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November 7, 2006 -- Stockton, CA -- On Saturday, December 2, 2006, faculty from the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific and San Joaquin Delta College will collaborate in the presentation of the Working Musicians Symposium, geared toward providing the area’s working musicians, as well as aspiring professional musicians, a leg up in building their own careers.

The event is geared to musicians of all ages and skill levels that want to learn how to better promote and market themselves as artists and entertainers.

Workshops and panels will include sessions on How to Make the Most of an Audition, How to Build a Promo Kit, Effectively Using the Internet, Working as a Studio Musician, as well as a panel discussion with local concert promoters and arts presenters providing advice to artists titled How To Create Gig Opportunities.

Featured speakers include Pacific alumni Dave Riddles and Phil Schroeder. Riddles, one of Hollywood’s most in-demand session musicians has performed on more than 600 major motion picture soundtracks, and still plays regularly as a member of The Simpson’s orchestra. Producer Phil Schroeder of Oakland-based Green Street Music has composed music for television, radio and film projects for clients including Apple Computer, Sony, Sprint and the San Francisco Giants. Other speakers include music contractor Kevin Porter, local music promoter Middagh Goodwin, and Maestro Peter Jaffe of the Stockton Symphony, who will join Pacific and Delta faculty to share tips for success in the music performance world throughout the day.

Brian Kendrick and Patrick Langham, Directors of Jazz Studies at Delta and Pacific, respectively, will each be leading workshops. Keith Hatschek, Director of the Music Management Program at Pacific, is producing the conference with support from an NCAGE mini-grant. Pacific’s student Music Management Club is assisting with local promotions and production.

The event is free and open to the public and will be held on the Stockton campus of the University of the Pacific, in the Conservatory of Music Recital Hall. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 AM. To register, go to www.myspace.com/workingmusicianssymposium and send a message to the Symposium’s coordinator. You will receive a message confirming your registration afterwards.

(Stockton, Calif.) – Garry Wills, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar, will speak at University of the Pacific’s Faye Spanos Concert Hall at 7 p.m. Nov. 9. The appearance is the 2006 Colliver Lecture, established in 1957 in memory of George Colliver, a former religious studies professor at Pacific. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing will be held afterward.

Wills is currently promoting his new book, What Paul Meant, which argues that in order to truly understand Jesus’ words, one must read apostle Paul’s words carefully. He says that Paul sometimes contradicted himself but wrote with a passion that reflected the times. Due to be released in November, it’s a follow up to his most recent book, What Jesus Meant. That book argues that Jesus’ words have been changed to fit specific political beliefs.

“Garry Wills’ reflections on religion in America today are deeply informed by his sense of the history of Western religious traditions and by his awareness of the challenges to personal faith in the modern age,� said Robert Cox, interim dean of the University’s College of the Pacific. “Over the past four decades his writings on culture and politics, history, and literature have contributed to our understanding of what it means to be a thinking American. We are extremely fortunate that he will be giving the Colliver Lecture at Pacific this year.�

Wills is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for general non-fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. But he already had made a name for himself before being honored with the top prize in literature. His 1970 book Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man landed Wills a spot on Nixon’s master list of political opponents. The list contained people who Nixon aide John Dean did not like. Being listed meant a person was frequently audited by the IRS, denied government grants and investigated by the justice department. Its existence was revealed during the Watergate hearings in the Senate.

Wills, who earned his PhD in history from Yale in 1961, also has written books on George Washington, the Kennedy Family, Ronald Reagan and the Catholic faith. Besides the Pulitzer, he has won the Merle Curti Award of the American Historical Association, the National Book Critics Award and an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross.

All tickets for the upcoming Nov. 6 Walter Cronkite visit at University of the Pacific have been reserved. Currently there are no more tickets available. University staff members are looking at creating a second “overflow" site for the event but that site has not been identified yet. The speech will be at 3 p.m. in the Faye Spanos Concert Hall.

All 900 tickets for the hall were reserved within 24 hours of them becoming available on Oct. 3, employees at the Pacific Box Office said. However, the great majority of the tickets have not been picked up yet by those who reserved them. Those who have reserved seats are urged to pick up their tickets as soon as possible. Any tickets that are not picked up by 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 will be distributed to the public starting 9 a.m. Nov. 6.

People with tickets must be in their seats no later than 2:45 p.m. on the day of the performance. Any seats that are not filled will be made available to people without tickets who are waiting outside.

Guest parking will be made available for the event in Lot One, the parking lot next to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium. A guest drop-off point for elderly and handicapped guests will be made available in front of the Faye Spanos Concert Hall. Signs from the hall to the parking lot will direct vehicles.

During the performance, all cell phones, pagers and other electronic devices must be turned off or turned to silent mode. No photography, videotaping or electronic recording of the event will be allowed by the public.

Please watch for future announcements about this event or if an overflow site with a live feed of the speech is made available on the Pacific Internet page at www.pacific.edu.

Tickets for Walter Cronkite’s 3 pm Monday, November 6 appearance at University of the Pacific will be available to the general public Tuesday, October 3. Because of high demand for the tickets, they will be distributed through Pacific’s box office and will be limited to four per person. The event is free but tickets are being distributed because seating is limited to about 900 people.

Tickets can be ordered by calling 209.946.2867 or by visiting the box office at Pacific’s Long Theater, located west of Dave Brubeck Way and north of Kensington Way on campus. There will be no Internet ordering available for this event. Tickets that are ordered but not picked up by 4 pm, Friday, November 3 will be released to the general public on the day of the event through the Faye Spanos Concert Hall ticket office.

Walter Cronkite is appearing at Pacific on the invitation of President Don DeRosa. The Associated Students of the University of the Pacific are co-sponsoring the event.

Cronkite was a CBS news anchorman for 19 years and once was called the most trusted man in America. Analysts regularly dissected his evening broadcasts to get a sense of American opinion and views and presidential aid Bill Moyers once speculated that Cronkite’s stance against the Vietnam War was a major factor in President Lyndon B. Johnson's offer to negotiate with the enemy and not to run for President in l968.

Cronkite never publicly acknowledged his influence. He often commented that he was just a working journalist who retold the events of the day. His motto was to get the story, “fast, accurate, and unbiased.� His trademark sign-off line was “And that's the way it is.�

He retired from CBS in l981 but has remained active. He hosted PBS’s New Years Eve broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic and hosted several documentaries on health, old age, and children in poverty. He is a regular blogger on The Huffington Post. Last year he narrated a radio documentary on Guglielmo Marconi, widely credited with inventing radio. This month Cronkite introduced Katie Couric on air to his old position as anchor of the CBS Evening News.

Best-selling author and Stockton native Daniel Goleman will speak at University of the Pacific’s Faye Spanos Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3. The event is free and open to the public.

The internationally known psychologist and lecturer will discuss the role of emotional and social intelligence in leadership and how to cultivate those abilities. His appearance comes at an optimal time for Pacific because the university is exploring ways to use Goleman’s work both inside and outside the classroom.

Goleman’s 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence, argues that emotions play a much greater role in thought, decision-making skills and individual success than is commonly acknowledged. It was on the New York Times’ best seller list for 18 months and has been translated into 30 languages. It has sold more than 5 million copies.

The book was groundbreaking and has been used as a tool by universities, businesses and government agencies to improve communications, management styles, and as a way to gauge the compatibility of co-workers.

Goleman’s mother, Fay Goleman taught sociology at University of Pacific from 1937 to 1976, retiring with the Order of Pacific, the highest honor Pacific bestows for service to the University. His late father Irving Goleman taught at Stockton College, now Delta College.

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