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Lenfest Events
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Theater, Dance, and Film Studies
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TDFS Gallery
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SonoKlect Events
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Season Calendar
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Concert Guild Events
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Fall Music Events
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Winter Music Events
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Spring Music Events
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Staniar Gallery
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1 Bentley Musical 2021, LITTLE WOMEN The Broadway Musical 2,5,8 University Jazz Ensemble 3&6 Department of Art and Art History 4 University Orchestra Ensemble 7 W&L Repertory Dance Company 9 Bentley Musical 2021, LITTLE WOMEN The Broadway Musical
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Brochure front and inside cover: ARTrageous Brochure back cover: Departments of Music, Art and Theater, Dance, and Film Studies’ photos. Brochure graphic design by Susan Wager. W&L University photographs by Kevin Remington and Shelby Mack.
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LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO
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7:30 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tuesday February 15, 2022
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Tickets are required. Adult $27 Senior $25 W&L Faculty & Staff $23 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
The Trocks deliver a heady mix of high art and comedy, while preserving the magic of ballet.” ~THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo…remains one of the great comic creations of the American stage.” ~SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the world’s foremost all-male comic ballet professional company, celebrates 46 years of playful classical ballet en travesty. Affectionately called “the Trocks,” the company performs delightful parodies of great ballet classics with technical proficiency—revealing men can, indeed, dance en pointe with size 11 pointe shoes, wear tutus and execute precision pirouettes and fouette turns with
testosterone-fueled energy—a tour de force of male expertise that draws near sell-out crowds consistently. Diversity is the theme for both the Trocks and the audience who comes to watch barriers broken— dancing and performing the women’s parts en pointe. New Yorker critic Arlene Croce asserted that the Trocks weren’t addressing gender roles, but ballet roles, an altogether different topic... “a ballerina isn’t a woman but an abstraction of one.”
Sponsored in part by the Class of ’64 Performing Arts Fund. Please visit my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center or email boxoffice@wlu.edu for queries, updates, and changes.
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ARTrageous
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Thursday April 28, 2022
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7:30 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $23 Senior $21 W&L Faculty & Staff $18 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
Picasso Meets Blue Man Group!”
Go see this show.”
~CHICAGO TRIBUNE
~CBS TV
EXPLORE THE ARTrageous EXPERIENCE! INDESCRIBABLE, UNFORGETTABLE, INSPIRATIONAL!
Experience the thrill of giant masterpieces being fashioned before your eyes in mere moments. Envision a unique visual journey packed with artists, musicians, singers and dancers paying tribute to a variety of art forms, pop icons and musical genres. Conceive a highenergy performance that is a combination of all arts on one stage merged with wild inspiration, creativity and masterful audience engagement. Participate in ARTrageous’ unique multi-media art performance—an indescribable collision of the arts on one stage.
Artists, using hands, brushes and other objects, form visual art pieces making lines and shapes on giant canvasses while the audience is intrigued to guess what each painting will become. In a matter of minutes, this one-of- a-kind show combines live performance painting with original and classic music and remarkable vocals that will have you dancing as the ARTrageous artists race to finish their masterpieces before the last note. Their family-oriented shows are driven by their underlying message that arts are an integral and valuable part of human existence.
Sponsored in part by the Class of ’64 Performing Arts Fund.
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A STAGED READING
heater, Dance, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING and Film Studies WRITTEN BY WILL ARBERY
Thursday, October 21, 2021 Friday, October 22, 2021 Saturday, October 23, 2021
DIRECTED BY ROB MISH
7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Johnson Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are free, but required.
HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING is published by Samuel French, an imprint of Concord Theatricals. Playwrights Horizons, Inc. New York City, produced the World Premiere of HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING. HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING was developed by The Cape Cod Theatre Project, Hal Brooks, Artistic Director.
It’s August 19, 2017, on a pleasant evening in western Wyoming. More specifically, it’s two days before the solar eclipse and one week after the Charlottesville riot. Four young alumni of a tiny conservative Catholic college have gathered to celebrate their former mentor and professor as she is inaugurated as the college’s president.
Sitting on the back porch of Justin’s rustic home, their diverse, argumentative and illuminating wranglings over social, political and cultural issues point out just how divided four close friends can be—in a broader sense, a divided country in conflict with itself.
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Thursday, November 11, 2021 Friday, November 12, 2021 Saturday, November 13, 2021
W&L DANCERS CREATE... JENEFER DAVIES, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Under the artistic direction of Jenefer Davies, W&L Dancers Create... is a concert of works created, designed and performed by the W&L Repertory Dance Company—a performance that reflects, in theme and 6
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style, current undergraduate work in dance. This dance concert showcases the intellectual and creative curiosity within the dance program.
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Thursday, December 2, 2021 Friday, December 3, 2021 Saturday, December 4, 2021 Sunday, December 5, 2021
THE DRAMATIC CIRCLE WRITTEN BY ADRIENNE KENNEDY
DIRECTED BY NAFEESA MONROE, GUEST ARTIST
7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
The Dramatic Circle is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
In 1961, Suzanne and her sister-in-law Alice, two writers of color, are stuck in London, waiting for Alice’s brother (and Suzanne’s husband) to return from his dangerous journey pursuing a cure for the gravely ill controversial philosopher Frantz Fanon. Pregnant Suzanne’s health takes a turn for the worse, and her doctor encourages a diversion for the two women: his dramatic circle in which they read Bram Stoker’s Dracula together.
In a one-act originally written for the radio, Adrienne Kennedy, award-winning author of Funnyhouse of a Negro, and 2018 inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame for “Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater,” weaves together three seemingly incongruous stories, and takes us on a unexpected journey of fear, connection, and love.
