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                       HAPPENINGS AT DUKE

    Events beginning Monday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Oct. 9

Please note:  When applicable, contacts are listed for news
reporters who would like to obtain media passes and photographs or
to arrange interviews.  Changes to previously listed calendar
events are in bold italics.

Call the 24-hour Duke Arts Hotline at 1-800-681-ARTS for arts
events.

GENERAL INTEREST

Monday, Sept. 26

     7 p.m.  Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS): Information
Session.  MALS offers part-time graduate study to adults interested
in specially designed interdisciplinary study.  Parlor Room, East
Duke Building, East Campus.

     7:30 p.m.  Dr. Larry Dossey, internist and author of "Healing
Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine," will
speak.  Sponsored by Unity Center of Peace and the Mind-Body
Medicine Study Group. Page Auditorium, West Campus.

Saturday, Oct. 1

     9 a.m. - noon  Duke Gardens Annual Fall Chrysanthemum, Bulb
and Perennial Sale.  Anderson Street entrance to Duke Gardens. 
Also held on Saturday, Oct. 8.

Sunday, Oct. 2

     2 p.m.  The Annual Interfaith Blessing of the Animals Service. 
Bring the animals in your care. Faith perspectives, music and
liturgical dance will be offered along with a blessing of the
animals.  Duke Chapel quad, West Campus. (Rain date: Sunday, Oct.
9)

Tuesday, Oct. 4

     7 p.m.- 9 p.m. Biblical Personalities: The Story of Moses,
adult class led by Rabbi Steven G. Sager explores the most complex
and longest narrative in the Hebrew Scriptures.  Continues Tuesdays
through Oct. 25; cost is $30.  022 New Divinity, West Campus. For
more information, contact the Duke Divinity School Center for
Continuing Education, 660-3448.

Wednesday, Oct. 5

     9 a.m.- 11 a.m. The Gospel of Mark; adult class, led by James
M. Efird, will thoroughly study the earliest, as well as the
shortest, of all four canonical gospels.  Continues Wednesdays
through Oct. 26; cost is $30.  Epworth UMC (corner of University
Drive & Hope Valley Rd.) For more information, call Duke Divinity
School Center for Continuing Education, 660-3448. 

     7 p.m.  Mel White, dean of the Cathedral of Hope, Metropolitan
Community Church, Dallas, Texas, will give talk titled "To Be Gay
and Christian in America." Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center,
West Campus.

Saturday, Oct. 8
     9 a.m. - Noon  Duke Gardens Annual Fall Chrysanthemum, Bulb
and Perennial Sale.  Anderson Street entrance to Duke Gardens.
                                
Ongoing events

     2 p.m. Duke Gardens free tours, Thursdays and Sundays through
November, weather permitting. Tours begin at the gardens' main gate
located off Anderson Street. Free parking.

ART

                     Opening and Ongoing Exhibits

Duke University Museum of Art, East Campus

     "Italian and Dutch Paintings from the Collection of the Sarah
Campbell Blaffer Foundation," an exhibition of 34 Old Master
paintings dating from the 14th to 18th centuries.  Two year loan. 

     "American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War," documentary
photographs by Carole Gallagher. The exhibition comprises
approximately 50 black-and-white photos with accompanying text that
have resulted from Gallagher's decade-long collection of portraits
and interviews of people whose lives were affected by nuclear bomb
testing in the U.S.  Exhibit runs through Oct. 30.  

     "The Matter of History: Selected Works by Annette Lemieux." 
Lemieux's multi-media works include images, texts and objects
associated with World War II and the Holocaust. Exhibit includes
recent paintings and sculpture by the Boston-area artist. Through
Oct. 30.  

     Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11
a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. For general
information, contact (919) 684-5135.

Institute of the Arts Gallery, Bivins Building, East Campus

     "Four Decades at Duke: Duke Photographers' Candid Views,"
Photographs by Jim Wallace, Les Todd, Bruce Feeley and Chris
Hildreth, Duke University photographers. Continues through Sept.
29. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Center for Documentary Studies

     "The Eye of Childhood," children's drawings collected by
Robert Coles. Lyndhurst House, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.

Brown Gallery, Bryan Center 

     "Pretty, Primal, Pissed," paintings in mixed media by Duke
graduate Tom Buhrman, runs through Sept. 30. For more information,
call (919) 684-2911.

Touchable Art Gallery, Eye Center

     Arts and crafts by people with visual impairments.

     "Works from Around the World" and other selections by Bynum
artist Clyde Jones are on display in the Cornea Waiting Room, which
is open Monday through Thursday. Gallery hours vary; call Peggy
Young at (919) 286-3361 for more information.

Hanks Lobby Gallery of the Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan
Center

     "Big Paintings of Color" by Jim Kellough. The exhibit can be
viewed when the theater is open for public events, 45 minutes
before showtime.

MUSIC

     Auditions: The Duke Symphony Orchestra invites community
musicians to audition for the 1994-95 season. Rehearsals are held
on Mondays (in 019 of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building) and
Wednesdays (in Baldwin Auditorium), both on East Campus, from 7
p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, call conductor Lorenzo Muti at
660-3324.

