Lenfest Center for the Arts Schedule 2023-2024

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Lenfest Events

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Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

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SonoKlect Events

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Season Calendar

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Concert Guild Events

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Pickens World Music

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Fall Music Events

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Winter Music Events

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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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Lenfest Event Photo Gallery

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1 Bentley Musical 2023 BEEHIVE The 60s Musical 2 University Jazz Ensemble 3 University Wind Ensemble 4 University Orchestra Ensemble 5 Treasure Island 6&7 Department of Art and Art History

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Brochure front: Rick Thomas Illusionist of the World Brochure back cover: Departments of Music, Art and Theater, Dance, and Film Studies’ photos.

Brochure graphic design/TDFS art work by Susan Wager.

W&L University photographs by Kevin Remington and Shelby Mack.

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HONORING AND BRANCHING OUT FROM

OUR ROOTS OF INFLUENCE

TOGETHER AT LAST ON THE SAME STAGE! FOUR INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PERFORMING AND RECORDING ARTISTS IN CONCERT

SCARLET RIVERA | CHRIS VAN CLEAVE | RAY SHELL | DARYL DAVIS HOSTED BY CHAPMAN ROBERTS

Friday September 29, 2023

7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall Q&A Reception in Lykes Atrium immediately following the performance!

A unique concert which honors the various early roots that influenced our noteworthy group of performing artists, and showcases how the breadth and depth of their artistry continues to branch out with their own unique styles. How have Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Woody Guthrie influenced the popular music genres of music today including Rock & Roll, Folk, Country, R & B, Gospel, Boogie Woogie and Blues? We will connect the dots of these influencers through the many famous artists they inspired and to the featured artists on this

Tickets are required.

Adult $33 Senior $30 W&L Faculty & Staff $27 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

concert. Our artists: SCARLET RIVERA— legendary violinist with Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, activist; CHRIS VAN CLEAVE—actor Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Misérables, singer-songwriter, playwright; DARYL DAVIS—Boogie Woogie piano player with Chuck Berry, actor, singer, bridge builder; RAY SHELL—via video from London, West End Star, singer-songwriter, bestselling author; CHAPMAN ROBERTS—actor, music director, vocal arranger, producer, Impresario.

Sponsored in part by the Class of ’64 Performing Arts Fund Please visit my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center or email boxoffice@wlu.edu for queries, updates and changes.

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Monday October 9, 2023

THE ACTING COMPANY ODYSSEY ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY LISA PETERSON TRANSLATED BY EMILY WILSON

7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $33 Senior $30 W&L Faculty & Staff $27 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

What will you do to go home again? Lisa Peterson’s adaptation of The Odyssey brings new life to this ancient epic. Four young women trapped in the limbo of a refugee camp retell Odysseus’ adventures as they struggle with their own search for a home. A production based on the revelatory new translation by Emily Wilson, its bold theatricality brings new humor and grace to a story we all think we know.

The Acting Company is the only professional theater principally dedicated to the development of young

classical actors. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley from the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School.

The Company has launched the careers of some 400 actors, including Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, David Schramm, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Touissaint, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin and Roslyn Ruff, while bringing high quality professional theater to hundreds of communities from coast to coast.

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

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Wednesday January 24, 2024

30th ANNIVERSARY

STEP AFRIKA!

7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $33 Senior $30 W&L Faculty & Staff $27 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

A return performance—Step Afrika! promotes stepping as an educational tool for young people, focusing on teamwork and cross-cultural understanding. The company 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. 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.

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Wednesday May 1, 2024

ILLUSIONIST OF THE WORLD

RICK THOMAS: MANSION OF DREAMS A FAMILY EVENT 7:30 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $33 Senior $30 W&L Faculty & Staff $27 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Direct from Branson, Missouri, and Winner of the 2022 Branson’s Best Award—Production Show and Magic show—Rick Thomas’ Mansion of Dreams comes to the Keller stage! Without a doubt, Thomas is one of the greatest and most successful illusionists in the world today. He has completed five world tours covering over 50 countries. From sold out performances at Caesars Colosseum, headlining the Sydney Opera House in Australia, starring in Las Vegas for 15 straight years performing a staggering 600 shows and astonishing audiences on Broadway, he continues to entertain

millions of people across the world. High honors include the coveted “Magician of the Year” by the Academy of Magical Arts and Magic’s highest recognition “Illusionist of the World” by the World Magic Awards. Thomas has also been featured on numerous national television specials including the NBC series “The World’s Greatest Magic,” Masters of Illusion on the CW, MTV, FOX, TLC, Animal Planet, the History Channel and his own special on ABC. His stage presence is unmatched as he weaves stunning magic, extreme comedy, beautiful animals and exquisite dancers into a seamless spectacle.

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

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heater, Dance, and Film Studies

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 Thursday, November 2, 2023 Friday, November 3, 2023 Saturday, November 4, 2023

SPEECH & DEBATE

BY STEPHEN KARAM ROB MISH, DIRECTOR

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

2 p.m.

Johnson Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8 Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

SPEECH & DEBATE is presented by arrangement with DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016.

It’s present day in a conservative northwestern city, as three misfit high school students find themselves at odds with the realities of hypocritical, narrow-minded and terrified teachers, parents and local politicians.

Alone they are rudderless, but together they are focused, intelligent and passionate members of Generation Z— the first demographic when as youngsters the internet and portable electronic technology were literally at their fingertips. Podcasts, chat rooms, iPads and secret screen names have been in their lives since birth—and they are experts at using them.

