The world premiere performance of “Donated By Cantor Fitzgerald,” a new composition and CD release for live improvising musicians and electronic elements, will take place on Saturday, September 10 from 7:30 – 9 p.m. The concert will be held in Pollard Hall, Room 304. The concert is free and open to the public, but space is limited.

Musicians:

Amy Rempel, live piano soloist

Mark Snyder, live electronics

Jorge Sosa, live electronics

Dave Lisik, live electronics, composer

Recorded electroacoustic elements include performances by Tim Hopkins, tenor saxophone and Colin Hemmingsen, bass clarinet.

Sarah Ferguson was in New York’s Times Square the morning of September 11, 2001, appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, when terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center. Her charity, Chances for Children, was located on the 101st floor of One World Trade Center, where she was late for a meeting. None of the charity’s employees were trapped in the building but nearly 700 employees of Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial firm providing free office space to the duchess’ charity, were killed in the aftermath of the attack.

The recording of this work and this performance have been made possible through the financial support of Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), the New Zealand School of Music and the University of Mary Washington.

The world broadcast premiere of the full hour of “Donated By Cantor Fitzgerald” will take place on September 11, 2011 as part of a 24-hour marathon for contemporary art music written as memorials to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, heard on WPRB in Princeton, N.J., and hosted by Marvin Rosen.

An exhibit of books and photographs on the Chicago Cubs will be on display at Simpson Library until October 14, 2011. Titled “Before They Were Loveable Losers: The Pennant-Winning Chicago Cubs,” the exhibit details noteworthy events in the team’s history, particularly its National League pennants from 1929 through 1945.  It also examines the careers of some of the notable ballplayers on those teams. The exhibit, in the first floor lobby, is open during regular library hours.

Jack Bales, reference and humanities librarian and compiler of the exhibit, said that although “world champions” is a term not often associated with the Cubs, “various teams and players over the years have nonetheless either made their marks on baseball history, or, at the very least, achieved some degree of enviable success.”  In 1906, for example, the Cubs won 116 games and lost only 36, still a major league record.  The World Series winners of 1907 and 1908 featured baseball’s most celebrated double-play combination:  Joe Tinker to Johnny Evers to Frank Chance.

Some of the players whom Bales features include Hall of Famer Hack Wilson, who, as one sportswriter said, “was built like a beer keg, and not entirely unfamiliar with its contents.”   Wilson batted in 191 runs in 1930, a record that will probably never be broken.  Another player is catcher Leo “Gabby” Hartnett, whose hit on September 28, 1938, as darkness was descending on Wrigley Field, resulted in the Cubs’ most famous home run, the “homer in the gloamin’.” One exhibit case is devoted to Babe Ruth’s “called shot” in the 1932 World Series, in which Ruth supposedly pointed to center field before hitting a long home run.

An exhibit of books and photographs on the Chicago Cubs will be on display at Simpson Library until October 14, 2011. Titled “Before They Were Loveable Losers: The Pennant-Winning Chicago Cubs,” the exhibit details noteworthy events in the team’s history, particularly its National League pennants from 1929 through 1945.  It also examines the careers of some of the notable ballplayers on those teams. The exhibit, in the first floor lobby, is open during regular library hours.

Jack Bales, reference and humanities librarian and compiler of the exhibit, said that although “world champions” is a term not often associated with the Cubs, “various teams and players over the years have nonetheless either made their marks on baseball history, or, at the very least, achieved some degree of enviable success.”  In 1906, for example, the Cubs won 116 games and lost only 36, still a major league record.  The World Series winners of 1907 and 1908 featured baseball’s most celebrated double-play combination:  Joe Tinker to Johnny Evers to Frank Chance.

Some of the players whom Bales features include Hall of Famer Hack Wilson, who, as one sportswriter said, “was built like a beer keg, and not entirely unfamiliar with its contents.”   Wilson batted in 191 runs in 1930, a record that will probably never be broken.  Another player is catcher Leo “Gabby” Hartnett, whose hit on September 28, 1938, as darkness was descending on Wrigley Field, resulted in the Cubs’ most famous home run, the “homer in the gloamin’.” One exhibit case is devoted to Babe Ruth’s “called shot” in the 1932 World Series, in which Ruth supposedly pointed to center field before hitting a long home run.