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silk-road

Venice to Xanadu: Marco Polo’s Silk Road

Venue

Herbst Theatre

Presenters

Lauren Arnold, Art History

Albert Dien, Stanford

Cheryl Ann Fulton, medieval harp

Laurel Victoria Gray, Director, Dance, Silk Road Dance Company

Kit Higginson, recorder, psaltry

Peter Maund, percussion

Paul Pena, blues virtuoso

Morris Rossabi, Columbia U

S. Frederick Starr, Central Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins U

Roy Wheldon, vielle

Rome in the Year One
Rome in the Year One

Rome in the Year One

Venue

Herbst Theatre

Presenters

Janina Darling, Art History, UC Santa Cruz

Peter Donat, actor

Erich Gruen, Classics, UC Berkeley

Robert Gurval, Classics, UCLA

A. Trevor Hodge, Archeology, Stanford

Gary Miles, Ancient History, UC Santa Cruz

Diane Middlebrook, English, Stanford

Carey Perloff, actor, American Conservatory Theatre

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Louis_Armstrong_restored

New Orleans 1900: The Birth of Jazz

Venue

Herbst Theatre

Presenters

William Carter, New Orleans Jazz Band

Alicia Clancy, narrator

Dick Hyman, piano

Lawrence Powell, History, Tulane U

George Schmidt, artist, New Orleans

S. Frederick Starr, author, New Orleans

William Warfield, baritone