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Saturday, February 12, 2022 Saturday, February 12, 2022
THUMBELINA
A KAMISHIBAI ADAPTATION FROM HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN BY NATSU ONODA POWER DIRECTED BY JEMMA ALIX LEVY
2 p.m. 7 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8 Students 10 years and younger are FREE but tickets are required. Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
THUMBELINA is produced by special arrangement with Kate Bussert, BRET ADAMS, LTD., 448 West 44th Street, New York, New York 10036. www.bretadamsltd.net THUMBELINA was commissioned and originally produced by Imagination Stage, Bethesda, Maryland.
Size really doesn’t matter in this adaptation of the traditional story of a little girl finding her way in a big world. Using the traditional Japanese storytelling technique called kamishibai, this play follows Thumbelina as she searches for a place where she fits in, discovering along the way that being different doesn’t 8
mean being alone. Join this tiny girl with a huge heart as she travels the world making unexpected friends along the way. This production is appropriate for audiences as young as 4 years old.
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W&L REPERTORY DANCE COMPANY and UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE JENEFER DAVIES, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TERRY VOSBEIN, JAZZ DIRECTOR
Thursday, March 10, 2022 Friday, March 11, 2022 Saturday, March 12, 2022
7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8
Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
• Performance will be streamed March 11 at no charge. https://livestream.com/wlu
The W&L Repertory Dance Company and the University Jazz Ensemble join forces for an artistic evening to remember. In the firstever collaboration between these two groups, syncopation, complex chords, and improvisation will drive rich, experimental movement that will set everyone’s toes to tapping. Set in 1950s New
Orleans, the Keller stage will be transformed into a jazz club featuring student composers paired with student choreographers, guest artists creating work to established jazz pieces, and Jenefer Davies and Terry Vosbein collaborating on a world premiere. Through it all, the University Jazz Ensemble’s driving beat will be front and center.
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Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Musical
TICK, TICK...BOOM! BOOK, MUSIC, LYRICS BY JONATHAN LARSON DAVID AUBURN, SCRIPT CONSULTANT VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS AND ORCHESTRATIONS BY STEPHEN OREMUS
MUSICAL DIRECTION BY PATRICK SUMMERS
Thursday, March 31, 2022 Friday, April 1, 2022 Saturday, April 2, 2022 Sunday, April 3, 2022
DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY DARNELL PIERRE BENJAMIN
7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 2 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
tick, tick...BOOM! was originally produced off-Broadway in June, 2001. Victoria Leacock • Robyn Goodman • Dede Harris • Lorie Cowen Levy • Beth Smith tick tick...BOOM! is presented through special arrangement Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
Prior to Tony Award-winning Rent (written and composed by Jonathan Larson) tick, tick...BOOM! captivated audiences! In this semi-autobiographic rock musical, we are tick...ticking of the clock gets closer and closer to what introduced to Jon, who is a composer working on his he believes is the end of his career. tick, tick…BOOM! new musical, Superbia, which has a workshop in a few was originally presented as a “rock monologue” entitled days. Jon is also just days away from turning 30 in 1990, Boho Days and performed by composer/lyricist, Jonathan and his fears of failure are mounting as he begins to Larson, as an autobiographical look at his dream of reconsider if working in the arts is where he’s meant leaving his mark on the musical theater landscape. Larson to be. Jon’s fears begin to affect everyone around him, was working on Boho Days at about the same time that including his girlfriend, Susan, and his best friend, he was writing the landmark musical, Rent, although, of Michael; and he is forced to face all of his fears, and the course, his tragic death meant that he did not live to see complications of his relationships, head-on as the tick... his dream become a reality. 10 wlu.edu/ theater-dance-and-film
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THE MOORS
heater, Dance, and Film Studies
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Thursday, May 19, 2022
WRITTEN BY JEN SILVERMAN DIRECTED BY JEMMA ALIX LEVY This play contains mature themes.
7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Johnson Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
The Moors is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Two spinster sisters. An unsuspecting governess. A twofaced maid (maybe). A philosopher-poet dog. A broken bird. Romance? Horror? Mystery? Welcome to Jen Silverman’s twisted take on Gothic.
“The moors are a savage place, and we who live here, despite our attempts to cling to a modicum of civilization, we find ourselves often forced to contend with savagery.”
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Saturday November 6, 2021
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SHEROES 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
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…Herzig herself is a visionary artist and educator, a true jazz warrior with an already fascinating career.” ~BOB BLUMENTHAL, Award Winning Journalist
Photo by Glen Frieson
SHEROES, brought together by pianist, composer, arranger, educator and author Monika Herzig, features an international cast of virtuous players—all women, all first-class talents. As an ensemble of empowerment, Sheroes is a musical force, operating with deftness, invention, enthusiasm and ambition. Sheroes not only heralds an era of greater and deeper consideration for
women in jazz but as Jazz Journalist Association President Howard Mandel affirms in his liner notes, “That’s exactly what Monika and company does: Presents a model of empowerment with results that are good for everyone. Wherever you are on the gender continuum, you’ll like it. SHEROES make music!” Herzig’s journey with the bandleaders began with the need for role models and peer support
in order to encourage more female participation in the jazz art form to get their musical voices heard. In addition to the keyboards of Herzig, the collective includes an international cast of virtuosi players: Jamie Baum (flute, United States); Reut Regev (trombone, Israel); Jennifer Vincent (bass, United States); and Rosa Avila (drums, Mexico).
