the story of an Afghani refugee father whose injury threatens his family's future, a child too weak to fill his shoes, and a native Iranian son forced to trade places with an immigrant. But, the young man's burning resentment is about to be transformed by a surprising discovery. The immigrant is a young woman. For the first time in his life, he is in love, but, he cannot let on that he knows her secret. This film won two awards at the Montreal International Film Festival.

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Willamette President to Lead NAICU Committee

Lee Pelton, president of Willamette University, has been appointed chair of the Committee on Policy Analysis and Public Relations of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities for 2003-04. In this position, he will also serve on the executive committee of the association's board of directors. His one-year appointment will be ratified Jan. 29 by member college and university presidents at the NAICU 2003 annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29.

Pelton, who was elected to the NAICU board of directors for a three-year term in 2001, is one of 11 board members who serve on the association's executive committee. The executive committee leads the board in establishing NAICU's priorities for the coming year and developing guidelines for achieving the association's objectives.

The Committee on Policy Analysis and Public Relations helps the board to develop strategies for developing and sharing information about the individual and societal benefits of private higher education with policymakers, the news media, and the general public.

NAICU serves as the unified national voice of independent higher education. Since 1976, the association has represented private colleges and universities on policy issues with the federal government, such as those affecting student aid, taxation, and government regulation. With nearly 1,000 member institutions and associations, NAICU reflects the diversity of private, nonprofit higher education in the United States.

NAICU members enroll 85 percent of all students attending private institutions. They include traditional liberal arts colleges, major research universities, comprehensive universities, church and faith-related institutions, historically black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, single-sex colleges, art institutions, two-year colleges, and schools of law, medicine, engineering, business, and other professions.

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African American Lecture Series Begins Feb. 7 at Willamette

Developmental psychologist Dr. Dalton Miller-Jones will discuss “Ethic Identity and Achievement: Educating the Black Child” at Willamette University Friday, Feb. 7, at 3:30 p.m. in the Montag Center.

The lecture opens the four-part African-American Lecture Series funded by a Hewlett Grant. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public.

Miller-Jones has conducted research is on the impact of culture on development and learning and reasoning, especially for African American children. He has studied reading acquisition and teacher's attitudes and responses to speakers of Black English during reading instruction. He is beginning work in the area of identity and learning with special emphasis on mathematics and science.

Miller-Jones received his master's degree in experimental psychology from Tufts University in 1965 and a doctorate in developmental psychology from Cornell University in 1973.

He taught at Cornell where he helped establish the Africana Studies and Research Center. He has also taught at the University of Massachusetts and Williams College. He moved to the City University of New York Graduate School in 1984 where he subsequently served as deputy executive officer for the Ph.D. program in psychology and as head of the developmental psychology subprogram.

He has been a professor of psychology at Portland State University since 1991, where he also served as vice provost for academic affairs for three years.

On Wednesday, Feb 26, at 3:15 p.m. in the Hatfield Room of the Hatfield Library, Julius Thompson, chair of Black Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia, will discuss “20th Century Black Intellectuals and Beyond.”

Thompson, who penned the biography of Broadside Press founder Dudley Randall, has focused his research on African American history in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a special concentration on the history of the South and Mississippi; the Black press; African American literary and social history; modern Africa since 1900; and African American literature with a major focus on Black poets since 1860.

On Friday, March 7, at 3:15 p.m. in the Montag Center, Bakari Kitwana, former editor of The Source Magazine and author of “The Rap on Gangsta Rap and the Hip Hop Generation,” will discuss “The Hip Hop Generation and Black Youth Culture.”

On Wednesday, March 19, at 3 p.m. in the Montag Center Den, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, chair of African American Studies at Hamilton College, will discuss “Blackness Sublime: Race Consciousness, the New Negro and the Feminist Origins of the Negritude Movement.”

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Goodrich Named as New Atkinson School Dean

James A. Goodrich, currently associate dean of The Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, has been selected as the new dean of the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University.

“We are very pleased to welcome Jim Goodrich to Willamette,” said University President Lee Pelton. “Jim brings to this post the reputation and vision Atkinson requires for developing new community partnerships, fund raising and faculty recruitment. His leadership and expertise in managing international business programs will be especially appreciated by faculty, students and Atkinson alumni.

“Jim has a unique insight into this University. His daughter Jessica is a 2001 graduate of Willamette. I’d like to think her experience on this campus helped him and his family make this decision.”

Goodrich, who has been at Pepperdine since 1997, previously served as director of the Westgate Center for Management Development, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific from 1991-97, and as professor and chair of International Business, School of Business and Public Administration, also at the University of the Pacific from 1989-91.