A rebuffed request to start a GSA in their school leads Howie—the activist, Diwata—the actor, and Solomon —the journalist, to skirt the system and initiate a more conventional club: Speech & Debate. A safe place where grown-up ideas meet energy and passion.

Karam’s dark, clever comedy with music is a refreshing piece of theater. It’s a play that does not proselytize but it just might get you to question the direction of the stream running through your mind.

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Thursday, November 30, 2023 Friday, December 1, 2023 Saturday, December 2, 2023

W&L DANCERS CREATE...

JENEFER DAVIES, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

2 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

Under the artistic direction of Jenefer Davies, W&L Dancers Create... is a concert of works created, designed and performed by the W&L students—a performance that 8

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reflects, in theme and style, current undergraduate work in dance. This dance concert showcases the intellectual and creative curiosity within the dance program.

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W&L REPERTORY DANCE COMPANY

JENEFER DAVIES, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Thursday, March 14, 2024 Friday, March 15, 2024 Saturday, March 16, 2024

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

2 p.m.

Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall

The award-winning W&L Repertory Dance Company presents an evening of multi-faceted dance works performed and created by internationally renowned choreographers, faculty and guest artists. Named a program of “outstanding artistic excellence” by the

Tickets are required.

Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8

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American College Dance Association, W&L Repertory Dance Company is committed to showcasing artistically vibrant contemporary dance works and challenging W&L student dancers through experiential opportunities in dance.

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BEGETS: FALL OF A HIGH SCHOOL RONIN

BY QUI NGUYEN

FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY BY PRIMARY VISIONARY ARTIST STEVE WEI DIRECTED BY JEMMA ALIX LEVY Wednesday, April 3, 2024 Thursday, April 4, 2024 Friday, April 5, 2024 Saturday, April 6, 2024

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

2 p.m.

Johnson Theatre Lenfest Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8

Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

Qui Nguyen (She Kills Monsters) is known for his ability to turn pop culture into physically explosive, heartwrenching, funny and engrossing plays. With Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin, he turns his attention to the highs and lows of the American high school. What if your high school was a video game? What if its divisive 10

cliques were controlled by shoguns and threatened by samurai warriors? What if you suddenly discovered that the greatest fighter in the universe was actually a selfprofessed high school geek gurl? Does violence have to beget more violence? Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?

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Saturday September 23, 2023

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KENNY WERNER TRIO 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

Mr. Werner and his trio took apart two pieces, a swinging original of his own called ‘Jackson Five’ along with ‘You and the Night and the Music’, and reconfigured them with all sorts of nearly miraculous rhythm and tempo changes….type of rhythm section fluidity that’s rarely heard…Mr. Werner is a clear virtuoso, and when he solos there’s wit everywhere, with clichés dragged out of the closet to poke fun at or rhythmic bumps added for humor.”

~PETER WATROUS, NEW YORK TIMES

The Kenny Werner Trio—with Ari Hoenig on drums and Johannes Weidenmueller on bass—creates music as one voice that is filled with passion, surprise and cutting edge rhythm. Hoenig is the most innovative drummer of his generation and has a huge following of young hungry musicians that revere his talent. Weidenmueller is the buddha of the group. He embodies wisdom and

balance that creates the perfect chemistry to the edgy, unpredictable voices of Werner and Hoenig. “Our creativity abounds whether we’re playing standards or original music. The standards sound like originals and the originals sound classic and innovative at the same time,” said Werner.

To view the entire history of the SonoKlect Festival, visit www.sonoklect.com.

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Saturday February 17, 2024

JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY BRASS BAND 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Featuring a lineup of top-notch musicians who are masters of their craft, this brass band is sure to blow you away with their virtuosic solos, tight harmonies and dynamic stage presence. Under the direction of Professor Kevin Stees, the JMU Brass Band is one of the most successful collegiate brass bands in the world today. Formed by Stees in the fall of 2000, the band was named the North American Brass Band Association 1st Section Champion in 2004 and 2005, and was the 2006, 2007, 2010, 2016, 12

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2019 and 2022 ABBA Championship Section Runnerup. The group maintains an active schedule, performing regularly throughout the academic year. They have been a featured ensemble at numerous festivals and conferences.

A highlight of this brass-fueled concert is Terry Vosbein’s three-movement composition “Pillars of Brass,” composed specifically for this award winning ensemble.

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Fall 2023 DATE 9/4-10/25 9/17 9/19 9/23 9/29 9/30 10/6 10/7 10/9 10/21 10/24 10/28 11/1-12/8 11/1-3 11/4 11/5

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Art Exhibit: Mary Mattingly Art Staniar Gallery Proposals Faculty Recital: Variations 3 p.m.

Music *LPC William McCorkle, organ Art Lecture and Reception: 5:30 p.m.

Art Concert Hall Proposals SonoKlect: Kenny Werner Trio 8 p.m.

SonoKlect Concert Hall Honoring Our Roots of Influence 7:30 p.m.

Lenfest Keller Concert Guild: Los Angeles Piano Trio 8 p.m.

Concert Guild Concert Hall Parents & Family Weekend Choral Concert 8 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Parents & Family Weekend 8 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Instrumental Concert Acting Company: Odyssey 7:30 p.m.

Lenfest Keller Theatre Concert Guild: ILonka Rus, piano 8 p.m.

