Washington and Lee University Lenfest Center for the Arts, Spring 2021

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Contents

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Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

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Season Calendar

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Spring Music Events

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Staniar Gallery

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Ticket Information/ Box Office Information

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1 Bentley Musical 2020, Considering Matthew Shepard. 2&4 University Orchestra Ensemble 3 Department of Art and Art History 5 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 6 W&L Repertory Dance Company 7 University Jazz Ensemble 8 EVERYBODY

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Brochure front: University Singers 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, Shelby Mack, Patrick Hinely ’73 and Emma Coleman ’21.

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AERIAL DANCE

heater, Dance, and Film Studies

Thursday, May 20, 2021 Friday, May 21, 2021

Jenefer Davies, Artistic Director

2:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

Wilson Hall Exterior Wall

No tickets required.

Aerial Dance is open to members of the W&L community only. To be admitted, audience members will be required to check-in, have their temperature recorded and daily attestation completed.

Masking and social distancing protocols will be enforced.

The general public can view the performance live online from Wilson Hall Exterior Wall at https://livestream.com/wlu.

Performance will be streamed.

Under the artistic direction of Jenefer Davies, W&L is one of the first colleges in the country to offer aerial dance as an academic discipline and is a leader in avant-garde dance techniques.

In this breathtaking performance under the clouds, exuberant dancers explore movement 40 feet above the ground as the culmination of their spring term study.

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Spring 2021

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DATE 4/26-5/28

5/1 5/9

5/11 5/15 5/20 5/21 5/23

5/15 5/25

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Art Exhibit: Ken Gonzales-Day Art Staniar Gallery Profiled Senior Recital: Carissa Petzold ’21, clarinet 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Faculty Recital: Julia Goudimova, cello; 3 p.m.

Music Streamed Anna Billias, piano Lecture on ZOOM: Ken Gonzales-Day 5:30 p.m.

Art Streamed Senior Recital: Robert Masi ’21, piano 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Aerial Dance 2:30 p.m.

T/D/FS •WHEW Aerial Dance 2:30 p.m.

T/D/FS •WHEW Graduation Recital: 3 p.m.

Music Streamed Chad Thomas ’21, piano Senior Recital: Robert Masi ’21, piano 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Graduation Recital: Demmanuel Gonzalez, piano 3 p.m.

Music Streamed Caleb Peña ’21, piano University Singers Commencement Concert 8 p.m.

Music Streamed

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Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center.

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SENIOR RECITAL:

CARISSA PETZOLD ’21, CLARINET Saturday, May 1, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Carissa Petzold, a senior double music and economics major from Raleigh, North Carolina, will perform an expansive variety of clarinet works, with portrayals of the instrument ranging from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s seminal introduction of the clarinet to the musical stage, through Johannes Brahms’ drawn-out explorations of its beauty, to Igor Stravinsky’s inspired demonstrations of its versatility.

FACULTY RECITAL:

ANIMA e GRAZIA

JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO Sunday, May 9, 2021 3 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu The duet, Anima e Grazia, offers a special Mother’s Day present featuring the Cello Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op.32, by Camille Saint-Saёns. The program will also include other heartwarming romantic selections of French composers.

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ROBERT MASI ’21, PIANO Saturday, May 15, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Robert Masi, a music major with a performance concentration, is from Fairfax, Virginia. His senior recital will feature solo piano masterworks such as Chopin’s Polonaise in A-flat Major, Heroique, Op. 53, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 21 Waldstein and works by J.S. Bach, Maurice Ravel and Ernest Bloch.

GRADUATION RECITAL:

CHAD THOMAS ’21, PIANO Sunday, May 23, 2021 3 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Chad Thomas ’21, a senior mathematics and philosophy double major from Wiesbaden, Germany, will present a senior piano recital featuring George Gershwin’s monumental work, Rhapsody in Blue, and others.

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GRADUATION RECITAL:

CALEB PEÑA ’21, PIANO DEMMANUEL GONZALEZ ’21, PIANO

Demmanuel Gonzalez ’21 of Clifton, New Jersey, and Caleb Peña ’21 of Saint Cloud, Florida, are both pursuing majors in music with a minor in education. They will present a recital, showcasing Scarlatti and Bach played on a

Saturday, May 25, 2021 3 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

harpsichord, to piano works by Beethoven, Gottschalk and others. They will conclude their program with an exciting piece for two pianos by Granados.

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UNIVERSITY SINGERS COMMENCEMENT CONCERT

Tuesday, May 25, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

Join the University Singers under the direction of Shane Lynch for one final concert performance of the year

featuring favorite works from throughout the 2020-21 season selected by the seniors.

University Jazz Ensemble Rehearsal

Winter 2021 Bentley Musical: LITTLE WOMEN The Broadway Musical.

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KEN GONZALES-DAY: PROFILED Exhibition: April 26–May 28, 2021 The exhibit can be accessed remotely through a virtual gallery tour.

Visit https://my.wlu.edu/staniar-gallery/currentseason/ken-gonzales-day

Lecture on Zoom: Tuesday, May 11 5:30 p.m.

• Join Zoom Meeting https://wlu.zoom.us/j/97665882246 Meeting ID: 976 6588 224

Profiled Series: Untitled: Bust of an African Woman by Henry Weeks; marble, 1859; The J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles and Bust of Mme. Adélaïde Julie Mirleau de Neuville, née Garnier d’Isle by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle; marble, 1750s; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009 (printed 2017); Edition of 5 Archival ink on rag paper; 32 x 61 inches

In his Profiled project, artist and art historian Ken Gonzales-Day has photographed portrait busts from the collections of established museums such as J. Paul Getty and the Smithsonian, among others. His images are an exploration of Western assumptions about beauty and human value through the material

legacies of slavery, colonialism and white privilege.

Gonzales-Day is an internationally known artist based in Los Angeles where he is a professor of art at Scripps College. His conceptual, research-based practice focuses on historically constructed systems of race and the limits of representational systems.

Please visit the gallery website for date changes and updates http://go.wlu.edu/staniar.

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icket nformation

No tickets are required for Spring 2021 streamed performances. Streamed performances can be found at https://livestream.com/wlu, unless noted.

We appreciate our patrons’ patience and understanding during this uncertain time, and as a gift to the W&L and surrounding communities all performances will be

streamed at no cost. Streaming access information will be provided in a timely manner prior to each event.

For up-to-date information for upcoming attractions, please refer to the W&L Lenfest website at mywlu.edu/ lenfest-center or contact the Lenfest Center Box Office at boxoffice@wlu.edu.

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ffice nformation

The Lenfest Box Office will be working remotely during the Spring term. Agents will be answering the Box Office

email off site. All queries should be sent to boxoffice@wlu. edu and will be happy to assist.

Winter 2020 Bentley Musical: Considering Matthew Shepard.

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LaToya Ruby Frazier Art as Transformation: Using Photography for Social Change

Winter 2021 Bentley Musical: LITTLE WOMEN The Broadway Musical.

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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