Since 1998, he has been a tenured full professor of international management at The Graziadio School. He also taught at the University of the Pacific, the University of California, Los Angeles, and as a visiting professor in Costa Rica, Monterrey, Mexico and Strasbourg.

Goodrich earned his undergraduate degree in international relations from Occidental College; his master’s degree in public administration from the University of Kansas, Lawrence; and his Ph.D. in public administration from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Goodrich, who will begin his duties in July as the new dean of AGSM, replaces Interim Dean Steven Maser who agreed to hold the post for the 2002-03 academic year following the departure of former Dean Bryan Johnston. Goodrich noted: “I really appreciate the effort that the AGSM is already making under Steve’s leadership, and look forward to working with Lee Pelton to articulate the vision for this professional school within Willamette University.”

“The faculty and staff believe Jim Goodrich will be an excellent leader,” Maser said. “We expect him to build on the success of our masters program, which is the largest in Oregon, and create new programs that provide valuable educational services to managers and leaders throughout the region.”

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“Savage in Limbo” Plays At Willamette

“Savage in Limbo” opens at Willamette University Theatre Feb. 20th.

Directed by Ted DeChatelet, the play tells the story of Denise Savage, a “wild-haired, strong, belligerent and scared 32-year-old virgin” who passes a tumultuous evening with four old acquaintances in a decrepit New York bar.

The play is highly theatrical and both vulgar and poetic in its use of adult language and unpredictable twists.

John Patrick Shanley, whose screenplay for “Moonstruck” won both the Writer’s Guild Award and an Academy Award for best original screenplay, wrote the provocative play.

Play dates are Feb. 20-22, 27-28 and March 1 at 8 p.m. The Feb. 23 and March 2 matinees begin at 2 p.m.

Tickets range from $3 to $10. For ticket information, call 503-370-6221.

DeChatelet has worked as a professional actor both in New York City and for various regional theatres such as Classic Stage Company, Buffalo Studio Arena, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the Shakespeare Festivals of Colorado, North Carolina, Illinois, Georgia and Connecticut. Most recently DeChatelet originated the role of Jaisu in the world premiere of David Ives' "Polish Joke" at A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE in Seattle. DeChatelet has trained extensively with the Society of American Fight Directors and has choreographed fights at several theatres across the country including Queens Theatre in the Park, 23rd Street Playhouse and Theatre 3 in New York City, Illinois Opera Theatre and Illinois Repertory Theatre. DeChatelet received his MFA in acting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has studied acting with Wynn Handman in New York City. DeChatelet is a member of the Actor's Equity Association and is currently represented by the Erhart Talent agency in Portland, Ore.

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Free Concert January 11th

The Willamette University Chamber Choir and the Willamette Singers, under the direction of Dr. Wallace H. Long Jr., will present their Winter Tour Kickoff Concert at the Rogers Music Center in Hudson Hall at Willamette University Saturday, Jan.11, at 7 p.m.

Choral ensembles from South Salem High School, under the direction of Carol Stenson, and West Salem High School, under the direction of Lisa McIntyre, will also Perform. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Willamette Chamber Choir is a 44-voice ensemble which tours annually throughout the Northwest and gives frequent honorific performances at music conventions and workshops held by the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference and Oregon Music Educators Association.

The Willamette Singers is a 15-member ensemble, which explores music particularly suitable to small groups of highly skilled and flexible vocalists. Willamette University is one of the few four-year universities in Oregon that offers experience in vocal jazz.

The Willamette Singers participates in a yearly tour and in recent years has been invited to perform for many regional, national and international conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, Oregon Music Educators Association, Music Educators National Conference, and International Association of Jazz Educators. In February of 2003, The Willamette Singers will travel to New York City to perform for the National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association. Singers’ sixth CD "Where Do You Start" was released last fall.

Several Willamette Choir members from the Salem area will performing in the Saturday concert: Kristin Friesen, Bryn Lynch and Marcella Orwick graduated from South Salem High School; Amy Kerr, (also the current America’s Junior Miss), graduated from McNary High School; Kristi Evans graduated from Sprague High School; Lucas Anderson and Jonathan Westfall graduated from North Salem High School; Rob Arndt graduated from Woodburn High School; and Melissa Smith graduated from Dallas High School.

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Jazz Festival Set For February 2003

Benny Golson, an internationally known tenor saxophonist, composer, educator and jazz icon, will be featured at Jazz Festival XXII Feb. 8, 2003, at 8 p.m. in Smith Auditorium at Willamette University.

Golson is featured in a program that also offers the Willamette Jazz Ensemble, the Willamette Faculty Jazz Combo and the “Judges’ Choice” bands from the jazz festival that welcomes 24 high school jazz bands from Oregon and Washington.