Concert Guild Concert Hall Fall Choral Concert 8 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Pickens World Music Concert: 8 p.m. **Music/PF Concert Hall Simon Shaheen Trio Art Exhibit: Nestor Armando Gil Art Staniar Gallery Bienvenidos a Las Islas Piñatas Speech & Debate 7:30 p.m.

•T/D/FS Johnson Theatre Speech & Debate 2 p.m.

•T/D/FS Johnson Theatre Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Obsessions: Ghosts of the Past Jaime McArdle, violin; Anna Billias, piano; Julia Goudimova, cello University Wind Ensemble Concert: 8 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Musical (R)evolution University Jazz Ensemble Concert + 8 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Vosbein Magee Big Band Faculty Recital: Strange Bedfellows: 7:30 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Unexpected Musical Duos Christopher Dobbins, trombone; Heather Dobbins, bassoon; Akiko Konishi, piano Gregory Parker, bass baritone Art Lecture & Reception: 5 p.m.

Art Concert Hall Bienvenidos a Las Islas Piñatas University Orchestra Concert: 8 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Everything Old is New Again W&L Dancers Create...

7:30 p.m.

•T/D/FS Keller Theatre W&L Dancers Create...

2 p.m.

•T/D/FS Keller Theatre Holiday Pops Concert 7 p.m.

Music Concert Hall Lessons and Carols 8 p.m.

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Winter 2024 DATE 1/11-2/8 1/20 1/21 1/24 1/30 2/10 2/11 2/13-3/22 2/13 2/17 2/18 3/5 3/12 3/14-15 3/16 3/17 3/21-22 3/24 3/28 3/29 4/1-4/12 4/TBA 4/3-5 4/6 4/6 4/7

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Art Exhibit: Salvador Dalí: Les Chants de Maldoror Concert Guild: Antioch Chamber Ensemble 8 p.m.

MLK Remembrance Concert 7 p.m.

Step Afrika! 30th Anniversary 7:30 p.m.

Lecture and Reception: Salvador Dalí: 5:30 p.m.

Les Chants de Maldoror Concert Guild: Manhattan Chamber Players 8 p.m.

Piano Program Recital: 3 p.m.

The Seasons: Sounds of Nature Art Exhibit: Florence As It Was: The Digital Reconstruction of a Medieval City Lecture & Reception: 5:30 p.m.

Florence As It Was: The Digital Reconstruction of a Medieval City SonoKlect: James Madison University Brass Band 8 p.m.

Faculty Recital: Anima e Grazia: 3 p.m.

Passion of A Spanish Heart Julia Goudimova, cello; Anna Billias, piano University Singers Tour Home Concert 8 p.m.

Winter Choral Concert 8 p.m.

W&L Repertory Dance Company 7:30 p.m.

W&L Repertory Dance Company 2 p.m.

Senior Recital: Duncan Hart, violin 3 p.m.

Bentley Opera: Dido and Aeneas 8 p.m.

Senior Recital: Gabriella Kogan, piano 3 p.m.

University Orchestra Concert: 8 p.m.

Symphonic Sound Bites Senior Recital: Annie Thomas, piano 8 p.m.

Art Exhibit: 2024 Senior Theses Exhibition Reception: 2024 Senior Theses Exhibition 5:30 p.m.

Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin 7:30 p.m.

Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin 2 p.m.

Senior Recital: Sarah Gabrielle Lynch, piano 8 p.m.

Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m.

Colorful Collage of Harmonies Jaime McArdle, violin; Anna Billias, piano Julia Goudimova, cello; Megan Mason, viola University Wind Ensemble Concert: 8 p.m.

The Nature of Music University Jazz Ensemble Concert 8 p.m. invites Rockbridge County High School Jazz Ensemble Junior Recital: 8 p.m.

Heidi Thiessen ’25, soprano Matthew Flynn ’25, baritone

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Art

Staniar Gallery

Concert Guild Music Lenfest Art

Concert Hall Concert Hall Keller Theatre Concert Hall

Concert Guild Music

Concert Hall Concert Hall

Art

Staniar Gallery

Art

Concert Hall

SonoKlect Music

Concert Hall Concert Hall

Music Music •T/D/FS •T/D/FS Music ••M/T/D/FS Music Music

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

Music Art Art •T/D/FS •T/D/FS Music Music

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

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Spring 2024 DATE 4/29-5/31 5/1 TBA 5/11 5/28

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Art Exhibit: Floating Topographies, New Work and Collaborations Rick Thomas, Illusionist of the World 7:30 p.m.

Lecture and Reception: 5:30 p.m.

Floating Topographies, New Work and Collaborations Piano Recital: Nicholas Ross, piano 8 p.m.

Virtuosic Repertoire for the Left Hand University Singers Commencement Concert 8 p.m.

PRESENTER

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Art

Staniar Gallery

Lenfest Art

Keller Theatre Concert Hall

Music

Concert Hall

Music

Concert Hall

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LOS ANGELES PIANO TRIO

Stunning…brilliantly powerful (with a) burnished tone creating a confiding expressiveness…always eloquent and passionate—Andrew Shulman, cellist.”

Saturday September 30, 2023

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

~LOS ANGELES TIMES

Tickets are required.

Adults $25 Seniors $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Fabio Bidini, piano; Margaret Batjer, violin; Andrew Shulman, cello

The Los Angeles Piano Trio brings a new level of refinement, emotional depth and artistry to the piano trio repertoire, reflecting the City of Angels’ rich cultural legacy, global impact and vibrant energy. Venerated artists and long-time L.A. residents Fabio Bidini, piano, Martin Beaver, violin, and Andrew Shulman, cello, founded the chamber ensemble in 2020, building upon their distinguished international careers as critically acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, recording artists and pedagogues.

