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Year 33, No. 27
Celebrating 33 Years of Community News
LANSDOWNE SYMPHONY An Evening with Journalist and Best-Selling Author Mark Bowden ORCHESTRA SPRING CONCERT March 20 at The Haverford School ournalist and author Mark Bowden will discuss the state of American journalism for the 20th annual Edward R. Hallowell Literary Lecture on Tuesday, March 20, 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 Bowden’s books, Hue 1968, Black Hawk Down, The
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Cellist Eliana Razzino Yang, an Irving Ludwig Youth Audition winner, will perform Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations.
Mark Bowden, best-selling author and journalist, will speak at The Haverford School on March 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Ball Auditorium, Upper School. Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden, Bringing the Heat, and Road Work: Among Tyrants will be available for purchase. Bowden has written 13 books, including Black Hawk Down (February 1999) and Hue 1968 (June 2017). He is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He recently retired from his position as Distinguished Writer in Residence at The University of Delaware and was a longtime reporter and columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Black Hawk Down was a finalist for The National Book Award and was made into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, for which Bowden worked as a screenwriter and consultant. Hue 1968 was a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and has been listed as one of the most notable books of 2017 by many newspapers including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor. It is being made into a TV miniseries for FX by producer and director Michael Mann. Bowden’s books Killing Pablo and Black Hawk Down received Overseas Press Club Awards, and Guests of the Ayatollah, about the Iran hostage crisis, was named by Newsweek as “One of the 50 Books for Our Times.” In addition to The Atlantic and Vanity Fair, Bowden’s articles have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, and many other magazines. The writer Malcolm Gladwell named Bowden, along with Bob Woodward, as the two best investigative
Cellist Eliana Razzino Yang performs with the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra on March 18 at 3 p.m. at Upper Darby Performing Arts Center. he Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Reuben Blundell, will present a Spring Concert on Sunday, March 18 at 3 p.m. at Upper Darby Performing Arts Center, 601 N. Lansdowne Avenue, Drexel Hill. Tickets are $20, $17 for seniors, and $5 for students. Music lovers ages 8 and up are invited to attend. For tickets and information about the concert, visit www.udpac.org or call the box office at 610-
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Ireland’s Leading Musical Export at the Annenberg Center March 17 and bodhrán (Irish drum) playreland’s leading musical exer Tristan Rosentock. For the port, Téada, returns to PhilaAnnenberg Center St. Patrick’s delphia after a nine-year hiaDay performance, the group extus to make their Annenberg Center debut on St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland’s leading musical Saturday, March 17, at 8 p.m. export, Téada, returns to Hailed for their “fierce familiarPhiladelphia March 17 after ity with the old ways” (Irish Music a nine-year hiatus to make Magazine), the group revels in their Annenberg Center debut the timeless, expressive force of with the timeless, expressive traditional tunes passed down force of traditional tunes through generations of musipassed down through generacians. The St. Patrick’s Day celtions of musicians. A lively ebration will also include a free evening of Irish music and lobby performance by the UniverSt. Patrick’s Day revels! sity of Pennsylvania’s Tír na nÓg Photo/Brendan Duffy Irish Dance Troupe and Irish beer specials at the lobby bar. Tickets pands to include champion stepto the Saturday, March 17, 8 p.m. dancer Samantha Harvey and performance are available online legendary singer and musician at www.AnnenbergCenter.org by Séamus Begley. calling 215-898-3900. Téada has headlined festivals Téada (pronounced TAY-da, meaning “strings” in Gaelic) was founded and is led by County Sligo fiddler around the world from Australia to Zimbabwe, Malaysia to Mexico, as well Oisin Mac Diarmada (Oh-sheen Mac DER-muddah) and includes original mem- as released five acclaimed albums. The most recent is In Spite of the Storm bers flutist Damien Stenson, uilleann piper Sean Gavin, guitarist Sean McElwain, (Gael Linn, 2013).
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