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GAZETTE Volume 23, No. 19 • May 11, 2012 • A weekly publication for Library staff Inside

Levine Delivers Farewell Address In his final appearance at the Library as U.S. poet laureate, Philip Levine recalls the poets who most influenced his work. Page 3

Helping Hand in Preserving Photos

The NDIIPP gave Preservation Week Abby Brack Lewis seminar attendees practical help in Burt Bacharach onstage at the Coolidge Auditorium on Tuesday night. preserving their own digital photos for the future. Page 6 (There’s) Always Something

Jefferson Courtyard to Reopen The refurbished southwest courtyard There to Remind Us of the Jefferson Building will reopen to Library employees and visitors next week. All-Star Cast Pays Tribute to Bacharach, David Page 7 Together, Bacharach and David wrote By Mark Hartsell some of the best-loved and most enduring songs of the past 50 years: “Walk on By,” he belt buckle left no doubt about “What the World Needs Now is Love,” the reason for the presence of Mike “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” T Myers on the Coolidge Auditorium “Always Something There to Remind Me,” stage on Tuesday night. “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” “I’ll The actor and comedian, channeling Never Fall in Love Again,” “I Say a Little a rendition of “What’s New Pussycat?” Prayer,” “Close to You,” “Alfie,” “Anyone through his “Austin Powers” character Who Had a Heart” and “The Look of and singer Tom Jones, concluded his Love,” among many others. performance by enlisting stagehands to On Tuesday, Stevie Wonder, Dionne tear off his tuxedo, revealing a blue Elvis Warwick, Diana Krall, Lyle Lovett, Sheryl Jose James performs at the Atlas the- jumpsuit secured by a buckle bearing Crow, Michael Feinstein, Arturo Sandoval ater on May 12 as part of the Library’s one name: Burt. and newcomers Rumer and Sheléa paid concert series. Myers and an all-star cast of perform- homage to the songwriting team whose On Tap ers appeared at the Coolidge for a tribute memorable melodies and simple, graceful Lectures, films, classes and other to composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist lyrics helped set the 60s to music. events at the Library in the upcoming Hal David, recipients of the Library of week. Page 8 Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. GERSHWIN, continued on page 4 2 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE MAY 11, 2012

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Upcoming GAZETTE Reading with a Nobel Winner www.loc.gov/staff/gazette GAYLE OSTERBERG Nobel Laureate Herta Müller Executive Editor MARK HARTSELL May 15, 6:30 p.m. Editor Montpelier Room, Madison Building Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; Lisa Davis, Donated Leave Proofreader: George Thuronyi authors who fought the censorship of Design and Production: Ashley Jones the Ceausescu regime. PETER BRAESTRUP GAIL FINEBERG JAMES W. McCLUNG In 1979, she lost a position as a Founder Founding Editor Founding Publisher (1990 – 1997) (1990 – 2009) (1990 – 1994) translator in a machine factory when she refused to become an informer

U. Montan / © The Nobel Foundation An official publication of the Library of Congress,The Gazette for the Romanian secret police. After encourages Library managers and staff to submit articles and Herta Müller photographs of general interest. Submissions will be edited to criticizing the Romanian dictatorship convey the most necessary information.

The Library of Congress, in collabo- in the German media, she experienced Deadline for submission of articles is 5 p.m. Wednesday, one ration with the Goethe-Institut, on May years of harassment. She emigrated to week prior to publication date. Please submit text in digital form via e-mail ([email protected]) preferably as an attached 15 will present an evening program with Germany in 1987. Microsoft Word file. Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize Müller’s personal experience and Back issues of The Gazette in print are available in the Public Affairs Office, LM 105. in Literature in 2009. the political climate of Eastern Europe Electronic archived issues and the a color PDF file of the current The program will include a reading in the second half of the 20th century issue are available online at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette. by Müller and a discussion moderated have left an indelible mark on her body