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The Los Angeles Times said Bidini plays with “the rigor of a poet and the flair of a magician.” Ludwig vanToronto described Beaver’s playing as “assured, imposing and expertly shaped and paced.”

Featured works include Piano Trio No. 39 in G Major “Gypsy;” Debussy Piano Trio in G Major; and Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50.

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Saturday October 21, 2023

ILONKA RUS

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8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required.

Adults $18 Seniors $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Transylvanian born pianist Dr. ILonka Rus is the Director of Keyboard Studies and Professor of Piano at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.

She began her piano studies with her mother at the age of five in Romania. By the age of 10 she had given her first public performance and won her first award at the International Piano Competition “Citta di Marsala” in Italy. She appeared as a recitalist and concert artist with numerous orchestras and chamber music ensembles throughout Romania, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and the United States.

Dr. Rus has performed in prestigious music centers including Carnegie Hall (New York), Ateneul Roman (Bucharest) and Concertgebouw (Amsterdam).

She continues to teach piano solo and chamber music master classes, perform clinics and adjudicate national and international competitions in the United States, Romania, Peru and Colombia. Rus’ program will include works by Mozart, Brian Field, George Enescu, Tudor Dumitrescu and Carl Filtch.

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ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

The Antioch Chamber Ensemble… sings with an unaffected verve and tight ensemble unity that many other groups can only envy…” ~STEVE RITTER, AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

Saturday January 20, 2024

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required.

Adults $25 Senior $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No Charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

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The Antioch Chamber Ensemble makes its third appearance in Wilson Concert Hall for an evening of choral music. The concert will feature Morten Lauridsen’s five-movement Mid-Winter Songs as well 18

as An Extra Day, a work by British composer, Joanna Marsh, commissioned by the ensemble to commemorate the 2024 leap year.

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MANHATTAN CHAMBER PLAYERS

The Manhattan Chamber Players transport audiences. Superb artists all, their desire to inform people about the music they play takes audiences to exciting new places. Their joy in performance easily floods a hall, and the music they make together, as artists and friends, is simply thrilling.” ~CHAPPAQUIDDICK MUSIC FESTIVAL

Tuesday February 10, 2024

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $25 Senior $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

The Manhattan Chamber Players is a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. Formed

by Founding Artistic Director Luke Fleming, MCP is comprised of an impressive roster of musicians who all come from the tradition of great music making at the Marlboro Music Festival, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festivals and Perlman Music Program. The Players

are former students of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Colburn School, New England Conservatory and Yale School of Music. Program includes Beethoven’s Selections from 25 Scottish Songs for Soprano and Piano Trio, Op. 10; Shostakovich’s Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok (voice and piano trio); Giocomo Puccini’s Crisantemi (string quartet); Richard Strauss’ Morgen! (voice, violin, piano); Frank Bridge’s Three Songs for Soprano, Viola, and Piano and Ernest Chausson’s Chanson Perpétuelle, Op. 37.

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PickensWorld Music Concert “

SIMON SHAHEEN TRIO

Shaheen’s fleet-fingered pyrotechnics on the lutelike ‘oud have to be seen to be believed, as notes tumble, tremble, buzz and fly from the instrument’s ~MICHAEL UPCHURCH, THE SEATTLE TIMES strings.”

Saturday October 28, 2023

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required.

Adults $18 Seniors $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required

Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Oud virtuoso Simon Shaheen, and his trio return to W&L this fall, having last played here in October 2015. One of the most important Arab musicians of his generation, Shaheen masterfully performs everything

from traditional Arabic music to modern jazz on the oud, a type of short-necked lute that is a staple of the Arab music tradition, and the violin.

Sponsored in part by the Pauline B. And Paul D. Pickens Fund for the Performing Arts

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FACULTY RECITAL

VARIATIONS

WILLIAM MCCORKLE, ORGAN Sunday, September 17, 2023 3 p.m.

Lexington Presbyterian Church No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. https://www.lexpres.org

A lively exploration of the use of musical variation in organ music over the centuries to showcase the instrument’s many sound colors and the technical prowess of the players. Fixed forms such as Passacaglia and Chaconne along with variations on sacred and secular tunes. An eclectic assortment of male and female composers from both sides of the Atlantic, some well known—Bach, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Alains and Langlais—others less so—Heiller, Laurin and Sandresky.

Please connect at 2:50 p.m. through the Lexington Presbyterian Church website https://www.lexpres.org. Join by clicking the “Live on YouTube” icon located on the top of the home page.

PARENTS AND FAMILY WEEKEND CHORAL CONCERT

FEATURING THE UNIVERSITY SINGERS, THE GLEE CLUB AND CANTATRICI Friday, October 6, 2023 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 11.

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

Come kick off the 2023-2024 choral season with the University Singers, Glee Club and Cantatrici. Showcasing Lacey R. Lynch, conductor of Cantatrici, and members of the Choral Conducting Mentorship Program (CCMP).

The first half of the program will feature modern a cappella fun, opening with Curtis Mayfield’s It’s Alright and Latvian composer Laura Jekabsone’s Sudraba Meness.

The University Singers, conducted by Shane M. Lynch, will then perform a wide-ranging set centered around To Sit and Dream, an incredible work by American composer Rosephanye Powell. Traditional favorites will round out the evening, finally closing with James Erb’s Shenandoah.

