THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 - 20, 2013
The Tennessee Tribune 9A
FREE February Jazz Classics at Lipscomb
Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake!
Pop ! PoP! Bang! Bang! The firecrackers and color red scaring the hungry beast away is the legend of Chinese New Year. Chinese people say “Gong Xi! Gong Xi! Xing Nian Kuai le! (Congratulations and Happy New Year!) It actually means “Congratulations, you survived the beast!” Since then, red color symbolizes good luck. Fire crackers, fire works and drumming are very important parts of Chinese New Year Celebration. Feb 10, 2013 was the beginning of the New Year according to the lunar calendar. We are saying good bye to the Year of the Dragon and welcoming the Year of the Snake. Snake is known as the little dragon. It is said that people born in the year of snake tend to say little and possess great wisdom with tremendous sympathy for others and try to help those less fortunate. They are intense and passionate. Chinese New Year is also called Spring Festival. Chinese New Year marks the beginning of the Spring; it will be time for farmers to start plowing and planting new seeds for crops. Celebrating Chinese New Year is significant; it is to pray for the good
harvest and good New Year. Chinese people traditionally celebrate Chinese New Year for fifteen day. The Lantern Festival will mark the end of the celebration. Loud noise and color red can scare away the beast and rid off the evil spirits. Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville (CAAN) continues to bring their Chinese lion dance and drumming team to celebrate Chinese New Year with intricate, lively, colorful and exciting lion dance and drumming. CAAN’s Lion Dance and Drumming Team’s performing schedule: (go to Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville facebook for updated schedule) On the last day of the Chinese New Year (Feb 24), Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville hosts its annual Chinese New Year 8-Course Banquet at the Wild Ginger. The final day to purchase the banquet tickets is Feb 15, 2013. This event features fine Chinese Dinning, silent Auction and lion dance performance. Limited seating available on a first-come-first-serve basis. For more information please go to CAAN’s website at www.ChineseArtsAlliance.org
Chinese New Year Eight-Course Banquet
Featuring Chinese Lion Dance & Silent Auction Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 • 5 pm-7:30 pm Wild Ginger Restaurant 101 Market Exchange Court, Cool Springs General Tickets (by February 15, 2013) $95 per person or $750 per table of 8 Ticket Purchase Options: On-line at ticketnashville.com click on Chinese Arts Alliance or mail your check and include name, e-mail and phone contacts to: CAAN, P.O. Box 120025, Nashville Questions? Please visit ChineseArtsAlliance@gmail.com
NASHVILLE, TN — Lipscomb University brings a variety of musical performances to audiences free in February and March, including a performance by Lipscomb’s Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Piano
Lipscomb University Chamber Orchestra Tuesday, Feb. 19 Collins Alumni Auditorium, 8 p.m. Lipscomb University’s Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Steve Rhodes, performs classical music favorites. Performances are subject to change. For additional information, contact the Department of Music at 1-800-333-4358, ext. 5932 or (615) 966-5932. Lipscomb University Jazz Concert Series Thursday, Feb. 21 Shamblin Theatre, 6:30 p.m. Lipscomb’s Jazz Band, directed by Dr. Steve Rhodes, and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Gary Wilson, present a concert of jazz standards and favorites from the 1920s and ’30s. Among the works to be performed are: Body and Soul by John Green, Georgia on My Mind
Jerry Reed along with Blair School of Music’s soprano Amy Jarman, who will perform works of poetry paired with music from Schubert, Rachmaninoff and others. All concerts are FREE and open to the public. by Hoagy Carmichael, Someone to Watch Over Me by George Gershwin, It Had to Be You by Gus Kahn, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love by Jimmy MuHugh, It’s Only A Paper Moon by Billy Rose, Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, and The Birth of the Blues by Ray Henderson. Performances are subject to change. For additional information, contact the Department of Music at 1-800-3334358, ext. 5932 or (615) 966-5932. Lipscomb University Wind Ensemble Monday, Feb. 25 Collins Alumni Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. The University Wind Ensemble, directed by Dr. Steve Rhodes, performs standards from wind band literature. Performances are subject to change. For additional information, contact the Department of Music at 1-800-333-4358, ext. 5932 or (615) 966-5932.
SEE YOU THERE!!
Free Community Cinema screening of The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights, Saturday, February 16 at 3 p.m. (2:30 p.m.reception) at the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church St., Nashville. Whitney M. Young, Jr. was one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders of the civil rights era. As executive director of the National Urban League, he took the struggle for equality directly to the powerful white elite, gaining allies in business and government, including three presidents. Panel discussion to follow featuring
Patricia Parrish Stokes, president and CEO of the Urban League of Middle Tennessee; Bobby L. Lovett, PhD, professor of history (retired) from Tennessee State University; Dennis C. Dickerson, PhD, James M. Lawson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and author of Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr.; and George Barrett, civil rights attorney, Barrett Johnston law firm. Presented by Nashville Public Television, Nashville Public Library, Nashville Film Festival and Hands On Nashville, with special presenting partner The Urban League of Middle TN.