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Contents Lenfest Events....................................................................3-5 Theater, Dance, and Film Studies...................................6-9 SonoKlect.......................................................................10-11 Season Calendar............................................................12-13 Concert Guild Events...................................................14-16 Fall Music Events...........................................................17-24 Winter Music Events.....................................................25-30 Spring Music Events ......................................................... 30 Staniar Gallery...............................................................31-37 Ticket Information.................................................................... 38 Box Office Information........................................................... 39

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Brochure front cover Drum TAO. Back cover STEP AFRIKA! Brochure graphic design by Susan Wager. Select Theater, Dance, and Film Studies’ images and Bentley image by Susan Wager.

W&L University photographs by Kevin Remington, Shelby Mack, Patrick Hinely ’73 and Emma Coleman ’21.

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THE CAPITOL STEPS

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The Capitol Steps make it easier to leave public life.” ~FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W. BUSH

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The show is a machine gun of comedy, firing one joke after another.”

~DC THEATRE SCENE

Wednesday November 20, 2019

Ticket sales begin Friday, September 20.

7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $30 Senior $25 W&L Faculty & Staff $20 W&L Student/Student $5

A PRELUDE TO W&L’S MOCK CONVENTION ALWAYS FRESH AND CRISPY, STRAIGHT FROM THE HEADLINES! Political Satire that hits the MARK!

The Capitol Steps offer a mix of song parodies and stand-up, lampooning modern political leaders and taking on the major issues of the day. And, no one and no side is spared. No matter what’s in the headlines, The Capitol Steps tackle the bipartisan spectrum and all things foolish.

Heavy on puns and impressions with a sense of humor that works,

the show is constantly updated to keep pace with the quickly changing news.

The Capitol Steps are the only people in Washington who attempt to be funnier than the politicians! More than 30 years ago, The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places who employed

them, providing a unique blend of musical and political comedy to our nation’s Capitol and more. Each show consists of tasteful mockery guaranteed to leave both sides of the political spectrum laughing.

The troupe has appeared on “The Today Show,” “Nightline,” “CBS Evening News” and for many years in specials for National Public Radio.

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

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STEP AFRIKA!

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The performance that this phenomenally accomplished Washington–based company gave…turned body language into body music. The kind that makes you want to get up and dance.” ~THE BOSTON GLOBE

Thursday January 16, 2020 Ticket sales begin Friday, November 15.

7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $30 Senior $25 W&L Faculty & Staff $20 W&L Student/Student $5

Photo by Edward C. Jones

Step Afrika! was founded in 1994 as the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping and introduces audiences to Zulu and South African gumboot dance. It now ranks as one of the top ten African-American dance companies in the United States.

The company blends percussive dance styles practiced by historically African-American fraternities and sororities,

African traditional dance and influences from a variety of other dance and art forms.

Performances are much more than dance shows; they integrate songs, storytelling, humor, and audience participation. The blend of technique, agility, and pure energy makes each performance unique and leaves the audience with their hearts pounding.

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

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DRUM TAO 2020

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Extraordinarily talented percussion artists…

The crowd was unmistakably wowed.” ~NEWSWEEK

Thursday February 6, 2020 Ticket sales begin Friday, December 6.

Drum TAO is the latest production from TAO, internationally acclaimed percussion artists. TAO’s modern, high-energy performances showcasing the ancient art of Japanese drumming have transfixed audiences worldwide.

Combining highly physical, largescale drumming with contemporary costumes, precise choreography, and innovative visuals, the performers of

Tickets are required.

Adult $35 Senior $30 W&L Faculty & Staff $25 W&L Student/Student $5

7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Drum TAO create an energetic and unforgettable production.

Drum TAO has collaborated with award-winning Broadway director Amon Miyamoto (Pacific Overtures) to weave the powerful movement of the drummers into a fantastical storyline about the redemptive power of music.

Enthralling legions of audiences in sold-out halls throughout the

world, Drum TAO brings a fusion of explosive Japanese Taiko drumming, contemporary costumes and eyepopping choreography. In addition, global fashion designer Junko Koshino has collaborated with TAO, uniting fashion and entertainment, and creating an even more sublime performing art. The Miami Herald calls TAO “Supernaturally fit and superbly trained…stunning.”

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

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

heater, Dance, and Film Studies

Thursday, October 31, 2019 Friday, November 1, 2019 Saturday, November 2, 2019 Sunday, November 3, 2019

Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Jemma Alix Levy

Music Composed by Dana Gary ’18

Ticket sales begin Monday, September 9.

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

2 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

One of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays comes to life on the Keller stage!

Fairies, players, lovers, royals and one

giant ass all meet up in a magical forest full of mischief, passion, mystery and delight. Come join the madness as

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Tickets are required.

Adult $15 Senior $13 W&L Faculty & Staff $11 W&L Student/Student $5

their worlds unexpectedly collide.

This production is appropriate for believers of all ages.

