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Organ concerts set
Organists from the prestigious Eastman School of Music will perform in the annual Eastman Organists Day recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
The Department of Music will offer another event for organ enthusiasts on Feb. 19, with a recital by UB organ faculty member Roland E. Martin at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall.
Tickets for both concerts are $10 for general admission and $5 for UB faculty/staff/alumni and senior citizens. Student tickets are $5 for Eastman Organists Day and free, with valid ID, for the Martin recital. Tickets can be obtained at the Slee Hall box office Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., the Center for the Arts box office Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., or at any Ticketmaster outlet.
The annual Eastman Organists Day is a unique opportunity for both audiences and performers alike: Students of the Eastman School of Music perform on the Fisk pipe organ in Lippes Concert Hall and audiences are treated to music from one of the best organ studios in the country. Students David Baskeyfield, Nathan Davy, Margaret Harper and Aaron James will present pieces ranging from Bach and Brahms to José Evangelista.
In his recital, Martin, adjunct instructor in the Department of Music, will perform on organ, harpsichord and piano with Janz Castelo, also an adjunct UB music instructor, on viola, and Jeffrey Porter, tenor.
The recipient of the the Buffalo and Erie County Arts Council Award for Outstanding Individual Artist in 2008, Martin also serves on the faculties of the Buffalo Seminary, Daemen College and Canisius College. He is the organist and director of music at St. Joseph University Church and music director of the Freudig Singers.
Happy Birthday, James Joyce
James Joyce aficionados will gather in the Muse Restaurant in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Friday evening for the seventh annual James Joyce Birthday Celebration, presented by riverrun Inc.
The UB Humanities Institute is a co-sponsor of the event, which is free and open to the public.
The party gets started at 6 p.m. with dramatic readings by Vincent O’Neill, UB associate professor of theatre and dance, and Josephine Hogan, both with the Irish Classical Theatre Company. Other activities include a 7 p.m. lecture on “James Joyce and Contemporary Irish Music” by Laurence Shine, professor of English at Buffalo State College, and Charles Mancuso, professor of music at Buffalo State. Mancuso will discuss “B4U2: the Big Four of Early Irish Rock and Roll” at 7:30 p.m.
Free tax preparation services available
IRS-certified accounting students from the School of Management will again provide free tax preparation services to individuals and families with annual incomes below $49,000.
Area residents, students and UB faculty and staff are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity, which will be held on the North and South campuses, beginning this weekend. The IRS estimates that using such free services can save taxpayers between $100 and $300 in preparation fees.
This service can be especially valuable to low-income tax filers by helping them apply for earned income-tax credits that can provide a needed boost in annual income. The tax credits, which can reduce or completely eliminate income taxes by refunding taxes already withheld from wages, can mean as much as $5,028 for a family with two children.
Free tax preparation will be offered from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis in 109 Allen Hall, South Campus, on Feb. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28, and in 106 Jacobs Management Center, North Campus, on March 27, 28 and April 3, 4, 10 and 11.
The tax service is coordinated by the UB chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, an international honors organization for accounting, finance and information systems students, with help from the UB Accounting Association.
Click here to find frequently asked questions, as well as maps and directions. Additional questions can be directed to mgt-freetaxprep@buffalo.edu or 533-1553. Services on the South Campus are available thanks to support and equipment provided by the UB Office of Community Relations.
Tax preparation for nonresident aliens requires special processing that is beyond the scope of the services provided by Beta Alpha Psi. UB international students on a nonimmigrant visa should visit UB’s International Student and Scholar Services for more information.
Confucius Institute organizes performance
A performing arts troupe of musicians and dancers from Wuhan, China, will present a Celebration of China’s New Year of the Tiger at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Flickinger Arts Center at Nichols School, 1250 Amherst St., Buffalo.
The event, which is free and open to the public, was organized by the newly established Confucius Institute at UB and the Chinese language program at Nichols.
The performance troupe is from the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, now on a tour of the northeastern United States arranged by the Confucius Institute at Alfred University and funded by the Chinese Language Council International in Beijing.
“This exciting Chinese New Year performance offers a terrific opportunity for the people of Buffalo to experience the colorful and expressive music and dance of China,” says Kristin Stapleton, associate professor of history and director of the Confucius Institute.
“This partnership with Nichols exemplifies the kind of collaboration our new Confucius Institute will engage in to encourage students of all ages in Western New York to learn Chinese language and experience Chinese culture.”
The UB institute is one of a network of nearly 300 Confucius Institutes worldwide. It is dedicated to promoting the teaching of Chinese language and culture in Western New York and one of its primary functions in this, its inaugural year, will be to bring language teachers from China to help local schools establish or expand their Chinese language programs.
The grand opening of the UB Confucius Institute will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 9 in Slee Hall, North Campus.
For more information, contact Bruce Acker, assistant director, UB Asian Studies Program, at 645-0763 or backer@buffalo.edu.
NEH official to visit UB
Jason Rhody, senior program officer in the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, will visit UB’s Digital Humanities Initiative next week.
Rhody will meet with faculty, staff and students from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 12 in 120 Clemens Hall, North Campus. Rhody will lead a discussion of the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities, as well as a mock grant review panel. A light lunch will be served at noon.
All are welcome to attend. For more information, e-mail DHIB-info@buffalo.edu.
The Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo (DHIB) functions as an applied think tank for the humanities and related areas. It is designed to serve as an intellectual hub for scholars involved in innovative research and instruction at the intersection of the humanities, computing and other emerging digital technologies, and to provide an environment in which faculty are encouraged to experiment and develop digital solutions to challenges in research and instruction, or to experiment with digital technologies that may lead to new applications and project challenges.
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