Lenfest Center for the Arts Brochure 2022-2023 Season

Brochure front: Viva Momix

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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Tuesday October 4, 2022

VIVA MOMIX CELEBRATING ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

7:30

Tickets are required. Adult $33 Senior $30 W&L Faculty & Staff $27 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Known internationally for presenting works of astounding inventiveness and physical beauty, MOMIX is a company of unbelievable dancer-illusionists. In VIVA MOMIX, the company mixes traditional MOMIX styles of fun and beauty in a two-act program that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. In an endless search for another gravity, Artistic Director Moses Pendleton combines athletic dance, riveting

music, outrageous costumes, props, and pure talent to create an entertaining multimedia experience that will surprise and astonish. Each show features dancers manipulating their bodies and props in unique and astounding ways. While there is no concrete story-line, MOMIX performances evoke through imagery a theater of light and physical bodies. MOMIX has something for everyone, experience the exceptional!

Sponsored in part by the Class of ’64 Performing Arts Fund.

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MOMIX is a tension between illusion and reality, apprehension and excitement.” ~THE NEW YORK TIMES

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I’d love to be able to see into Pendleton’s dreams just one night, but dreams alone don’t make theater like this.” ~PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Photo by Max Pucciariello

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Friday January 27, 2023

MIAMI ALL STARS ULTIMATE

SYNCHRONIZED LATIN INTERNATIONAL BALLROOM DANCING THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE!

LENFEST CENTER & PICKENS WORLD MUSIC

7:30 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

From Cha-Cha to Tango, Foxtrot to Mambo, Swing to Salsa to dancers for Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s epic Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show, this wild and vivacious group—Miami All Stars—electrifies the stage with a superb company of world-class dancers in over 20 sizzling costumes featuring the “LATIN FIRE” Miami has become famous for! With multiple sold-out performances across the globe, the Miami All Stars bring the ultimate theatrical ballroom experience to the Keller stage with jaw-dropping choreography, breath-taking moves, superb technicality and quick-

Tickets are required. Adult $33 Senior $30 W&L Faculty & Staff $27 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

fire precision creating an ultimate and exhilarating performance. The Miami All Stars is an elite and world-renowned synchronized Latin International Ballroom dance company. Under the direction of Manny and Lory Castro, recognized internationally in the World Dance Sport Federation and deemed “Ballroom royalty choreographers,” the Miami All Stars exploded on the scene with their flawless timing and incredible technique and are passionately dedicated to bringing the “golden age of dance” to the masses.

Sponsored in part by the Class of ’64 Performing Arts Fund and the Pauline B. And Paul D. Pickens Fund for the Performing Arts

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Friday March 10, 2023

THORNETTA DAVIS BAND DETROIT’S QUEEN OF THE BLUES LENFEST

CENTER & PICKENS WORLD MUSIC

8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required. Adult $25 Senior $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Crowned “Detroit’s Queen of the Blues” in 2015, Thornetta Davis is a multi-talented international singer and songwriter from Detroit, Michigan and winner of 30 Detroit Music Awards, including a sweep of the 2017 DMAs winning eight awards.

Having shared the stage with legendary Blues and R&B greats such as Ray Charles, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Junior Wells, Lonnie Brooks, Johnnie Johnson and many more; her history is extensive and performances memorable.

Sponsored in part by the Class of ’64 Performing Arts Fund and the Pauline B. And Paul D. Pickens Fund for the Performing Arts

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...Thornetta Davis sang with no-nonsense sass, fearless in her missives against lovers as she preached the Blues.”

Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Friday, November 4, 2022 Saturday, November 5, 2022

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 students—a performance that reflects, in

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.

theme and style, current undergraduate work in dance. This dance concert showcases the intellectual and creative curiosity within the dance program.

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Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

Thursday, December 1, 2022 Friday, December 2, 2022 Saturday, December 3, 2022 Saturday, December 3, 2022

TREASURE ISLAND

ADAPTED BY MARY ZIMMERMAN FROM THE NOVEL BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON DIRECTED BY NAFEESA MONROE

7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 2 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.

TREASURE ISLAND is produced by special arrangement with BRET ADAMS, LTD., 448 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. www.bretadamsltd.net

TREASURE ISLAND was originally produced by Lookingglass Theatre Company; Chicago, October 2015.

Unexpected guests, pirates, treasure, adventure, friendship, sea shanties—all are a part of this wonderful stage adaptation of Treasure Island by Mary Zimmerman. Music, singing, sword fights

and ocean voyages are just the beginning of telling this familiar tale on the stage. Join us on this journey as we seek to discover that which is our true treasure.

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Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Friday, March 10, 2023

Saturday, March 11, 2023 Saturday, March 11, 2023

M. Bentley Musical

BEEHIVE - THE 60s MUSICAL

7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 2 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.

