December Highlights

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

The University Chorus and Rockefeller Bach Soloists will perform Handel’s Messiah.

8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. 702-7300.

$20 chancel, $15 nave, $8 students.

Tambra Black, soprano; Leneida Crawford, mezzo-soprano; Calland Metts, tenor; and Robert Swan, baritone; will join the University Chorus and Rockefeller Bach Soloists for the 50th anniversary production of this holiday favorite.

Philip Glass

Court Theatre, Germanic Studies Department and the Faculty Committee on Theater and Performance Studies

Kafka Symposium

This two-day symposium on Franz Kafka is designed to explore issues arising in and around Court Theatre’s production of In the Penal Colony, a new opera by Philip Glass adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. All seminars are free and take place at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave. (773) 753-4472.

12:30-2:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1

“Power and Confinement”

Loren Kruger, Professor in English Language & Literature

3-5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1

“Pleasure/Pain”

Andreas Gailus, Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies

10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2

“Thinking Through In the Penal Colony”

Stanley Corngold, Princeton University

3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2

Performance of In the Penal Colony

Tickets can be purchased through the Court Theatre Box Office, (773) 753-4472.

“We’re Talking Classics” roundtable discussion

Philip Glass (A.B. ’56), Composer; JoAnne Akalaitis, Director; Charles Newell, Artistic Director; and David Levin, Associate Professor in Germanic Studies

4:30-6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2

Bernard Meadows

Smart Museum of Art

“Bernard Meadows: Drawings from the Lazarof Collection”

Saturday, Dec. 16-Sunday, April 8, 2001

Smart Museum, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. 702-0200.

This exhibition will highlight over a dozen drawings and related sculptures by the modern British artist Bernard Meadows. Dating from the 1960s and ’70s, these works will demonstrate the important thematic dialogue in the artist’s oeuvre between his drawn studies and finished bronzes. Although largely abstract, the imagery will focus on notions of organic growth and maternal protection, resulting from the sculptor’s ongoing investigation of cycles of life and death in the natural worlds of plants and animals that has been an artistic preoccupation of Meadows for more than four decades.

International House

Turkish Heritage Day Exhibition

Turkish food, music, art, poetry, folk dance and activities.

12:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1

Assembly Hall, International House, 1414 E. 59th St. 753-2274. Free.