by Peter Pfeiffer, professor of German of work. Library of Congress at Georgetown University. Her novels available in English Washington, DC 20540-1620 Editorial: Mark Hartsell, 7-9194, [email protected] Müller was born in 1953 in the Banat include “Traveling on One Leg,” “The Design and production: Ashley Jones, region of Romania. Her mother was Passport,” “The Appointment,” and “The 7-9193, [email protected] among many in the German-speaking Land of Green Plums.” “The Hunger ISSN 1049-8184 Printed on paper that contains recycled paper by the Romanian minority who were deported Angel” is forthcoming from Metropoli- Printing Management Section, Office Systems Services to serve in Soviet forced-labor camps tan Books. following World War II. The program, co-sponsored by the Gazette Welcomes Letters from Staff While studying literature at the uni- Staff is invited to use the Forum pages for lively and thoughtful Poetry and Literature Center and the debate relevant to Library issues. However, just as other newspa- versity in Timisoara, Müller became European Division, is free and open to per editors exercise discretion over which letters to publish and how to edit them, so do we. In deciding whether or how much to active with Aktionsgruppe Banat, a the public. No tickets or reservations publish, we consider content (including misstatements of fact, libel, innuendo, ridicule of individuals or the institution, personal coterie of young German-speaking are required. attacks, and redundancy) and length (the limit is 300 words). Letters must be signed by the author, whose place of work and telephone extension should be included so we can verify author- ship. Letter writers should understand that when they sign their letters and release them to us for publication they are relinquishing privacy. If a letter calls for management response, for example, an explanation of a policy or actions or clarification of fact, we Donated Time will ask for management response.—Ed. The following Library employees have satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive leave donations from other staff members. Contact Lisa Davis at Gazette Deadlines 7-0033. The deadline for editorial copy for the May 25 Gazette is Wednesday, May 16. Danna Ponce Cassise JoAnn Newman E-mail editorial copy and letters to the editor Christy Chason Arlene Peters to [email protected]. Tanya Fletcher Valencia Roseboro To promote events through the Library’s online calendar (www.loc.gov/loc/events) Allene Hayes Lonnie Spry and the Gazette Calendar, e-mail event and Kenneth Hunter-Hall Jamie Stevenson contact information to [email protected] by Donald Marcus Scot Vanderpool 9 a.m. Monday of the week of publication. Boxed announcements should be submitted Charlotte Mathis Karla Walker electronically (text files) by 9 a.m. Monday Sandra Mit Chelle the week of publication to [email protected]. MAY 11, 2012 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 3

