CONTENTS DATE
EVENT
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OCT 19
BLACK VIOLIN: Impossible Tour
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OCT 24
David Sedaris
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OCT 27
Brentano String Quartet with Dawn Upshaw, soprano
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OCT 29
The King’s Singers
10
NOV 2
JERSEY BOYS
14
NOV 3
Melissa Etheridge–The Medicine Show
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These events are sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.
Please be mindful of the following in the Auditorium and the Pavilion:
• Please silence cellular phones and electronic devices. • No cameras or recording devices. • Refreshments purchased from KU Memorial Unions at concessions are permitted. No outside food or drinks.
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Saturday
OCT 19 7:30 pm
This event is made possible through the generous support of Dick and Kathleen Raney. Sponsored by
At James Otten Dentistry, we believe that everyone should have an opportunity to choose personalized, enduring and life-enriching care because, like the performing arts, a beautiful healthy smile not only enriches our lives today but lasts forever.
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OCT 19 | Black Violin
There will be no intermission during this performance.
Black Violin is led by classically trained string players Wil B. (viola) and Kev Marcus (violin). Joining them onstage are DJ SPS and drummer Nat Stokes. The band uses their unique blend of classical and hip-hop music to overcome stereotypes, while encouraging people of all ages, races and economic backgrounds to join together and break down cultural barriers. In the past 12 months, the band has performed for more than 100,000 students in the U.S. and Europe as well as partnered with Yamaha and NAMM (National Association of Music Manufactures) to continue supporting music education. Black Violin, alongside artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Elton John, recently joined with Turnaround Arts to bring arts education to struggling schools in underserved communities. Turnaround Arts is a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts founded by former President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in 2012. In addition, Black Violin composed for a major FOX Television original, Pitch, and has been featured by ESPN as the official artist of the 2017 U.S. Open (tennis) and 2016 & 2017 Heisman Trophy Award ceremonies. The group has been featured on The Tonight Show, Ellen, The Wendy William’s Show, NPR and more. Black Violin has collaborated creatively with artists such as Kanye West, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Wu-Tang Clan, Wyclef Jean and Alicia Keys. Their last album, Stereotypes, hit #1 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover Chart and #4 on Billboard’s R&B Chart. The band recently released two tracks, “Dreamer” and “Showoff,” from the forthcoming album, Take the Stairs, releasing November 1! With the group’s high-energy performances and inspiring dedication to educational outreach, the Lied Center is thrilled to bring back this crowd favorite and 2017–18 Lied Center IMPACT Award recipient.
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Thursday
OCT 24 7:30 pm
David Sedaris
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There will be no intermission during this event. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s preeminent humor writers. He is the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition. Calypso, his latest collection of essays, is a New York Times bestseller and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The audiobook of Calypso has been nominated for a 2019 Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album category. Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977–2002). He is the author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, a collection of fables with illustrations by Ian Falconer. Each of these books was an immediate bestseller. He was also the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. His pieces regularly appear in The New Yorker and have twice been included in The Best American Essays. There are over ten million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into 25 languages. In 2018, he was awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019, he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half-a-dozen plays, which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host; Stitches; One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award; Incident at Cobbler’s Knob; and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service. Sedaris’s original audio pieces can often be heard on the public radio show This American Life. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His latest audio recording of new stories (recorded live) is “David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure” (November 2009). A feature film adaptation of his story, C.O.G., was released after a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (2013). Since 2011, he can be heard annually on a series of live recordings on BBC Radio 4, entitled Meet David Sedaris. As a companion piece to his New York Times best-selling book Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977–2002), Jeffrey Jenkins published and edited an art book of Sedaris’s diary covers, entitled David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium. He is currently working on a second volume of his diaries. “Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.” — Chicago Tribune
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Saturday Sunday
OCT SEP 24 27 2:00 7:30 pm
Brentano String Quartet with special guest
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Eugene A. and C. Florence Stephenson Chamber Music Fund and the Raymond Stuhl Chamber Music Fund. Sponsored by
Dave & Gunda Hiebert and Jeff & Mary Weinberg are pleased to support performing arts experiences in our community and help bring world-class artists, like the Brentano String Quartet and Dawn Upshaw, to the Lied Center stage.