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PARENTS AND FAMILY WEEKEND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE CONCERT Saturday, October 7, 2023 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

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

Join the University Jazz Ensemble, University Orchestra and University Wind Ensemble as they perform a combined concert as part of Parents and Family Weekend 2023.

FALL CHORAL CONCERT

FEATURING THE UNIVERSITY SINGERS, THE GLEE CLUB AND CANTATRICI

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are free, but required.

Tickets become available Monday, September 11.

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

The first half of the program will feature modern a then perform a wide-ranging set centered around To Sit cappella fun, opening with Curtis Mayfield’s It’s Alright and Dream, an incredible work by American composer and Latvian composer Laura Jekabsone’s Sudraba Meness. Rosephanye Powell. Traditional favorites will round out The University Singers, conducted by Shane M. Lynch, will the evening, finally closing with James Erb’s Shenandoah. my.wlu.edu/music-department 22

MARLBROOK CHAMBER PLAYERS

OBSESSIONS: GHOSTS OF THE PAST JAIME MCARDLE, VIOLIN ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO

Sunday, November 5, 2023 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

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

The Marlbrook Chamber Players will explore masterworks of chamber music with themes of tragedy and the macabre this fall. The program features Ysaye’s passionate violin sonata, incorporating Bach’s lighthearted passages and the dramatic Dies Irae. The Beethoven Ghost trio follows, believed to represent a ghost’s conversation with mourners. The program culminates with Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2, a haunting work for violin, cello and piano that mourns the horrific treatment of the Jewish people during WWII. Though the program explores dark places, music can express these difficult subjects of humanity in a way that calls us to a higher place. Join us for a program that explores both joy and sorrow.

UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT

MUSICAL (R)EVOLUTION

Monday, November 6, 2023 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

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

Join the University Wind Ensemble as it pushes the boundaries of traditional band repertoire while also paying tribute to the early revolutionaries of the genre.

The UWE will explore numerous spatial, tonal and

conceptual possibilities through the works of Eric Whitaker, Michael Sweeney and many more. Join us for a night of exciting music making!

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UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE + VOSBEIN MAGEE BIG BAND Thursday, November 9, 2023 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

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

The University Jazz Ensemble welcomes the Vosbein Magee Big Band once again to share in their fall showcase. This traditional pairing of bands is a highlight for the student and professional musicians alike.

Kicking off the show, the University Jazz Ensemble’s artistry will be on full display as they explore intricate ensemble work and inventive improvisations. Expect a variety of styles to be presented, but through it all, the core sound of the band is hard swinging big band jazz.

After intermission, the Vosbein Magee Big Band will present a set primarily written and arranged by band members including several pieces created specifically for this performance. Formed by composer Terry Vosbein and trumpet virtuoso Chris Magee in 2015, the band is comprised of top-notch regional musicians who are all masters of their craft. They entertain audiences annually at summer festivals and on the WLU stage, where they recorded their debut album in 2019.

FACULTY RECITAL:

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: UNEXPECTED MUSICAL DUOS CHRISTOPHER DOBBINS, TROMBONE HEATHER DOBBINS, BASSOON AKIKO KONISHI, PIANO GREGORY PARKER, BARITONE

Saturday, November 11, 2023 7:30 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

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

Piano faculty member Akiko Konishi joins artist colleagues to present an exhilarating evening of unique chamber music written for piano, voice, trombone and bassoon. The program includes works by Ravel, Castérède, Sulek, Serocki and more.

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UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Thursday, November 16, 2023 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

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

Spend an evening with the University Orchestra as it explores a compilation of newer works for orchestra mixed with a few of the great standards. Featured works include Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, also known as the Classical and Vivid by violinist and composer Shir-Ran Yinon.

HOLIDAY POPS CONCERT Monday, December 4, 2023 Tuesday, December 5, 2023 7 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

• Only December 4 performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

Come kick off the holiday season with the music ensembles of W&L in a festive, family-friendly concert of new works and traditional favorites. Featuring the University Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Cantatrici, and the Glee Club as well as multiple members of the Conducting Mentorship Program, this concert promises to get the holiday season off to a roaring start. Once again, we are encouraging the spirit of giving within our community by asking patrons to

Tickets are required. Tickets are free with non-perishable food or monetary donation to Campus Kitchen. Tickets can be reserved online. Monetary donations may be made online, while food donations are required in-person at the Lenfest Box Office during open hours.

Tickets available beginning Monday, November 13, 2023.

The box office will be closed during W&L Thanksgiving break, November 20-24, 2023.

EXCHANGE one non-perishable food or monetary donation for each Holiday Pops ticket at our box office during regular hours beginning Monday, November 13.

All goods and funds collected will be donated to W&L Campus Kitchen, an organization that recovers and reuses food for the purpose of providing balanced meals for lowincome members of the Rockbridge County community.

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LESSONS & CAROLS Thursday, December 7, 2023 8 p.m.

University Chapel No tickets are required.

An annual tradition at W&L dating back over 80 years that has been cut short by the pandemic and other University Singer events for the past three years, the Candlelight Service returns to weave together the narration of the Christmas story through music, readings and carols. The telling of the Incarnation in this manner binds countries and cultures, dating back hundreds of years. From traditional favorites like F. Melius Christiansen’s Wake, Awake to modern masterpieces like Jocelyn Hagen’s Mother’s Song and Elaine Hagenberg’s incredible new arrangement of My Song in the Night, let text and music intertwine for a peaceful evening unlike any other in Lexington.