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Thursday, November 14, 2019 Friday, November 15, 2019 Saturday, November 16, 2019

W&L Dancers Create....

Jenefer Davies, Artistic Director

7 p.m.

7 p.m.

2 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

All tickets are $5.

Ticket sales begin Friday, September 13.

W&L Dancers Create.... is dedicated to works performed and composed by students and showcases the

diversity and talent within the dance program. A varied show in theme and style, this is a fun family adventure

with something for everyone. Join us and participate in new ideas in contemporary dance.

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EVERYBODY

Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Stephanie Sandberg

EVERYBODY is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

Ticket sales begin Friday, January 10.

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

2 p.m.

Johnson Theatre Lenfest Hall

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, this hilarious and unconventional take on the medieval morality play will have you thinking and laughing

all the way to the end. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a recent MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Grant) winner, weaves together artful conversation

Thursday, March 12, 2020 Friday, March 13, 2020 Saturday, March 14, 2020 Sunday, March 15, 2020

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Tickets are required.

Adult $15 Senior $13 W&L Faculty & Staff $11 W&L Student/Student $5

about mortality and why we’re even here in the first place. It’s a play of strange surprises and imaginative meaning.

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W&L Repertory Dance Company University Jazz Ensemble Jenefer Davies, Dance Artistic Director Terry Vosbein, University Jazz Ensemble Director

Thursday, April 2, 2020 Friday, April 3, 2020 Saturday, April 4, 2020

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $15 Senior $13 W&L Faculty & Staff $11 W&L Student/Student $5

Ticket sales begin Monday, February 3.

The W&L Repertory Dance Company and the University Jazz Ensemble join forces in what is sure to be an artistic evening to remember. In the first ever collaboration between these two groups, world premiere

performances will be the focus.

Student composer Simon Marland ’20 and student choreographers Runa King ’21, Carissa Margraf ’21 and Ashley Shugart ’22, are joining forces on a series of new works for the program. Repertory Dance

Company Artistic Director Jenefer Davies and UJE Director Terry Vosbein are combining on a new work, as well. A selection of guest choreographers will round out the bill, all of it accompanied by the Jazz Ensemble’s driving beat.

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Saturday September 21, 2019

“

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet Celebrates Dave Brubeck’s Centennial 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

The music is uniformly excellent in its composition, execution, and recording quality.

Once again, the BBQ attains that rarefied level where music is both relaxed and expressive, and their joy in its creation is contagious. There’s nothing out there that comes close to their unique blend of inventiveness.” ~ALL ABOUT JAZZ, Dr. Judith Schlesinger

Photo by Anthony Pidgeon

Chris and Dan Brubeck have been making music together practically all of their lives. Drummer Dan and bassist, trombonist and composer Chris cut their first record together in 1966—more than a half century ago. They’ve subsequently played a variety of styles in a number of different groups, as well as with their 10

father, jazz giant Dave Brubeck, and with their own Brubeck Brothers Quartet. With Dan and Chris as the foundation, guitarist Mike DeMicco and pianist Chuck Lamb complete this dynamic quartet. Although the Quartet’s style is rooted in “straightahead” jazz, their concerts reveal an inherent ability to explore and wlu.edu/music

play odd time signatures while naturally integrating the influences of funk, blues and world music. The group’s creativity, technique and improvisation can be heard in their uncompromising music, reflecting their dedication to melody, rhythm, culture and the spontaneous spirit of jazz.

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Saturday February 1, 2020

Jeremy Wilson, trombone

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

Photo by Matt Wann

Acclaimed for the versatility and lyricism of his playing, Wilson is something of a legend in trombone circles. On his first-ever audition attempt at the age of 25, he won a prestigious position with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Just out of college, he honed his performance skills as a member of one of the most renowned musical

organizations in the world. During his tenure in Vienna, Wilson performed hundreds of orchestral concerts at home and in 28 countries around the globe under the batons of the world’s leading conductors. At the time, he was the orchestra’s only full-time American member.

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returned to his home state in 2012 to accept a full-time teaching position at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he remains in demand as a soloist and chamber musician.

Wilson will be joined in his W&L recital by pianist Caleb Harris.

Additionally, he will perform works with electronic accompaniment.

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Fall 2019

DATE

EVENT

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PRESENTER

9/2-9/27 Art Exhibit: Xavier Tavera

On the Edge/En el Filo 9/15 Faculty Recital: Timothy Gaylard, piano 3 p.m.

The Final Solo Piano Recital 9/18 Art Lecture and Reception: Tavera 5:30 p.m.

9/21 SonoKlect: The Brubeck Brothers Quartet 8 p.m.

Celebrates Dave Brubeck’s Centennial 9/24 Pickens World Music Concert: Nobuntu 8 p.m.

9/28 Concert Guild: Marinus Ensemble 8 p.m.

10/2-11/1 Art Exhibit: Ida Floreak

Punctuated Evolution 10/4 Family Weekend Choral Concert 8 p.m.

10/5 Family Weekend Instrumental Ensemble Concert 8 p.m.