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The Brentano String Quartet Mark Steinberg, violin Serena Canin, violin Misha Amory, viola Nina Maria Lee, cello
PROGRAM String Quartet No. 18 in A Major, K. 464 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Allegro Menuetto and Trio Andante Allegro Il tramonto (The Sunset), for voice and string quartet, P. 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) Dawn Upshaw, soprano
20-Minute Intermission String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, for string quartet and soprano, Op. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), text by Stefan George Allegro Scherzo (Molto Allegro) Theme and variations (Litanei) Finale (Entrueckung) Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Program is subject to change. Please see your pre- and post-performance emails for program notes.
The Brentano String Quartet appears by arrangement with David Rowe Artists. www.davidroweartists.com www.brentanoquartet.com
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The Brentano String Quartet Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. “Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding,” raves the London Independent; The New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism.” Since 2014, the members of the Quartet have served as artists-in-residence at Yale University. They formerly served as the collaborative ensemble for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and were artists-in-residence at Princeton University for many years. The Quartet has performed in the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Konzerthaus in Vienna; Suntory Hall in Tokyo; and the Sydney Opera House. The ensemble had its first European tour in 1997, and the group was honored in the U.K. with the Royal Philharmonic Award for Most Outstanding Debut. In addition to their interest in performing very old music, the Quartet frequently collaborates with contemporary composers. Recent commissions include a piano quintet by Vijay Iyer, a work by Eric Moe (with Christine Brandes, soprano), and a viola quintet by Felipe Lara (performed with violist Hsin-Yun Huang). In 2012, the Quartet provided the central music (Beethoven’s Opus 131) for the critically acclaimed independent film A Late Quartet. The ensemble has worked closely with other important composers of our time, including Elliot Carter, Charles Wuorinen, Chou Wen-chung, Bruce Adolphe and György Kurtág. Additionally, the Quartet has been privileged to collaborate with such artists as soprano Jessye Norman, and pianists Richard Goode, Jonathan Biss and Mitsuko Uchida. The Quartet is named for Antonie Brentano, whom many scholars consider to be Beethoven’s “immortal beloved”—the intended recipient of his famous love confession. Dawn Upshaw, soprano Joining a rare natural warmth with a fierce commitment to the transforming communicative power of music, Dawn Upshaw has achieved worldwide-celebrity status as a singer of opera and concert repertoire ranging from the sacred works of Bach to the freshest sounds of today. Her ability to reach to the heart of music and text has earned her both the devotion of an exceptionally diverse audience, and the awards and distinctions accorded to only the most distinguished of artists. In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the first vocal artist to be awarded the five-year “genius” prize, and in 2008, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Her acclaimed performances on the opera stage comprise the great Mozart roles (Susanna, Ilia, Pamina, Despina and Zerlina) as well as modern works by Stravinsky, Poulenc and Messiaen. From Salzburg, Paris and Glyndebourne to the Metropolitan Opera, where she began her career in 1984 and has since made nearly 300 appearances, Upshaw has also championed numerous new works created for her—including The Great Gatsby by John Harbison; the Grawemeyer Award-winning opera L’Amour de Loin and the oratorio La Passion de Simone by Kaija Saariaho; John Adams’s Nativity oratorio El Niño; and Osvaldo Golijov’s chamber opera Ainadamar and song cycle Ayre. It says much about Upshaw’s sensibilities as an artist and colleague that she is a favored partner of many leading musicians, including Gilbert Kalish, the Kronos Quartet, James Levine and Esa-Pekka Salonen. In her work as a recitalist, and particularly in her work with composers, she has become a generative force in concert music, having premiered more than 25 works in the past decade. From Carnegie Hall to large and small venues throughout the world, she regularly presents specially designed programs composed of lieder, contemporary works in many languages, and folk and popular music. She furthers this work in master classes and workshops with young singers at major music festivals, conservatories and liberal arts colleges. She is the artistic director of the Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music and head of the Vocal Arts Program at the Tanglewood Music Center. