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The celebrated duo is comprised of Joanne Castellani, a lecturer in the UB Department of Music, and her husband, Michael Andriaccio. Both are alumni of the UB music performance program.

"The White House left the program up to us," said Castellani, "and indicated that holiday music was not what they had in mind. We plan to perform several quadrilles by Stephen Foster arranged for two guitars, and 'Grand Duo for Two Guitars' by Haydn, arranged by François Defossa." They also will perform favorites from their tango collection.

The compositions on the White House program have been recorded by the duo on three recent CDs. Those by Foster ("Nelly Bly," "Some Folks," "Farewell my Lily Dear" and "Cane Break") are on a CD, "An American Idyll," scheduled for February release on Fleur de Son Records. It features the duo in performance with vocal soloist Dan McCabe and fortepianist Ron Martin, both on the faculty of the UB Department of Music. The Haydn composition is on a second new disk, also to be released in February by Fleur de Son.

The Castellani/Andriaccio Duo has been the recipient of many awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts' prestigious Solo Recitalists Fellowship.

COMMUNITY ACTION CORPS TO SPONSOR AIDS BENEFIT CONCERT
Kid Innocent, Kindergarten, Mystery Date and Luella Sagebush will be among the bands to perform at a public benefit concert for AIDS Community Services to be held from 3 p.m. to midnight on Sunday, Dec. 8, at Banana Joe's, 100 Main Place Tower. The event is sponsored by the UB Community Action Corps (CAC) in conjunction with The Guitar Factory.

The event will feature a raffle of an Ibanez electric guitar. Tickets at the door are $5; raffle tickets are $1.

For more than 20 years, CAC has provided services in the community that target health and social concerns. Each year, more than 500 UB students volunteer to participate in CAC activities.

Recent projects include work with the UB student chapter of Habitat for Humanity, activities with the University Heights Community Center, Project America cleanup campaign, work with the St. Augustine Center and the planting of spring bulbs at area nursing facilities.

CELL COMMUNICATION RESEARCHER TO SPEAK
David L. Garbers, professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a leading researcher into the mechanisms cells use to communicate with each other, will be the speaker at two distinguished lecture series during a visit to UB this week.

Garbers, holder of the Patrick E. Haggerty Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Science at the University of Texas Southwestern, studies how sea urchin or mammalian spermatozoa detect chemical signals from the egg. He discovered the atrial natriuretic peptide receptor guanylyl cyclase.

Garbers will lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, in 114 Hochstetter Hall, North Campus, as part of the Department of Biological Sciences Distinguished Speaker Series. He will discuss "The Guanylyl Cyclase Receptors: No Longer Playing Second Fiddle?" The lecture will be co-sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Biological Sciences Educational Program.

He also will be guest speaker at the Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series sponsored by the departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Microbiology, Neurology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Physiology. Topic for that lecture, scheduled for 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, in Butler Auditorium of Farber Hall, South Campus, will be "Diverse Functions of Members of the Guanylyl Cyclase Receptor Family." Both lectures are open to the public.

WOMEN'S CLUB PLANS SOUP'S ON LUNCHEON, GROUP EVENTS
The Women's Club of the University at Buffalo will have its annual Soup's On Luncheon at the Center for Tomorrow on Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 11:30 a.m. The Soup's On Luncheon is a festive occasion with the room surrounded by hundreds of colorful poinsettias which also serve as table centerpieces.

Following hors d'oeuvres and apple cider, three soups and assorted breads will be served. This year's soups will be Seven Onion with Farmhouse Cheddar, Black Bean and Sun-dried Tomato, and Chicken Senegal. Pumpkin Mousse with a Wedge of White Chocolate will follow with coffee and tea. The menu was planned by hospitality chairs Shirley Buckle and Maria Coburn. The price is $10 per person. Guests are welcome. For reservations call Maria Coburn at 688-4508 by Dec. 6.

Poinsettia sale orders will be distributed at the luncheon. The proceeds of this fund-raiser go to the Grace Capen Scholarship Fund. This scholarship is provided by the Women's Club for UB students with a 3.9 or above grade point average after three semesters.