BEEHIVE - THE 60s MUSICAL is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 6450 New York, NY 10036. wwwtheatricalrights.com

BEEHIVE - THE 60s MUSICAL celebrates the powerful female voices of the 1960’s with such timeless hits as “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “Be My Baby,” “Son of a Preacher Man” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” Through direct address of the audience, this musical tells the story of the tumultuous

decade in which these women come of age. The journey is one from innocence in the early 60s where the characters discuss hemlines and hairstyles to the challenges faced by the entire nation by the end of that decade with race riots, women’s rights and anti-war protests.

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DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY JENEFER DAVIES

MUSICAL DIRECTION BY PATRICK SUMMERS

CREATED BY LARRY GALLAGHER

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Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Friday, March 31, 2023 Saturday, April 1, 2023

W&L REPERTORY DANCE COMPANY

JENEFER DAVIES, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

The award-winning W&L Repertory Dance Company presents an evening of multi-faceted dance works performed and created by internationally renowned choreographers, faculty and guest artists. Named a program of “outstanding artistic excellence” by the

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.

American College Dance Association, W&L Repertory Dance Company is committed to showcasing artistically vibrant contemporary dance works and challenging W&L student dancers through experiential opportunities in dance.

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SonoKlect OREGON WIND QUINTET

Saturday October 8, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson

Concert Hall

The Oregon Wind Quintet has been a mainstay of the contemporary music scene for quite some time. Comprised of acclaimed faculty members at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, the ensemble has inspired audiences across the globe. Their commitment to modern music can be seen in their many collaborations with composers.

As part of their Lexington debut, the quintet will premiere SonoKlect Director Terry Vosbein’s latest composition, A Vonnegut Trilogy. The three-movement work was written for this concert to commemorate the centennial of the birth of the great American novelist, Kurt Vonnegut.

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Steve Vacchi, bassoon; Wonkak Kim, clarinet; Dieter Koch, oboe; Justin Stanley, horn; Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington, flute

No tickets are required.

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TIM HAGANS, TRUMPETER/COMPOSER

are required. Saturday March 4, 2023

Jazz trumpeter/composer Tim Hagans brings his combo to Lexington for an exciting evening of forward-leaning jazz. Hagans first came to fame during his three-year stint filling the jazz trumpet chair with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. For 15 years he was artistic director and composer-in-residence for the Norrbotten Big Band in Northern Sweden. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, as well as three Grammy nominations. In June 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from the

Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Hagans has performed and recorded with Thad Jones, Ernie Wilkins, Joe Lovano, Bob Belden and Dexter Gordon. It was Jones who encouraged him to write music, and his first composition appeared on a Thad Jones Eclipse LP. Since that time, Hagans has received a great number of commissions and grants for new works. He is the featured soloist on the soundtrack by Howard Shore for the movie The Score, starring Robert DeNiro and Marlon Brando.

To view the entire history of the SonoKlect Festival, visit www.sonoklect.com.

No tickets

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

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Fall 2022

DATE EVENT TIME PRESENTER

LOCATION

9/5-10/5 Art Exhibit: Aaron Turner Art Staniar Gallery Black Alcemy: if this one thing is true—Redux 9/18 Faculty Recital: Bach and Beyond: 3 p.m. Music *LPC German Organ Music Across Four Centuries William McCorkle, organ 9/20 Art Lecture and Reception: 5:30 p.m. Art Concert Hall Black Alchemy: if this one thing is true—Redux 9/30 Parents & Family Weekend Choral Concert 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall 10/1 Parents & Family Weekend 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall Instrumental Concert 10/4 VIVA MOMIX 7:30 p.m. Lenfest Keller Theatre 10/8 SonoKlect: Oregon Wind Quintet 8 p.m. SonoKlect Concert Hall 10/10-11/2 Art Exhibit: Esteban Pérez Art Staniar Gallery Distorted Myths 10/22 Concert Guild: The Juliani Ensemble 8 p.m. Concert Guild Concert Hall 10/22-23 City of Derry International Choir Festival Music Northern Ireland 10/25 Art Lecture & Reception: Distorted Myths 5 p.m. Art Concert Hall 10/25 Fall Choral Concert 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall 10/30 Faculty Recital: Winterreise 3 p.m. Music Concert Hall (A Winter Journey) Scott Williamson, tenor and Anna Billias, piano 11/3-5 W&L Dancers Create… 7:30 p.m. •T/D/FS Keller Theatre 11/6 Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m. Music Concert Hall Favorite Contemporary Compositions: Music of the Modern Generation 11/7-12/9 Art Exhibit: Amanda Lechner Art Staniar Gallery Terra Ignota: Land Unknown 11/7 University Wind Ensemble Concert: Premieres 8 p.m Music Concert Hall 11/10 University Jazz Ensemble Concert + 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall Vosbein Magee Big Band 11/13 Senior Recital: Taylor Colaizzi ’23, clarinet 3 p.m. Music Concert Hall 11/15 Lecture &Reception: Terra Ignota: Land Unknown 5:30 p.m. Art Staniar Gallery 11/17 University Orchestra Concert: Firsts 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall 12/1-2 Treasure Island 7:30 p.m. •T/D/FS Johnson Theatre 12/2 Concert Guild: Noah Alden Hardaway 8 p.m. Concert Guild Concert Hall 12/3 Treasure Island 2 p.m. •T/D/FS Johnson Theatre 12/3 Treasure Island 7:30 p.m. •T/D/FS Johnson Theatre 12/5-6 Holiday Pops Concert 7 p.m. Music Concert Hall

