BERICHT VAN DE ROOSEVELT ACADEMY, MIDDELBURG
Woensdag 1 februari a.s. viert de Roosevelt Academy haar Dies Natalis. Bijgaand treft u het middag programma aan voor de viering in de Nieuwe Kerk. 's Avonds is er een studenten voorstelling van het toneelstuk De Inspecteur van Nikolai Gogol.
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Anya Luscombe
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Roosevelt Academy
Dies Natalis
February 1, 2006
Nieuwe Kerk, Middelburg
Program
30. Nieuwe kerk open
16.00 Music by Margreeth Chr. de Jong and the arrival of the Academic Procession
5. Prof. dr. Hans P.M. Adriaansens, Dean
Opening Speech
16.15 Musical Intermezzo by Noroque
City Hall
16.20 The Dies Natalis lecture by Prof. dr. Mark E.P. Janse, Professor of Linguistics & Classics at Roosevelt Academy on "Language Death, Globalization and the English Language"
50. Musical Intermezzo by Gerda Joosse (Class of '07) Allegro con brio (from Organ Sonata IV in B flat Major) - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)
55. Prof. dr. Hans P.M. Adriaansens, Dean
Closing Remarks
17.00 Departure of the Academic Procession & Music by Margreeth Chr. De Jong: Improvisation
Following the ceremony, a reception will be held in the Wandelkerk.
Prof. dr. Mark Janse is professor of linguistics & classics and head of the arts & humanities department at Roosevelt Academy. He is also associate professor of Cappadocian linguistics at the University of Patras in Greece. An internationally acclaimed specialist in Greek and Cappadocian linguistics, he is the author of more than fifty articles on ancient, biblical, medieval & modern Greek, Cappadocian, Turkish, Hebrew, Latin and general linguistics. He is also editor of two collective works on language contact and language death in both the ancient and the modern world. His recent discovery of a new generation of speakers of Cappadocian, a Greek-Turkish mixed language, thought to have died out in the 1960s, received much attention in the media.
In his Dies Natalis lecture, Professor Janse will focus on the acute endangerment and rapid death of the vast majority of the 6,000 or so languages spoken worldwide, its implications for cultural identity and cultural diversity in an increasingly globalized world, and the development of English as a world language.
Musicians
Noroque is a band consisting of four students from the Roosevelt Academy who share a keen interest in popular music. They are:
Ali M'Rabti - Lead Vocals (Class of '08)
Johan van Gogh - Guitar (Class of '08)
Ian van Roosmalen - Bass (Class of '08)
Joris den Ouden - Drums (Class of '08)
City Hall is a song composed by the members of Noroque. It is about the opportunities students are offered by Roosevelt Academy and about the idea that one should take these opportunities and do everything one can in order to attain one's goals.
Gerda Joosse (Class of '07) is currently taking the music performance track at Roosevelt Academy as one of her two majors. The organ is her main specialization subject. Margreeth Chr. de Jong is her instructor at Roosevelt Academy.
Margreeth Chr. De Jong, organist of the Nieuwe Kerk, Middelburg, obtained diplomas in church music, music teaching, and organ solo performance at the Rotterdam conservatory, where she received the highest mark possible in 1986. She then studied with Jean Langlais and Marie Louise Jaquet-Langlais at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where she gained the Prix de Virtuosité in 1988. She won first prizes in international organ competitions in Paris (UFAM competition) and Haarlem (César Franck competition). She has made a number of recordings and has performed at hundreds of concerts in important European concert series. Several of her self-composed works have appeared in print.
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