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MLK REMEMBRANCE CONCERT Sunday, January 21, 2024 7 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Back for the first time since before the pandemic-join with us as we honor Dr. King’s contributions to America with the wonderful Lexington tradition of the Martin Luther King Jr. Remembrance Concert. Readings of speeches and poems by Dr. King, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes and many others become interspersed with musical reflections performed by the W&L University Singers, Cantatrici and the Glee Club. Be there for the renewal of this powerful annual W&L tradition.

PIANO PROGRAM RECITAL

THE SEASONS: THE SOUNDS OF NATURE

Sunday, February 11, 2024 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

The annual concert showcases W & L pianists in a matinee performance of piano literature inspired by nature. The program includes works by Barber, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Price and Gershwin.

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FACULTY RECITAL:

ANIMA E GRAZIA PASSION OF A SPANISH HEART JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO

Sunday, February 18, 2024 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

Full of fiery rhythms, passion and drama, the music of Spain attracted and inspired many musicians and composers throughout the world. In this concert, the duo Anima e Grazia will explore some of the best works for cello and piano filled with Spanish motifs and melodies.

The audience will listen to the music of Eduard Lalo, Enrique Granados, Alexander Glazunov and other famous composers.

UNIVERSITY SINGERS

TOUR HOME CONCERT Tuesday, March 5, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall Tickets are free, but required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Join the renowned University Singers as they return home from their national choir tour of the southern United States with an evening of a capella choral mastery.

The tour will have multiple sets, including an entire set featuring the music of renowned composer Rosephanye Powell, which will be performed for Dr. Powell during the trip. Another set will utilize movement and lighting to tell A Life’s Journey, a story of transformation and maturation over a lifetime of learning, loving, losing and growing.

The remainder of the concert will focus on a wide variety of music from Bach to Mendelssohn to Argentinian composer Ernesto Herrera. Finally, the University Singers will close the program with folk songs and other works that are always audience favorites.

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WINTER CHORAL CONCERT Tuesday, March 12, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall Tickets are free, but required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Enjoy an evening with Cantatrici and the Glee Club, supported by the University Singers with widely diverse music and creative story-telling, with a program built around a tale and presented with movement, lighting and theatricality. Fashioned by members of the Choral Conducting Mentorship Program, past narrative concerts have included A Lifetime of Love and A Hero’s Journey, a concert complete with sword fights! The theme for the 2024 concert will be selected in the fall of 2023 and built out in fantastic fashion for the Lexington audience to enjoy.

SENIOR RECITAL:

DUNCAN HART ’24, VIOLIN

Sunday, March 17, 2024 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Duncan Hart ‘24 of Cleveland, Ohio gives his senior recital in music focusing on various staples of Romantic violin literature. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Spring sonata headlines the program, which features pieces from Kreisler and Elgar and Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor. To tie in the theory and compositional

elements of Hart’s music degree, one of his original compositions rounds out the concert. Hart studies violin with Prof. Jaime McArdle and composition with Dr. Scott Williamson; his thesis advisor is Dr. Gregory Parker, and his major advisor is Dr. Christopher Dobbins.

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usic and Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

Thursday, March 21, 2024 Friday, March 22, 2024

Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Opera

DIDO AND AENEAS

BY HENRY PURCELL

SCOTT WILLIAMSON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR

8 p.m.

8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

Tickets are required.

Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Henry Purcell’s and Nahum Tate’s adaptation of Virgil’s Aeneid reenacts the dramatic tale of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and the Trojan War hero Aeneas. Purcell’s score is an audience favorite for its memorable arias, choruses 30

and dances and for its rich, inventive harmonies. This new production of the seventeenth-century musical theater landmark is designed especially for Wilson Concert Hall and features a baroque chamber ensemble.

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SENIOR RECITAL:

GABRIELLA KOGAN ’24, PIANO

Sunday, March 24, 2024 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Gabriella Kogan ’24 from Atlanta, Georgia will present a solo piano recital featuring the Baroque, Romantic and 20th century musical periods. The repertoire will include some charming Scarlatti sonatas and Beethoven’s aptly

nicknamed Tempest Sonata and will round out with Gershwin’s jazzy piano preludes. Dr. Akiko Konishi is both Kogan’s applied piano professor and minor advisor.

UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT

SYMPHONIC SOUND BITES Thursday, March 28, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

The University Orchestra presents a tasting menu of sumptuous selections to please every palate! Join the UO as it explores shorter works from Jean Sibelius and Edward Elgar, along with movements from larger-scale works by Johannes Brahms and Benjamin Britten, among others. It’s sure to be a symphony of flavors!

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SENIOR RECITAL:

ANNIE THOMAS ’24, PIANO Friday, March 29, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Annie Thomas ‘24 of Jackson, Mississippi presents a piano recital with solo and collaborative works from the classical to modern periods. The program features Excursions by Samuel Barber, Capriol Suite by Peter Warlock, as well as Beethoven’s only song cycle, An die ferne Geliebte. Thomas studies applied piano with Dr. Akiko Konishi and her major advisor is Dr. Shane Lynch.

SENIOR RECITAL:

SARAH GABRIELLE LYNCH ’24, SOPRANO

Saturday, April 6, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Sarah Gabrielle Lynch ’24 of Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania presents a soprano voice recital with solo works spanning six languages (English, French, Italian, German, Russian and Greek) as well as classical, romantic and modern periods, all accompanied by collaborative pianist Dr. Anna Billias. This program features arias from Mozart, Offenbach and Vivaldi, along with art songs and selections from many other composers. Sarah Gabrielle studies applied voice with Professor Christine Fairfield, and her major advisor is Dr. Shane M. Lynch.