10/15 Faculty Recital: Gregory Parker, baritone; 8 p.m.

Anna Billias, piano 10/16 Art Lecture and Reception: Floreak 5:30 p.m.

10/27 Faculty Recital: Jaclyn Wappel, harp 3 p.m.

Colleen Potter Thorburn, harp

Nevermore, Nevermore 10/29 Fall Choral Concert 8 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

10/31-11/2 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 11/3 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2 p.m.

11/3 Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m.

Austria vs. Russia: Late-Romanticism towards Modernism

Jaime McArdle, violin; Julia Goudimova, cello;

Timothy Gaylard, piano 11/4 University Wind Ensemble Concert: Imagine 7 p.m.

11/5-12/6 Art Exhibit: Mari Hernandez

Figments of Truth 11/12 Art Lecture and Reception: Hernandez 5:30 p.m.

11/14-15 W&L Dancers Create….

7 p.m.

11/14 University Orchestra Concert: Eroica 8 p.m.

11/16 W&L Dancers Create….

2 p.m.

11/16 Bluegrass Ensemble Concert 8 p.m.

11/20 Capitol Steps 7:30 p.m.

11/21 University Jazz Ensemble and 8 p.m.

Vosbein Magee Big Band Concert 12/3 Holiday Pops Concert 7 p.m.

12/5 Candlelight Service: 8 p.m.

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

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LOCATION

Art

Staniar Gallery

Music

Concert Hall

Art SonoKlect

Concert Hall Concert Hall

Music/Pickens Concert Guild Art

Concert Hall Concert Hall Staniar Gallery

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Concert Hall Concert Hall Concert Hall

Art Music

Concert Hall Concert Hall

Music *T/D/FS *T/D/FS Music

Concert Hall Keller Theatre Keller Theatre Concert Hall

Music Art

Concert Hall Staniar Gallery

Art *T/D/FS Music *T/D/FS Music Lenfest Music

Concert Hall Keller Theatre Concert Hall Keller Theatre Concert Hall Keller Theatre Concert Hall

Music Music

Keller Theatre Lee Chapel

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Winter 2020

DATE

EVENT

TIME

PRESENTER

1/9-2/7 Art Exhibit: Christa Bowden, Art

Emily Gómez, and Ernesto Gómez

Cumberland Island: Land, Water, Wind, and Light 1/16 STEP AFRIKA! 7:30 p.m.

Lenfest 1/28 Art Lecture and Reception: Bowden, 5:30 p.m.

Art

Emily Gómez, and Ernesto Gómez 1/31 Concert Guild: Chanticleer 8 p.m.

Concert Guild 2/1 SonoKlect: Jeremy Wilson, trombone 8 p.m.

SonoKlect 2/6 DRUM TAO 2020 7:30 p.m.

Lenfest 2/9 Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m.

Music

A Retrospective of Music: Collaborating for a Decade Jaime McArdle, violin; Julia Goudimova, cello;

Timothy Gaylard, piano 2/12-3/20 Art Exhibit: The Book Expanded: Art

Language, Art, Form 2/20 Faculty Recital: Hannah Dishman, mezzo-soprano; 8 p.m.

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Anna Billias, piano 3/3 Faculty Recital: Julia Goudimova, cello; 8 p.m.

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Anna Billias, piano 3/4 Art Lecture and Reception: The Book Expanded 5:30 p.m.

Art 3/6 Senior Recital: Allison Jue ’20, viola 7:30 p.m.

Music 3/12-14 EVERYBODY 7:30 p.m. *T/D/FS 3/13-14 Bentley: Considering Matthew Shepard 8 p.m.

Music 3/15 EVERYBODY 2 p.m. *T/D/FS 3/15 Bentley: Considering Matthew Shepard 3 p.m.

Music 3/20-4/10 Art Exhibit: 2020 Senior Theses Exhibition Art TBA Art Reception: 2020 Senior Theses Exhibition TBA Art 3/24 Winter Choral Concert 8 p.m.

Music 3/26 University Orchestra Concert: 8 p.m.

Music

A Fond Farewell 3/31 Concert Guild: Matt Haimovitz, cello 8 p.m.

Concert Guild 4/2-4 W&L Repertory Dance Company 7:30 p.m. *T/D/FS/Music

and University Jazz Ensemble 4/7 University Wind Ensemble Concert: 8 p.m.

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The Stories We Tell 4/9 Bluegrass Ensemble Concert 7 p.m.

Music

* Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

LOCATION Staniar Gallery Keller Theatre Concert Hall Concert Hall Concert Hall Keller Theatre Concert Hall

Staniar Gallery Concert Hall Concert Hall Concert Hall Concert Hall Johnson Theatre Concert Hall Johnson Theatre Concert Hall Staniar Gallery Staniar Gallery Concert Hall Concert Hall Concert Hall Keller Theatre Concert Hall Concert Hall

Spring 2020 DATE 4/27-5/29

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EVENT

TIME

PRESENTER

Art Exhibit: The Watercolors of Louise Herreshoff

Art Lecture and Reception: Curator’s Talk TBA University Singers Commencement Concert 8 p.m.

