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Now, we have reached a milestone. During this 25th Anniversary Season, we honor some of our founders, who in the early 1990s with Lehigh University leadership, embraced a vision to bring arts to the forefront of our community with a ‘dramatic new facility destined to become a major landmark.’ Years later, Tony Bennett said this right after he sang Fly Me to the Moon a cappella in Baker Hall, “Listen to that, they don’t build them like this anymore. It’s really beautiful. The acoustics in here are amazing.” We agree Mr. Bennett. This fall season world-class artists like Michael Feinstein, Postmodern Jukebox, and the New York Philharmonic, who inaugurated Baker Hall in 1997 and is honoring us with a performance for our 25th, will create many more moments of joy. In the spring, we will expand our cultural programming. Third Coast Percussion and Flutronix perform their new work Rubix and the talented artist Wu Fei joins us for a residency and performs Hello Gold Mountain with Professor Paul Salerni conducting students in Lehigh University’s Philharmonic and Choir. And be sure to save this date: April 15, 2023, for the return of our gala with The Philadelphia Orchestra featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, where we will also have a free outdoor performance by vertical dance company Bandaloop. These amazing artists will soar across the sky on the exterior of Zoellner Arts Center. They grace the cover of this brochure and prove that art is not subject to the confines of four walls. How grateful and excited I am to be the Executive Director of Zoellner Arts Center at this moment in time. We celebrate the impact we've had over the last 25 years, and look forward to the next 25 of engaging and connecting with you in and beyond our building.
Over this past year, we found many opportunities for joy: as public school children entered Zoellner with awe and wonder after a two-year hiatus; as the Lehigh University choral and music ensembles' notes soared in Baker Hall; as theatre students smiled working on their craft in the Fowler Black Box and Diamond Theater; and as we walked through Butz Lobby seeing hundreds of students from across campus rehearse for Dancefest.
As Zoellner Arts Center looks to celebrate its past 25 years, and envisions the next 25, we want to pause and thank all of our supporters. Each of you, who helped keep us moving forward during these uncertain times, also kept up the spirits of the center’s team.
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Celebrating 25 Years of Zoellner Arts Center Cornerstone Events: Honoring the Impact of the Zoellner, Baker, Diamond, and Ulrich Families' Initiatives to Help Establish the Arts Center. NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | OCT 1 POSTMODERN JUKEBOX | DEC 17MICHAEL FEINSTEIN | NOV 5 THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA | APR 15
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The New York Philharmonic, which helped inaugurate Zoellner Arts Center in 1997, and marked its 10th anniversary, returns for a third performance in Baker Hall to commemorate our 25th anniversary. Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts the orchestra in a concert that blends the impressionistic delicacy of Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun with the Romantic virtuosity of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with Bomsori Kim as soloist. The rediscovered Symphony No. 4 by Florence Price completes the program. Price was a pioneering composer in the 1930s. She was the first woman of African American descent to receive national recognition as a symphonic composer and have her music performed by a major American orchestra during that period. $75/65
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We asked The Weeklings to ‘get back’ to Baker Hall after their amazing performance last year. You don’t want to miss this chance to see America’s most unique celebration of THE BEATLES Experience a note-for-note celebration of timeless music—Eleanor Rigby, Something, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Here Comes the Sun and more— featuring a 10-piece horns and strings orchestra. There is something in the way they play!
Professional magician Max Darwin is an actor, designer and visual artist with over 35 years of experience working with young people as a performer and artist-in-residence. He has been featured on National Geographic’s hit TV series, Brain Games, and has worked as a magic consultant for Gotham, Blindspot and America’s Got Talent. His solo show, The Amazing Max, has received rave reviews from The New York Times, Huffington Post and PBS Kids for “an awesome and hilarious live magic show.”