NEWS Levine Closes Literary Season with ‘My Lost Poets’ Levine soon joined Strempek and By Donna Urschel other fledgling poets in monthly meet- ings at the Miles Poetry Room, where In the evenings of 1942 on the out- they read their own work and discussed skirts of Detroit, a 14-year-old Philip poetry. In addition to Strempek, Levine Levine frequently wandered over to the befriended Ruby Teague and Ulysses undeveloped wooded areas nearby. Wardlaw. There, in the small forest, he composed In 1948, Teague presented Levine his first poems in the dark. with a poem titled “Ring Song” by Naomi “I never thought of these early com- Replansky. positions as poems. I thought of them “I do not believe I understood the per- as secret little speeches addressed to fect justice that Ruby Teague, a gracious, the moon when the moon was visible,” rural Southern Baptist, should bring me Levine told an audience in the Coolidge the gift of a poem by Replansky, a New Auditorium on May 3. York Jewish leftist,” said Levine. In a lecture titled “My Lost Poets,” He said Teague, despite her manners, Abby Brack Lewis Levine, the 18th U.S. poet laureate, viv- genteel speech and looks, turned out Philip Levine delivered his final idly and tenderly reminisced about his address as U.S. poet laureate in the to be a warrior for human dignity, and early days of poetry and the poets long Coolidge Auditorium on May 3. Replansky, who was appalled by cruelty forgotten who had a profound impact on and greed, was her poet. his writing. The lecture marked the clos- mirror, love redeems my eyes,” which Of the four poetry pals, only Levine ing of the Poetry and Literature Center’s was the opening line in a poem recited evolved into a prolific and award-win- 2011–12 literary season. by its author, a university student, Bernard ning poet. Strempek, who published one Levine said his solitary evening excur- Strempek. volume of poetry, died at age 32 in an sions to compose his thoughts would “The poem’s recitation was in a voice auto wreck. Teague, within five years of last some years. He found these literary the likes I never heard in all my wander- college, was driven by the need to help endeavors thrilling, because he discov- ing in Detroit – the high-tenor version of others – she left for the wilderness of ered a voice within the self. “I had no Cary Grant and a call to arms of a warrior Latin America and vanished. Wardlaw’s idea it had been there. A voice that could … Bernard Strempek was overpower- pursuit of poetry was silenced by the speak of all the things I would never have ing serious about what he regarded as vagaries of life. dared share with anyone,” Levine said. poetry,” Levine said. “Back then, I did not know just how In the spring of 1947, as a 19-year-old A shy Levine didn’t say a word at that much I needed them, or how much they student at Wayne University in Detroit, poetry reading, but the next afternoon he had already given me,” Levine said. “I Levine attended his first poetry reading. decided to visit the Miles Poetry Room. needed not only their encouragement, “I remember almost nothing of the event, There he found Strempek, reading the their criticism, their intelligence and dedi- except for one line of verse and one fact,” poem “Abel” by Demetrios Capetanakis. cation and their soulfulness – for these he said. Strempek looked up at Levine and said, were powerfully soulful people – I needed The fact: The university’s library also “Listen to this, I’ve discovered a new their fellowship in our ancient discipline, included the Miles Poetry Room, which master: ‘My brother Cain, the wounded.’ their belief that we would share in the held a significant collection of 20th- What an amazing opening. Why didn’t I singular glory of poetry. Where would I century poetry. The verse: “When in a think of that?” have been without that belief?” u

Library of Congress Research Orientation

The Humanities and Social Sciences Division offers an Registration is required by phone at 7-3370 or online at introduction for researchers to Library collections and www.loc.gov/rr/main/inforeas/signup.php. resources. For more information, contact Kathy Woodrell (7-0945) or Morning sessions (10:30 a.m.–noon) are scheduled for May 21; Abby Yochelson (7-2138). Request ADA accommodations five June 4, 11, 18 and 25; and July 9, 16, 23 and 30. business days in advance at 7-6362 or at [email protected].

Evening sessions (6:30–8 p.m.) are scheduled for June 4 and July 9. 4 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE MAY 11, 2012

NEWS Photos by Abby Brack Lewis Clockwise from top left: Mike Myers, Dionne Warwick, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and Lyle Lovett.

GERSHWIN, continued from page 1 interpretations informed by jazz (Krall on He had a little fun – OK, a lot – at the “The Look of Love”) and reggae (Wonder expense of his native land, Canada. “I have followed you since I was a little and Sandoval on “Make It Easy on Your- “[The national library of Canada] is boy,” Wonder said early in the program self”); ruminations on the legacy of George not as elaborate as this one,” Myers said. as he sat at the piano, playing. “I’ve loved and Ira Gershwin and the Library of Con- “We have Neil Young’s harmonica and your music. I loved the chord structures. gress (Feinstein); and a performance of Justin Bieber’s comb. They inspired me so much – the words, “Anyone Who Had a Heart” by Wonder “Any Canadians in the house? No? Of the lyrics. This song is an example of my protégé Sheléa that brought down the course not. It’s the Midas touch in reverse, appreciation.” house. ladies and gentlemen. It’s why we have the Wonder then performed a heartfelt Not all went according to script: An empire we do. When’s the last time you “Alfie” that concluded with an affecting unexpected delay left Myers onstage with went out for Canadian food?” harmonica solo and a standing ovation. three minutes to fill – a gap he made seem Bacharach took the stage toward the The evening got under way with a far too short with a hilarious improvised end of the program, leaned on the piano medley by jazz trumpeter Sandoval of comedy routine. and for 10 minutes discussed the impor- “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and Myers, whose three “Austin Powers” tance of the Gershwin Prize to him, the “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” movies featured cameos by Bacharach, genius of David’s lyrics – and his sadness and closed with an all-star sing-along of spoke French with a Scottish accent. at the absence of his 90-year-old songwrit- “What the World Needs Now is Love” led He solicited questions from the audi- ing partner, who was unable to attend by Warwick. ence – “make them personal and uncom- because of ill health. In between came a duet (Lovett and fortable,” he instructed. “I’m standing up here alone. I should Crow on “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”); MAY 11, 2012 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 5