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Upshaw is featured on more than 50 recordings, including the million-selling Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Gorecki for Nonesuch Records. Her discography also includes full-length opera recordings of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Messiaen’s St. Francois d’Assise, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, John Adams’s El Niño as well as two volumes of Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne, a dozen recital recordings, and an acclaimed three-disc series of Osvaldo Golijov’s music for Deutsche Grammophon. Her most recent Grammy was the 2014 Best Classical Vocal Solo for Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks on the ArtistShare label. Upshaw holds honorary doctorate degrees from Yale, the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School, Allegheny College and Illinois Wesleyan University. She began her career as a 1984 winner of the Young Concert Artists Auditions and the 1985 Walter W. Naumburg Competition, and she was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program. Upshaw has recorded extensively for the Nonesuch label. She may also be heard on Angel/EMI, BMG, Deutsche Grammophon, London, Sony Classical, Telarc, and on Erato and Teldec in the Warner Classics Family of labels. Dawn Upshaw is represented by Colbert Artists Management, Inc., 307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2006, New York NY 10001. www.colbertartists.com
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Tuesday
OCT 29 7:30 pm
The King’s Singers
This event is made possible through the generous support of Dean and Marjean Sparling Werries. Sponsored by
Black Hills Energy is proud to be the VIP sponsor of tonight’s performance. The Kings’s Singers radiate joy and inspire audiences around the world with their beautiful sound and passion for singing. Enjoy your evening.
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The King’s Singers Patrick Dunachie, countertenor Edward Button, countertenor Julian Gregory, tenor Christopher Bruerton, baritone Nick Ashby, baritone Jonathan Howard, bass
PROGRAM LOVE SONGS: Love isn’t always easy. It can obsess us and hurt us, particularly when it’s unrequited or tragically cut short. But when love is good, it has a unique power to bind us together, fill us with joy, strengthen us and bring us new life. This is a program that’s designed to pull at the heartstrings, laying bare just how deeply and variously love can affect us—all seen through the eyes of an unusually diverse mix of composers and songwriters from across the world over the last 500 years. The program accompanies The King’s Singers’ latest album release, Love Songs, featuring some of the world’s finest love songs—from classics to recent hits. “It’s a New World”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harold Arlen, arr. Richard Rodney Bennett “I Love My Love”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trad., arr. Philip Lawson “April Come She Will” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simon & Garfunkel, arr. Philip Lawson “When She Loved Me” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Randy Newman, recorded by Sarah McLachlan, arr. Philip Lawson “Dindirin”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous “Vineta” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johannes Brahms “Deep In My Soul”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Elgar “Remembered Love”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jackson Hill “Au joly jeu”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clément Jannequin “Im Mayen”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orlandus Lassus “Toutes les nuits” “Chi chilichi?”
20-Minute Intermission “Tuoll on mun kultani” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trad., arr. Bob Chilcott “Rakastava”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jean Sibelius The King’s Singers would like to close the program with a selection of songs about love in close-harmony, bringing together classic audience favorites with some brand new surprises. Program is subject to change. Please see your pre- and post-performance emails for text and translations of song selections.
