"Amahl and the Night Visitors" is set in Bethlehem shortly after the birth of Christ, the show was the first opera written for television and will be at 7 p.m.
The combined talents of Southern Illinois University Carbondale opera theater students, the SIU Orchestra, Choral Union and Concert Choir will gather next month for a holiday concert that features a classic story of a disabled boy and three visitors from a long time ago.
John G. Gilbert worked as the “education senator” alongside his close friend SIU President Delyte W. Morris in helping transform Southern Illinois University from a small teachers college to a
John G. Gilbert worked as the “education senator” alongside his close friend SIU President Delyte W. Morris in helping transform Southern Illinois University Carbondale from a small teachers college to a major university in the 1960s and 1970s.
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....Eva Mirabal was a firebrand, a painter and muralist and likely the first female Native American cartoonist.
Eva Mirabal in 1944 examining a model plane while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. She was preparing to work on the mural “Bridge of Wings.” (Courtesy of The Museum Of New Mexico Press)
Seemingly born with a spirit of adventure, this Taos Pueblo woman joined the Women’s Army Corps during World War II and raised two children all in her brilliant but brief life.
Lois Rudnick and Mirabal’s son Jonathan Warm Day Coming have chronicled her legacy in “Eva Mirabal: Three Generations of Tradition and Modernity at Taos Pueblo” (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2021.)