NEWS be standing up here with Hal David,” Bacharach said. “It’s Would You so sad that Hal, health-wise, Open This? was unable to make this trip. You wait for something like this all your life. To get one shot, and you don’t get to come to the dance – it’s sad. So, I’m kind of heavy-hearted. I feel kind of lonely up here by myself.” Take a look at this e-mail screenshot Receiving the Gershwin – it looks like a regular e-mail you see Prize is in some ways better every day. It might be from someone you know or have e-mailed before, but the than winning an Oscar, said Abby Brack Lewis attachment is a PDF with a five-number Bacharach, who won three Sheléa performed “Anyone Who Had a Heart.” Academy Awards. title. Would you open this? If you answered yes, you’ve just been Winning an Oscar, he said, sends “a that was. phished. It’s one of the latest techniques spike up your spine that is an unbeliev- “I happened to be in the right place at used by cyber criminals to install mal- able feeling.” the right time back in 19-hundred and … ware on your system. “But that Academy Award is either whatever the year was when I met Burt on The e-mails are believed to be cre- for a score or a song. It’s one thing,” he a recording session,” she said to laughter. ated by the Russian Business Network said. “This is the whole conglomeration “From that moment to this very moment, (or RBN), a cybercrime organization of my work that I’ve done. So it is the best I’ve had the extreme pleasure of being specializing in PC hijacking and identity of all awards possible. I mean that with able to sing their incredible melodies and theft. This particular phishing e-mail all my heart.” superb lyrics.” steals banking info from your system as Bacharach and David scored hits with On Wednesday, President Barack well as your Gmail or Hotmail contact performers ranging from Marty Robbins Obama awarded the Gershwin Medal lists and uses them to phish your friends to Tom Jones to Sergio Mendes to the to Bacharach at the White House, and and co-workers. Carpenters to Aretha Franklin. the cast – minus Warwick – reprised its Library users should be suspicious No singer, however, is more associ- performance in a concert that will be of e-mail that has any of these charac- ated with their songs than Warwick, who, broadcast on PBS on May 21. teristics: according to Billboard, scored 20 top 40 David didn’t attend that event, either • E-mails that contain a PDF attach- hits with Bacharach-David tunes from – though Bacharach was sure he would ment that is named with five or more 1962 to 1970. be there in spirit. numbers (such as 89557.pdf ); At the end of the show, Warwick “I was very careful with every step that • E-mail from friends from whom you arrived onstage to sing “This Girl’s in I would take, every shower that I would don’t normally hear; Love with You” and “What the World take,” Bacharach said of his preparations • Vague topics with incomplete sen- Needs Now is Love” and to pay tribute for this week’s events. “I was determined tences or poor grammar; to the songwriting team that discovered that one of us had to get here. I’m deeply • Blank e-mails with no content. her a half-century ago – though she didn’t honored by this award, as Hal is and As with all suspicious e-mails, users want to own up to exactly how long ago will be.” u should forward the e-mail as an attachment to [email protected]. For more information, visit the IT Security website at ‘Dear Lenny …’ www.loc.gov/staff/security.