*Lexington Presbyterian Church

•Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

**Lenfest/Pickens Fund

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1/9-2/8 Art Exhibit: Sam Blanchard: Futile State Art Staniar Gallery 1/21 Concert Guild: Collective Euphonia 8 p.m. Concert Guild Concert Hall 1/24 Lecture and Reception: Futile State 5:30 p.m. Art Concert Hall 1/27 Miami All Stars 7:30 p.m. **L/PF Keller Theatre Synchronized Latin International Ballroom Dancing

1/29 Senior Recital: 3 p.m. Music Concert Hall Nat Ledesma ’23, mezzo-soprano

2/5 Piano Program Recital: Let’s Dance 3 p.m. Music Concert Hall 2/13-3/17 Art Exhibit: Adrienne Callander Art Staniar Gallery Fieldwork

2/14 Concert Guild: Matt Haimovitz, cello 8 p.m. Concert Guild Concert Hall 2/28 University Singers Tour Home Concert 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall 3/1 Lecture & Reception: Fieldwork 5:30 p.m. Art Concert Hall 3/4 SonoKlect: Tim Hagans, trumpeter/composer 8 p.m. SonoKlect Concert Hall 3/9-10 Bentley Musical: Beehive - The 60s Musical 7:30 p.m. ••T/D/FS/M Keller Theatre 3/10 Pickens/Lenfest: Thornetta Davis Band 8 p.m. **L/PF Concert Hall 3/11 Bentley Musical: Beehive - The 60s Musical 2 p.m. ••T/D/FS/M Keller Theatre 3/11 Bentley Musical: Beehive - The 60s Musical 7:30 p.m. ••T/D/FS/M Keller Theatre 3/14 Winter Choral Concert 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall 3/19 Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m. Music Concert Hall Classic Gems 3/23 University Orchestra Concert: 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall Concerto Aria Winner’s Concert 3/27-4/7 Art Exhibit: 2023 Senior Theses Exhibition Art Staniar Gallery 3/30-4/1 W&L Repertory Dance Company 7:30 p.m. •T/D/FS Keller Theatre 3/31 Senior Recital: 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall Michael McLaughlin ’23, baritone 4/TBA Reception: 2023 Senior Theses Exhibition 5:30 p.m. Art Concert Hall 4/3 University Wind Ensemble Concert: 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall To the Fore! 4/6 University Jazz Ensemble Concert 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall

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Spring 2023

DATE EVENT TIME PRESENTER

4/24-5/25

Art Exhibit: Delilah Montoya

Contemporary Casta Portraiture

TBA Lecture and Reception:

Contemporary Casta Portraiture

LOCATION

Art Staniar Gallery

5:30 p.m. Art Concert Hall

5/14 Faculty Recital: Anima e Grazia: 3 p.m. Music Concert Hall

A Romantic Bouquet

Julia Goudimova, cello, Anna Billias, piano

5/23 University Singers Commencement Concert 8 p.m. Music Concert Hall

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Saturday October

22,

THE JULIANI ENSEMBLE

2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required. Adults $25 Seniors $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Described by the Galena Gazette as “world class,” the spectacular Juliani Ensemble will open the Concert Guild’s 2022-2023 season with a program that features the Trio in G Major by Carl Stamitz as well as Joseph Haydn’s Trio No. 3 in G Major, also known as the “London”

Trio. Additionally, the concert will include rarely heard chamber works by Reinhold Glière, François Devienne and Franz Danzi. The core of the ensemble is comprised primarily of members of the multi-generational Graef family musicians.

Anita Graef, cello; Emily Seaberry Graef, flute; Julian Graef, violin, viola

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Friday December 2, 2022

NOAH ALDEN HARDAWAY,

PIANO

8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

A native Texan and graduate of Rice University’s prestigious Shepherd School of Music, Noah Alden Hardaway is pursuing a doctorate in piano performance at Shenandoah Conservatory under the guidance of John O’Conor. Additionally, he has been coached by Vadym Kholodenko and other Moscow Conservatory artists.

No tickets are required.

Hardaway, described as “a technically gifted young virtuoso” by the Chestnut Hill Local, will perform a varied program featuring Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues by Frederic Rzewski among other pieces. Rzewski, who passed away in June 2021, was considered one of the most significant American pianist-composers of his generation.

