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In This Issue
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OISS Staff Changes
· "Muhammad: Legacy of a
Prophet" Documentary and Discussion
Important Information
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Flag Bearer
information for students graduating May 2007
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USCIS Reaches FY 2008 H-1B Cap
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Immigration fees likely to increase
after April 2, 2007
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2006 Taxes are due next week!
Upcoming Events
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Apr 10 & 11 -
"Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" Documentary and Discussion
· Apr 12
- Feminist Research Presentation
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Apr 13 - 2003 Nobel
laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi to speak at UST
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Apr 14-15 - PeaceJam
Conference
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Apr 16 - Deadline
for the International Student Leadership Scholarship 2007
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April St. Thomas
Music Department Events
Interesting Articles
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Career Development Center Update
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Hate crimes are not
tolerated at the University of St. Thomas
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It's National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
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RECRUIT Tokyo Career Fair for
Japanese Speaking Students
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Registration holds: Fix these or you won't be able to
register
Personal Ads
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Car & PC for sale
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Items for sale
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Salsa Dance lessons at
the U of M (Word document)
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April St.
Thomas Music Department Events The
University of St. Thomas Music Department welcomes the public to the
music performances listed below. All will be held on the
university's St. Paul campus. Admission is free.
- 8 p.m. Monday, April 2, in Brady Educational Center
auditorium: The UST Chamber Winds, conducted by
Dr. Matthew George, will give a free concert featuring
Beethoven’s “Werke für Harmoniemusik,” Kurt Weill’s “Little
Threepenny Music,” and “Dance Mix” by Rob Smith.
- 4 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in Brady Educational Center
auditorium: Tamas Strasser conducts the university’s
String Orchestra in concert.
- 8 p.m. Monday, April 16, in Brady Educational Center
auditorium: The annual Festival Orchestra concert
features St. Thomas music students performing with members of
area professional orchestras. Dr. Matthew George conducts. UST
student performers include Joshua Schwalbach, Mary Larson,
Wesley Szempruch, Samuel F. Johnson, Christine Prokop and Dejen
Tesfagiorgis. On the program are works by Koussevitsky, Gluck,
Mahler, Weber, Handel, Puccini and Ibert.
- 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in the Chapel of St. Thomas
Aquinas: Internationally renowned French organist
Thierry Escaich, who succeeded Maurice Duruflé in 1997
as titular organist of the Church of St. Étienne du Mont in
Paris, will give a recital. Called “an ambassador of the great
French organ school of improvisation,” the award-winning Escaich
is professor of composition and improvisation at the Paris
Conservatoire, where he ended his own studies in 1990.
Escaich's St. Thomas program will include
Tournemire’s “Te Deum,” works by Brahms, Dupré and Mendelssohn,
Messiaen’s “Joie et Clarté des Corps Glorieux,” and his own
improvisation and “III Poèms for Orgue.”
- 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in St. Mary’s Chapel at the St.
Paul Seminary, 2260 Summit Ave.: The St. Paul Seminary presents
“Easter Procession: Encounters With the Risen Christ: A
Devotion in Paschaltide From Byzantine Sources.” The
St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity Chorale, directed by David
Jenkins, will sing. Michelle Plombon is organist. Featured are
traditional Carpatho-Rusyn chant and music by J. Michael
Thompson and James Clemens. Carpatho-Rusyn chant is indigenous
to the Catpathian Mountains regions that now are parts of
Ukraine, Slovakia and other Balkan countries. The chant is used
by both Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholics of that region. For
information on this event, call (651) 962-5050.
- Time to be announced on Sunday, April 22, in Brady
Educational Center auditorium: UST student Josh King
gives a string bass recital.
- 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, in Brady Educational Center
auditorium: UST’s African Music Ensemble,
conducted by Dr. Sowah Mensah, gives a concert.
- 3 p.m. Sunday, April 29, in the Chapel of St. Thomas
Aquinas: The 60-member St. Thomas Liturgical Choir
will give a spring benefit concert, "Sing for Sudan," with
proceeds going to Catholic relief efforts in Darfur.
Admission to the concert is free and the
audience will be invited to contribute to a collection for the
relief efforts. Contributions, made payable to "University of
St. Thomas Liturgical Choir," also may be sent to the University
of St. Thomas, Mail #4039, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105.
The performance will include works by Mozart,
Moses Haugen, James Callahan and David Haas, and works composed
for the choir throughout its 30 years of service to worship and
the arts. The choir was founded in 1977 and has earned acclaim
for its work locally, nationally and internationally. Conducted
by founder Robert Strusinski, the choir again has been invited
to sing at the Vatican's Christmas liturgies next December in
St. Peter's Basilica. Learn more about the choir by visiting
www.stthomas.edu/liturgicalchoir or call (651) 962-6572.
For more information, call the St. Thomas Music
Department, (651) 962-5850. |
