Whether it's e-mail or the Internet or faxes, standards are changing. But business leaders haven't always been good about recognizing the problems, let alone tackling them. Getting businessmen to accept language and culture as a potential problem isn't easy. They're not used to dealing with people from different backgrounds. The festival will continue Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. and will end on Jan. 16 with a 7 p.m. concert that showcases not only serious modern music for bassoon but also the light and humorous side of bassooning, with arrangements of popular pieces.
Admission is free to all three concerts.
Reardon's comedy, The Peer Panel , will be produced by Theater Memphis during its 1998-99 season. Beneath the play's comedy of manners is a variety of unsettling issues, including government funding of the arts, the fragmentation of America and the future of the theater. The play resulted from Reardon's examination of the effects of multi-culturalism on American theater. I began to see the purely 'theater' issues as a microcosm of a fragmented America. I came to see America as a Babel of diverse voices shouting to be heard over one another, each demanding that its own agenda be given priority.