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COLLECTIVE EUPHONIA IT’S COMPLICATED... SONGS AND SCENES ON RELATIONSHIPS

Saturday January 21, 2023 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required. Adults $25 Senior $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No Charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Collective Euphonia presents a program of songs, opera and musical theater scenes exploring the adventurous complications of a wide range of relationships. Samuel Barber’s one-act opera, A Hand of Bridge is the centerpiece of a program featuring scenes from Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, staged art songs and excerpts from Brahms’ Liebeslieder waltzes.

Scott Williamson leads a vocal quartet. WLU music faculty and Collective members, Anna Billias, piano, Julia Goudimova, cello, and William McCorkle, piano/ harpsichord are collaborative artists for this chamber program premiere.

Founded by Williamson in 2019, Collective Euphonia is a flexible, interdisciplinary, self-governing ensemble of creative professionals. The group combines art, dance, music, poetry and theater in site-specific residencies. Their acclaimed debut residency at the Taubman Museum of Art and Temple Emanuel in Roanoke, Virginia, explored the relations of culture, faith and sensuality in the Hebrew Song of Songs. Collective artists collaborate in a democratic creative process from the planning stages to the concert platforms, impacting audiences through multi-modal programming and unexpected intersectionalities.

Collective Euphonia members: Julia Goudimova (cello); Anna Billias (piano); Scott Williamson (tenor)

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“

MATT HAIMOVITZ, CELLO A MOVEABLE FEAST

...ferociously talented cellist who brings his megawatt sound and uncommon expressive gifts to a vast variety of styles.” ~NEW YORK TIMES

Tuesday February 14, 2023

8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required. Adult $25 Senior $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required

Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

A Moveable Feast is the unique programming concept that cellist Matt Haimovitz will bring to campus during his residency February 12-14. Haimovitz will present a master class for student cellists on February 12, followed by performances of one of the six Bach solo cello suites and one companion overture for solo cello by a

contemporary composer at three sites around campus throughout the day on February 13. On February 14, Haimovitz will bring the three-day event to a close with a recital of the remaining three Bach cello suites and three overtures. What a great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day!

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THORNETTA DAVIS BAND PICKENS

WORLD MUSIC & LENFEST CENTER

She’s got it. She’s a queen, and an honest woman.” ~JIM HYNES, ELMORE MAGAZINE “

Friday March 10, 2023

8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

Davis conveys intense emotion without overkill...”

~DAVID WHITEIS, LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE

Tickets are required. Adult $25 Senior $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15

W&L Student/Student No charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Thornetta Davis, known as “Detroit’s Queen of the Blues,” and her band will bring their authentic and award-winning show to W&L. Davis has opened for blues legends B.B. King, Ray Charles, Etta James, KoKo Taylor, Johnny Johnson, Bonnie Raitt and more. She is a seventime Blues Foundation Blues Music Awards nominee including two 2022 BMA nominations for contemporary

blues artist female and best instrumentalist vocals. Down Beat Magazine’s 2018 Monterey Jazz Fest performance review stated, “The follow-up at the Garden Stage on Saturday blew the crowd away. In her first-time performing at Monterey, “Detroit’s Queen of the Blues, Thornetta Davis, sang with no-nonsense sass, fearless in her missives against lovers as she preached the blues.”

Sponsored in part by the Class of ’64 Performing Arts Fund and the Pauline B. And Paul D. Pickens Fund for the Performing Arts

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FACULTY RECITAL TO BACH AND BEYOND: GERMAN ORGAN MUSIC ACROSS FOUR CENTURIES WILLIAM MCCORKLE, ORGAN

Sunday, September 18, 2022

3 p.m.

Lexington Presbyterian Church No tickets are required. www.lexpres.org

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach and some of his most distinguished predecessors and successors in the incomparable organ tradition of Germany and northern Europe. The C. B. Fisk pipe organ (opus 128, 2007) is well suited to display this array of works from the 17th through the 20th centuries.

Please connect at 2:50 p.m. through the Lexington Presbyterian Church website www.lexpres.org. Join by clicking the “Live on YouTube” icon located on the top of the home page.

PARENTS AND FAMILY WEEKEND

CHORAL CONCERT FEATURING THE UNIVERSITY SINGERS, THE GLEE CLUB AND CANTATRICI

Friday, September 30, 2022

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 13. • Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Come kick off the 2022-2023 choral season with the University Singers, Glee Club and Cantatrici. Showcasing Lacey R. Lynch, conductor of Cantatrici, and members of the Choral Conducting Mentorship Program (CCMP), the first half of the program will be centered around Latvian composer Laura Jekabsone’s Sudraba Mēness as well as the amazing Sihr Khalaq—an incredible combination of Arabic rhythm, textures, and style. The University Singers, conducted by Shane M. Lynch, are finalists for the City of Derry International Choir Festival in October 2022, and are the first American choir ever to be selected for this competition. They will present both their Competition Concert set and Gala Concert set, which feature the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria, Frank Martin, Stacey V. Gibbs and Rosephayne Powell. Traditional favorites will round out the evening, finally closing with James Erb’s Shenandoah. The Parents and Family Weekend Concert is designed for the families and friends of the students.

INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE CONCERT

Saturday, October 1, 2022

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Join the University Jazz Ensemble, University Orchestra and University Wind Ensemble as they perform a combined concert as part of Parents and Family Weekend 2022.

FALL CHORAL CONCERT FEATURING THE UNIVERSITY SINGERS, THE GLEE CLUB AND CANTATRICI

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are free, but required. Tickets become available Tuesday, September 13.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

The first half of the concert will be centered around Latvian composer Laura Jekabsone’s Sudraba Mēness as well as the amazing Sihr Khalaq, an incredible combination of Arabic rhythm, textures and style. The University Singers, conducted by Shane M. Lynch, are finalists for the City of Derry International Choir Festival in October 2022, and are the first American

choir ever to be selected for this competition. They will present both their Competition Concert set and Gala Concert set, which feature the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria, Frank Martin, Stacey V. Gibbs and Rosephayne Powell. Traditional favorites will round out the evening, finally closing with James Erb’s Shenandoah.

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AT THE CITY OF DERRY INTERNATIONAL CHOIR FESTIVAL

Saturday, October 22, 2022: International Competition Concert Sunday, October 23, 2022: Gala Concert

Londonderry, Northern Ireland

The University Singers has been selected as a finalist for the International Competition at the City of Derry International Choir Festival in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where they will compete against choirs from nine other nations for the coveted ‘Oak Tree of Derry’ trophy. The University Singers are the first American choir ever to be selected for this competition.

“Obviously, this is a tremendous honor for the students and for the University,” stated Shane Lynch, conductor of The University Singers. “It is sort of crazy that this tiny little school in the middle of rural Virginia with a choir made up of mainly 18-22 year olds, 70% of whom are non-music majors, was selected to be featured on a true international stage like this.”

Typically, American choirs featured in events like this are from huge graduate Schools of Music or are semiprofessional ensembles in large Metropolitan areas. It is a testament to the hard work and true care of generations of students who have come through The University Singers that allows for something like this to happen.”

In addition to various events exploring the cultures and music of the other competing international choirs, The University Singers will present their competition set on Saturday, October 22 in the Guildhall, the main concert space in Derry. The competition set focuses on technically challenging music of different styles and eras, with each choir required to highlight particular skill sets within their music choices. Then on Sunday, October 23, they will present at the festival-closing Gala Concert, with music chosen to highlight each choir’s home country. The University Singers will feature the music of Dr. Lynch and Rosephayne Powell, the Director of Vocal Studies at Auburn University, for the Gala Concert. Dr. Powell will come to Lexington prior to the ensemble’s departure to work with the group to make sure this portion of the Gala Concert truly shines, as it represents both W&L and American choral music to an international audience.

“This is going to be a lifetime experience for our students,” continued Lynch. “I can’t wait to travel to Derry in a whirlwind in the fall and enjoy this moment with them.”

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FACULTY RECITAL: WINTERREISE (A WINTER JOURNEY)

MUSIC

POETRY

BY FRANZ SHUBERT

BY WILHEIM MÜLLER SCOTT WILLIAMSON, TENOR ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO

Sunday, October 30, 2022 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Pianist Anna Billias and tenor Scott Williamson return to the Wilson Concert Hall for a performance of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. One of the last major works Schubert composed before his death at age 31, Winterreise is a landmark of the art song repertoire. Drs. Billias and Williamson present the hour-long cycle as a staged monodrama.

Sunday, November 6, 2022 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

There is more music than can possibly be heard or studied in one lifetime—and so much of it is wonderful—that we find ourselves neglecting the works going on during our lifetime. This concert will present works by living composers: fantastic

musical journeys that make use of new sonorities, extended techniques and modern sensibilities. Some of the Marlbrook Quartet’s favorite contemporary compositions will give us an opportunity to hear music in a new way.

UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT PREMIERES

Monday, November 7, 2022 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Join the University Wind Ensemble as they present an engaging evening of musical premieres. The UWE will treat the audience to perhaps the first ever work for wind band in Mendelssohn’s Overture for Winds; hear

UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE + VOSBEIN MAGEE BIG BAND

Thursday, November 10, 2022 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

The annual fall concert is the first extended showcase of the University Jazz Ensemble for the concert season, featuring a wide variety of styles—all fine-tuned to shine a spotlight on the talented student musicians. Standards from the big band era and contemporary sounds are mixed and matched, as soloists weave their magic from the front of the stage.

A professional big band in residence at W&L for the past seven years, the Vosbein Magee Big Band features the area’s best jazz musicians playing music that you can’t hear anywhere else. Composer/arranger Terry Vosbein and trumpeter Chris Magee had been collaborating for many years when, in the summer of 2015, they formed VMBB. Four years later the band released their first CD Come and Get It!

