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Year 34, No. 25
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February 27 – March 5, 2019
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour THE FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH Celebrates 60th Anniversary with 5th National Tour Coming to The Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall March 23, 2019 he Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts welcomes the Monterey Jazz Festival’s fifth national tour to Verizon Hall on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 8 p.m. To celebrate the festival’s 60th Anniversary, this performance will feature some of the most critically-acclaimed, Grammy® awardwinning jazz artists of their generation, including three winners of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.
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See the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour – featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant, Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura & Jamison Ross – at Verizon Hall March 23, 2019, 8 p.m. Shown is Bria Skonberg. Photo/ ©Carolina Palmgren
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The tour features a top roster of diverse and international millennial talent and the leaders of jazz’s future, including Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals; Christian Sands, piano, musical director; Bria Skonberg, trumpet, vocals; Melissa Aldana, tenor saxophone; Jamison Ross, drums, vocals; and Yasushi Nakamura, bass. “The Monterey Jazz Festival is an undeniable institution in the jazz community,” said Anne Ewers, President and CEO of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. “Every performance is of the highest caliber, with a bevy of no table performers. As a home to both developing and established jazz in Philadelphia, the Kimmel Center is proud to present this diverse arrangement of artists to celebrate a special anniversary.” See Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour page 6
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Dr. John Nagl (shown), Headmaster of The Haverford School, and Dr. Marisa Porges, Head of School at The Baldwin School, will present “From Counterterrorism to Conventional Threats: The Future of War” on Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. in Ball Auditorium at The Haverford School. The event is free and open to the public. he Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Main Line Briefings, hosted and co-sponsored by The Haverford School, will host its first session of the year on Wednesday, March 6. Dr. John Nagl, Haverford’s ninth Headmaster, and Dr. Marisa Porges, Head of School at The Baldwin School, will present “From Counterterrorism to Conventional Threats: The Future of War” at 7 p.m. in Ball Auditorium, at The Haverford School. The event is free and open to the public.
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“Hex Signs: Sacred and Celestial Symbolism in Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Stars” New Exhibition Opens March 1 at Glencairn Museum and features actual examples of f the many cultures that have barn stars, decorated objects and settled this region over the related images. Visitors will be able centuries and put their stamp to purchase a full exhibition caton our traditions, foods, arts, music, celebrations and language, one of Patrick J. Donmoyer, guest the least understood – despite its curator of Glencairn Museum’s familiarity – is the Pennsylvania Hex Signs exhibition and director Dutch. of the Pennsylvania German Patrick J. Donmoyer, director of Cultural Heritage Center at Pennsylvania German Cultural Kutztown University, and Sarah Heritage Center at Kutztown UniEdris, a student worker from the versity and author of “Hex Signs: university, plan the installation of Myth and Meaning in Pennsylvania a large barn star. Under Patrick’s Dutch Barn Stars” (2013), is worksupervision, Sarah restored this ing to change that. “Hex Signs: star, which was removed many Sacred and Celestial Symbolism years ago from a barn in Berks in Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Stars,” County, Pennsylvania. an exhibition opening March 1 at Glencairn Museum that he is guestalog of “Hex Signs,” a collaboration curating, aims to crack open the of the Heritage Center and Glencairn meaning behind this Pennsylvania Museum for this exhibition. Dutch folk art tradition. “The first waves of German-speak“Hex Signs” explores themes of sacred and celestial imagery in the traditional arts of the Pennsylvania Dutch, ing immigrants arrived at ports in Philadelphia in 1683,” says Donmoyer, with special emphasis on the decorated barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania, See “Hex Signs” Exhibition at Glencairn Museum page 11
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