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Saturday March 5, 2022
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JASPER WOOD & DAVID RILEY PLAY THE MUSIC OF TERRY VOSBEIN
8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
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Jasper Wood plays with a firm, rich tone and he’s excellently balanced against David Riley’s sparkling piano accompaniments.” ~DAVID HURWITZ, CLASSICS TODAY
This trio of artists has been making music together for two-and-a-half decades. Their CD Stradivarius Christmas was acclaimed by audiences and critics upon its release in 2012. The talented violinist and pianist have half a dozen CDs as a duo, covering major works by Stravinsky, Bartók, Ives and others. In 2004, 14
they garnered a Best Classical Recording award from East Coast Music. Returning to SonoKlect after a seven-year absence, Wood and Riley are preparing to enter the recording studio to create a disc of Vosbein’s compositions. Canadian violinist Jasper Wood has established a flourishing reputation as a soloist through
his frequent performances with many of North America’s finest orchestras and as a recitalist and chamber musician. The New York Concert Review raved about pianist David Riley’s “absolutely exquisite technique.” Vosbein has been composing for the pair since their student days at the Cleveland Institute of Music 25 years ago.
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ALL INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARE FULLY VACCINATED, ARE EXPECTED TO WEAR MASKS IN PUBLIC INDOOR SPACES ON CAMPUS.
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Staniar Gallery and Mudd Ethics Center 9-11 a.m. Staniar Gallery Daily Ethics Mosaic: A Community Artwork 12-2 p.m. Mudd Center 2:30-4:30 p.m. 9/1-30 Art Exhibit: Louise Herreshoff Eaton Art To See Color First 9/12 Faculty Recital: Musical Innovators: 3 p.m. Music Prokofiev and Shostakovich Gregory Parker, baritone; Anna Billias, piano 9/17 Concert Guild: John Bullard, classical banjo, 8 p.m. Concert Guild and Markus Compton, harpischord 9/19 Faculty Recital: 3 p.m. Music French Organ Music From Across the Centuries William McCorkle, organ 9/21 Art Lecture and Reception: To See Color First 5:30 p.m. Art 9/30 Staniar Gallery and Mudd Ethics Center 9-11 a.m. Staniar Gallery Daily Ethics Mosaic: A Community Artwork 12-2 p.m. Mudd Center 2:30-4:30 p.m. 10/1 Parents & Family Weekend Choral Concert 8 p.m. Music 10/2 Parents & Family Weekend 8 p.m. Music Instumental Concert 10/4-11/3 Art Exhibit: A Yellow Rose Project Art 10/21-23 A Staged Reading: Heroes of the Fourth Turning 7:30 p.m. T/D/FS 10/26 Art Lecture: A Yellow Rose Project 5:30 p.m. Art 10/26 Fall Choral Concert 8 p.m. Music 10/29-30 Staniar Gallery and Mudd Ethics Center 9-11 a.m. Staniar Gallery Daily Ethics Mosaic: A Community Artwork 12-2 p.m. Mudd Center 2:30-4:30 p.m. 10/31 Faculty Recital: A Gothic Romance 3 p.m. Music Scott Williamson, tenor and Anna Billias, piano 11/6 SonoKlect: SHEROES 8 p.m. SonoKlect 11/8-12/3 Art Exhibit: Maria Cristina Tavera: Art Homeward Bound 11/8 University Wind Ensemble Concert: Catharsis 8 p.m. Music 11/11 University Jazz Ensemble Concert + 8 p.m. Music Vosbein Magee Big Band 11/11-13 W&L Dancers Create… 7:30 p.m. T/D/FS 11/14 Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m. Music Music of Spain: Rhythms and Passion 11/16 Art Lecture and Reception: Maria Cristina Tavera 5:30 p.m. Art 11/18 University Orchestra Concert: What’s Old 8 p.m. Music is New Again 12/2-5 The Dramatic Circle 7:30 p.m. T/D/FS 12/6-7 Holiday Pops Concert 7 p.m. Music
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MASKS ARE OPTIONAL IN PUBLIC INDOOR SPACES ON CAMPUS.
Winter 2022 DATE 1/10-2/9 1/18 1/23 1/25 2/12 2/12 2/12 2/14-3/18 2/15 2/15 3/5 3/6 3/10-12 3/15 3/20 3/24 3/25 3/28-4/8 3/28 3/31 4/1-2 4/1 4/3 4/3 4/4 4/5 4/7
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Art Exhibit: David Nield: American Surrealist Art Lecture and Reception: David Nield 5:30 p.m. Concert Guild: Pinchas Zukerman Trio 3 p.m. Art Lecture and Reception: Johnathan Lee 5:30 p.m. Thumbelina 2 p.m. Thumbelina 7 p.m. Concert Guild: Vadym Kholodenko 8 p.m. Art Exhibit: Leah Raintree the landscape is not still Art Lecture and Reception: Leah Raintree 5:30 p.m. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 7:30 p.m. SonoKlect: Jasper Wood and David Riley 8 p.m. Play the Music of Terry Vosbein Senior Recital: Keren Katz ’22, soprano 3 p.m. W&L Repertory Dance Company and 7:30 p.m. University Jazz Ensemble Winter Choral Concert 8 p.m. Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m. A Feminine Touch University Orchestra Concert: 8 p.m. Fantasia Sinfonica Senior Recital: Missy Thomas ’22, violin 8 p.m. Art Exhibit: 2022 Senior Theses Exhibition Art Reception: 2022 Senior Theses Exhibition 5 p.m. Bentley Musical: TICK, TICK...BOOM! 7:30 p.m. Bentley Musical: TICK, TICK...BOOM! 7:30 p.m. Senior Recital: Truman Chancy ’22, saxophone 8 p.m. Faculty Recital: Anima e Grazia: From Vienna with Love 3 p.m. Julia Goudimova, cello; Anna Billias, piano Bentley Musical: TICK, TICK...BOOM! 2 p.m. University Wind Ensemble Concert: 8 p.m. Concerto-Aria Winner Concert Chasing Spring University Singers Tour Kick-Off Concert 8 p.m. University Jazz Ensemble Concert 8 p.m.