LOCATION

Art

Staniar Gallery

Art Music

Concert Hall Concert Hall

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MARINUS Ensemble

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“The Marinus Ensemble [is] an outstanding and distinguished ensemble that has brought appreciation of great music to many institutions.” ~ H.F. “GERRY” LENFEST Media Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

Saturday September 28, 2019

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Ticket sales begin Monday, September 9.

Tickets are required.

Adult $20 Senior $15 W&L Faculty & Staff $10 W&L Student/Student $5

Rachel Kuipers Yonan, viola; Joseph Kuipers, cello; Hannah Kuipers, harp The Marinus Ensemble is a music collective presenting great chamber music through the talents of emerging international artists. At its heart are its founders, brother and sister, Rachel Kuipers Yonan and Joseph Kuipers.

Marinus last performed at W&L during the 20142015 Concert Guild season. This concert will examine nationalism in music, as exemplified in Turina’s Piano 14

Quartet in A Minor, Op. 67, Bloch’s Suite Hébraïque, and Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57.

The concert is dedicated to the memory of H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest ’53 (1930-2018) whose philanthropy not only funded the Lenfest Center for the Arts and significant programs at W&L, but also nurtured the Marinus Ensemble during its early days.

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CHANTICLEER

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Trade Winds

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Precise, pure and deeply felt singing.” ~SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Chanticleer fascinates and enthralls for much the same reason a fine chocolate or a Rolls Royce does: through luxurious perfection.” ~LOS ANGELES TIMES

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The singing of Chanticleer is breathtaking in its accuracy of intonation, purity of blend, variety of color and swagger of style.” ~THE BOSTON GLOBE

Friday January 31, 2020

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Ticket sales begin Monday, December 2.

Tickets are required.

Adult $20 Senior $15 W&L Faculty & Staff $10 W&L Student/Student $5

Photo by Lisa Kohler

This remarkable male a cappella ensemble returns to W&L to present a program entitled Trade Winds. Sultry and seductive, guiding us to exotic places, the trade winds have always been a part of the world’s history, urging explorers on. Gentle winds accompany the folkloric beauties of music from Pacific Islands such as Hawaii, Samoa and New Zealand. Robust and carefree music old and new comes

from the seafaring peoples of Europe. The program features a new work by Zhou Tian, setting Chinese poetry and John Masefield’s poem, Trade Winds. Chanticleer’s foundational repertoire of early pieces will be handsomely represented by music of the sea and the spheres by Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Victoria, and, for the first time, Portuguese composer Filipe de Magalhães.

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MATT HAIMOVITZ, cello

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

Tuesday March 31, 2020

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Ticket sales begin Friday, January 31.

Cellist Matt Haimovitz will conduct a three-day mini-residency featuring a masterclass for W&L student cellists on March 29 and the unique opportunity on March 30 to hear him perform three of J.S. Bach’s unaccompanied cello 16

sonatas—each paired with an overture composed by a living composer—in locations around the W&L campus. On the evening of March 31, Haimovitz will perform the remaining three Bach cello sonatas with their respective wlu.edu/music

Tickets are required.

Adult $20 Senior $15 W&L Faculty & Staff $10 W&L Student/Student $5

overtures in a concert in Wilson Concert Hall. He entitles the whole experience, “A Moveable Feast.” A recent review in The Boston Globe opines, “…Haimovitz played with great concentration, nobility of expression, and technical panache.”

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Sunday, September 15, 2019 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

This event will mark Professor Timothy Gaylard’s final time to play in a solo recital at W&L. He is retiring June 2020 and will go down memory lane—covering some of the many works he has performed over

Faculty Recital Timothy Gaylard, piano

The Final Solo Piano Recital

his 36 years at the University. Composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Gershwin will be included. A reception will follow in the atrium of Wilson Hall.

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Pickens World Music Concert: Nobuntu Concert Sponsored in part by the Pauline B. and Paul D. Pickens Fund for the Performing Arts.

Tickets are required.

Adult $15 Senior $10 W&L Faculty & Staff $5 W&L Student/Student $5

Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall Ticket sales begin Monday, September 9.

“Nobuntu” means humbleness, love, unity and family from a woman’s perspective, and is the name of the female vocal quintet from Zimbabwe who will present the 2019 Pickens World Music Concert at W&L. The group’s wide-ranging repertoire spans Zimbabwean songs, Afro-Jazz and gospel music, 18

and is performed unaccompanied or with minimal percussion and mbira (thumb piano). Nobuntu has performed around the world to critical acclaim and was nominated for Best Musician of the Year at the 2015 Zimbabwean International Women Awards in London.

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Parents and Family Weekend Choral Concert

featuring the University Singers, Men’s Glee Club and Cantatrici

Friday, October 4, 2019 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are free, but required and available only to current W&L students and families.