Following their victory on NBC’s The Sing-Off, a cappella group Home Free have made their mark on the music scene: racking up nearly 600,000 album equivalents globally; embarking on major international tours; amassing OVER 1 MILLION YouTube subscribers, and garnering praise from Country Living, The Rolling Stones and others. These extraordinary showmen have continued to build a loyal fanbase with their harmony-laden versions of hits by John Mayer, Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Maren Morris, The Oak Ridge Boys and more. Price $65/55/45 OF VOCAL ARTS
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VERDI'S LA TRAVIATA voices accompanied by live orchestra share the drama and the passion of classic opera in a concert version of Verdi's La Traviata. The Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia trains young artists with tremendous potential as international opera soloists. These singers share their talent, training and unique gifts on our concert stage. $20
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9 zoellnerartscenter.org SAT NOV 5 | 7:30pm Legendary performer Michael Feinstein salutes and celebrates the great Judy Garland in the year that honors her 100th Birthday! Executive produced by Liza Minnelli, audiences are invited to join a nostalgic and spectacular musical journey of Garland’s illustrious career. Filled with special surprise moments, Feinstein and audiences will come together in celebrating Garland’s unparalleled talent and charisma. No one could break or lift your heart like Judy Garland! Feinstein will lead you on a historical journey through Garland’s amazing life, telling stories that he has learned from Liza Minnelli and other close friends. Audiences will be treated to recently discovered, previously unheard musical arrangements, as well as gain rare insight into the enduring Garland mystique. Price $45/35 FamilyofinPerformanceHonortheBakerLegacy
Price $12 | Child $10 GENERAL ADMISSION WESTMINSTER CONCERT BELL CHOIR IN PACKER MEMORIAL CHURCH Bells
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Grammy-Award winner Dan Zanes and his musical wife, Claudia Zanes, and her best friend Pauline Jean, perform a multicultural all-ages wintertime celebration. Hear a variety of traditions and songs from near and far — Christmas and Hanukkah classics in English, Hebrew, and Ladino as well as holiday songs from Korea, Tunisia and more. Songbooks are distributed and the audience becomes a part of the festivities. Guests of all ages join the trio on-stage. will be ringing once again in Packer Church during the holiday season! Comprised of students at Westminster Choir College at Rider University, the bell choir has performed at Carnegie Hall and even joined Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charlotte Church and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the acclaimed A Royal Christmas tour. Their holiday performances have been heard annually on NPR’s Performance Today, and are part of its Christmas Around The Country II recording. from parking
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SCOTT POSTMODERNBRADLEE’SJUKEBOX SAT DEC 17 | 7:30pm One of our favorite bands is back with their festive holiday show! PMJ mashes up timeless holiday classics and pop hits with vintage doowop, ragtime, Motown and jazz melodies with snazzy instrumentation to create the ultimate jingle jangle speakeasy concert vibe. Scott Bradlee describes the show this way: “Put simply, it’s the touring equivalent of Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie." Their worldwide legion of fans account for over one billion YouTube views and hundreds of sold-out shows. Join us and have yourself a merry little evening! Price $65/55/45 FamilyofinPerformanceHonortheDiamondLegacyA VERY POSTMODERN CHRISTMAS
12610.758.2787 CHRISTMAS WITH THE CELTS First there was Riverdance, then Celtic Woman, now Christmas with The Celts is here! The Celts mix lively traditional Irish music and instrumentation with American pop music and their own originals. Their popular program aired on over 200 PBS channels. Performing classics like Little Drummer Boy, Count Your Blessings, White Christmas, I’ll be Home for Christmas and Santa Claus is Coming to Town this array of top-flight musicians on uilleann pipes, Irish whistles, fiddle, bodhran, banjo, five-string bass, drums, along with Irish dancers is a perfect holiday treat. Price $45/35 SAVE THE DATE APRIL 15, 2023 FamilyofinPerformanceHonortheZoellnerLegacy An evening with featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell with a special performance by Bandaloop The Philadelphia Orchestra DECSUN 5:0018pm
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The NYC-based orchestra returns to perform selections from their new recording, Chain Reaction. The group’s music is a mixture of adventurous, modernistic pieces, Jazz-tinged Salsa and Post-Bop hipness. Jazz Times refers to Bill Warfield as a “top-rate craftsmen, perhaps one of the best on the scene.” COOGAN OVERLOOK QUARTET concert performance of a one-act opera based on a Dick Van Dyke TV show episode by Carl Reiner, libretto by Kate Light, music by Paul Salerni. Special guest ensemble The Overlook Quartet performs music by Shelley Washington and Trevor Weston. Guest singers include Disella Larusdottir, Keith Phares, Branch Fields, Tyrone Chambers, Helen Huang, Sarah Ann Duffy and even Zoellner’s Executive Director, Mark Fitzgerald Wilson. perform by Johannes Brahms and Francis Poulenc’s Gloria. Steven Sametz and Sun Min Lee,
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14Programs Subject to Change 30OCTSUN3:00pm LEHIGH UNIVERSITY JAZZ REPERTORY ORCHESTRA Bill Warfield directs the Jazz orchestra performing classic repertoire from all the greats. Price NOVEMBER$15 3:00SUN6pm LEHIGH FACULTYUNIVERSITYSTRINGQUARTET STRINGS AND THREADS Lehigh string faculty members Michael Jorgensen, Erica Dicker, Sharon Fischer and Chris Gross perform chamber music written in and about the United States featuring the iconic Dvořák American String Quartet, Op. 96. Other repertoire: Jessie Montgomery, Strum; Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 5. Price $15 8:0012SATpm LEHIGH STUDENTUNIVERSITYJAZZENSEMBLES Lehigh University's student Jazz musicians present classics, performed by combos and Big Bands. Bill Warfield, director. Price $12