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Spring 2022 DATE 4/25-5/26 4/28 5/7 5/11 5/17-19 5/24
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Art Exhibit: Kathleen Olson A Retrospective ARTrageous 7:30 p.m. Art Lecture and Reception: Kathleen Olson 5 p.m. Faculty Recital: Arias and Barcarolles 8 p.m. William McCorkle, harpsichord; Julia Goudimova, cello; Scott Williamson, tenor The Moors 7:30 p.m. University Singers Commencement Concert 8 p.m.
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JOHN BULLARD, CLASSICAL BANJO MARKUS COMPTON, HARPSICHORD
One of the finest concerts we have ever had.”
Friday September 17, 2021
~MUSIC ON MAIN STREET, WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA
8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required.
Photo by Michael Wilson
Over the course of his performing and recording career, John Bullard has invited audiences to share in a transformative revelation: to experience the artistic marriage of banjo and classical music. “Absolutely enchanting” writes critic Graham Rickson of the UK-based The Arts Desk. “A musical education and experience that broke genre barriers,” noted Morgan Morrison, program director for the performance space Barns of Rose Hill. With qualities evocative of 18
harpsichord and lute, the banjo makes a natural place for itself, in particular, within the works of Bach and other composers of the Baroque—and Bullard has established a strong repertoire in the music of that period. Yet he continues, as well, to expand the banjo’s classical reach, with a growing focus on new commissioned work. Bullard will be joined by Markus Compton on W&L’s Watson French Double Harpsichord.
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PINCHAS ZUKERMAN TRIO
With Pinchas Zukerman’s matchless musicianship and charisma at its core, this is a trio made in heaven.” ~LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE Tickets are required. Adult $23 Senior $18 W&L Faculty & Staff $13 W&L Student/Student $13
3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Sunday January 23, 2022
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Photo by Jennifer Taylor
Amanda Forsyth (cello); Pinchas Zukerman (violin); Angela Cheng (piano) Beginning in 2011, Pinchas Zukerman, along with cellist Amanda Forsyth and pianist Angela Cheng, began offering trio repertoire as an alternative to the quintet works with the Chamber Players. In addition to piano trios by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Dvořák
and Shostakovich, programs often include duo performances with various couplings including the Kodaly Duo. Invitations from major Festivals and venues led to the official launch of the Zukerman Trio in 2013. Since then, the ensemble has traveled around the globe to appear my.wlu.edu/music-department
in Japan, China, Australia, Spain, Italy, France, Hungary, South Africa, Istanbul, Russia and throughout the United States. The Trio regularly performs at the Ravinia Festival, and has appeared at major festivals including the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Verbier, and Bravo! Vail. 19
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VADYM KHOLODENKO
“Kholodenko exudes a sense of excitement that comes straight out of his personality …Pianist and composer sounded as one, the performance closer to an experience of absolute improvisation than one will ever find in the classical repertoire. He played with such precipitous muscularity and high spirits that it could have been an encore….delicate and wistful side to his artistry that was utterly charming.” ~NEW YORK CLASSICAL REVIEW
Saturday February 12, 2022
8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $23 Senior $18 W&L Faculty & Staff $13 W&L Student/Student $13 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
Photo by Jean Baptiste Millot
Ukrainian-born Vadym Kholodenko is fast building a reputation as one of the most musically dynamic and technically gifted young pianists, praised in his performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra “for his absorbing melodic shading 20
[and] glittering passage work” (Philadelphia Enquirer). Winner of the 2013 Cliburn Competition, Kholodenko captivated audiences and critics alike with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra immediately appointing him their first Artist in
Partnership for a period of three years. His program at W&L will include works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Liszt, including Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and Adelaide.
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FACULTY RECITAL
MUSICAL INNOVATORS: PROKOFIEV AND SHOSTAKOVICH GREGORY PARKER, BARITONE ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO Sunday, September 12, 2021 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Sergei Prokofiev was one of many composers looking to shed the trappings of romanticism and open new vistas in musical expression. Likewise, Dmitri Shostakovich, 15 years younger than Prokofiev, combined an eclectic array of compositional techniques into his works. In this recital, Billias and Parker will present works by these two innovative composers. Selections include Prokofiev’s Three Romances After Pushkin, with texts that include the proletarian subjects that were more common in the composer’s songs after his return to the Soviet Union in 1936. Also, Dr. Billias will play his Fifth Piano Sonata, which features surprisingly light colors and a clarity not typical of Prokofiev’s overall tone. Shostakovich will be represented by his Three Fantastic Dances for piano with its grotesque and exquisite harmonies as well as a selection of preludes from his Opus 34. In addition, Parker and Billias will present Shostakovich’s Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin, which feature the dark themes of an oppressed artist, something he truly was at this point in his career.