Tickets become available Monday, September 9.

Come kick off the choral season at W&L with the University Singers, Men’s Glee Club and Cantatrici. The concert will feature the Lexington debut of several of conductor Shane Lynch’s new compositions, along with choral favorites by Dan Forrest, Moses Hogan and others.

Movements from Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard also will be featured as a preview of the March performance of the entire work by the University Singers in Lexington and at other venues across the United States. Regarded as one of the most important recent works, Considering Matthew Shepard will enthrall and move audiences with its depth, compassion and beauty of this tragic story. The evening will close with the W&L tradition, Shenandoah. Reception to follow.

Instrumental Ensemble Concert

Saturday, October 5, 2019 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

Enjoy the University Jazz Ensemble, University Orchestra and University Wind Ensemble as they present a combined concert as part of Parents and Family Weekend 2019. wlu.edu/lenfest-center Box Office 540.458.8000

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Faculty Recital Gregory Parker, baritone Anna Billias, piano

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

Revel in the glory of emotionally charged music from Russian composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Anna Billias will perform piano works by Rachmaninoff,

Scriabin and Glinka. She will be joined by baritone Gregory Parker in the performance of Modest Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, as well as selected songs by Rachmaninoff.

Faculty Recital Jaclyn Wappel, harp Colleen Potter Thorburn, harp Nevermore, Nevermore: Musical Depictions of Mystery and Macabre for Two Harps Sunday, October 27, 2019 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

In the spirit of Halloween, harpists Colleen Potter Thorburn and Jaclyn Wappel create a frightening yet stirring musical soundscape inspired by the legends, literature and classic films of the season. Using combinations of two harps, percussion, narration, livevisual effects and more, this riveting program features original arrangements and transcriptions, including J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre and world premiere medleys from the movies of Tim Burton. Wear your costumes and prepare your most ghoulish musical appetite!

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Fall Choral Concert

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are free, but required.

Tickets become available Monday, September 9.

An evening of choral music presented by the University Singers, Men’s Glee Club and Cantatrici will feature the Lexington debut of several of conductor Shane Lynch’s new compositions, along with choral favorites by Dan Forrest, Moses Hogan and others.

Movements from Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard will also be featured as a preview

featuring the University Singers, Men’s Glee Club and Cantatrici

of the March performance of the entire work by the University Singers in Lexington and at other venues across the United States. Considered to be one of the most important recent works, Considering Matthew Shepard will enthrall and move audiences with its depth, compassion and beauty of this tragic story. The evening will close with the W&L tradition, Shenandoah.

Marlbrook Chamber Players

Sunday, November 3, 2019 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Austria vs. Russia: Late-Romanticism towards Modernism

No tickets are required.

Timothy Gaylard, piano; Julia Goudimova, cello; Jaime McArdle, violin

Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg is a crucial figure in the transition from the 19th into the 20th century.

Similarly, the late 19th-century Russian composer Anton Arensky represents the last flourishes of the Romantic Era.

The program here will juxtapose two works of the 1890s: Schoenberg’s early masterpiece Verklärte Nacht/Transfigured Night, arranged by Eduard Steuermann for piano trio, with Arensky’s passionate Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32.

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University Wind Ensemble Concert

Monday, November 4, 2019 7 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Imagine

No tickets are required.

The University Wind Ensemble performs its fall concert, Imagine, featuring works of glory, splendor, and imagination. The performance will include selections involving multimedia, such as Star Crossed

by Andrew Boysen, Jr. In this piece, the Wind Ensemble will accompany a movie in which a superhero and a supervillain fall in love. Other selections include Eric Whitacre’s zany Godzilla Eats Las Vegas!

Thursday, November 14, 2019 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

University Orchestra Concert Eroica

No tickets are required.

Join the University Orchestra in an evening of music about heroes. The program will include Aaron Copland’s John Henry, a work about the African-American folk hero who was said to have labored as a steel-driving man in the construction of railroads, and whose legend 22

includes beating a steam-powered, steel-driving machine in a race. The concert will also include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Eroica, a work originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte before being changed in favor of the name of a patron.

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Saturday, November 16, 2019 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Bluegrass Ensemble Concert

No tickets are required.

Bluegrass Music was born in the Appalachians and is one of America’s great musical gifts to humanity. Enjoy

traditional favorites, as well as bluegrass versions of pop songs as performed by the W&L Bluegrass Ensemble.

University Jazz Ensemble Vosbein Magee Big Band Concert Thursday, November 21, 2019 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

Once again, the University Jazz Ensemble joins forces with the Vosbein Magee Big Band for an evening of exciting large-ensemble jazz. The UJE draws its repertoire from all eras of jazz’s vivid history, from early New Orleans style to cutting-edge new compositions. They swing hard and they rock solid as the band showcases the talented individuals and their precise ensemble playing.

