Calvin to Host Holocaust Drama

November 3, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY

The Lilly Vocation Project at Calvin College will present a memorable musical
drama on Tuesday, November 7.

Claudia Stevens will perform a one-woman play about the Holocaust titled "An
Evening with Madame F." The setting will be the Lab Theatre at Calvin and the
performance will begin at 7:30 pm.

"An Evening with Madame F" sees Stevens adopting the persona of an elderly
concentration camp musician who had performed at Auschwitz. In the play she
uses music actually played and sung by women inmates there, as well as
first-hand accounts, to depict the physical struggle and ethical dilemma of
women who survived through musical performance.

Stevens is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and she also meditates on the
issue of treating the Holocaust as the subject for artistic expression. She
holds degrees in music from Vassar College, in musicology from the University
of California at Berkeley, and the Doctor of Music in piano from Boston
University. She has held academic and conducting positions at Williams College
and the College of William and Mary, where she is currently a professor.

Calvin's Shirley Roels heads up the Lilly Vocation Project at Calvin and is
excited about the upcoming performance, including the connection between
vocation and this drama.

"The vocation project at Calvin is about not only what we do but who we are as
Christians," she says. "The choices people made in the face of the Holocaust
still play out today in the intersection between our faith and very challenging
world scenarios, particular scenarios that involve the place of other religious
faiths on the global landscape."

Contact Stevens at pianoply@hotmail.com
Contact Shirley Roels at 616-526-6557

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Received on Fri Nov 3 11:39:51 2006