FACULTY RECITAL
FRENCH ORGAN MUSIC FROM ACROSS THE CENTURIES: COMPOSITIONS BY GREAT ORGANISTS OF PARIS, ROUEN AND REIMS WILLIAM MCCORKLE
Sunday, September 19, 2021 3 p.m. Lexington Presbyterian Church No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://www.lexpres.org
The lovely C. B. Fisk pipe organ at Lexington Presbyterian Church is the vehicle for a program of music featuring the distinctive but changing sounds of French organs over three centuries, including compositions of great organists from Rouen (Jacques Please connect at 2:50 p.m. through the Lexington Presbyterian Church website https://www.lexpres.org. Join by clicking the “Live Boyvin) and Reims (Nicolas de Grigny), and of several on YouTube” icon located on the top of the home page. great Parisians (Louis Vierne, Jean Langlais, Maurice Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen). my.wlu.edu/music-department 21
PARENTS AND FAMILY WEEKEND CHORAL CONCERT
FEATURING THE UNIVERSITY SINGERS, THE GLEE CLUB AND CANTATRICI
Friday, October 1, 2021 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Tickets are free, but required and available only to current W&L students and families. Tickets become available Tuesday, September 28. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Come kick off the first live, public choral event in over 18 months at W&L (hopefully!) with the University Singers, The Glee Club and Cantatrici. Featuring the music of Bach, Rheinberger and a new work, Galaxias, by the exciting Argentinian composer Santiago Veros— this concert will be a joyous return to public singing with exciting music to match. These concerts will also serve as a showcase for Cantatrici’s new conductor, Lacey R. Lynch, who will take the reins of the ensemble. The University Singers will delight with Samo Vovk’s incredible Ta Na Solbici, a Slovenian work complete with body percussion. Traditional favorites will round out the evening, finally closing with James Erb’s Shenandoah.
INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE CONCERT Saturday, October 2, 2021 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Enjoy the University Jazz Ensemble, University Orchestra and University Wind Ensemble as they perform a combined concert as part of Parents and Family Weekend 2021.
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FALL CHORAL CONCERT
FEATURING THE UNIVERSITY SINGERS, THE GLEE CLUB AND CANTATRICI
An evening of choral music presented by the University Singers, The Glee Club and Cantatrici will feature music of Bach, Rheinberger and a new work Galaxias, by the exciting Argentinian composer Santiago Veros—this concert will be a joyous return to public singing with exciting music to match.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Tickets are free, but required. Tickets become available Tuesday, September 28. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
These concerts will also serve as a showcase for Cantatrici’s new conductor, Lacey R. Lynch, who will take the reins of the ensemble. The University Singers will delight with Samo Vovk’s incredible Ta Na Solbici, a Slovenian work complete with body percussion. Traditional favorites will round out the evening, finally closing with James Erb’s Shenandoah.
FACULTY RECITAL:
A GOTHIC ROMANCE
SCOTT WILLIAMSON, TENOR ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO Sunday, October 31, 2021 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Tenor Scott Williamson and pianist Anna Billias present a recital of seasonal music featuring The Poet’s Echo, a rarely-heard work by Benjamin Britten, featuring Alexander Pushkin’s verse. Russia’s beloved author is also the source of Tchaikovsky’s arias for the poet Lensky in his melodramatic tragedy, Eugene Onegin. Romantic art songs and theater songs are among the other entertainments of this eclectic program for Halloween. You are invited to join the artists in costume attire.
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UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT
CATHARSIS
Monday, November 8, 2021 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
The University Wind Ensemble performs their fall concert, Catharsis, with music that was a salve for many of the ensemble members during the pandemic crisis that took our Winter 2020 concert from us. Featuring the 24
delayed world premiere of Catharsis by Nicole Piunno and beloved works by Jennifer Jolley, Donald Grantham and Eric Whitacre, this concert will be sure to provide a beautiful respite after troubling times.
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UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE + VOSBEIN MAGEE BIG BAND Thursday, November 11, 2021 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
The annual fall concert with the University Jazz Ensemble and the Vosbein Magee Big Band is always a treat. The UJE opens the evening’s presentation, showcasing the talented student musicians, playing music from throughout the long history of jazz. After intermission, the Vosbein Magee Big Band takes the stage. The VMBB presents some of the finest professional jazz musicians, from the valley and beyond, and features music written by band members. A tradition at each fall UJE concert has the senior members of the band sharing the stage with the pro band to honor them and to celebrate their achievements.
MARLBROOK CHAMBER PLAYERS
MUSIC OF SPAIN: RHYTHMS AND PASSION
Sunday, November 14, 2021 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Megan Mason, viola Anna Billias, piano Julia Goudimova, cello Jaime McArdle, violin
This fall, allow yourself a musical trip through the passionate and sensitive music of Spain! The Marlbrook Players invite our audience to a journey through Spain by playing various, passionate selections performed by the Quartet. We will introduce you to the world of Flamenco compás, tour
the fragrant Valencia rose gardens, and show you the spirited nights and misty mornings of the Pyrenees mountains... All of that and more will be heard in the music of famous Spanish composers, with Joaquin Turina’s Quartet in A Minor, Op. 67, as the central piece of the program.
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UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT
WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN
Thursday, November 18, 2021 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Join the University Orchestra for a concert of music from the past reimagined. Included will be living composer Adolphus Hailstork’s Sonata di Chiesa, William Grant Still’s Danzas de Panama and Schubert’s iconic Symphony No. 1.
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Also featured will be a new one-movement piano concerto by Marcus Maroney that will feature new piano instructor, Dr. Akiko Konishi, as soloist. The UO looks forward to presenting historic forms in new ways. Join us for a time travel adventure!
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Tickets are required. Tickets are free with non-perishable food or monetary donation to Campus Kitchen. Tickets can be reserved online. Monetary donations may be made online, while food donations are required in-person at the Lenfest Box Office during open hours.
HOLIDAY POPS CONCERT Monday, December 6, 2021 Tuesday, December 7, 2021 7 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Tickets available beginning Tuesday, November 9, 2021.
• Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
The box office will be closed during W&L Thanksgiving break, November 22-26, 2021.