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MARLBROOK CHAMBER PLAYERS

COLORFUL COLLAGE OF HARMONIES JAIME MCARDLE, VIOLIN ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO MEGAN MASON, VIOLA

Sunday, April 7, 2024 3 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

Marlbrook Chamber Players will present a colorful tapestry of music from around the world. The audience will enjoy piano trio by Armenian composer Arno Babajanian, string trio by Hungarian Hans von Dohnanyi with Megan Mason, viola, and more!

UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT

THE NATURE OF MUSIC Monday, April 8, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Come celebrate the reawakening of spring! The University Wind Ensemble presents an evening of music that expresses the beauty of nature through music.

Composer Stephen Lias will join us for the premiere of a new work based on his time backpacking in Lake Clark National Park. The UWE will feature the winners of 2023-24 W&L Concerto-Aria Contest, along with works by John Mackey, Jodie Blackshaw and others.

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UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Thursday, April 11, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

INVITES ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ ENSEMBLE

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

The winter University Jazz Ensemble concert will feature the talented students of the Rockbridge High School Jazz Ensemble in a night filled with the vibrant energy only found in ensemble jazz.

The musicians from Rockbridge County High School will open the show. Under the artistic direction of Miranda Fitzgerald, this group offers a fun and vibrant collection of jazz band selections. There is a history of these two groups joining forces annually, and both bands are excited to revive this tradition.

After intermission, the University Jazz Ensemble takes over presenting sounds from classic swing to contemporary fusion. Their dynamic and eclectic selections of jazz pieces will showcase the ensemble’s versatility and creativity.

To round out the evening and the concert season, the musicians from both bands will join together in a wild hard-blowing finale.

JUNIOR RECITAL:

HEIDI THIESSEN ’25, SOPRANO MATTHEW FLYNN ’25, BARITONE

Juniors Heidi Thiessen of Sanibel, Florida and Matthew Flynn of Loudon, Virginia will perform solos and duets from an array of genres and styles.

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Friday, April 12, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall

No tickets are required.

• Performance will be streamed. go.wlu.edu/livestream

Spring Music

PIANO RECITAL:

VIRTUOSIC REPERTOIRE FOR THE LEFT HAND NICHOLAS ROSS, PIANO Saturday, May 11, 2024 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

Acclaimed pianist Nicholas Ross presents a program of works written for the left hand by composers such as Godowsky, Brahms, Schulhoff, Holliday and Albéniz. He will also give a masterclass featuring W&L piano students on Friday, May 10th at 5:15 p.m.

UNIVERSITY SINGERS

COMMENCEMENT CONCERT

Tuesday, May 28, 2023 8 p.m.

Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required.

Join the University Singers under the direction of Shane M. Lynch for one final concert performance of the year, featuring favorite works from throughout the 2023-2024

season selected by the seniors. This annual tradition is designed for parents and families of the graduating students, but is also open to the public.

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MARY MATTINGLY: PROPOSALS

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Exhibition: September 4-October 25, 2023 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, September 19 5:30 p.m.

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Pull, 2013, 30 x 30 chromogenic dye coupler print (courtesy of the artist and Robert Mann Gallery).

New York-based artist Mary Mattingly works in various media to explore issues around sustainability, climate change and consumerism. She is best known for creating sculptural ecosystems such as Swale, a floating food forest that was open to the public as it traveled through the harbors of New York City. The exhibition in Staniar Gallery will present a series of photographs and sculptures from an ongoing series in which the artist wraps up collections of personal objects into dense bundles that comment on consumption, waste and the environment.

Mattingly’s work has been exhibited at institutions such as Socrates Sculpture Park, International Center of Photography, the Brooklyn Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Seoul Art Center among many others. She has been profiled in various documentaries and publications such as Art21 and The New York Times. Mattingly is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and other notable grants include the James L. Knight Foundation, the Harpo Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts.

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NESTOR ARMANDO GIL: TALLER WORKSHOP: RASTROS (lo que se hace al andar)

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Exhibition: November 1-December 8, 2023 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, November 14 5:30 p.m.

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pa’rriba/pa’bajo (not far now), 2023, 24K gold, wood, fishing tackle, butterflies.

Working at the crossroads of sculpture, installation and new media, Néstor Armando Gil’s creative practice poetically excavates his own personal history growing up the child of Cuban immigrants in the deep south. For RASTROS (lo que se hace al andar), Gil is creating what he calls “an exhibition of traces,” works that examine memory, loss and ritual to “peel nostalgia’s skin back, carve out its fleshy interiors and make room for critical remembering.”

Gil earned his MFA from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has lived in Florida, North Carolina, Maine and most recently Pennsylvania, where he teaches studio art at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Taller Workshop refers to the rotating collective of makercollaborators with whom Nestor ideates, processes and produces work.

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

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SALVADOR DALÍ: LES CHANTS DE MALDOROR

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Exhibition: January 11-February 8, 2024 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, January 30 5:30 p.m.

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Salvador Dalí Etching, 1934, drypoint etching, 13 3/16 × 9 15/16 inches (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment, 2018.421.16).

