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Events

Events are open to the public and free (with the exception of the films).

Opening Reception and Exhibition

Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Samuel L. Hirshland Exhibition Gallery

2B Carl A. Kroch Library

Music for Lafayette: A Lecture-Pianoforte Concert

Saturday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.

Guerlac Room, A.D. White House, Cornell University

Reception following and repeating on Sunday, October 21, 3:00 p.m.

Performers:

Pianist: Damien-Gerard Mahiet, PhD Student, Music Department, Cornell University

Recitant: Professor Maire-Claire Vallois, Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Romance Studies Department, Cornell University

Organist: Annette Richards, Professor in the Music Department, and University Organist

Description:

This event combines two formats: lecture and concert. It features pieces that were composed or arranged between 1794 and 1830, including "battle music," popular marches, and a "musical painting" with recitation composed in the honor of General Lafayette. The pieces selected will be placed in the context of the time in which they were created and first performed.

Lecture: Lafayette and the Emergence of American National Identity

Tuesday, October 30, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

(40 minute lecture followed by Q&A)

Lecture Room, 2B Kroch Library

Speaker:

Lloyd Kramer, Dean Smith Distinguished Term Professor and Chair,History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Description:

Professor Kramer will examine the ways in which Lafayette's European cultural status and life history gave him a unique role in the emergence of American nationalism. His support for the American Revolution and his famous return visit to the United States in 1824 affirmed an emerging American view of the new nation's exceptional mission in world history and its political and cultural differences with Europe. The American praise for Lafayette thus became also a celebration of early and enduring components of American national identity.

The Marquis de Lafayette on Film:

America

Monday, October 1, 7:00 p.m.

Willard Straight Theatre

$6.50 general/$5 seniors/$4 students

Description:

D.W. Griffith's b&w silent film. Introduction by Laurent Ferri, Lafayette Exhibition curator, with live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip Carli.

Jefferson in Paris

Sunday, October 14, 7:30 p.m.

Willard Straight Theatre

$6.50 general/$5 seniors/$4 students

Description:

Nick Nolte plays Jefferson and Lambert Wilson plays the Marquis de Lafayette.