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Members of the University's medical, science and health sciences community interested in playing with the Life Sciences Orchestra can learn more about the orchestra and sign up for an audition at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at the McIntosh Theater of the School of Music building. Auditions are Sept. 12-16 and the first rehearsal is Sept. 18. For more information visit http://www.umich.edu/~lsorch or e-mail orchestra@umich.edu.

Symposium—What makes people happy?

The 4th Annual Platsis Symposium 05 on Sept. 16 will focus on the question of what makes people happy—one of the oldest queries posed by philosophers.

In talk shows, self-help books and therapy rooms, and in disciplines ranging from philosophy to economics and psychology, the answer to this question remains as elusive as ever.

The event opens at 3 p.m. with talks in the Vandenberg Room of the Michigan League followed by a reception from 6-8 p.m. and a round table discussion from 8-10 p.m. In the event, presented by the Modern Greek Program, speakers also will explore how to understand happiness as an ethical and political goal.

Speakers will include Stephen White of the University of Texas, Austin; Darrin McMahon, Florida State University; and Daniel Robinson, Oxford University.

Recalling the golden days of quacks, yodelers, pitchmen and psychics

Austin, Tex.-based writer and media producer Bill Crawford will discuss the colorful outlaw radio stations that flourished in the 1930s along the U.S.-Mexican border, in a brown bag lecture at noon Sept. 19 at the Osterman Common Room of the Institute for the Humanities.

The lecture is entitled, "Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves." Licensed to Mexico but controlled by Americans, the border radio stations pioneered many forms of political, religious, musical and commercial programming. The Carter Family, Wolfman Jack, and numerous country and Western and rhythm and blues stars got their start on border radio.

Crawford will play rare audio recordings from the stations.

Tickets on sale for School of Music Mainstage season

The play "1918," part of Horton Foote's "The Orphan's Home" nine-play cycle, opens the 2005-06 School of Music Mainstage season. Tickets are available on the Web.

Celebrating 125 years of excellence, the season runs Oct. 6-April 16 and features 11 productions from the departments of Theatre, Musical Theatre, Opera and Dance.

"The Orphan's Home," Oct. 6-16, will examine the effect of the flu epidemic on one family in the production directed by Mark Madama, associate professor of musical theater, presented at the Trueblood Theatre. Subsequent productions include the Rodgers and Hart musical "The Boys from Syracuse" based on Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Oct. 13-16 at the Mendelssohn Theatre with direction by Brent Wagner and musical direction by Cynthia Kortman Westphal.

For show and ticket information call (734) 764-2538 or visit http://www.music.umich.edu.

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