Carlisle Floyd's Wuthering Heights in Colorado

Alerts for today, August 5 and tomorrow August 6:

1. A rare chance to listen to Carlisle Floyd's Wuthering Heights (or at least some scenes):

COLORADO COLLEGE SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
OPERA THEATRE OF THE ROCKIES
VOCAL ARTS SYMPOSIUM 2009
“SCENIC VIEW”

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
7:00 pm
Cornerstone South Theatre
Colorado Springs, CO

-PROGRAM

Wuthering Heights(ACT I, scene 2/ACT II, scene 1) Carlisle Floyd
Coach/Piano Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek
Director Gloria Parker

2. An alert from Black Mountain, North Carolina:

Classics Book Club
The Black Mountain Library Classics Book Club will discuss “Wuthering Heights” on Thursday, August 6, at 7 p.m. at the Black Mountain Library, 105 Dougherty Street. For more information, call (828) 250-4756. All interested classics readers are welcome to attend. (Black Mountain News)

EDIT:
3. And a talk by Joyce Carol Oates at Cornell University

Joyce Carol Oates
The Writer's (Secret) Life: Woundedness, Rejection, and Inspiration

* Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009
* Time: 7:30 p.m.
* Place: Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall

In this informal talk about the psychological underpinnings of creativity, Ms. Oates will discuss Emily Dickinson, the Brontë sisters, Samuel Beckett, Anais Nin, Graham Greene, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and John Updike. Questions will be welcomed afterward.

Categories: Alert, Music, Opera, Talks, Wuthering Heights