After intermission, VMBB takes the stage, offering up a menu of new music and delectable soloists. A highlight of this annual event features senior members of UJE taking the stage with the seasoned pros for a rousing number that always seems to bring the house down.

Julie Giroux’s heart-wrenching One Life Beautiful and much more. As a special treat, the UWE will be joined by composer Katahj Copley in the world premiere of a new work being composed, specially for the ensemble.

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SENIOR RECITAL: TAYLOR COLAIZZI ’23, CLARINET

Enjoy

FIRSTS

Firsts.

Sunday, November 13, 2022

3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Taylor Colaizzi ’23 of Sandusky, Ohio presents a clarinet lecture recital with solo and collaborative works spanning the classical, romantic and modern periods. The program features a sonata by Brahms as well as chamber music by Mozart and others, all paired with contextual discussions of the pieces at hand. Colaizzi studies applied clarinet with Elisha Willinger, and his major advisor is Dr. Christopher Dobbins.

Thursday, November 17, 2022

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT

an evening with the University Orchestra as they perform their fall concert,

The performance will include Capriol Suite, the first piece by Peter Warlock to receive true critical acclaim during his lifetime, and

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. Featured guest composer Dr. Tyler Taylor will join the UO as they present the first performance of a work he is composing specifically for the University Orchestra.

HOLIDAY POPS CONCERT

Monday, December 5, 2022 Tuesday, December 6, 2022

7 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

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.

Tickets available beginning Tuesday, November 15, 2022.

The box office will be closed during W&L Thanksgiving break, November 21-25, 2022.

The Holiday Pops Concert will feature ensembles from the Department of Music performing numerous pieces of music 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 8.

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 lowincome members of the Rockbridge County community.

Please visit my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center or email boxoffice@wlu.edu for inqueries, update, and changes.

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SENIOR RECITAL: NAT LEDESMA ’23, MEZZO-SOPRANO

Sunday, January 29, 2023

3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Nat Ledesma ’23 of Houston, Texas will present a wideranging voice recital consisting of arias by Handel, Gabriel Fauré’s song cycle, L’horizon chimérique, as well as art songs in Spanish and German. The recital will conclude with a set of music theater numbers that speak to Ledesma’s personal growth and discovery as a student at W&L. Nat is a student of Dr. Gregory Parker.

PIANO PROGRAM RECITAL

LET’S DANCE

The W&L piano program presents a dazzling matinee of piano music influenced by dance. Featured students perform works from a wide array

Sunday, February 5, 2023

3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

of global and historical styles from the baroque to jazz periods, ranging from the elegant to the Mephistophelian.

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Yuchen Qian ’25, Annie Thomas ’24

An Shelmire ’25, Gabriella Kogan ’24

UNIVERSITY SINGERS TOUR HOME CONCERT

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are free, but required. • Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Join the renowned University Singers as they return home from their national choir tour of Hawaii and Washington with an evening of a capella choral mastery. The tour will allow the members of the University Singers to work with the kūpuna (elders) of a family on the oli (chant) directly associated with that family. Following all protocol, the University Singers will then hopefully be granted permission to come and share the oli and other modern Hawaiian music with the

Lexington audience with the blessing of the kūpuna. The entire experience should allow for a type of sharing of music that rarely can occur, for singers and audience members alike. The remainder of the concert will focus on a wide variety of music, from Bach to Mendelssohn to Argentinian composer Ernesto Herrera. Finally, The University Singers will close the program with folk songs and other audience favorites.

Enjoy

WINTER CHORAL CONCERT

MARLBROOK CHAMBER PLAYERS CLASSIC GEMS

Get to know the Marlbrook Chamber Players on a new level! Join the group for a delightful concert of their favorite classic chamber music works. In this potpourri of the gems of the classic repertoire, each member of the group chose their very favorite movement and will share

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall Tickets are free, but required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Sunday, March 19, 2023

3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

their connection to the music with you and then present the work for a surprise tour of the standards. This show promises to be a personal and heartfelt journey, and the program works will be top secret until the performance!

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an evening with Cantatrici and the W&L Glee Club performing a wide variety of choral classics from Palestrina to modern works by BYU Vocal Point. 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? 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.

Megan Mason, viola; Jaime McArdle, violin; Julia Goudimova, cello; Anna Billias, piano

UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT

CONCERTO-ARIA WINNER’S CONCERT

Thursday, March 23, 2023

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Join the University Orchestra as it features the winners of the 2022-23 Concerto-Aria Contest. Also featured will be music by Derek Zhao and other living composers.