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The King’s Singers appear by arrangement with IMG Artists 7 West 54th Street, New York NY, 10019 www.imgartists.com Visit www.kingssingers.com for the latest news, blog entries, video blogs, podcasts, Tweets and YouTube updates. The King’s Singers’ recordings are available on the Signum Records, EM Records, TELARC, RCA Victor & Red Seal/BMG Classics, and EMI/ Angel record labels. A comprehensive catalogue of The King’s Singers’ choral arrangements is available from Hal Leonard Corporation, 777 West Bluemound Road, Milwaukee WI 53213. The King’s Singers are consistently welcomed on the world’s great stages today and have been throughout their history. They are ambassadors for musical excellence around the globe and have an ongoing commitment to new music, which has resulted in an extraordinary wealth of original works as well as leading to some fantastic collaborations. The King’s Singers were founded on May 1, 1968, when choral scholars who had recently graduated from King’s College, Cambridge gave a concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre in London. Formed in Cambridge, the group had been singing together for some years in a range of lineups under a different name, but this London debut was the catalyst for a five-decade-long career. Their vocal make-up was, by chance, two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and the group has never wavered from this formation since. As former members of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge traditional choral repertoire pulsed through the veins of the founding King’s Singers, though what distinguished The King’s Singers in the early years was their musical versatility. They were a weekly fixture on primetime television, celebrating popular music never usually touched by choral ensembles, and their unique British charm, combined with their precise musical craft, captured audiences’ hearts the world over. The group has regularly performed at venues from London’s Royal Albert Hall to Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall to the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. The King’s Singers have accumulated many glowing reviews from the world’s great musical publications, two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a place in Gramophone magazine’s inaugural Hall of Fame, among numerous other awards. In their early years, the group’s sound was informed by the work of arrangers like Gordon Langford, Daryl Runswick and Goff Richards, many of whom had worked extensively with brass bands. Writing for voices with this specific experience helped to develop the blended ‘close-harmony’ sound that has become a hallmark for so many King’s Singers performances and recordings since. In more recent times, individual King’s Singers, such as Philip Lawson and Bob Chilcott, have written music prolifically from within the group. This music sits alongside a panoply of
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commissioned works by many superb composers of the 20th and 21st centuries— including Sir John Tavener, György Ligeti, Toru Takemitsu, John Rutter, Luciano Berio, Nico Muhly and Eric Whitacre. The group’s mission has always been to expand their repertoire with the aim of sharing their new music with ensembles and choirs of all kinds around the world. Much of their commissioned repertoire and arrangements are available in print through the publisher Hal Leonard. Over two million items from their King’s Singers collection have been shared with their customers worldwide. This ongoing commitment to spreading great music incorporates a lot of teaching, both on tour and at home. In 2019, the group will lead workshops and master classes across the world as they travel. Week-long residential courses now also take an important place in their annual calendar, when the six King’s Singers work with groups and individuals on the techniques of ensemble singing that have governed how they make music to this day. The world may have changed a lot since the original King’s Singers came together more than 50 years ago, but today’s group still aims to radiate the joy that singing brings them every day. The King’s Singers are as determined as ever to inspire audiences with virtuosity and their vision for an exciting musical future. The King’s Singers Global Foundation The King’s Singers are delighted to introduce their brand new U.S. based charitable foundation: The King’s Singers Global Foundation. Over the past five decades, the group has been proud to give educational workshops whilst touring and has also recently expanded into summer schools. The creation of this foundation marks a new chapter in the group’s ability to share the joy they find in singing even more widely. It’s not just through more teaching that this is accomplished, but through a wider variety of activities, all of which are designed to bring people together and enrich the world of music and the arts for both musicians and non-musicians alike. The scope of the foundation is broad, reflecting the ambitions of the group to reach as wide an audience as possible, through many channels of engagement. The foundation believes in engaging meaningfully with underserved communities and individuals by increasing their access to musical participation and education of the highest artistic merit. The aim is to coach a new generation of performers, no matter their location or background, and to commission new vocal music from composers around the world. They are also determined to build bridges between art forms, particularly by developing links between technology and vocal music to highlight the power of singing together in today’s digital age. And that’s just the start of it. With an advisory panel of world-renowned experts, six passionate King’s Singers and a global reach, they believe The King’s Singers Global Foundation has the potential to enrich the lives of many people in the U.S. and around the world. The foundation is an authorized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information, please visit www.kingssingers.com/foundation.
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Saturday
NOV 2 7:30 pm
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Evie Brinkman Memorial Education Fund. Sponsored by
The BSR Group, Business Service Resource, is proud of their long history of supporting the Lied Center and the opportunity to sponsor this performance about four guys from Jersey— JERSEY BOYS. Oh, what a night it will be!
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Melissa Etheridge– The Medicine Show
Sponsored by
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Sunday
NOV 3 7:30 pm
Summers, Spencer & Company, CPAs and Trusted Advisers counts on the Lied Center to find amazing performers to make the arts come alive for our community. We are honored to support the Lied Center as a sponsor of tonight’s performance, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to bring Kansas native Melissa Etheridge back home to share music from her new album, The Medicine Show.