Mark Horowitz of the Music Division on May 16 will present “Dear Lenny … Detecting Alzheimer’s Correspondence and Gay History in the Leonard Bernstein Collection,” a discussion of the newly released letters of conductor and composer Leonard Shelly Edwards, a master trainer Bernstein. for the Alzheimer’s Association, on May 15 will present a workshop on The event, co-sponsored by LC GLOBE and the Music Division, takes place at the early detection of Alzheimer’s noon in Dining Room A of the Madison Building. Contact: 7-1372. disease.The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Pickford Theater of the Madison Building. 6 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE MAY 11, 2012

NEWS NDIIPP Offers Hand in Preserving Digital Photos especially important. By Bill LeFurgy You can pick a few photos or many. If Do you wonder if cloud storage is there are multiple ver- a good option for your personal digital sions of an important photographs? Do you have questions photo, save the one about metadata and file formats? Are you with highest quality. uneasy about the prospects of keeping • Organize the your digital photos available for yourself photos you’ve chosen. and your family into the future? Give individual photos If so, you have lots of company. descriptive file names. On April 26, more than 570 people Tag photos with names participated in a web-based presentation of people and descrip- about preserving digital photographs tive subjects. Create a hosted by the Association for Library directory/folder struc- The first step in preserving digital photos is to identify all the places they’re stored. Collections & Technical Services as part ture on your computer of Preservation Week. in which to store the images you picked. with your important papers in a secure The Library’s National Digital Informa- Write a brief description of the directory location. tion Infrastructure and Preservation Pro- structure and the photos. Check your photos at least once a year gram (NDIIPP) helped stage the webinar • Make copies and store them in dif- to make sure you can read them. Create and, as part of Preservation Week, also ferent places. Make at least two copies new media copies every five years or conducted seminars for members of the of your selected photos – more copies when necessary to avoid data loss. public at the Madison Building, the Martin are better. One copy can stay on your NDIIPP provides links to its tips about Luther King Jr. library in the District and computer or laptop; put other copies archiving digital photographs, digital the Arlington County Public Library in on separate media such as DVDs, CDs, audio, digital video, electronic mail, Arlington, Va. portable hard drives, thumb drives or personal digital records and websites One goal of the webinar was to encour- Internet storage. at www.digitalpreservation.gov/ age librarians, archivists and other infor- Store copies in different locations that personalarchiving/index.html. mation professionals to get involved in are as physically far apart as practical. If A recording of the April 26 session and providing advice about digital archiving disaster strikes one location, your photo- copies of the presentation slides are avail- within their communities. graphs in the other place should be safe. able at www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/ Another was to provide basic, practi- Put a copy of the photo inventory upcoming/webinar/pres/042612. u cal information about what people can do to preserve their own digital photo collections. Digital photography has grown phe- nomenally popular in just the past few Wellness Fair and Exposition years, and there is a shortage of practical information about how to manage The Health Services Office presents the 30th annual Wellness Fair and Exposition. personal images. In recent years, NDIIPP has provided The fair takes place on May 16 (10 a.m.–noon) in the Mumford Room of the guidance about personal digital archiving Madison Building. Participating vendors include Sport & Spine Rehabilitation, to the public. Here are a few key tips dis- Kaiser Permanente, the Employee Assistance Program, GEHA, CareFirst cussed during Preservation Week that Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Grubb’s Pharmacy, LC Sweetbees and the Library of everyone can use to safeguard photos Congress Leave Bank Program. at home: • Identify where you keep digital The exposition will be held on May 17 (10 a.m.–2 p.m.) in the Mumford photos. Locate all the digital photos Room. Up to 25 vendors will be on hand to provide interactive services and you’ve stored on cameras, computers health education and answer questions about issues ranging from diabetes and removable media such as memory awareness to kidney disease, skin care and nutrition. cards. Include your photos on the Internet. • Decide which photos are most important. Pick the images you feel are MAY 11, 2012 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 7

NEWS Jefferson Building Courtyard to Reopen Next Week Facility Design and Construction / Library of Congress

This graphic shows upgrades to and the layout of the refurbished southwest courtyard of the Jefferson Building.