The Holiday Pops Concert will feature various ensembles from the Department of Music performing numerous pieces of music which are representative of the holiday season. Included on the program will be individual group performances, massed ensemble pieces and a variety of student conductors. Join us for a wonderful evening of music to help kick off the holiday season! Once again, we are encouraging the spirit of giving within our community by asking patrons to EXCHANGE one
non-perishable food or monetary donation for each Holiday Pops ticket at our box office during regular hours beginning Tuesday, November 9. All goods and funds collected will be donated to W&L Campus Kitchen, an organization that recovers and reuses food for the purpose of providing balanced meals for low-income members of the Rockbridge County community.
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KEREN KATZ ’22, SOPRANO
Sunday, March 6, 2022 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
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W&L REPERTORY DANCE COMPANY AND UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE JENEFER DAVIES, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TERRY VOSBEIN, JAZZ DIRECTOR
Thursday, March 10 2022 Friday, March 11, 2022 Saturday, March 12, 2022
7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.
• Performance will be streamed streamed March 11 at no charge. https://livestream.com/wlu
The W&L Repertory Dance Company and the University Jazz Ensemble join forces for an artistic evening to remember. In the first-ever collaboration between these two groups, syncopation, complex chords, and improvisation will drive rich, experimental movement that will set everyone’s toes to tapping.
Set in 1950s New Orleans, the Keller stage will be transformed into a jazz club featuring student composers paired with student choreographers, guest artists creating work to established jazz pieces, and Jenefer Davies, and Terry Vosbein collaborating on a world premiere. Through it all, the University Jazz Ensemble’s driving beat will be front and center.
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WINTER CHORAL CONCERT
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall Tickets are free, but required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Enjoy an evening with Cantatrici and The Glee Club performing a wide variety of choral classics from Palestrina to modern works by B2M. Cantatrici will be featured performing a Middle Eastern chant complete with traditional dance movements, and the Glee Club will feature a stirring version of What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor? 30
Both choirs will then join together and finish out the concert with works from around the world, with a particular focus on highlighting the music of South America.
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MARLBROOK CHAMBER PLAYERS
A FEMININE TOUCH
Sunday, March 20, 2022 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Anna Billias, piano; Jaime McArdle, violin; Julia Goudimova, cello; Megan Mason, viola
The Marlbrook Players continue its presence in the form of an all-women quartet. This concert’s theme was born out of appreciation for female composers who allow
their sensitive and expressive nature to be experienced in their works. The world of a woman is enigmatic and mysterious, definitely worth exploration!
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT
FANTASIA SINFONICA Thursday, March 24, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
The University Orchestra is excited to present an evening of music that evokes fantasy. The Ferry Crossing by Jennifer Jolly presents the excitement of having to take a ferry to the place that you live and all of the myth that goes along with that unique experience. Also included is Enrique Granados’ Liliana Suite, and Symphony No. 1 by Jean Sibelius which the composer himself originally titled Fantasia Sinfonia No. 1. Join the UO for an evening of imagination inspiring music!
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SENIOR RECITAL:
MISSY THOMAS ’22, VIOLIN Friday, March 25, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Missy Thomas is a music and German double major from Wiesbaden, Germany. She will perform a variety of works from Schubert to Grieg, among other pieces, that will highlight the lyricism and range of both her primary instrument, the violin and the viola, her secondary instrument.
SENIOR RECITAL:
TRUMAN CHANCY ’22, SAXOPHONE Friday, April 1, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Truman Chancy, a senior music major from Richmond, Virginia, will showcase the diverse capabilities of the alto saxophone through a performance of expressive classical works and creative improvisations on jazz standards.
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FACULTY RECITAL:
ANIMA E GRAZIA FROM VIENNA WITH LOVE JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO
As the opulent capital of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, Vienna was one of the biggest musical centers of classicalera Europe. It attracted the most famous composers and musicians of that time. The duet Anima e Grazia will lead
Sunday, April 3, 2022 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
you through some of the most brilliant compositions of that place and time with their presentation of From Vienna with Love.
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UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT CONCERTO-ARIA WINNER CONCERT
CHASING SPRING
Monday, April 4, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Join the University Wind Ensemble for a musical harbinger of spring. Featuring Cait Nishimura’s Chasing Sunlight and Alfred Reed’s The Hounds of Spring, this concert will ring in the season of new life. Also featured
will be works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Howard Hanson, Felix Mendelssohn and Leonard Bernstein. Join us for an uplifting evening of beautiful music to celebrate spring!
UNIVERSITY SINGERS
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
TOUR KICK-OFF CONCERT
Tickets are free, but required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Join the renowned University Singers as they kick-off their 2022 Irish Choir Tour for the 100th Anniversary of Irish Independence with an evening of a capella choral mastery. The tour will include showcase performances in Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Londonderry, and elsewhere, featuring the choir performing music from Bach to An Irish Blessing composed specifically for the tour by conductor Shane Lynch. The heart of the concert will be two sets, one based around Irish music featuring works 34
by modern Irish composer Seán Doherty and the world debut of a commissioned work on a text by Yeats by Australian-American composer Melissa Dunphy, and the second set of visually and aurally evocative music based around modern works such as Michael Ostrzyga’s powerful Iuppiter and Santiago Veros’ Galaxias. Finally, we close the program with folk songs and other works of Americana that are always audience favorites.
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UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE CONCERT
Thursday, April 7, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
With spring in the air, the University Jazz Ensemble springs into swing with the annual end-of-year concert. Having fine-tuned their sound all year, it is exciting to put it all on display for one final time. The talented student musicians are eager to show off their accomplishments. Expect to hear soulful soloists, tightly-knit ensembles, and original music from the director and band members.
