Campus Notes
Orchestra New England of the University of New Haven will present "Hail Yale! A Tribute to Yale from the University of New Haven by Orchestra New England" on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. In recognition of Yale's 300th anniversary, the performance will include works from 1701, 1801 and 1901: Haydn's Symphony No. 30 in C ("Alleluia"); Lully's Chacone; Corelli's Concerto grosso, Op.6; Ives's Set No. 6, Overture & March ("1776"); and Mozart's Symphony No. 33 in B-Flat. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (203) 934-TUNE or visit www.orchestranewengland.org.
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, will read from his book "How to Read and Why" on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 4 p.m. at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway. The event is free and open to the public. In "How to Read and Why," now available in paperback, Bloom analyzes classic works in what he has called "the Western canon." These include short stories, poems, novels and plays by Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.
A talk by Robin Winks, the Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History, on "America's National Parks: Preservation and Degradation" was one of the highlights of the annual meeting of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment on Sept. 8. Winks is vice president of the board of the National Park and Conservation Associate (NPCA) and has just assumed the chair of the five-year State of the Parks Project. At Yale, he offers one of the nation's few seminars in national park history.
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