The Library of Congress next week and a decade of debate about design and been filled. The east courtyards became will reopen the southwest courtyard location, Congress in 1886 finally chose bookstacks; the southeast bookstack was of the Jefferson Building, a space that a plan in the Italian Renaissance style completed in 1910, the northeast in 1927. has been refreshed with the addition of submitted by Washington architects John The northwest courtyard is occupied patio seating and food-cart service by L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz. by two special structures. The Coolidge IL Creations. Structurally, the architects followed Auditorium, a gift of Elizabeth Sprague The courtyard will reopen at 11 a.m. the basic idea proposed by Librarian of Coolidge, was built in 1925 for chamber on May 18. Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford: a cir- music recitals. The Whittall Pavilion was The courtyard will remain open cular, domed reading room at the center given to the Library in 1938 by Gertrude Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. of the Library, surrounded by ample space Clarke Whittall to house five Stradivarius to 3 p.m. IL Creations will operate a food- for the various departments. instruments she donated to the Library. cart service Monday through Friday from In the final Smithmeyer and Pelz A plaque commemorating Coolidge 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will serve hot dogs, plan, the reading room was enclosed and her gift is outside the ground-floor snacks and drinks. by rectangular exterior walls, which entrance to the Coolidge Auditorium. The However, no smoking is allowed in divided the open space into four names of four great composers – Mozart, the courtyard. courtyards. The corner pavilions were Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms – are Historically, the early years of plan- devoted to the departments and to inscribed on the outside wall of the Whit- ning and construction of the Jefferson exhibit space. tall Pavilion, above the windows and Building were filled with controversy Since 1897, three of the four interior the stairs leading down to the interior and delay. After two design competitions courtyards of the Jefferson Building have courtyard. u

