TC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please remember that the deadlines for submitting announcements for email

distribution by the Master's Office are Mondays at 12:00 noon for Monday

afternoon distribution and Thursdays at 12:00 noon for Thursday afternoon

distribution. Sorry, but emails will not be sent to all Trumbullians

outside these designated times, so please plan ahead. You may send your

announcement to tcadmin@yale.edu.

1.  Master’s Tea Friday w/ Tavis Smiley

2.  Take Your Professor to Lunch?

3.  "LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

1.  Master’s Tea Friday w/ Tavis Smiley

Trumbull College is proud to present a Master’s Tea with

TAVIS SMILEY

Friday, February 29

3:15 p.m.

Trumbull Dining Hall

Co-sponsored with Saybrook College

2.  Take Your Professor to Lunch?

Take Your Professor to Lunch Week
Hosted by Trumbull College

Monday, February 25th - Friday, February 29
Trumbull College Dining Hall

Please come by the Master's Office to sign up and pick up an official invitation.

(Printed invitations are optional.)

3.  "LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR" AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

DEADLINE to apply:  4:00 p.m. SUNDAY, MARCH 2.

The last opera in this year's Trumbull series subscription to the Metropolitan Opera will be next WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5.  We will leave Trumbull PROMPTLY at 4:00 p.m.  The cost is $15.00, including dinner.

Please CHECK YOUR SCHEDULE before you respond to make certain that you can go if you are selected. 

The opera is Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor", starring the Met's "poster girl" of the year, French soprano Natalie Dessay; her photo is on the cover of all their publications.  Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor, it is a tragic tale of "…suicide, murder, forgery, and insanity.."*  The music is some of the greatest:  "…even apart from the opera, the best arias…never fail to produce a powerful effect.  The Sextet… is deservedly one of the finest and most famous ensemble numbers in all opera … [and] one of the finest existing examples of… vocal music.   [The tenor] aria in the closing scene…is Italian lyricism at its most poignant."  The Met's Music Director, James Levine, is conducting.  Saybrook saw it last fall and loved it.

If you would like to attend, please submit your name to Prof. Henrich by e-mail BEFORE 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 2.  Names will be selected by RANDOM DRAWING and the students notified later Sunday evening. 

*  M. Cross, Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, (Doubleday, 1962).