The Book Group will meet Monday Dec. 9 at 12:30 at the home of Nancy Nyberg. Eliane Knopp is co-hostess. Professor David Nyberg will discuss his book, "The Varnished Truth."

The Money and Investing Club will meet Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Eggertsville-Snyder Library. Eric Budin, assistant manager at the Charles Schwab Buffalo office, will discuss mutual funds and discount brokers.

Membership in the Women's Club is open to any woman who is interested in service to the university and purposes of the club.

UB IS HOME TO DISTRICT COLLEGE BOWL AWARD
At the annual regional conference of the Association of College Unions International (ACUI), Albert Ermanovics, associate director of Student Life at UB, and the Niagara/Western Ontario District Representative for ACUI Region 2, accepted the District College Bowl Award for the "varsity sport of the mind."

Students of the Niagara/Western Ontario District, which includes public and private colleges and universities in Western New York and Ontario, captured the award at this year's conference, held in November at the University of Toronto.

UB PROF, ALUM PUBLISH LONG-HIDDEN MANUSCRIPT
A manuscript about 19th century Buffalo developer and architect Benjamin Rathbun that had been gathering dust in the Erie County Historical Society for 35 years has been published, thanks to the work of David Gerber, professor of history, and UB alumnus Scott Eberle.

The book, "The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur: Benjamin Rathbun, 'Master Builder and Architect'," was written in the 1930s and 1940s by Niagara Falls journalist Roger Whitman, who died before he was able to get the book published.

Gerber stumbled across the manuscript at the historical society and enlisted the help of Eberle, vice president for interpretation for the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester who received his doctorate in history from UB.

The pair edited the manuscript-"giving it an interpretative thrust"-wrote an introduction and found a publisher, said Gerber.

They will host a book signing from 4-6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7, in Talking Leaves, 3158 Main St.

Rathbun, a businessman during the 1820s and 1830s and one of the first citizens of Buffalo, spent five years in prison for forgery and fraud. The collapse of his financial empire helped bring on one of the most severe depressions in U.S. history, Gerber said.

CONFERENCE TO HIGHLIGHT GRADUATE STUDENT PAPERS
International Publishing, a conference highlighting graduate student papers, will be held Thursday, Dec. 5, and Tuesday, Dec. 10 from 5-6:20 p.m. in "Friends of the Library" Room 214, in Lockwood Library. The conference is sponsored by UB School of Information and Library Studies (SILS).

Lorna Peterson, assistant professor, SILS, will give the conference welcome both days. Dec. 5 speakers include John Benson, "Publishing on the Indian Subcontinent: The Case of Modern Indian"; Darlene M. Lysarz, "The Effects of a Free Market Economy on the Publishing Industry in Poland"; Nava Fader, "Author, Author: Reading (Writing) the Accented English of Black South African Authors"; Jonathan Coe, "Apartheid in Literature."

Dec. 10 speakers are Kimberly Davies, "Artistic Literature or Plain Old Smut? A Comparison of Sexual Literature in France and the United States; Marisol Hernandez, "The Publishing Industry in Puerto Rico and the Role of Nationalist Publications" and Wai Sze (Lacey) Chan, "The Second Channel: The Emergence of An Active Publishing Industry." At 6 p.m., conference members will meet in 223 Lockwood for a demonstration of the web page built by the students. It can be accessed at http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/departments/sils/lis522.

Papers & Presentations

Kazimierz Braun, professor of theatre and dance, presented a paper on his directorial approach to classical plays at the International Theatre Festival and Conference on "The Classics Through the Experimental Eye" in Lviv, the Ukraine.

Bharat Jayaraman, associate professor, Department of Computer Science, presented a paper, "Visualizing Program Execution" at the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, held in Boulder, Colo. Co-author was Charlotte M. Baltus, a graduate student.

Helene G. Kershner, assistant chair and lecturer in Computer Science, presented a workshop, "What Teachers Should Know!" at the Bureau of Jewish Education's Fourth Annual Conference in Buffalo.

A paper by Elka Kazmierczak, "Color, Language and Visual Communication," was accepted by the Semiotic Society of America for presentation at the Society's annual meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif. Kazmierczak is an assistant professor and head of the Illustration Program in the Art Department.