The next workshop, conducted by Microcomputer Services, will start at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center. The workshop will address Macintosh and Windows-PC platforms. Admission is free. Dean Somerville, tuba, will perform a variety of works ranging from classical to folk to popular music when he gives a guest recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. A former tubist with the U. S. Army Band, Somerville is now a performer, recitalist, composer and clinician for Dillon Music, a New Jersey company specializing in low brass.
Admission is free.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public as part of the Drake Writers and Critics Series, will start at 8 p.m. in the Honors Lounge of Medbury Hall. Shannon will trace the evolution of this movement in American drama from the minstrel tradition to the opposing schools of thought promoted by Alain Locke and W.E.B. DuBois to the more contemporary Afrocentric thrust advocated by Amiri Baraka and Ntozake Shange. Shannon is a leading authority of the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. Glave's new book is scheduled for release this month from City Lights Books. Glave is the recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.