A professional big band in residence at W&L, the Vosbein Magee Big Band features the area’s best jazz musicians playing music 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! A highlight of this annual event features senior members of the UJE taking the stage with the seasoned pros for a rousing jam. wlu.edu/lenfest-center Box Office 540.458.8000

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Holiday Pops Concert

Non-perishable food exchange required for a ticket. Tickets must be obtained in person and will be available beginning Monday, November 11. The box office will be closed during W&L Thanksgiving break, November 25-29.

The Holiday Pops Concert will feature ensembles from the Department of Music performing pieces 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 kick off the holiday season! Please note that there will be only one Holiday Pops performance this year.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 7 p.m.

Keller Theatre

Once again, we are encouraging the spirit of giving within our community by requiring patrons to EXCHANGE one non-perishable good for each Holiday Pops ticket at our box office during regular hours beginning Monday, November 11.

All goods collected will be donated to 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.

Candlelight Service A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols University Singers Thursday, December 5, 2019 8 p.m.

Lee Chapel

No tickets are required.

Open seating in Lee Chapel begins at 7 p.m.

An annual tradition at W&L dating back more than 80 years, the Candlelight Service, featuring the University Singers, weaves together the sacred narration of the Christmas story through music, prayers, lessons and hymns. The telling of the Incarnation in this manner binds countries and cultures, dating back hundreds of years. From traditional favorites such as F. Melius Christiansen’s Wake, Awake to modern masterpieces like Stanford Scriven’s Christ the Appletree, text and music intertwine for an inspiring evening unlike any other in Lexington.

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Marlbrook Chamber Players

A Retrospective of Music: Collaborating for a Decade Julia Goudimova, cello Jaime McArdle, violin Timothy Gaylard, piano Sunday, February 9, 2020 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

2020 marks the tenth year Professor Gaylard has performed with the Marlbrook Chamber Players. Gaylard is retiring, and this is his last appearance as a member of the group. The program will be a retrospective of some of his favorite works from their decade together. Included will be movements from trios by Schubert, Brahms, Dvořåk and Tchaikovsky.

Jaime McArdle, violin; Timothy Gaylard, piano; Julia Goudimova, cello

Faculty-Guest Recital Hannah Dishman, mezzo-soprano Anna Billias, piano

Thursday, February 20, 2020 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

Emboldened and Embroidered: A Universal Journey Through Song

Emboldened and Embroidered: A Universal Journey Through Song features faculty pianist Dr. Anna Billias and native Virginian mezzo-soprano Hannah Dishman.

Come for an evening of truly tantalizing and passion-

filled performances of text through song featuring an array of poetry from France, Germany, Russia and America, all set to compositions by Debussy, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and living composer, Ricky Ian Gordon.

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Faculty Recital Julia Goudimova, cello Anna Billias, piano

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

Cello and piano duo “Anima e Grazia” will present an evening of Romantic music featuring Grieg’s Sonata for

Cello and Piano in A minor, Op. 36. Indulge yourself in romantically inclined music of Nordic countries.

Senior Recital Allison Jue ’20, viola

Friday, March 6, 2020 7:30 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

Allie Jue, a senior music major and pre-med student from Gilbert, Arizona, will play Suite 3 Prelude

by J.S. Bach; Suite Hébraïque for Viola and Piano, Movement I Rapsodie by Ernest Bloch; Andante 26

and Hungarian Rondo, Op. 35 by Carl Maria von Weber; Sonata Op. 120, No. 1 by Johannes Brahms; and Concerto in D major, Op.1, Movement 1 by Carl Stamitz.

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Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Musical

Considering Matthew Shepard

by Craig Hella Johnson

Friday, March 13, 2020 Saturday, March 14, 2020 Sunday, March 15, 2020

8 p.m.

8 p.m.

3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $20 Senior $15 W&L Faculty & Staff $10 W&L Student/Student $5

Ticket sales begin Monday, January 13.

Join W&L in the Virginia premiere of Considering Matthew Shepard, one of the most meaningful recent works of art. Anchored by the University Singers in the highlighted choir role, the performance features both professional and student soloists, instrumentalists and narrators.

This multimedia fusion oratorio is

a heart-wrenching musical telling of the tragic story and aftermath of the kidnapping, torture and death of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming in 1998.

transcend tragedy. Powerfully cathartic, it leads us from horror and grief to a higher understanding of the human condition, enabling us to endure.”

From the Washington Post, “Considering Matthew Shepard demonstrates music’s capacity to encompass, transform and

Prior to the run of the Bentley production, W&L will bring this important story to venues and schools across the United States.

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Winter Choral Concert

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are free, but required.

Tickets become available Friday, January 24.

Enjoy an evening with Cantatrici and the Men’s Glee Club performing a wide variety of choral classics, from Palestrina to modern works by Joan Szymko. Cantatrici will present an Islamic work based on the creative magic of music, complete with movement and dance,

and the Glee Club will feature a set of extended The King’s Singers songs. Both choirs will then combine to finish out the concert with works by Clausen, Powell and others.

Thursday, March 26, 2020 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

University Orchestra Concert A Fond Farewell

No tickets are required.

