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ON THE CALENDAR
Ninth Les Comediens Fran^ais Lecture Poesie et Musique: The Tradition of the New Orleans Free People of Color
Dana Kress, professor of French at Centenary College of Louisiana and honorary consul of France for North Louisiana, will present an evening of readings of translated French poetry accompanied by piano interludes performed by Jean-Baptiste Monnot, Young Artist in Residence at St. Louis Cathedral.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:30 p.m.
533 Royal Street Admission: Free
Eleventh Annual Bill Russell Lecture
Ragtime’s Roots and Revival:
How a New Orleans—Based Orchestra Gave New Life to the Works of Early Ragtime Composers
Tom Sancton, musician and writer, and the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra will present a musical program exploring the backgrounds and musical contributions of three of the best-known composers of the ragtime era, Armand J. Piron, Scott Joplin, and James Scott. Sancton will also relay the story of the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, its crusade to revive and disseminate original ragtime pieces over the past four decades, and Bill Russell’s early involvement in that effort.
Friday, April 8, 2011
6:30 p.m.
Williams Research Center ,410 Chartres Street Admission: $10
Presented in conjunction with the French Quarter Festival
Both events are open to the public.
Seating is limited.
Call (504) 523-4662 for reservations.
Both programs have been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.
New Orleans Antiques Forum 2011
French at Heart: Continental Influence in the Coastal South
Thursday, August 4-Sunday, August 7, 2011
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street
The 12th Issue of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review Is Released
T he 2011 issue of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review offers readers an intimate encounter with America’s great playwright in this, his centennial year. The journal opens with Sacre de Printemps, a never-before-published one-act play in which a young Williams experiments with themes—love, loyalty, and the transcendence of art—later explored in such early works as Stairs to the Roof and Spring Storm. A memoir by the late playwright Jess Gregg takes readers behind the scenes as legendary director Elia Kazan struggles to bring Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to Broadway. Scholar Shelley Akers analyzes Williams’s confessional novel Moise and the World of Reason. And a selection of illustrations from the Hirschfeld Foundation’s collection complements the exhibition Drawn to Life: Al Hirschfeld and the Theater of Tennessee Williams, currently on view at the Williams Research Center.
Tennessee Williams Annual Review No. 12—2011
Individual subscriptions: $15.00 Library/Institution subscriptions: $30.00 Order from The Shop at The Collection (504) 598-7147
www.hnoc.org
Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities
The Historic New Orleans Collection is proud to announce the recipients of the 2011-12 Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities:
Andrew F. Lang
PhD candidate, History Rice University “Monotony, Misery, and Mutiny: The Culture of Garrison Service during the Civil War”
James Schissel
PhD candidate, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Home Grown: Thomas Affleck’s Advocacy for Regional Identity in the American South, 1848-1868”
The annual fellowship supports scholarly research on the history and culture of Louisiana and the Gulf South. Applications for the 2012-13 Woest Fellowship, due November 1, 2011, may be downloaded at www.hnoc.org.	,
The Historic New Orleans Collection gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Dianne Audrey Woest (1935-2003), a graduate of Southeastern Louisiana State University, former president of the New Orleans Councilfor International Visitors, and true friend of the arts. Through a planned giving arrangement, Woest designated The Collection as the beneficiary of her estate.
8	Volume XXVIII, Number 1 — Winter 2011