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There will be no intermission during this event. Melissa Etheridge stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, which led to an appearance on the 1989 Grammy Awards show. For several years, her popularity grew around such memorable originals as “Bring Me Some Water,” “No Souvenirs” and “Ain’t It Heavy,” for which she won a Grammy in 1992. Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, Yes I Am (1993). The collection featured the massive hits, “I’m the Only One” and “Come to My Window,” a searing song of longing that brought Etheridge her second Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance. In 1995, she issued her highest charting album, Your Little Secret, which was distinguished by the hit single, “I Want to Come Over.” Her astounding success that year led to Etheridge receiving the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996. Known for her confessional lyrics and raspy, smoky vocals, Etheridge has remained one of America’s favorite female singer-songwriters for more than two decades. In 2007, she celebrated a career milestone with a victory in the Best Song category at the Academy Awards for “I Need to Wake Up,” written for the Al Gore documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. As a performer and songwriter, Etheridge has shown herself to be an artist who has never allowed “inconvenient truths” to keep her down. Earlier in her recording career, she acknowledged her sexual orientation when it was considered less than prudent to do so. In 2004, Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer, a health battle that, with her typical tenacity, she won. Despite losing her hair from chemotherapy, she appeared on the 2005 Grammy telecast to sing “Piece of My Heart” in tribute to Janis Joplin. In 2016, Etheridge released Memphis Rock & Soul, her first album since 2014’s critically lauded This Is M.E. Recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis, the album has received stellar reviews from the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Parade, Rolling Stone, American Songwriter and more. Guitar World raved “the album is a triumphant application of Etheridge’s signature rasp and substantial guitar chops to this classic genre,” while Edge Media Network declared that she “is a singer who can fire it up like Janis Joplin, touch the heart like Elvis Presley and steam up the windows like her musical hero, Otis Redding.” Etheridge’s newest album, The Medicine Show, is an album of renewal, reconciliation, reckoning, compassion and, most profoundly, healing. These, of course, are themes that run through Etheridge’s career, core to the vision and drive that has brought her fifteen Grammy Awards nominations and two wins, an Academy Award, and has fueled her life’s work as an activist for human rights, LGBTQ issues, breast cancer awareness and alternative medical approaches. With this new album, she brings it all to new levels of artistry. The songs of The Medicine Show are inspired by acts of kindness, love, resilience and bravery on all levels. “Human Chain,” with its Memphis soul vibe, is about people coming together to help one in need. The album-closing “Last Hello” draws on the incredible strengths and courage shown by the survivors of the Parkland school shootings. Other songs take a look-in-the-mirror stance about overcoming a wide range of challenges and adversities, of rising above with equal measures of love and fortitude.
Sunday • FEB 9 • 7:00 pm A true community event benefiting the Lawrence Schools Foundation. The Lawrence Schools Foundation and Lied Center of Kansas are proud to announce the fourth annual, district-wide talent show for middle and high school students on Sunday, February 9, 7:00 pm. Past events have included dancers, contortionists, trapeze artists, instrumentalists, singers and more. Students participating in Ovation! will be selected through an audition process, and will share their amazing talents on the main stage of the Lied Center with full production. Ovation! proceeds will benefit the Lawrence Schools Foundation. The foundation provides students and teachers with enrichment experiences, scholarships, teacher recognition and classroom support, innovative teaching grants and partnerships with community organizations and businesses through their LEAP programs. Applications to audition are due by November 1, 2019.
Learn more and get tickets at lied.ku.edu/ovation.
DON’T MISS THESE EXCITING EVENTS!
The Very Hungry Catepillar Show Featuring Brown Bear, Brown Bear Friday, November 22, 6:00 pm $25 Adult $14 Student/Youth
Hiplet Ballerinas A trailblazing fusion of hip-hop and ballet Saturday, November 23, 7:30 pm $20–$30 Adult $11–$16 Student/Youth
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL Wednesday, December 11, 7:00 pm $35–$50 Adult $19–$26 Student/Youth
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The Color Purple Tony Award-winning revival with a Grammy-winning score of jazz, gospel, ragtime and blues Thursday, January 23, 7:30 pm $40–$55 Adult • $21–$29 Student
Russian National Ballet
Don Quixote
Sunday, February 16, 2:00 pm $25–$40 Adult • $14–$21 Student
The Peking Acrobats Tuesday, February 18, 7:00 pm $20–$30 Adult $11–$16 Student/Youth
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