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Published: October 14, 2009

  • Lopez is next ‘distinguished speaker’

    Los Angeles Times columnist and author Steve Lopez will speak at 8 p.m. Oct. 28 in Alumni Arena as part of UB’s Distinguished Speakers Series.

    Lopez is the 2009 “UB Reads” author. Faculty and staff are encouraged to join UB students in reading Lopez’s book, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music.

    His columns for the Times about his unlikely relationship with schizophrenic cello virtuoso Nathaniel Anthony Ayers inspired the film “The Soloist” and his book, The Soloist.

    Tickets are available at the Alumni Arena box office, Tickets.com and all Tops Friendly Markets.

  • Experts to discuss health care reform

    A panel of experts will discuss U.S. health care reform at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

    “U.S. Health Care: In Search of a Cure” will be the topic of discussion for the panel, which is free and open to the public.

    Sponsored by the School of Management and the UB Law School, this will be the fifth event in the annual Gerald S. Lippes Speaker Series.

    Panelists include Michael W. Cropp, president and CEO of Independent Health; Ann F. Monroe, president of the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York; and Nancy H. Nielsen, senior associate dean for medical education and clinical professor in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and immediate past president of the American Medical Association.

    The discussion, moderated by Jerry Zremski, Washington bureau chief for The Buffalo News, will run from 7-8 p.m., and will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

    For more information, contact Jill Phinney at 645-3204 or jmp8@buffalo.edu.

  • Slee Sinfonietta to perform Oct. 27

    The Slee Sinfonietta, UB’s professional chamber orchestra, will perform an eclectic program under conductor Harvey Sollberger at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.

    The concert is sponsored by the Department of Music and the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music

    Sollberger will conduct his own composition, “original substance/manifests/traces,” composed in 1987. The 15-minute chamber piece features both flute and acoustic classical guitar. New UB faculty member Barry Crawford will perform on the flute.

    The program also will include “Rain Spell,” a 20th century chamber piece by Japan’s Toru Takemitsu; “Arpege,” a complex, 1983 work for six players by Franco Donatoni; and Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time,” an eight-movement piece Inspired by the Book of Revelations.

    Advanced tickets are $12 for general admission, $9 for UB faculty/staff/alumni and senior citizens, and $5 for students, and may be purchased at the Slee Hall box office, the Center for the Arts box office and at all Ticketmaster outlet, including Ticketmaster.com. Tickets at the door are $20, $15 and $8.