CANCELLED – Thu Apr 12 | 4:30 PM

Professor Reebee Garofalo, rock ‘n roll historian and ethnomusicologist from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, will present a related lecture at the Lower Gallery, Zoellner Arts at 4:30 p.m. Garofalo is a widely published author and speaker on popular music culture. His recent book “Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the USA,” (Prentice Hall, publisher) is in its 4th edition.

All events are free and open to the public.

This exhibition is part of Rock the Valley: A Collaboration of
Art, Music, and Fashion undertaken by the Allentown Art Museum,
Discover Lehigh Valley and local business partners.

Thu Mar 29 | 4:30 PM

Anastasia Pantsios, discusses her work.  Reception to follow, 6-8 pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

Reverend Jesse Jackson

Lehigh University’s Africana Studies Program will host a dialogue with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson.  Moderated by James Peterson (Dir. Of Africana Studies) and Rev. Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Moravian College and Seminary), the conversation will explore leadership in the 21st Century and the significance Lehigh University’s celebration of 40 years of co-education.  After the initial dialogue amongst Rev. Jackson and the moderators, members of the audience will be invited to participate by asking questions relevant to the programs topics.  
Learn more about the lecture

Although the event is free and open to the public, tickets are required to attend. All seating is general admission; doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets will be made available as follows:

 

Bach Choir Festival

Bach Festival Orchestra and Eliot Fisk, guitar

Sat May 5 & May 12 .  10:30 am

The Bach Choir’s brilliant guest soloist, Eliot Fisk, will join The Bach Festival Orchestra for a performance of the rarely heard and thoroughly delightful Concerto in A major by Italian composer Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) and his own transcription of the Chaconne from J.S. Bach’s D Minor Violin Partita. The program is bookended with two of Bach’s Orchestral Suites–the Second Suite in B Minor, BWV 1067, featuring principal flautist Robin Kani, and the Third Suite in D Major, BWV 1068 with its immortal Air. 
Adults $27; Students $10.

For more information www.bach.org

Additional Activities Fri May 4 & Fri May 11:
2pm; Black Box Theatre –Distinguished Scholar Lecture
Nicholas Kenyon : Bach in the 21st Century
Free Admission – no tickets required
Nicholas Kenyon was Controller of BBC Radio 3 from 1992–1998 and Director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007. He is now ManagingDirector of the Barbican Centre, one of Europe’s largest multi-arts venues. He continues to write about music and the arts, and has published books on Simon Rattle, edited the influential Authenticity and Early Music, and wrote The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart. In 2011 he published The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach

Tue Feb 28 . 4:10 pm

Isabel Wilkerson is a former national correspondent and bureau chief at the New York Times and the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. She will be speaking on her book The Warmth of Other Suns, which is the story of the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.

For more information on Isabel Wilkerson go to http://isabelwilkerson.com/
Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Diversity, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Weinstock Center for Journalism.

For more information on lecture:
Theresa McGinley
Email
610-758-3039

The College of Business and Economics Presents
Marc Holliday, CEO, SL Green Realty Corporation

Visit The Murray H. Goodman Center for Real Estate Web site at: http://www.lehigh.edu/~ingcres/

For more information contact:
Shannon Smith
Phone: 610-758-4788
Email

Click here for more information

Distinguished Lecture Series
“Learning Disorders, Interventions That Work”

Tue | Feb 7 . 6 pm

Five nationally renowned childhood learning disorder experts will provide examples of where response to intervention is working. The session is designed to give teachers and parents the information to implement RTI. Our panel of highly regarded leaders in the field will reveal techniques and advice for implementing a response to intervention program.

Presenters:

For more details visit http://www.lehigh.edu/education/dls/index.htm or contact Tamara Bartolet tlp205@lehigh.edu

Opening Ceremony

Baker Hall

Mon | Jan 16 . 10 am – 12 pm

This is an open event where students, faculty and staff will join to reflect on what Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy means to them.  There will be video footage, monologues, recordings, amongst other multimedia productions in an effort to summarize the impact of this great American.  Attendees are free to come and go as they please. For more information on Lehigh’s MLK Week click here. ]]> http://www.zoellnerartscenter.org/2011/12/19/martin-luther-king-week-opening-ceremony/feed/ 0 http://www.zoellnerartscenter.org/2011/12/13/rental-events-in-the-mood/ http://www.zoellnerartscenter.org/2011/12/13/rental-events-in-the-mood/#comments lynnfarley http://www.zoellnerartscenter.org/?p=4853

IN THE MOOD

A 1940s Musical Revue

Sat | Feb 11 . 3 pm & 7:30 pm

IN THE MOOD is America’s premiere Big Band Revue, celebrating America’s Greatest Generation and the 1940s through song, swing dance and music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and more … with music arrangements, costumes and choreography that are as authentic as it gets! It’s a sentimental, romantic, nostalgic, jazzy and patriotic tribute to the Swing Era.  Company of 19 on stage: Big Band plus six vocalist-dancers including a high energy swing dance couple.   Click here for artist website