The University Orchestra will be joined by retiring Professor of Music Dr. Timothy Gaylard and his colleague of 30 years, Dr. Shuko Watanabe, to perform Poulenc’s 28

Concerto for Two Pianos in D Minor. In wishing a fond farewell to Dr. Gaylard, the orchestra will also perform Haydn’s Symphony No. 45, nicknamed the Farewell.

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University Jazz Ensemble Concert W&L Repertory Dance Company Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 3, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Tickets are required.

Adult $15 Senior $13 W&L Faculty & Staff $11 W&L Student/Student $5 Tickets become available Monday, February 3.

The W&L Repertory Dance Company and the University Jazz Ensemble join forces in what is sure to be an artistic evening to remember. In the firstever collaboration between these two groups, world premiere performances will be the focus.

Student composer Simon Marland ’20 and student choreographers Runa King ’21, Carissa Margraf ’21 and Ashley Shugart ’22 are collaborating on a series of new works for the program. Repertory Dance Company Artistic Director Jenefer Davies and UJE Director Terry Vosbein are combining on a new work, as well.

A selection of guest choreographers will round out the bill. And all of it accompanied by the Jazz Ensemble’s driving beat.

University Wind Ensemble Concert

Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

The Stories We Tell

No tickets are required.

Join the University Wind Ensemble for an evening of musical storytelling. This world premiere of Catharsis by Nicole Piunno is the musical retelling of the composer dealing with a facial injury that nearly ended her musical career. Also included will be Until Morning

Come, Andrew Boss’s piece dedicated to the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, as well as selections from Percy Grainger’s iconic Lincolnshire Posy. Featured on the program will be the winner(s) of the 2019-20 Concerto-Aria Competition.

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Bluegrass Ensemble Concert Thursday, April 9, 2020 7 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

Tap your toes, clap your hands, and give your smiling muscles a workout as the Bluegrass Ensemble closes out the Department of Music’s Winter Term concert offerings with a spirited presentation of bluegrass, oldtime and pop music.

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University Singers Commencement Concert

Tuesday, May 26, 2020 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

Join the University Singers for its final concert performance of the year featuring favorite works from 2019-2020 selected by the seniors. This 30

annual tradition is designed for parents and family of the graduating students, but is also open to the public.

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Exhibition: September 2–September 27, 2019 Lecture and Reception: Wednesday, September 18 5:30 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

On the Edge/En el Filo

Untitled (from the series Borderlands), 2018, inkjet photograph, 44 x 33 inches

After moving from Mexico City to the United States, photographer Xavier Tavera experienced a sense of cultural alienation that compelled him to document the spaces, places, events, people and artifacts of those living in marginalized communities. Tavera’s images offer insight into the diversity of numerous subcultures, giving a voice to those who are often invisible. This exhibition focuses on the notion of

borderlands as Tavera explores the echoes of cultural clashes at the United States/Mexican border that reverberate through other Latina/o/x geographies.

Tavera has shown his work extensively nationally and internationally, including Germany, Scotland, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay and China. He lives and works in Minneapolis where he teaches at the University of Minnesota.

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Exhibition: October 2–November 1, 2019 Lecture and Reception: Wednesday, October 16 5:30 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Punctuated Evolution

Seraph, 2019, oil on wood panel, 48 x 48 inches

Punctuated Evolution presents a combination of photorealistic paintings and abstract drawings by New Orleans-based artist Ida Floreak. Bones, leaves, insects and other artifacts of the natural world are carefully rendered and composed on her canvases to create poetic studies of the beauty inherent in the natural world.

Her recent series of nonrepresentational drawings rely

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more on instinct than observation. Moving between controlled, realistic painting and loose, abstract drawing, Floreak is exploring artistic relationships between the scientific and mystical, knowledge and intuition. Floreak holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied painting and scientific illustration.

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Exhibition: November 5–December 6, 2019 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, November 12 5:30 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Figments of Truth

Delfina, 2018, digital photograph on crepe de Chine, 48 x 67 inches

This exhibition features photographic self-portraits by multidisciplinary artist Mari Hernandez in which she portrays fictional characters from an unnamed historical narrative. Inspired by early documentary photographic traditions, the subjects are depicted as strong, stoic, and dignified, referencing theories of physiognomy that claimed a person’s physical features are indicative of moral character. The series poses questions about the

role of representation in forming identity and the history of portraiture in the art historical canon. Hernandez’s socially engaged practice reflects her long career in nonprofit community arts organizations. She is co-founder of the Chicana art collective Mas Rudas (2009-2015) and is a graduate of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute and Arts Advocacy Institute. She lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.

