Events

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., have collaborated with Transylvania University and Davidson College to bring three Spanish writers to Lexington to participate in the 62nd annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference this week. Two conference sessions are dedicated to literature from the region of León, Spain. Authors from this area have received many prestigious national and international literary prizes. Essayist and journalist Pedro García Trapiello (Diario de León), journalist Susana Martín García (El Mundo) and poet/artist Juan Carlos Mestre will speak about contemporary Spanish literature and journalism at Transylvania’s Jazzman’s Café in the Glenn Building on Friday, April 17, at 11 a.m.  Transylvania received a generous gift from alumna Katie C. Bolin to help sponsor the event. At 7:30 p.m. the writers will conduct a roundtable discussion on literature and journalism by Leonese writers in the University of Kentucky’s Gaines Center, Bingham Davis House, 218 E. Maxwell Street. Both events are free and open to the public.Spanish professors Veronica Dean-Thacker (Transylvania University), Shelby Thacker (Asbury College) and Mary S. Vásquez (Davidson College) have organized these sessions to highlight the quality and variety of the literary production from Leonese writers, such as Andrés Trapiello (who, in 2004, published his sequel to Cervantes’ Spanish masterpiece, Don Quijote), Julio Llamazares, Josefina Aldecoa, José Maríá Merino, Margarita Merino, Luis Mateo Díéz, Antonio Gamoneda, Juan Carlos Mestre and Juan Pedro Aparicio. The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference is the

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Gregory Partain LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University music professor Greg Partain will perform a solo piano and composition recital Sunday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Building, assisted by conductor Phylliss Jenness and the 26 singers of Musica Sacre Novissima, a group of professional musicians and other advanced singers from the Lexington area. The program will feature classic works for solo piano and the world premiere of Partain’s new a cappella choral piece, Stabat Mater Dolorosa. The program is free and open to the public. In his 21 years on the concert stage, Partain has appeared as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist throughout the United States, and has performed overseas in Poland, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Russia, Greece and Germany. In 1986, he was the national winner of the KMS Resident Artist Competition in Seattle, then won first prize in the Memphis Beethoven Piano Sonata Competition, second prize in the International Bartok-Kabalevsky Competition in Virginia and was a finalist in the Concert Artists Guild New York Competition. Partain’s wide-ranging repertoire spans music of four centuries.  His first solo CD (2001) contains works by William Byrd, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Ravel.  Partain’s second CD, released in 2007 under the MSR Classics label, contains works by Rachmaninoff, D. Scarlatti, Brahms, Beethoven, and Transylvania University professor Larry Barnes (Toccata: Act of War, composed for Partain). In 1998, Partain made his formal composing debut at the Kentucky Music Teachers

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Two experts on Alzheimer’s from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging will speak at Transylvania University as part of the Alltech Lecture Series on Aging and Mortality. The lectures begin at 7 p.m. in Transylvania’s Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. Each speaker will answer questions from the audience after speaking and a reception will follow.   On March 24, Frederick Schmitt, a neuropsychologist and Alzheimer’s researcher, will present “100 Years of Alzheimer’s Research: What Do Therapeutic Interventions Have to Offer?” Schmitt studies various forms of dementia, of which Alzheimer’s is the most common. This progressive degenerative brain disease currently cannot be prevented or cured. His research focus is on early detection of dementia and outcomes of therapeutic interventions in Alzheimer’s disease. On Tuesday, April 7, Charles D. Smith, professor in Alzheimer’s research in the department of neurology, will present “How Can We Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?” Smith’s research focus is on applying structural and functional imaging techniques to the prediction, qualification and diagnosis of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Both lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, call the Transylvania public relations office at (859) 233-8120.