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Year 30, No. 3
Celebrating 30 Years of Community News
September 17 – September 23, 2014
Tri-County Concerts Presents Pianist Eric Zuber
Rivka Galchen to Open Bryn Mawr College Reading Series
Tri-County Concerts presents pianist Eric Zuber on Sunday September 28, 2014, at 3 p.m. at McInnis Auditorium, Eastern University.
A reading by Rivka Galchen opens the Bryn Mawr College 2014-2015 Creative Writing Program Reading Series on Wednesday, October 1, at 7:30 p.m.
Presentation by Larry Robin Page 5
“Lend Me a Tenor” at The Players Club Page 7
ri-County Concerts presents pianist Eric Zuber on Sunday September 28, 2014, at 3 p.m. at McInnis Auditorium, Eastern University, 1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA. Zuber will perform works of Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy, Chopin and Rachmaninov. He has won nine major prizes from the most important international piano competitions. General admission is $20, seniors $15, Students (30 years of age) and Children are Free. Meet the artist at a Complimentary PostConcert Reception. Call 610-649-2517 for reservation and visit www.tricountyconcerts.org for information. Eric Zuber one of the most decorated American pianists of his generation. He holds an astonishing nine major prizes from some of the world’s most important international piano competitions. Honens, Cleveland, Arthur Rubinstein, Seoul and Hilton Head. He was also awarded the Arthur Rubinstein Prize for outstanding achievements by the Juilliard School. He has made appearances at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Sydney Opera House Severance Hall. After making his orchestral debut at the age of twelve with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra he has gone on to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra among many others. Zuber has captivated critics and audiences alike with his sensitive and insightful artistry. New York Times called his playing “irresistibly fluid.” He holds degrees from Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University, and Curtis Institute of Music.
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reading by Rivka Galchen opens the Bryn Mawr College 2014-2015 Creative Writing Program Reading Series. Readings are held in the Music Room at Goodhart Hall located at 150 North Merion Avenue in Bryn Mawr, PA on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. Rivka Galchen’s first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was the winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and a finalist for Canada’s highest literary honor, the Governor General’s Award. Writing in The New Yorker, the critic James Wood called it “an original novel, one that knows how to move from the comic to the painful.” Galchen is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and was named among the “20 Under 40” fiction writers to watch by The New Yorker, to which she is a frequent contributor. Galchen’s second book, the short story collection American Innovations, was published this spring. She teaches at Columbia University. Galchen will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. on Wednes-
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See Bryn Mawr College Reading Series on page 12
Penn Vet to Host Symposium on Microbes in Health and Disease Featuring Acclaimed Science Writer Carl Zimmer The timely, two-day symposium will begin with rom a major Ebola outbreak in West Africa to MERS in Saudi Arabia to polio in Syria to a special public event – a discussion with ac chikungunya in the Caribbean, the news these claimed science writer Carl Zimmer on Wednesday, days is full of stories about viruses. The Microbial October 15, 2014 from 6 - 7:30 p.m. at the Inn at Communities in Health and Disease symposium, Penn (3600 Sansom St., Philadelphia). Presentasponsored by Penn Vet, in collaboration with the tions for the scientific community will take place at Penn Vet’s Hill Pavilion (380 S. University Ave., The two-day symposium will begin with a special Philadelphia) on Thursday, October 16, 2014. Admission is FREE, but registration is required at public event – a discussion with acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer on Wednesday, October www.vet.upenn.edu/carlzimmer (for the 10/15 event) and www.vet.upenn.edu/chmisymposium (for the 15, 2014 from 6 - 7:30 p.m. at the Inn at 10/16 presentations). Penn,3600 Sansom St., Philadelphia. Author and New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer Photo/Ben Stechschulte will discuss “A Planet of Viruses: How Humans University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Can Live Safely on a Viral World.” One of the most Medicine and School of Arts & Sciences, will explore frightening things about viruses is how they emerge how bacteria, parasites, viruses, and other organ- without warning, vanish mysteriously, and then isms interact with their animal and human hosts return again even more dangerous than before. in ways that either maintain health or lead to Zimmer will discuss how scientists are uncoverdisease. See Symposium on Microbes in Health and Disease on page 12
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