Golson will also offer a free clinic Saturday, Feb. 8, at 4 p.m. also in Smith Auditorium. Registration is not required.

Concert tickets are $18 for first-floor reserved seats; $15 balcony; $12 first-floor wing; and $10 first-floor general seating. For tickets and information, please call the University Music Office at 503-370-6255.

Golson has been a major contributor to the world of jazz for the past 50 years. With 30 recordings of his own and countless recordings with jazz greats such as Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Earl Bostic and Art Blakey, Golson stands as one of the greatest contributors to the history and literature of jazz.

Golson has arranged and composed music for John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Mama Cass Elliott, Ella Fitzgerald, David Jones and the Monkees, Quincy Jones, Peggy Lee, Carmen McRae, Oscar Peterson, Lou Rawls, Mickey Rooney and Diana Ross.

He has also composed scores for TV shows including "Mannix," "The Partridge Family," "Room 222," "M*A*S*H" and "Mission Impossible." His talent has been heard in advertisements for Canada Dry, Nissan, Chrysler, Dodge, Chevrolet, Gillette, Heinz Foods, Mattel Toys, Texaco, Orbach's and Liquid Plum'r.

Golson, who is a Guggenheim Fellow, holds honorary doctorates from both William Patterson College and the Berklee School of Music, Boston. In 1996, he received the American Jazz Master Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Golson's contributions to the world of jazz were recognized last March with a concert at Lincoln Center in New York entitled "The Magic of Benny Golson."

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Distinguished Artist At Willamette University

The Grace Goudy Distinguished Artists Series presents clarinetist David Shifrin with Anita King, pianist, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003, at 8 p.m. in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center at Willamette University.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for students and seniors at all Safeway FASTIXX outlets. Call 1-800-992-8499 for more information.

A free master class is also scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 10 a.m. in Hudson Hall in the Rogers Music Center.

The program, which marks the 20th anniversary season of the Distinguished Artist Series, includes works by Poulenc, Stravinsky, Debussy, Schumann and Brahms.

Much in demand as an orchestral soloist, David Shifrin has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Milwaukee, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Calgary and Honolulu symphonies, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the New York Chamber Symphony.

During the 1991-92 season, a new work for clarinet by Stephen Albert was premiered by Shifrin with the Philadelphia Orchestra. A frequent guest at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, his recording of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto on the basset clarinet with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra received a 1987 Stereo Review Record of the Year Award.

Shifrin’s solo recitals include appearances at Lincoln Center and the 92nd Street “Y” in New York and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. A highly acclaimed chamber musician, he is the artistic director of the Chamber Society at Lincoln Center and collaborates frequently with the world’s leading chamber ensembles. He also serves as music director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Ore., and is a professor of music at Yale University.

In 1987, Shifrin received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, an award given to outstanding American artists. His most recent recording was the Copland Clarinet concerto on Angel/EMI, which received a Grammy nomination.

Pianist Anita King has appeared as soloist with orchestras nationwide and as chamber musician collaborating with such renowned artists as clarinetist David Shifrin, cellist Fred Sherry, the Ridge String Quartet and pianist Charles Wadsworth.

As winners of the U.S. Information Agency “Artistic Ambassador” competition, King, with her colleagues Daniel Rouslin and Bruce McIntosh in Trio Northwest, performed a 23-concert tour in South America in 1989.

King has performed at the Oregon Coast Music Festival, on the Second City Chamber Series in Tacoma, and was piano soloist in the Berg Chamber Concerto with the Contemporary Music Ensemble at Pacific Lutheran University.

She has collaborated with numerous singers, including Barbara Pearson, Susan Narucki, Nancy Zylstra and Kym Amps with whom she performed a recital and radio broadcast from the Los Angeles County Museum in 1998. King is on the faculty of Willamette University.

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Jazz Trio at Willamette Jan. 23

The Carr Nord Hofmann jazz trio will perform Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kresge Theatre at Willamette University. Admission is free.

The group features Richard Carr, violin, Mike Nord, guitars and electronics, and Georg Hofmann, percussion. Their performances feature improvised works blending musical traditions from jazz, classical, and experimental music to folk music from around the world. The group has performed internationally, including appearances at the prestigious Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), the Aalener Jazzfest (Germany), and the Knitting Factory (New York).

Carr Nord Hofmann has recorded two CDs, Coast to Coast, and Along the Edge for the German improvised music label Nabel.

This event is sponsored by the Willamette University Department of Music and is funded by a grant from The Allen Foundation for Music.

For more information, call 503-370-6255.

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