SENIOR RECITAL: MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN ’23, BARITONE

Friday, March 31, 2023

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Michael McLaughlin ’23 of Alexandria, Virginia will present a recital featuring the bass arias from JS Bach’s BWV 73 and BWV 97 cantatas as well as five of Antonín Dvořák’s Biblical Songs, Op. 99. Following the Count’s aria from Le nozze di Figaro, McLaughlin will sing Ravel’s Cinq mélodies populaires grecques and the Gambling Songs of the American folklorist and composer, John Jacob Niles. He is a student of Dr. Gregory Parker. my.wlu.edu/music-department

UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT TO THE FORE!

Monday, April 3, 2023

8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

The University Wind Ensemble presents an evening of music that is a mix of traditional repertoire and modern classics. Music by Holst, Grainger, Piunno, Thomas and

others will be performed. Student conductors will be featured on a variety of repertoire. Join us for a night of exciting music making!

UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE CONCERT

Thursday, April 6, 2023

8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

Student soloists are at the forefront in the year-end jazz performance. Talented musicians stand center stage and offer their personal interpretations and feelings on tunes that speak to them. The culmination of a year of intensive rehearsals are put on display in dazzling ensemble work, with each member blending together to serve the common goal of music making. A myriad of styles provide the basis for the explorations by the wind, string and percussion players. And as is the case each year, the band says farewell to its seniors.

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FACULTY RECITAL: ANIMA E GRAZIA A ROMANTIC BOUQUET

JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO

The members of the local duet, Anima e Grazia, are hard at work preparing a Mother’s Day gift, a bouquet featuring romantic composers of the world. Julia Goudimova,

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Sunday, May 14, 2023 3 p.m. Wilson

Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. livestream.com/wlu

cello and Anna Billias, piano will weave their grace and passion into both the famous and the undiscovered gems of international music literature.

UNIVERSITY SINGERS COMMENCEMENT CONCERT

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 2022-2023

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

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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AARON TURNER: BLACK ALCHEMY: if this one thing is true—REDUX

Exhibition: September 5-October 5, 2022 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, September 20 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

Aaron Turner is a photographer and educator currently based in Arkansas. He uses photography as a transformative process to understand the ideas of home and resilience in two main areas of the U.S.: the Arkansas and Mississippi deltas. This exhibition features photographic still-life studies taken with a large format view camera, that are reflections on identity, history, blackness as material and abstraction. Turner received his MA from Ohio

University and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Recent recognition of his work includes an Artist 360 Mid-America Arts Alliance Grant, the 2021 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship, a 2021 Creators Lab Photo Fund award from Google’s Creator Labs & the Aperture Foundation, and 2022 Darryl Chappell Foundation photographer-in-residence at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

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MEANINGS OF THE PAST (from the series Black Alchemy: If this one thing is true); 2020; inkjet silk print, black c-stand; print: 40x50 inches, c-stand: variable

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ESTEBAN RAMÓN PÉREZ: DISTORTED MYTHS

Exhibition: October 10-November 2, 2022 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, October 25 5 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall DNA (Bad Blood) (detail), 2019, 12x12x1 feet

In his interdisciplinary works, artist Esteban Ramón Pérez often incorporates materials such as leather and embroidery, paying homage to his experience growing up in his father’s upholstery shop. Drawing on his West Coast Chicanx experience, his practice can be seen as an expression of rasquache aesthetics, an approach to artmaking based on a theory developed by Tomas YbarraFrausto to describe “an underdog perspective, a view of

los de abajo [from below].” Pérez describes his work as “an interrogation and excavation of my subjective memory, spirituality, fragmented history, and social political reality.” Pérez has exhibited widely since receiving his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art in 2019. In 2020, he was selected for the prestigious NXTHVN Fellowship program and is a 2022 recipient of the Los Angeles Artadia Award.

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AMANDA LECHNER: TERRA IGNOTA: LAND UNKNOWN

Exhibition: November 7–December 9, 2022 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, November 15 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

A spirit of experimentation and discovery permeates Amanda Lechner’s studio practice that is inspired by ideas from topics such as imagery quantum physics, alchemy and science-fiction. This exhibition is organized around the notion of Terra ignota (also terra incognita), which translates from Latin as “land unknown.” This phrase has been long used in cartography to indicate the unexplored, un-described, or uncharted. In our contemporary age terra ignota is often used to refer to the unmapped immensity of outer-space, the unknowns of the ocean floor or the

complexity of the human brain. The show focuses on works in egg-temper and improvisational frescoprocesses that relate to the birth of scientific inquiry and the history of visual art. Lechner earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States with recent solo shows at Standard Space in Sharon, Connecticut and Axle Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Based in New Mexico and Virginia, Lechner is an assistant professor of Studio Art at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

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ANTHROPOGENIC GEOLOGY, 2019, egg tempera on panel, 11x14 inches

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SAM BLANCHARD: FUTILE STATE

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Exhibition: January 9–February 8, 2023 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, January 24 5:30 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Sam Blanchard uses computer-based fabrication and presentation methods to create works that interrogate the human experience in the age of technology. Previous projects include kinetic sculptures, interactive environments and video installations. Blanchard is currently Associate Professor of Studio Art in the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He has an active international exhibition record with solo exhibitions at such venues as the

Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, The Delaware Contemporary and The New Galley (Calgary, Ontario). His collaborative work in the fields of computer science and engineering have been presented at such venues as South-by-Southwest, World Maker Faire and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. He received his BA from Ohio University and MFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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ANOTHER EXERCISE IN FUTILITY (detail), 2016, 3D printed bronze pick-axes, plastic, brass, aluminum, compressor; dimensions variable

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ADRIENNE CALLANDER: FIELDWORK

Exhibition: February 13–March 17, 2023 Lecture and Reception: Wednesday, March 1 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

Artist-educator and scholar Adrienne Callander considers entrepreneurship a creative medium. In her artistic endeavors and publications, she explores the overlap of imagination, engagement and dissent to pose the question of where an art practice begins and ends. This exhibition presents artifacts from a year spent caring for two Bluefaced Leicester sheep and a livestock guardian dog in the Ozark Mountains region of Northwest Arkansas. It is a rumination on a learning curve, a reflection on

the acts of owning, belonging and care. It is also an LLC that produces and sells pasture seed packs, yarns, field aprons, and other goods to, in turn, support local independent artists. Callander is Assistant Professor in Art and Entrepreneurship, cross-appointed in the School of Art and the College of Business at the University of Arkansas. She has exhibited in the US, Canada, Germany and Iceland and presents nationally and internationally on intersections of entrepreneurship and social practice.

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TOP OF THE WATER BOWL, 2022, photograph, dimensions variable

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SENIOR THESES EXHIBITION

Exhibition: March 27–April 7, 2023

Reception: TBA Wilson Concert Hall

2022 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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DELILAH MONTOYA: CONTEMPORARY CASTA PORTRAITURE

Exhibition: April 24–May 25, 2023

Lecture and Reception: TBA 5:30 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall

This exhibition by Delilah Montoya is based on the artist’s research into the racial categorizing that was expressed in 18th century paintings made in Spanish Americas known as “casta paintings.” The historical works visually reinforced stereotypes by representing different racial mixes from the children of Spaniards who coupled with people in the “New World.” Montoya’s contemporary photographic portraits of Houston and New Mexico colonial families are presented as DNA analysis of the

sitters and a global map of their families’ 100,000 years migration. The ethnographic art project addresses themes of identity and the impact of race and class distinctions. Montoya is an emerita professor from the University of Houston in the School of Art. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards and has been exhibited throughout the United States including New Mexico, Texas, New York, California as well as internationally in Puerto Rico, Russia, Japan, France and Mexico.

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Casta #2 from Contemporary Casta Portraiture: Nuestra Calidad, 2018, photograph and mixed media, 38x26 inches

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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 13, 2022. 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

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The Box office opens Tuesday, September 13. Box Office hours are Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and one hour prior to all ticketed performances.

The Box Office is CLOSED during undergraduate breaks; however, website sales will still be available.

Seating for events listed in this brochure is by general admission. There is no reserved seating; however, patrons may call the Box Office to reserve handicapped seating.

Patrons are encouraged to call the Box Office for information concerning the suitability of events for children.

Parking is reserved in the Lenfest Center fan for dropoffs, special assistance and wheelchair accessible parking only. The fan will close to staff and faculty at 4:30 p.m. on the day of a performance.

Accessible parking is available in front of the Lenfest Center with a ramp to access the building. Additional accessible parking is available in the parking parage across the street from the Center.

Assisted listening systems have been installed in the Keller Theatre, Johnson Theatre and the Wilson Concert Hall. Please see the house manager at least 15 minutes prior to curtain to sign out a receiver.

Lenfest Center Wait List Ticket Policy

When an event becomes sold out, a Wait List will be formed at the Box Office. Patrons can be added to the list during regular Box Office hours via phone, email or in person.

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If any tickets become available, patrons on the Wait List will be contacted in order. The patrons who are reached first will be given the available tickets.

This Wait List will be effective until 3 p.m of the last work day before the performance in question.

Example 1: If an event is on a Wednesday, the Wait List will be effective until 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. Example 2: If an event is on a Saturday, the Wait List will be effective until 3 p.m. on Friday.

If you have not received any contact from the Box Office before this time, tickets are not available.

Lenfest Center Will Call (Day of Show) Ticket Policy

When an event becomes sold out, a Will Call list will be formed at the Box Office once it opens 1 hour prior to the performance. No calls or emails will be accepted.

If any tickets become available, patrons on the Will Call list will be called out loud, in order, by the Box Office agent on duty. Patrons are encouraged to stay near the Box Office in case tickets become available.

If a patron’s name is called three times and there is no response, the patron forfeits the right to the ticket and the next person on the list will be called.

If your name is not called by the Box Office before show time, tickets are not available.

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