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Kukui Lamalama Volume 20<strong>17</strong> Number 5 May 20<strong>17</strong> Page 5<br />
More Arts at First Unitarian<br />
Book Group<br />
Wednesday<br />
May 3, 20<strong>17</strong> at 7:00 pm<br />
Fred Harper Room<br />
We will discuss Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann<br />
Burns. This is a historical novel told through<br />
the eyes of a 14 year old boy (Will Tweedy)<br />
about life, death, and social taboos in a small<br />
Georgia town in the early 1900’s. The story<br />
begins with the announcement of his recently<br />
(three weeks) widowed grandfather’s elopement<br />
with a much younger woman.<br />
Wednesday,<br />
June 7, 20<strong>17</strong> at 7:00 pm<br />
Fred Harper Room<br />
We will discuss Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan<br />
Swift. This book is a satire on religion, government,<br />
and the intrinsic nature of man that<br />
comes cleverly cloaked in a fantastical travel<br />
adventure.<br />
Originally titled: Travels into Several Remote<br />
Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By<br />
Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a<br />
Captain of several Ships. Swift has delighted<br />
generations of readers (since <strong>17</strong>26) and his<br />
observations on the imperfections of man are<br />
as relevant today as when they were originally<br />
published. (Dan Curran)<br />
Opera...Opera<br />
Friday, May 26, 20<strong>17</strong><br />
From 6:00 PM until c. 9:50 PM<br />
Preceded by Pot Luck Pupus to Share<br />
I due Foscari by Giuseppe Verdi<br />
One of Verdi's rarer<br />
gems, the central<br />
theme of I due<br />
Foscari (The Two<br />
Foscari) is about<br />
one man's split duties<br />
as father and<br />
Doge, and his inability<br />
to catch a single<br />
break (unlucky<br />
fathers seem to be<br />
a central theme in<br />
Verdi's oeuvre).<br />
Francesco attempts<br />
to exonerate<br />
his son from a<br />
crime, then to allow his son's family to join<br />
him in exile. After his son leaves Venice,<br />
Francesco learns of his innocence, then<br />
learns of his death and then is told by the<br />
Council of Ten that he should step down as<br />
Doge. He launches into this scene full of pathos,<br />
singing "Questa dunque è l'iniqua<br />
mercede" (This then is the unjust reward…),<br />
lamenting the thanks that he gets<br />
for being a ruler first and a family man second—before<br />
shuffling off his own mortal<br />
coil.<br />
(Norma Nichols)
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