KCO: Salute to the Spirit of America Concert, Sunday, June 24 at 3 p.m.
Maestro Aaron Kula conducts the KCO
(Klezmer Company Orchestra) in a concert of beloved American classics including music from Copland’s popular ballet Rodeo and Tchaikovsky’s rousing 1812 Overture.
Guest vocalist Daniel Cochran will sing Copland’s Old American Songs and Singin' in the Rain from the original film score. This year marks the seventh KCO Spirit of America concert celebrating FAU Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner
Spirit of America Collection.
The "Not to Miss" Concert of the Summer!
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Marvin Weiner, Creator of the Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of
America Collection, to Receive Posthumous Honorary Doctorate
Posters of Selections from the Collection Installed at Wimberly Library
Florida Atlantic University President Mary Jane
Saunders will present a posthumous honorary doctorate of humane letters during the spring
commencement ceremonies to Marvin Weiner, who devoted his adult life to collecting uniquely
valuable items documenting the philosophical evolution and historical events that led to the birth
of American democracy.
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FAU Libraries Receive Books Created by Dorothy Krause, First Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence
Jaffe Center Accepting Applications from Artists for Fall 2012
Florida Atlantic University's Arthur and Mata
Jaffe Center for Book Arts at the Wimberly Library has received 18 copies of "River of Grass," a
limited edition portfolio-style book made by Dorothy Simpson Krause, who is the Helen M.
Salzberg Artist in Residence.
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FAU’s
Wimberly Library Displays 'POP! Movable
Books from the Arthur J. Williams Pop-up
Collection"
The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic
University currently is hosting an
exhibition titled "POP! Movable Books from
the Arthur J. Williams Pop-Up Collection,"
through Sunday, August 12 at the Wimberly
Library, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.
The exhibition features wildly colorful and
interactive books that open to elements that
pop up, slide and twirl.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. Viewing is during regular library hours. For information on library hours, call 561-297-3770 or visit
www.library.fau.edu/geninfo/hours.htm. For more information on the exhibition, contact John Cutrone at 561-297-0455 or
jcutrone@fau.edu.
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