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TRINITY COLLEGE ALUMNI LECTURES: CULTURE AND SOCIETY
This year’s theme, Culture and Society, will feature Trinity fellow emeritus Patricia Brückmann, associate Caryl Clark, and Provost Andy Orchard.
George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place
7.30 p.m.
Please reserve admission at (416) 978-2651, or e-mail alumni@trinity.utoronto.ca.
 April 1 Prof. Patricia Brückmann, professor emeritus of English, University of Toronto: “Some Gorey Details: Texts and Contexts for Reading a 20th-Century Artist and Writer.” Edward Gorey (1925-2000), known to all viewers of MYSTERY! on PBS (his animated drawings introduce each episode), had considerable interest in dance, theatre and costume – as well as in the macabre and the melancholy.
 April 8 Prof. Caryl Clark, associate professor, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto: “A Musical Odyssey with Orpheus.” Writing an opera about Orpheus, the legendary orator, singer, and grieving husband who descended to the underworld to rescue his beloved Eurydice, presented numerous challenges to librettists and composers alike. In this musical journey, we will explore how three composers – Monteverdi, Gluck and Haydn – represented the mythical powers of this famed musician and rhetorician in their operatic work.
 April 15 Prof. Andy Orchard, Trinity’s Provost and professor of English and Medieval Studies, University of Toronto: “Anglo-Saxon Platitudes.” The medieval period is not known for its wisdom: sandwiched between the Classical world and its Renaissance, it is an age characterized by most modern commentators as dark or backward, a hiccup in our collective human digestion of learning. But the Anglo-Saxons were inordinately fond of sententious, gnomic and proverbial phrases, and this lecture will consider the form, function and distribution of their embedded and inherited wisdom to try to show that we can learn from them still.
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