Between 1933 and 1934, Salvador Dalí created 44 illustrations for Les Chants de Maldoror, a fantastical 1869 text written by Isidore Ducasse, better known by his pen name, the Comte de Lautréamont. Lautréamont’s book had nearly vanished into obscurity when it was rediscovered in the 1920s by the French surrealists who championed its rebellious spirit and bizarre prose— elements Dalí complemented with an arsenal of personal visions drawn from his creative subconscious. Celebrating the 2024 Centennial Anniversary of the founding of the Surrealist movement and in partnership with the Virginia Museum

of Fine Arts—which recently acquired the complete set of etchings that the artist made for the original 1934 edition—this exhibition will present Dalí’s astonishing Maldoror prints with researched didactic materials by W&L students, as well as surrealist catalogs and ephemera from the collection of Dr. Elliott King, Associate Professor of Art History at W&L. The exhibition is co-curated by Professor King and Dr. Michael R. Taylor, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education at the VMFA.

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FLORENCE AS IT WAS: THE DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION OF A MEDIEVAL CITY

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Exhibition: February 13-March 22, 2024 Lecture and Reception: Tuesday, February 13 5:30 p.m.

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Cutaway view of S. Maria Novella, Florence (constructed ca. 1279-1450), data collected in June 2021 and February 2022, edited and modeled in July 2021 and March 2022 , colored point cloud model; LiDAR scans with HDR photographs, https://3d.wlu.edu/v21/pages/SMN.html.

This exhibition presents the ongoing art historical project Florence As It Was, which aims to digitally reconstruct the Italian city the way it appeared at the end of the fifteenth century. Spear-headed by Washington and Lee’s Sidney Gause Childress Professor in the Arts George Bent, Florence As It Was combines three-dimensional point clouds of buildings, digitized documents, photogrammetric models of art works, translations of

early modern descriptions and original interpretative essays to create a historical representation of the city.

Using virtual reality technology and computer stations, visitors to the exhibition will be able to explore 3D models of various architectural structures, view art works inside the buildings in which they were originally displayed and learn more about the Tuscan city as it existed over 500 years ago.

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

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SENIOR THESES

Exhibition: April 1-12, 2024 Reception: TBA 5:30 p.m.

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2023 Senior Art Majors

In their senior year, Studio Art students work independently on 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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SANDY DE LISSOVOY:

FLOATING TOPOGRAPHIES, NEW WORK AND COLLABORATIONS

Exhibition: April 29-May 31, 2024 Lecture and Reception: TBA 5:30 p.m.

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Koip Peak, 2022, steel, paint, 47 x 34 x 13 inches

In his post-sabbatical exhibition, Washington and Lee Assistant Professor of Art Sandy de Lissovoy presents sculptural constructions that explore interactions between landscape and mapping. De Lissovoy’s work applies the aesthetics of abstraction to reflect upon contemporary environmental conditions. Combining diverse materials such as metal and hand-dyed fabrics, de Lissovoy seeks an expression that resides between the accuracy of satellites and the poetry of imagined future landscapes. The show will also include collaborate works that are a visual

conversation about translation, migration, proximity and distance, made with Mexican artists Ander Azpiri and Griselda Rosas. De Lissovoy earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a BFA with Honors from CCA, San Francisco. He has had solo shows at Augustana University, Whittier College, Commonwealth and Council Gallery, Monte Vista Projects and Las Cienegas Projects. He has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sculpture Space and the Banff Centre in Canada.

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Ticket Information The Lenfest Box Office opens for in-person and online ticket sales on Monday, September 11, 2023. The Box Office hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. and is open only when undergraduate classes are in session. Forms

of payment include cash, check or credit card. Patrons can contact the Box Office by calling 540.458.8000 or emailing boxoffice@wlu.edu.

Box Office Information Box Office opens Monday, September 11. Box Office hours • If any tickets become available, patrons on the WAIT are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and one hour prior to LIST will be contacted in order. The patrons who are all ticketed performances. reached first will be given the available tickets.

The Box Office is CLOSED during undergraduate breaks; • This WAIT LIST will be effective until 3 p.m of the last however, website sales will still be available. work day before the performance in question.

Seating for events listed in this brochure is by general • Example 1: If an event is on a Wednesday, the WAIT LIST admission. There is no reserved seating; however, patrons will be effective until 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. may call the Box Office to reserve wheelchair accessible Example 2: If an event is on a Saturday, the WAIT LIST seating. will be effective until 3 p.m. on Friday.

Patrons are encouraged to call the Box Office for • If you have not received any contact from the Box Office information concerning the suitability of events for before this time, tickets are not available. children.

Parking is reserved in the Lenfest Center fan for dropLenfest Center Will Call (Day of Show) Ticket Policy offs, special assistance and wheelchair accessible parking only. The fan will close to staff and faculty at 4:30 p.m. on • When an event becomes sold out, a WILL CALL list will the day of a performance. be formed at the Box Office once it opens one hour prior to the performance. No calls or emails will be accepted.

Accessible parking is available in front of the Lenfest Center with a ramp to access the building. Additional • If any tickets become available, patrons on the WILL accessible parking is available in the parking parage CALL list will be called out loud, in order, by the Box Office agent on duty. Patrons are encouraged to stay near across the street from the Center. the Box Office in case tickets become available.

Assisted listening systems have been installed in the Keller Theatre, Johnson Theatre and the Wilson Concert • If a patron’s name is called three times and there is no Hall. Please see the house manager at least 15 minutes response, the patron forfeits the right to the ticket and the next person on the list will be called. prior to curtain to sign out a receiver.

Lenfest Center Wait List Ticket Policy

• If your name is not called by the Box Office before show time, tickets are not available.

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 via phone, email or in person.

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