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Bach Festival wins Grammy ■ Best Choral Performance is given to Helmuth Rilling and the Oregon festival Helmuth Rilling and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra won the 2001 Grammy Award in the field of Best Choral Performance for “Penderecki: Credo.” The award was announced Wednesday at the 43rd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. It is the first Grammy award for the Bach Festi val, which has nine CDs released and distributed by the Hanssler la bel. Bach Festival executive director Royce Saltzman was thrilled with the award. “Being in Oregon, away from the cultural centers of New York, Los Angeles or other cities, makes it harder for us to be compared on the same level,” Saltzman said, after be ing notified of the award. “This af firms the quality of what Helmuth Rilling and our musicians can do.” “Credo” is scheduled for an en core performance during the 2002 Festival. Soloists on the Credo CD include alto Milagro Vargas, a faculty mem ber of the University of Oregon School of Music; soprano Juliane Banse; and bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff. The Phoenix Boys Choir also appears on the recording. The “Credo” recording was the climax of a two-year artistic jour ney. A co-commission of the Ore gon Bach Festival and the Interna tionale Bachakademie Stuttgart, “Credo” began as Penderecki’s set ting of the full Catholic Mass text. Penderecki put his finishing touch es on the 53-minute work in Eugene on July 4, just days before its pre miere as the final concert of the 1998 Festival. It was dedicated to Rilling, who like his friend Pen derecki, celebrated his 65th birth day that year. — From staff reports Debate continued from page 1A President Holly Magner. Emerald editorial editor Michael J. Kleck ner and student activities editor Jeremy Lang will represent the newspaper. These four will focus their questions on the candidates’ platform specifics and how the ASUO works. Kleckner said he encourages all students to attend the debate and take advantage of the oppor tunity to learn about the candi dates. “We want students to get a more in-depth and personal look at the candidates,” he said. After candidates finish an swering questions asked by mon itors, the debate will turn into an open forum, and audience mem bers will have the chance to ask their own questions. ASUO publicity coordinator Stephanie Chaney, who is work ing on election events, said that sometimes students vote without being completely informed, and the goal of the debate is to help prevent this. “A lot of students don’t even know what the ASUO does,” she said. “The debate is the place for students to find out more about who and what they’re voting for.” Jesus continued from page 1A period, a slew of books, articles and television shows have attempted to recreate the historical Jesus. Al though these different views have been called both accurate and heretical, all have fanned the flames in the ongoing debate regarding who Jesus really was as a person. One of the leading scholars in the field, John Crossan, will be giving a lecture on the subject at 7:30 p.m. today in Room 175 Knight Law Cen ter. The lecture is free and open to the public. A professor emeritus with the De Paul University religious studies department, Crossan is the author of 18 books that explore Jesus’ life and the society in which he lived. Four of the books have been best sellers. Daniel Falk, assistant professor of religious studies at the University, helped arrange Crossan’s visit to the r University and has explored the is sue himself. He said there is no certainty re garding who Jesus was because he did not leave any written records and no one outside of the early Christian faith wrote anything of substance about him. “That gives us very little to go on, and for a historian, that makes it very problematic,” he said. Falk said it would be hard to sim ply apply what is known of Jesus’ culture because he was probably different from the norm. “He was from a different culture, and he was somewhat counter-cul ture in his own culture,” he said. But Falk said finding the real Je sus has always been an intriguing scholarly pursuit because countless generations of Christians have ap plied their own cultural character istics to the image of him. This has clouded the issue and probably left an image of Jesus in many people’s minds that likely doesn’t corre spond with reality, he said. This reality, however, is open to question because of the dearth of concrete information, and hence the debate over the historical Jesus, Falk said. He said some researchers have { { It doesn’t offend me or trouble me. Its a piece of scholarship. Daniel Falk religious studies assistant professor been harshly criticized for their work in finding the true historical Christ. “On religious grounds, people get upset when you say Jesus didn’t say something from the scripture,” Falk said. He said that Crossan has been ap plauded in scholarly circles be cause of his research methods. While conservative Christian schol ars often criticize his conclusions, Falk said they admit Crossan’s methods do have merit. Falk said Crossan’s work is based on gospels by the apostles Thomas and Peter that were excluded from the New Testament. The works are different from the other gospels in that they are non-apocalyptic or based on the principle that Christ will not necessarily usher in a new era. Although a Christian himself, Falk was not troubled by Crossan’s work. “It doesn’t offend me or trouble me,” he said. “It’s a piece of schol arship.” Falk will be discussing the issue himself while teaching the class “Jesus and the Gospels” next term. Steve Ellisen, director of Campus Crusade for Christ, said he supports historical research on Jesus as long as it does not start on a basis of re jecting miracles. He said several historians do not believe in the pos sibility of miracles, so they research Christ without the context of mira cles. Yet Ellisen said if researchers do take into account the possibility of miracles, he strongly supports re searching who Christ was. “I think that understanding the historic Jesus and who he was is an extremely important endeavor,” he said. But Ellisen said he was deeply offended by people who attempted to create a scandalous image of Christ for profit. Andrew Goble, religious studies professor and department head, said even though he isn’t an expert in the field of Christian research, he has appreciated the work done by people like Crossan. He said that of the major reli gions, only Christianity has an on going debate about the historical truth of one of its leading figures. “Outside of Christianity, I’m not generally aware of this type of de bates over founding figures,” he said. Law School 101 An Introduction to Legal Education for Students of Color Friday, February 23 Program begins at 9:45 am and ends at 2:00 pm William W. Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St., University of Oregon To Register please contact Teresa Specht: (541) 346-1810 or tspecht@law.uoregon.edu *No Fee to Attend ou are invited to attend break-out r.*y sessions with current law students and discuss timely current events that affect the legal profession and all of us as citizens. Program activities include a simulated law class, lunch and an admissions information session. 11200 The program includes remarks by Ibrahim Gassama, Associate Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law and distinguished recipient of several awards for his contribution to human rights. Most recently Gassama was honored with the SALT award for his work on behalf of South Africa and its citizens. Also speaking is Associate Professor Keith Aoki. He has served on the editorial board of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and on the editorial staff of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. A highlight of the program is a film about Native American issues and experience. Introducing and discussing the film is Dean of the UO law school Rennard Strickland, a distinguished legal scholar and specialist in Native American law and heritage.