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MAY University of Massachusetts own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Film: “An Evening of TV FRIDAY at Lowell, presents “The Contact 7-3013. Detectives” featuring episodes 11 Last Pharaoh: A Dream for from “Columbo” (NBC, 1971) Lecture: In celebration of Tai Chi: Yang Style the World.” Noon, African and “Baretta” (ABC, 1975). National Children’s Book 37-posture short form. 2 p.m., and Middle Eastern Division 7:30 p.m., Packard Campus Week, National Ambassador LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. Reading Room, LJ 220. Theater, Culpeper, Va. for Young People’s Literature Contact 7-7311. MAY Contact 7-9994. Walter Dean Myers presents THURSDAY the Jonah S. Eskin Memorial Aerobics Class: High-Low. 17 MAY Kluge Center Lecture: Lecture. 11 a.m., Coolidge Noon, LC Wellness Center, Kluge 18 FRIDAY Auditorium. Contact: 7-1519 LA B-36. Contact 7-8637. fellow Vanni Pettina discusses “A Preponderance of Politics: Conference: The Library of Meditation: Open to all. Bloomsday Camerata: The Impact of the Cold War Congress Geography and 12:15 p.m., LA G-06. Contact Reading through Rabelais’ on U.S.-Cuban Economic Map Division and the Philip [email protected]. “Gargantua and Pantagruel.” Relations, 1946-1952.” Lee Phillips Society present Noon, LM 542. Contact Tai Chi: Yang Style Noon, LJ 119. Contact 7-3302. “Visualizing the Nation’s 7-0013. 37-posture short form. 2 p.m., Capital: Two Centuries of LC Toastmasters: Noon, LM LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. Mapping Washington, D.C.,” Aerobics Class: Strength 139. Contact [email protected]. training and floor exercise. Reading: Nobel Laureate the first conference devoted Lecture: Broadway actor Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Herta Müller reads from to mapping the nation’s Thom Sesma from Disney’s B-36. Contact 7-8637. her work, followed by capital, covering the period “The Lion King” speaks about a conversation with from Pierre-Charles L’Enfant’s Tai Chi: Yang Style his vocation as a performing Georgetown University 1791 Plan of the City of 37-posture short form. 2 p.m., artist. Noon, Mary Pickford Professor Peter Pfeiffer. 6:30 Washington to the present. LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. Theater, LM 301. Contact p.m., Montpelier Room, LM 9 a.m., Coolidge Auditorium. Film: “My Fair Lady” (Warner 7-6096. 619. Contact 7-5394. Reservations are needed; Bros., 1964). 7:30 p.m., Aerobics Class: High-Low. contact specialevents@loc. MAY Packard Campus Theater, Noon, LC Wellness Center, gov. Contact 7-1616. Culpeper, Va. Contact 7-9994. 16 WEDNESDAY LA B-36. Contact 7-8637. Bloomsday Camerata: MAY Lecture: Jane Lewisohn Yoga: Noon, LM SB-02. Reading through Rabelais’ SATURDAY of the School of Oriental Contact 7-5984. “Gargantua and Pantagruel.” 12 and African Studies at Noon, LM 542. Contact Preconcert Presentation: Meditation: Open to all. 12:15 the University of London 7-0013. Singer and songwriter Jose p.m., LA G-06. speaks on the Golha project James talks with Larry Contact [email protected]. Aerobics Class: Strength preserving Persian music, Appelbaum of the Library’s training and floor exercise. literature and performing arts. Tai Chi: Yang Style Music Division. 6 p.m., Atlas Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Noon, African and Middle 37-posture short form. 2 p.m., Performing Arts Center, 1333 B-36. Contact 7-8637. Eastern Division Reading LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. H St. N.E. No tickets are Tai Chi: Yang Style Room, LJ 220. Contact Archives Forum: Paul Frank, required. Contact 7-5502. 37-posture short form. 2 p.m., 7-4518. Margaret Kruesi, Mary Lacy Film: “Mantrap” (Paramount, LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. Gallery Talk: Elizabeth and Nancy Seeger discuss 1926). 7:30 p.m., Packard Aldrich leads a tour through “The ABCs of Archival Film: “Shaft” (MGM, 1971). Campus Theater, Culpeper, the “Politics and Dancing Descriptive Standards.” 2 7:30 p.m., Packard Campus Va. Contact 7-9994. Body: American Dance from p.m., West Dining Room, Theater, Culpeper, Va. Concert: José James World War I Through the LM 621.Contact 7-3301. Contact 7-9994. explores the universe of Cold War” exhibition. Noon, underground beats, soul, jazz Performing Arts Reading standards and the legacy Room, LM 113. Contact of John Coltrane. 8 p.m., 7-9203. The Golha Project Atlas Performing Arts Center. Lecture: Mark Horowitz of Tickets are required. Contact the Music Division discusses 7-5502. Jane Lewisohn of the School of Oriental and African the newly released letters of Studies at the University of London on May 16 will MAY Leonard Bernstein. Noon, present a lecture on the Golha radio programs MONDAY Dining Room A, LM 620. 14 broadcast in Iran from 1956 through 1978. Yoga/Pilates: Start at your Contact 7-1372. own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Forum: Bible study. Open Contact 7-3013. to all. 12:05 p.m., LM G-51. The event takes place at noon in the African and Tai Chi: Yang Style Contact [email protected]. Middle Eastern Reading Room of the Jefferson 37-posture short form. 2 p.m., Aerobics Class: Strength Building. LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. training and floor exercise. 12:30 p.m., LC Wellness Contact Hirad Dinavari at 7-4518 or [email protected] for MAY Center, LA B-36. Contact 15 TUESDAY 7- 86 37. more information. Lecture: Wagdi Zeid, Yoga/Pilates: Start at your professor of drama at the

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