Elizabethtown College’s School of Arts and Humanities recently announced the spring performance lineup for its popular Monday Series Concerts.
All concerts in the series are free and open to the public. The series, held in Etown’s Leffler Chapel & Performance Center, runs from Feb. 10 to March 24. Performers include talented musicians from both the Etown campus community and celebrated outside performance groups.
Bach and Beyond | Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel & Performance Center
Join us for a special performance from Duo Azul, featuring recent Etown Adjunct Faculty member Amy Gustafson, piano, and Hyeyoung Song, piano, as they perform a program of classic four-hands works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Edward Vine, Aram Ilyich Khachaturian, John Paul Corigliano, and Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc.
Dreaming of a Great Review! | Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel & Performance Center
Join us for an evening of songs celebrating love, fame, and bad behavior with Elizabethtown College Associate Professor of Music Anne Gross, soprano, Emily Bullock, mezzo soprano, Aaron Hungerford, piano, and Mark Rimple, lute.
Take 2: Exploring Derivations of Jazz Standards | March 17 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel & Performance Center
Join us for a performance featuring Faith Shiffer, woodwinds, and Kirk Reese, piano, as they explore the improvisational possibilities of jazz standards. The duo will perform a kaleidoscope of selections, including jazz standards composed by Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, and Lorenz Hart.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Celebration of Paul Laurence Dunbar | March 24 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel & Performance Center
Celebrate the work of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” popularized by Maya Angelou, with a performance by Soprano Minnita Daniel-Cox and Elizabethtown College Professor of Music Justin Badgerow, pianist. The two will take the audience on a multi-media exploration of Dunbar’s work, featuring settings by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price, Leslie Adams, and more. The event is presented in collaboration with the School of Arts and Humanities and the Office of Civil Rights, Opportunity, and Access.