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Christa Bowden, Emily Gómez, Ernesto Gómez: Cumberland Island: Land, Water, Wind, and Light

Exhibition: January 9–February 7, 2020 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, January 28 5:30 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Christa Bowden, White Branch Tidal Creek, Wilderness Area, Low Tide, 2016, archival pigment print, 24 x 24 inches

In 2016, during the national park system centennial, artists Christa Bowden, Emily Gómez, and Ernesto Gómez began a multi-year collaborative project to document the unique biome of Cumberland Island, a barrier island about the size of Manhattan, located off the coast of Georgia. The island is one of seven Atlantic Coast national seashores and a part of the national park system. Though it has escaped wide-scale development through expansive yet politically divisive preservation efforts, Cumberland Island, like all coastal areas, is

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incredibly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

With this project, the artists hope to expand the existing photographic documentation of Cumberland Island in order to increase awareness of its significance and fragility, as well as to provide a record for future generations, should the island be lost or irrevocably altered due to climate change. Christa Bowden is Professor of Photography at Washington and Lee University. Emily Gómez and Ernesto Gómez both teach in the Department of Art at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia.

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The Book Expanded: Language, Art, Form

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Exhibition: February 12–March 20, 2020 Lecture and Reception: Wednesday, March 4 5:30 p.m.

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Daniel Mayer, Schrift/werk, 2007, origami artist’s book relief printed from photopolymer plates, collagraph, Plexi-glass covers, image transfer process, and gold leaf; created at the Glasgow Print Workshop; 4 x 6 inches

The artistic medium of book arts is explored in this exhibition curated by Washington and Lee Visiting Instructor Claudia Smigrod who teaches in this subject.

In The Book Expanded: Language, Art, Form, Smigrod focuses on content-driven works that reflect our social and cultural landscape. Her selections from Arizona State’s Pyracantha Press and the oeuvres of book artists Daniel Mayer and John Risseeuw span more than 30

years of creative activity in this area of expression. Daniel Mayer is the Director of Pyracantha Press in the School of Art at Arizona State University, where he publishes collaborative limited-edition books and prints. Arizona State University Professor Emeritus John Risseeuw taught book art, printmaking, and papermaking for 40 years.

He founded the Pyracantha Press, the book art imprint of ASU in 1982, and his own Cabbagehead Press in 1972.

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2020 Senior Theses Exhibition

Exhibition: March 20–April 10, 2020 Reception: TBA Staniar Gallery

Selections from the 2019 Senior Theses Exhibition

In their senior year Studio Art students create 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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The Watercolors of Louise Herreshoff

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Untitled, 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 PostImpressionists and Fauves. 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 Herreshoff ’s bold and expressive watercolors in the first significant public display of her work outside of the University’s Reeves Center since 1976.

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TI icket

Tickets for events scheduled September 9 through November 3, go on sale September 9, 2019. Tickets for events scheduled after November 3, become available approximately 60 days prior to the event.

Ticket orders may be placed in three different ways:

• Online Ticket Sales: Tickets will be available starting September

9, 2019, for online purchase at wlu.edu/lenfest-center. To place an online order, click on the Buy Tickets Now tab on the Lenfest home page, choose the performance you wish to attend and pay with your credit card. Only e-tickets are available online and must be printed at home or shown on your device at the door.

• Online University Swipe Ticket Sales: Go to the Buy Tickets Now tab, choose the performance you wish to attend, then click the

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nformation University swipe icon and follow the instructions on the next screen to complete your transaction. You will receive an email with a link to your tickets once your order has been processed.

• Box Office Ticket Sales:

The Lenfest box office opens for in-person and telephone sales on Monday, September 9. The box office hours are Monday-Friday, 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. and follow the University calendar. Please contact the box office at 540.458.8000 to purchase tickets by phone.

For all purchased tickets there is a $3 per ticket processing fee.

There is a $3 exchange fee for Theater, Dance, and Film Studies Department events with multiple performances.

For FREE but ticketed events, please come by or contact the Box Office during regular open hours. Please contact the box office at 540.458.8000 to reserve tickets by phone.

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For tickets and information for upcoming attractions, refer to the W&L Lenfest website at wlu.edu/lenfest-center or call the Lenfest Center Box Office at 540.458.8000.

BOX OFFICE HOURS: The box office follows the University’s academic calendar and is open from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m.

Monday-Friday and 1 hour prior to all ticketed performances.

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

Payment for tickets at the box office may be made by cash, credit card or check made payable to Washington and Lee University.

Payment via University Swipe is accepted through online purchase only.

All sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges.

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 accessible seating. Accessible parking is also available in the fan parking lot of the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

Our goal is to start all performances at the time indicated. Tickets are forfeited if not seated 5 MINUTES prior to curtain time.

Latecomers will be seated in the nearest seats available at a suitable pause in the performance.

Patrons are encouraged to call the box office for information concerning the suitability of events for children.

Assisted Listening Systems have been installed in both the Keller and Johnson Theatres, as well as the Wilson Concert Hall. Please see the house manager at least 15 minutes prior to curtain to sign out a receiver.

Tickets are forfeited if not seated 5 MINUTES prior to curtain time.

ffice nformation 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 Monday-Friday via phone, email or in person.

• 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 3 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.

All events, dates and times are subject to change.

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