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ARIAS AND BARCAROLLES: CANZONAS, SONATAS AND and TOCCATAS JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO WILLIAM MCCORKLE, HARPSICHORD SCOTT WILLIAMSON, BARITONE Wednesday, May 11, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Featuring tenor arias and cello solos from Antonio Vivaldi and Benjamin Britten and keyboard works of Claudio Merulo and Andrea Gabrieli. This program connects music and history in Venice. Arias and
Barcarolles also highlights the Italian Baroque’s influence across geographies and eras. Arias from the operas of Britten and Vivaldi frame the latter’s cello sonata in a program of rarely-heard chamber works.
UNIVERSITY SINGERS
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
COMMENCEMENT CONCERT
No tickets are required.
Join the University Singers under the direction of Shane M. Lynch for one final concert performance of the year, featuring favorite works from throughout the 2021-22
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season selected by the seniors. This annual tradition is designed for parents and families of the graduating students, but is also open to the public.
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JONATHAN LEE
DAILY ETHICS MOSAIC: A COMMUNITY ARTWORK
Series of Workshops: September 30 and October 29-30, 2021 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, January 25 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Workshops will be held in Staniar Gallery from 9:00-11 a.m., 12-2:00 p.m, and 2:30-4:30 p.m. Pre-registration is necessary and space is limited. Register at: https://my.wlu.edu/mudd-center/ programs-and-events/2021-2022-daily-ethics/ daily-ethics-mosiac-a-community-artwork
The Mudd Center’s Daily Ethics Mosaic will be a community artwork generated by W&L students, staff and faculty in a series of workshops during the Fall Term of 2021. Workshops will be led by Jonathan Lee, a Richmond artist whose socially engaged art practice has guided innovative and inspiring community projects such as Who is Downtown and Curriculum Lab. Daily Ethics Mosaic workshops will be conducted on September 30, and October 29-30, 2021, culminating in the exhibition of a large-scale community artwork that will be on view in Wilson Hall’s Lykes Atrium January 10 - February 9, 2022. There will be a public reception and artist’s talk on January 25, 2022 to celebrate the project’s completion.
W&L students, staff and faculty members are invited to participate in a two-hour workshop that will explore the Mudd Center’s daily ethics theme through both individual and collective art-making. Everyone is welcome! No artistic savvy is required, just a willingness to participate. A variety of art making materials will be provided but you’re welcome to bring your own as well. During the workshop, you’ll be invited to visually represent your thoughts on an 8-inch paper square. Since shaping our world is both an individual and collective enterprise, workshop participants will then merge their individual pieces with others to craft a final product that reflects a shared vision and aesthetic. Everyone’s contributions will then be installed together as a “community mosaic” in Wilson Hall.
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LOUISE HERRESHOFF: TO SEE COLOR FIRST
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Exhibition: September 1–30, 2021 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, September 21 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
UNTITILED, c. 1922; watercolor on paper, 16 x 21/25 inches, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Euchlin D. Reeves Collection in memory of Mrs. Chester Green Reeves and Miss Lizzie H. Dyer, UR1967.1.32
The paintings of Louise Herreshoff vibrate with color and brushwork emblematic of European Post-Impressionists and Fauvism. Almost 200 of her portraits, landscapes and still life paintings are part of Washington and Lee’s permanent art collection, a surprise find in a significant donation of ceramics that she and her husband, alumnus Euchlin Reeves ’27, gave to the university in 1967.
Co-curated by Patricia Hobbs, Associate Director of University Collections of Art and History and Tracy Bernabo, curator and registrar of Try-me Gallery (Richmond, Virginia), this exhibition highlights her bold and expressive watercolors in the first significant public display of Herreshoff ’s work outside of the University’s Reeves Center since 1976.
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Exhibition: October 4–November 3, 2021 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, October 26 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
ROSE PROJECT
LETITIA HUCKABY, Sugar and Spice, 2018, Archival pigment print, 24 x 20 inches
A Yellow Rose Project is a large-scale collaborative project featuring photographic-based art made by women across the United States. Artists were invited to make work in response, reflection or reaction to the ratification of the 19th Amendment with the goal of providing a focal point and platform to share contemporary viewpoints in conjunction with the centennial on August 18, 2020. It was on that day 100 years ago that women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee awaiting the roll call of men that would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.
Though this movement granted rights to some women, it was not until much later that all American women, regardless of race, were given the same privilege. The work in this show considers this moment in history from various perspectives, inviting both a critical eye as well as one that recognizes how far we have come. This project is organized by Meg Griffiths, Assistant Professor of Photography at Texas Woman’s University, and Frances Jakubek, Director of Exhibitions and Operations at Bruce Silverstein Gallery (New York, New York).
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MARIA CRISTINA TAVERA: HOMEWARD BOUND
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Exhibition: November 8–December 3, 2021 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, November 16 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Publicity image for artist film: Zozobra, photo by Xavier Tavera
Minneapolis-based artist, Maria Cristina Tavera (“Tina”) examines cultural signifiers regarding constructions of race, ethnicity, gender, and national and cultural identities. Tavera appropriates visual imagery from Latin American legends, commercial packaging, the media, politics, comics, maps, currency, graffiti, and games. Working in various media (printmaking, installation, video), she plays with bilingual shifts in meaning to create art that is often humorous and yet simultaneously confronts the dark legacy and pervasive effects of colonialism and racism in the Americas. Tavera is a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States. She holds a Master of Leadership in the Arts from the Humphrey School and a BA in Spanish and BA in Latin American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Tavera has exhibited nationally and
internationally and has received fellowships and grants: McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, Archibald Bush Leadership Fellowship, Shannon Leadership Institute, Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies program, Museum of Modern Art-New York, Forecast Public Art, Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), and Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME). As an independent curator, she prepared the international exhibition Sus Voces: Women Printmakers in Mexico at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was co-curator for American Art its Complicated at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (“M”). Her writings have been published by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, as well as a book titled, Mexican Pulp Art.