15 zoellnerartscenter.org 20NOVSUN3:00pm LEHIGH UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE During this Sunday afternoon filled with musical notes, you’ll enjoy classic repertoire for concert band. Price DECEMBER$15 8:008:00SATFRI23pmpm LEHIGH UNIVERSITY PHILHARMONIC REFLECTIONS & CELEBRATIONS Director Paul Salerni conducts his orchestral piece A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance, alongside Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Eugene Albulescu as piano soloist. Price $18 4:00SUN4pm8:00pm LEHIGH UNIVERSITY CHORAL ARTS CHRISTMAS VESPERS IN PACKER MEMORIAL CHURCH Lehigh University Choral Arts presents its annual Christmas gift to the community. Steven Sametz and Sun Min Lee, directors. Free; No tickets required. Early arrival suggested. ALL MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS ARE GENERAL ADMISSION
Hannah-Jones is the creator and lead writer of The New York Times' major multimedia initiative, The 1619 Project. Named for the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in America, the project features an ongoing series of essays and art on the relationship between slavery and everything from social infrastructure and segregation, to music and sugar—all by Black American authors, activists, journalists and more. Named a MacArthur Genius, she’s won a Peabody, a Polk, and a National Magazine Award for her story on choosing a school for her daughter in a segregated city.
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In pre-Revolutionary Paris, a young girl fresh from the convent is promised in marriage to an older nobleman to pay off her father’s debts. She flees to the literary salon of her late mother’s friends, aristocratic women who conceal radical politics within reinvented folk tales. But which of them is her fairy godmother, and which is the cruel stepmother? Is the duke a Prince Charming or a Beast? And is the maid the humble nobody they treat her as, or the hero of a story none of them knows they are in? Augustine Ripa, director. Price $12 GALATEA BY MJ KAUFMAN
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NOV 4, 5, 9* – 12 | 7:30pm • SUN NOV 6 | 2pm Galatea is a queer fantasia about love at the end of the world. Loosely based on John Lyly’s 1585 play, Galatea is a trans love story set in a forest featuring Greek gods, poetry, and lesbian separatist nymphs. Two young people disguise themselves to escape virgin sacrifice and hide in the woods where they meet and fall in love. Lyam B. Gabel, director. Price $12
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Over 25 years ago, Lehigh University had a vision to design a vibrant arts environment where students, artists, faculty and community could create and learn. It wanted to educate, captivate and inspire performers and patrons by presenting a variety of outstanding performing arts events, exhibits and educational programs, and developing new works. In 1997, this vision manifested in Zoellner Arts Center—home to the Presenting Series, Lehigh University Music Department, the Department of Theatre, and the Art Galleries—a place for creativity and innovation; for exploring all corners of artistic disciplines; and for opening up minds to new ideas and new ways of seeing the world.
As we step forward, Zoellner Arts Center will continue building organizational partnerships like those achieved as the lead organization for the Kennedy Center’s Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child program in Bethlehem. We will further expand into the community by focusing on K-12 education to deliver arts enrichment programs, cultural programs, social-emotional learning programming, and artist-in-residencies specifically tied to school curriculum.
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Zoellner Arts Center strives to go beyond our four walls and challenge people to think while encouraging them to see the world through a different lens to connect and understand our community. We seek to be a leader in the arts and culture scene in the Lehigh Valley by being bold, forward-thinking, innovative, and by bringing our diverse community together through shared experiences. We are dedicated to presenting arts for all through being inclusive, diverse, equitable and accessible.
Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University | Celebrating 25 Years
In a recent year, the center held 240 events, including over 350 artists from 10 countries, and more than 50 campus and community events, lectures, business meetings, convocations, recitals, concerts, conventions and more. In total, the center provided arts engagement and communal space to over 55,000 people in attendance from 12 states and to over 3,000 local school children. Additionally, we created partnerships with 35 community organizations in the arts, sciences, health and literacy.
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The mission of Zoellner Arts Center is to infuse the arts into the life of Lehigh University and the greater Lehigh Valley community by presenting high-quality multi-disciplinary programs, by fostering life-long patronage of the arts, and by integrating our educational resources to enhance our human experience.
Our doors are open to all in the community. Your support is the key ingredient in creating an arts rich community for all residents. By engaging with the center you help us enrich the lives of people across the Lehigh Valley. Together, we can make the arts accessible to areas in our community where geographic location and economics pose barriers. An arts rich community is able to mold creative critical thinkers to lead us into the future. Thank you.
Over 100,000 children of all ages have visited the center since 1997
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