HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

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Choir from Salisbury Cathedral to perform at Memorial Church

The Men and Boys Choir of Salisbury Cathedral, England, will present a service of Evensong at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church. Directed by Richard Seal and assisted by organist David Halls, the service will feature music by Sir (Charles) Hubert H. Parry, Richard Lloyd, and Claudio Monteverdi. Admission is free; freewill offerings will be accepted.

Boylston Prize Speaking Contest changes venue

A change of venue has been made for the second evening of the Boylston Prize Speaking Contest.

A preliminary competition will be held at 4 p.m. in Boylston Auditorium on Thursday, April 11. The finals will be held at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, also in Boylston Auditorium.

ART's Beckett Trio to be formed at Strasbourg festival

The American Repertory Theatre (ART), under the artistic direction of Robert Brustein, will present its celebrated 1995 fall festival production of Beckett Trio (Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, Nacht and Traume) as part of the theater festival Journées Beckett in Strasbourg, France, in conjunction with the Samuel Beckett International Conference.

Beckett Trio, featuring Alvin Epstein, is directed by Robert Scanlan, with video production by Glenn Litton, set design by David Gammons, lighting design by John Ambrosone, costume design by Karen Eister, and sound and original music by Christopher Walker.

Beckett Trio is being performed this week in Strasbourg.

Performances of Beckett Trio in France have been made possible in part by a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation of New York, and through the generosity of Professor Ruby Cohn and the Direction Regionales des Affaires Culturelles of the city of Strasbourg.

In other news, the ART is among 24 nationwide recipients of 1996 National Endowment for the Arts Challenge grants, the most prestigious award given by the NEA.

The $235,000 award is to be matched three-to-one with private funds, and will be used to augment the Theatre's endowment, and is dedicated to the development and production of new works by distinguished and emerging playwrights.

Brustein said, "The grant is very heartening to us; though our joy is diminished by the knowledge that it will be the last Challenge grant awarded by the NEA. At a time of dwindling support for the arts in this country, the loss of such crucial funding is particularly sobering."