Friday, Sept. 30

     8 p.m. "Waxwings: Vocal Duets from the 20th-Century American
Repertoire," featuring songs from composer Robert Ward's operas
Roman Fever and Lady Kate, Stephen Jaffe's Fort Juniper Songs and
Timothy Hoekman's Margarets, with Terry Rhodes, soprano, Ellen
Williams, mezzo-soprano, Thomas Warburton and Stephen Jaffe, piano,
and Ciompi Quartet members. Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus. Media
contact: Susan Ashley Wilson, 660-3333.

     8 p.m.  "Mappamundi and the Original ArtSchool Jazz Ensemble."
Musical traditions of the Balkans performed by noted Triangle-area
musicians.  Part of the Institute of the Arts' Living Traditions
series. Tickets are $12 for the public, $6 for students and are
available by calling 684-4444. Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan
Center.  

Saturday, Oct. 1

     8 p.m.  Duke Jazz Series: Valery Ponomarev, Russian trumpeter
and composer will perform with the Duke Jazz Ensemble. Ponomarev
has worked with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and has
performed with Benny Golson, Charles Mingus, the Lionel Hampton and
the Mercer Ellington orchestras. Tickets are $10 for public, $7 for
students. They are available by calling Page Box Office at 684-4444
or Ticket Master at 834-4000 and also will be available at the door
before the performance.  Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus.

     8 p.m.  Chamber Arts Society: Takacs String Quartet.  Reynolds
Industries Theater, Bryan Center.  SOLD OUT

     10 p.m.  Southern Culture on the Skids with Three Day Stubble
presented by Duke University Union, WXDU and the Coffeehouse.
Tickets are $5 at the door. The Coffeehouse, East Campus.  For more
information, call 684-2911.

Sunday, Oct. 2

     8 p.m. Faculty Recital with Terry Mizesko, bass trombone; Tim
Stewart, trumpet; accompanied by Donna Jolly, piano; assisted by
Keith Jackson and Michael Kriss, trombone. Nelson Music Room, East
Duke Building, East Campus.

Monday, Oct. 3
     
     8 p.m.  Duke Artists Series: Vladimir Feltsman, piano. 
Individual tickets go on sale Sept. 26 and are $28, $25, $22 for
the public; $24, $21, $18 for students.  Tickets can be purchased
at Page Box Office or by calling 684-4444.  Page Auditorium, West
Campus.

Wednesday, Oct. 5

     Noon  Chapel Lunchtime Concert Series: "London's Foreign
Masters and Their Contribution to English Baroque Music."  The
first of this year's Chapel Lunchtime Concerts will feature Katia
Sherman, recorder, Oleg Timofeyev, lute and viola da gamba, and
Akira Ishii, harpsichford.  Please note new time.  Admission is
free.  For more information, call 660-3300.  Memorial Chapel, Duke
Chapel.

Friday, Oct. 7

     4 p.m. Wendy Heller of Brandeis University will speak on
"Tacito Transvestito: Messalina and Operatic Eroticism in
Seventeenth-Century Venice."  She will explore the way
representation of women like Messalina, heroine of Carlo
Pallavincino's like-named opera (Venice 1679), reflects
contemporary views about female sexuality. 104 Biddle Music
Building, East Campus.  

Saturday, Oct. 8

     8 p.m. Ciompi Quartet, with guest artists Yoko Nozaki,
pianist; and Ellen Jewett, first violinist.  The first concert of
Ciompi Quartet's 30th Anniversary Season, 1994-95, will include
Shostakovich's piano quintet and music by Mendelssohn and Steven
Mackey.  Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, East Campus. 
Tickets are $12 for the public, free for students; season tickets
are also available.  To purchase tickets, call Page Box Office,
684-4444.  Media contact: Susan Ashley Wilson, 660-3300.

Sunday, Oct. 9

     5 p.m.  Organist John Brock will perform music by Marchand,
Distler, and Bruhns. Brock is professor of music at the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is widely known as an organ teacher
and performer. He has presented concerts and workshops for regional
conventions of the American Guild of Organists and has performed on
historic and modern organs in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and
France. Duke Chapel, West Campus.  For general information, call
681-ARTS or 660-3300.

THEATER

Thursday, Sept. 29

     7:30 p.m.  "The Claudia and Charles Show," featuring poet
Claudia Menza and Charles Frye, a novelist and writer on black
cultural matters including African philosophy. Juanita Kreps
Gallery, Center for Documentary Studies, Lyndhurst House, 1317 W.
Pettigrew St.  Cancelled.  

Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 6 through Oct. 8
and Sunday, Oct. 9

     8 p.m. King Ubu.  2 p.m. only on Sunday.  Alfred Jarry's
satirical play about power, politics and the rise of Pere Ubu to
the throne in Poland; directed by Rafael Lopez-Barrantes and
starring drama student Enoch Scott as Ubu.  Presented by Duke
Drama program.  Sheafer Lab Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. 
Tickets are $5 for students and are available by calling Page Box
Office, 684-4444.  For more information, call the Drama Program
Office at 684-2306.
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