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Lecture Luncheon Series

Our Luncheon Lecture program, which meets five times a season at River Oaks Country Club, brings nationally recognized commentators to discuss issues and topics of current interest in a variety of fields. Three lectures remain in the 2011-2012 season; they are listed below. We welcome attendance at each individual lecture for a fee of $80 or a prorated membership for $210 for three. The fee includes the lecture, luncheon, and valet parking.

Place: River Oaks Country Club
Lecture: 11:00 a.m. Luncheon: 12:00 Noon

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$210
(Remaining 3 lectures)

On January 20, 2012, Brett Mitchell will present a look at the world of music through the eyes—and ears—of a conductor. Mr. Mitchell, who served as Assistant Conductor of Houston’s Symphony Orchestra for four years, is Music Director of Michigan’s Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra. A Ph.D. graduate of the University of Texas, Dr. Mitchell has led the London Philharmonic Orchestra and symphony orchestras in Leipzig, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and others during recent seasons. While with the Houston Symphony he led over 100 performances, several of which were broadcast nationwide on public radio’s “SymphonyCast” and “Performance Today”; he also served as a musical assistant for the New York Philharmonic.

Brett Mitchell

“It’s Music to My Ears”: A Conductor Looks at His Art

Friday, January 20, 2012

International affairs expert and award-winning journalist and author Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Sunday Times of London, CBS News, and The Christian Science Monitor in addition to writing for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Times (London), The Guardian, and The International Herald Tribune. A frequent radio and television guest, she has appeared on network news programs for CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and NPR. The recipient of numerous awards, she is the author of several books, and it is her most recently published and highly praised book, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Revolution Across the Islamic World, that provides the topic for her February 17, 2012 lecture.

Robin Wright

Rock the Casbah: Rage and Revolution Across the Islamic World

Friday, February 17, 2012

Today, fashion is a $300 billion industry and we are in the golden age of fashion pop culture, of fashion TV shows, fashion websites and blogs, and celebrity fashion lines. From 12th century France to the present time, Gioia Diliberto will examine how fashion affects our world and culture in her lecture entitled “Fashion As a Cultural and Social Force” on March 16, 2012. The author of five books, Ms. Diliberto started her career as a journalist and still contributes articles to The New York Times and other publications. Her most recent book, The Collection, based on Coco Chanel’s life has been translated into several languages. Her other books include I Am Madam X, based on the infamous model for one of John Singer Sargent’s paintings, Hadley, a biography of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, and A Useful Woman, a book about the early life of the 19th century reformer Jane Addams.