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DONALD NIELD:
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Exhibition: January 10–February 9, 2022 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, January 18 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
ARCTIC MASQUE, 1971, oil on canvas, 40 x 28 inches
Donald Nield’s painting is characterized by fantastical settings, personal symbols and humorous juxtapositions drawn from art history and popular culture. A selfidentified surrealist painter, Nield (1924-1984) was born in Shanghai and spent his childhood in the United Kingdom, Canada and China before immigrating to the United States with his family in 1933. Having studied anatomy, perspective and life drawing in the 1950s, Nield came to reject contemporary abstract art in favor of traditional figurative painting. “I want to express
the existence of a world of the spirit with the symbols and forms of classical culture,” he said. By 1967, he had developed a visual vocabulary that merged Old Master painting, surrealism and Pop Art—a sampling that touched upon multiple avant-garde movements while simultaneously maintaining a distance from the central art historical narratives of mid-century modernism in the United States. This exhibition features selections from Nield’s extensive oeuvre, which is now in a private collection.
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LEAH RAINTREE: the landscape is not still
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Exhibition: February 14–March 18, 2022 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, February 15 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
hand that breaks the weather, Athabasca, gelatin silver print, 2019, 36 x 36 inches
Leah Raintree is an artist based in New York City. Her practice addresses our relationship to time, scale and ecology through process-based interactions with sites and materials, with projects arising from a hybrid of research and physical engagement in place. She works across sculpture, drawing and photography to distill correlations between human and geologic scales, capturing points of interaction within natural and man-made phenomena.
Raintree’s work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at The Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York. She has been awarded numerous artist-in-residence fellowships including Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace and Process Space, New York City, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium and the Banff Centre, Canada. Raintree holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from Parsons, the New School for Design.
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2021 SENIOR ART MAJORS
In their senior year, Studio Art students work independently on a body of work to be presented in Staniar Gallery as the culmination of their undergraduate education. The annual exhibition showcases drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculptures by
the young artists who concentrate in one of these areas to earn the BA degree in Studio Art. As their debut into the art world, the exhibit gives the graduating seniors the opportunity to display their work in a professional gallery setting.
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KATHLEEN OLSON: A RETROSPECTIVE
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THE VISITOR, 2006, oil on canvas
Olson has had numerous one-person exhibitions and her work has been exhibited widely in regional and national exhibitions. In 2007 and 2005, she had solo exhibitions at the Accademia dell’ Arte in Arezzo, Italy. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including a Hewlett-Mellon Fellowship; the Ford Foundation Grant;
Artist in Residence, The National Centre Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belguim; Visiting Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has also received many Glenn Grants from Washington and Lee University for Faculty Development, allowing her to paint in the South of France, Greece and Italy.
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MASKS ARE OPTIONAL IN PUBLIC INDOOR SPACES ON CAMPUS. The Lenfest Box Office opens for in-person and online ticket sales on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. The box office hours are Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. and is open only when undergraduate classes are in session. Forms
of payment include cash, check, or credit card. Patrons can contact the Box Office by calling 540.458.8000 or emailing boxoffice@wlu.edu
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Photos by Zoren Jelenic
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Box office opens Tuesday, September 14. Box Office hours are Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and one hour prior to • If any tickets become available, patrons on the WAIT all ticketed performances. LIST will be contacted in order. The patrons who are reached first will be given the available tickets. The Box Office is CLOSED during undergraduate breaks; • This WAIT LIST will be effective until 3 p.m of the last however, website sales will still be available. work day before the performance in question. Seating for events listed in this brochure is by general admission. There is no reserved seating; however, patrons • Example 1: If an event is on a Wednesday, the WAIT LIST may call the Box Office to reserve handicapped seating. will be effective until 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. Example 2: If an event is on a Saturday, the WAIT LIST Patrons are encouraged to call the Box Office for will be effective until 3 p.m. on Friday. information concerning the suitability of events for • If you have not received any contact from the Box Office children. before this time, tickets are not available. Parking is reserved in the Lenfest Center fan for dropoffs, special assistance and wheelchair accessible parking Lenfest Center Will Call (Day of Show) Ticket Policy only. The fan will close to staff and faculty at 4:30 p.m. on the day of a performance. • When an event becomes sold out, a WILL CALL list will Accessible parking is available in front of the Lenfest be formed at the Box Office once it opens 1 hour prior to Center with a ramp to access the building. Additional the performance. No calls or emails will be accepted. accessible parking is available in the parking parage • If any tickets become available, patrons on the WILL across the street from the Center. CALL list will be called out loud, in order, by the Box Assisted listening systems have been installed in the Office agent on duty. Patrons are encouraged to stay near Keller Theatre, Johnson Theatre and the Wilson Concert the Box Office in case tickets become available. Hall. Please see the house manager at least 15 minutes • If a patron’s name is called three times and there is no prior to curtain to sign out a receiver. response, the patron forfeits the right to the ticket and the next person on the list will be called. Lenfest Center Wait List Ticket Policy When an event becomes sold out, a WAIT LIST will be • If your name is not called by the Box Office before show formed at the Box Office. Patrons can be added to the time, tickets are not available. list during regular Box Office hours via phone, email or in person.
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