Elizabethtown College\u2019s School of Arts and Humanities recently announced the fall performance lineup for its popular Monday Series Concerts.<\/p>\n
All concerts in the series are free and open to the public. The series, which takes place in Etown\u2019s Leffler Chapel & Performance Center, will run each Monday from Sept. 11 to Oct. 2, with the final performance on Oct. 23. Performers include a rich group of talent from both the Etown campus community, along with nationally-renowned musicians including:<\/p>\n
Ta\u00edna Asili | Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center<\/strong> All-Faculty Recital | Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center<\/strong> Shawn Wang and Justin Badgerow | Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center<\/strong> David Cullen | Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center<\/strong> Amanda Gunderson and John Vaida | Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center <\/strong> Elizabethtown College\u2019s School of Arts and Humanities recently announced the fall performance lineup for its popular Monday Series Concerts. All concerts in the series are free and open to the public. The series, which takes place in Etown\u2019s Leffler Chapel & Performance Center, will run each Monday from Sept. 11 to Oct. 2, with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[774,775],"tags":[1582,197,1350,1876],"class_list":["post-15342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus","tag-department-of-music","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-monday-series-concerts","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15346,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15342\/revisions\/15346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTa\u00edna Asili is a Puerto Rican singer, composer, filmmaker, and activist who performs Afro-Latin fusion songs of love and liberation. Asili\u2019s music connects rock, reggae, salsa, cumbia, reggaeton, and hip-hop with powerful vocals and infectious rhythms. Asili has performed at the Women\u2019s March on Washington, Carnegie Hall, and the mainstage of San Fransisco Pride.<\/p>\n
\nEtown\u2019s music faculty will perform their annual All-Faculty Recital featuring chamber music for woodwinds and piano as well as solos and duets for piano. Etown Professor of Music Justin Badgerow will introduce three works by Latvian composer J\u0101nis Medi\u0146\u0161 (1890-1966) after being struck by Medi\u0146\u0161’ pieces while visiting Latvia this summer.<\/p>\n
\nEtown faculty members Adjunct Instructor of Violin and Viola Shawn Wang (violin) and Professor of Music Justin Badgerow (piano) have honed their skills as a performance group after performing together in China at the Baidu music festival near Chengdu. Their performance will include the Mozart Sonata for violin and piano, a playful and charming piece, and Edvard Grieg\u2019s passionate and romantic Sonata for piano and violin.<\/p>\n
\nDavid Cullen is a Grammy Award-winning guitarist and Etown\u2019s Artist in Residence. He will present a solo guitar recital featuring selections from his latest recording, \u201cRevival,\u201d which received praise from mainstream publications including The New York Times.<\/p>\n
\nAmanda Gunderson (piano) and John Vaida (violin) will present a comprehensive program of violin music from Mozart to the 20th<\/sup> century. Their program will be highlighted by works from American composer Amy Beach and renowned film composer Erich Korngold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"