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Year 32, No. 24
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Tri-County Concerts Presents Pianist Fei-Fei Dong Performance at Eastern University’s McInnis Auditorium February 19 ri-County Concerts presents award-winning pianist Fei-Fei Dong in the second concert of its 2016-2017 season on Sunday, February 19, at 3 p.m. at Eastern University’s McInnis Auditorium, 1300 Eagle Rd., St. Davids, PA. Fei-Fei will perform Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 18, Schumann’s Papillions, Liebermann’s Gargoyles, and 24 Preludes by Chopin. Meet the artist at a complimentary post-concert reception. Tick-
A N E VENING WITH A UTHOR AND C IVIL R IGHTS A CTIVIST J ENNIFER F INNEY B OYLAN Free Event February 22 at The Haverford School
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Jazz Giants & “Philadelphia Real Book” Concert Page 3
February 15 – February 21, 2017
See award-winning pianist Fei-Fei Dong in concert on Sunday, February 19, at 3 p.m. at Eastern University’s McInnis Auditorium.
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ets are available online and at the door: $20 (general), $15 (seniors 62+), free for students. For information and reservations, call 610-504-4678 or visit www.tricountyconcerts.org. Fei-Fei is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a top finalist at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Highlights of her 2016-2017 season schedule include an appearance with the China National Symphony in Beijing and a special concert with the Pacific Symphony featuring Beethoven Concertos No. 1 and 4, as well as recitals in New York, Georgia, and Florida. She has performed with numerous United States orchestras as well as Germany’s Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Shanxi and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestras in China. She has also performed in recital at Alice Tully Hall as the winner of Juilliard’s 33rd Annual William Petschek Recital Award, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, and the Louvre, and appeared at the Aspen, Bravo! Vail Valley, Highlands, Lake George, Music at Menlo, and The Cliburn’s Chopin music festivals. Fei-Fei was showcased prominently in the documentary film Virtuosity about the 2013 See Tri-County Concerts Performance on page 11
Jennifer Finney Boylan ’76, best-selling author and civil rights activist, will speak at The Haverford School on February 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Ball Auditorium, Upper School. ennifer Finney Boylan, best-selling author and national co-chair of the Board of Directors of GLAAD, will deliver the 19th annual Edward R. Hallowell Literary Lecture on Wednesday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m. in The Haverford School’s Ball Auditorium (lower level of the Upper School). A book signing will follow the event and Boylan’s books, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, I’m Looking Through You, Stuck in the Middle With You, The Bitch is Back, Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, Falcon Quinn and the Bullies of Greenblud, and Falcon
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See Free Hallowell Literary Lecture at The Haverford School on page 4
Face Artists “Head On” Via Self-Portrait Exhibition at CAC styles including contemporary realism, trompe ommunity Arts Center – 414 Plush Mill l’oeil, impressionism, abstraction and much more. Road, Wallingford, PA – presents the exhiEach individual’s approach to personal portraibition “Head On: a glimpse into some of ture gives the viewer an insight into the artist’s Philadelphia’s finest artists via the self-portrait.” identity making for an intimate, intriguing, reThe show opened February 5 and runs through flective exploration of the relationship between March 11 in the Duke Gallery. The public is inart and the artist. vited to view the exhibition during gallery hours, CAC Executive Director Paul Downie said, Mon. - Thurs.: 9 a.m. - 7:30 p.m., Friday: 9 a.m. “We’re very excited to have an exhibition of so 3 p.m. and Saturday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., and to attend the artists’ reception on February 19, from “Self-portrait with a Man” by Rachel 2 - 4 p.m. Exhibition receptions will also be held Constantine is on display as part of the for Dana Crosssan, acrylic paintings on the Beaexhibition, “Head On,” featuring self-portraits Dazzle Gallery Wall, the 3D student work of ceramics by some of Philadelphia’s finest artists, at instructor Ann Suchecki in the Stairwell Gallery Community Arts Center, in Wallingford, PA. and Lois Sellers in the Fay Freedman Gallery, on The exhibition runs through March 11 with February 19. an artists’ reception on February 19 “Head On” was curated by local artist and CAC from 2 - 4 p.m. faculty member Susan O’Reilly. Artists represented in the Head On exhibition include Martin many talented and revered Philadelphia artists Campos, Patrick Connors, Rachel Constantine, in the Duke Gallery. The participating artists Ellen Cooper, Patrick Crofton, Paul du Sold, Kerry explore the centuries old tradition of the selfDunn, Diane Feissel, Garth Herrick, Amy Kann, portrait in a modern way, which makes the Head Georgianna Lenssen, JaFang Lu, Dale Roberts, On exhibition both familiar and fresh. A special Robert Sampson, Jeff Schaller, Bill Scott, Lauren thanks goes out to CAC faculty member Susan Tilden, Alexandra Tyng, Adam Vinson, Jenn WarO’Reilly for curating the exhibition.” pole, and Lea Wight. Their self-portraits were For information or driving directions, contact created with a wide variety of materials and Community Arts Center at 610-566-1713, online techniques including encaustic, oil, calligraphic line work and much more. The pieces incorporate and explore a range of at www.communityartscenter.org or follow them on Facebook.
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