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Year 34, No. 26
Celebrating 34 Years of Community News
Lower Merion Symphony Celebrates “Musical Light” by Women 25th Year with Free All-Wagner Concert Composers and Performers March 17 Concert at Bryn Mawr College he Lower Merion Symphony Orchestra is celebrating it 25th year with a free concert on March 17, at 3 p.m. at Bryn Mawr College in Goodhart Hall. This program is a highly complex work by Richard Wagner, entitled, “Scenes from The Ring of the Nibelung.” Prominent vocal soloists Lisa DeNolfo, Soprano and John Packard, Tenor are featured.
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Bill Yoh Addresses “Leaving a Legacy of Meaning” Page 6
Violinist David Kim to Perform at The Haverford School Page 8
March 6 – March 12, 2019
Bala Cynwyd Library Presents Free Concert at The Levering Mill Tribute House March 17
Prominent vocal soloists Lisa DeNolfo, soprano (shown) and John Packard, tenor are featured in this free concert on March 17, at Bryn Mawr College in Goodhart Hall. “Since 1993, we continue to be the Delaware Valley’s best entertainment value because we offer some of the highest quality classical music performances in the region, and every concert is free,” said the organization’s President and principal clarinetist, Dr. Sherman Leis. Led by musical director/ conductor, Mark Gigliotti, the Lower Merion Symphony continues to improve the quality and depth of its orchestra with the addition of numerous Philadelphia Orchestra members who donate their time so that the organization can fulfill its mission: that of being one of the few musical organizations in the region that provides free concerts. For information, visit www.LowerMerionSymphony.org.
The free concert will feature Adeline Tomasone, flute, Vivian Barton, cello, and Gilya Hodos, piano on Sunday, March 17 at 2 p.m. at The Levering Mill Tribute House. Meira Warshauer (shown), one of the composers, will be in attendance. he Bala Cynwyd Library will present a concert on Sunday, March 17 that will explore “musical light” as imagined by women composers and expressed by women performers. The concert will examine different kinds of musical light: starlight, spirals of light, pastoral light, and others. It will also consider the lives of the composers being presented and the struggles they had to overcome in order to have their musical voices heard. Though some of the composers were fortunate enough to have supportive families, many of them were not and had to
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Morris Arboretum Welcomes Patrick Dougherty in 2019 Find Unique Arts & Cultural Events to Attend!
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