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February 2007
Currently on View
Exhibition continues through February 22. Gallery Hours: Monday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday, January 31–Saturday,
February 3
Monday, February 5 Creative Resolution provides students in the studio art program with the opportunity to design promotional material for Elon’s cultural events, organizations and academic departments. This exhibition showcases examples from Creative Resolution’s seven-year archive. Exhibition continues through Friday, March 9.
Tuesday, February 6 Three musicians who met at the Curtis Institute for Music in Philadelphia have evolved into a dynamic ensemble known for far-ranging musical interests and limitless enthusiasm. Violinists Zachary DePue and Nicholas Kendall are joined by Ranaan Meyer on bass in a nontraditional blending of country/western, bluegrass, jazz and improvisation. Elon University Lyceum Series Admission: $12 or Elon ID. Tickets available January 16. This concert is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Heinz Endowments; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
Thursday, February 8 "Odysseus in America" is a based on interdisciplinary work combining the study of the Greek epics with psychological counseling and military leadership. Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist with the VA in Boston, and for the last 20 years his only patients have been combat veterans with psychological injuries and their complications. He has also worked as the “veterans’ missionary” to the armed forces for prevention of psychological and moral injury in military service. He speaks frequently with military audiences and in 1999-2000 performed The Commandant of the Marine Corps Trust Study. He is author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. The latter has a joint Foreword by Senators John McCain and Max Cleland.
Thursday-Sunday, February 8-11 DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY LINDA SABO; MUSICAL DIRECTION BY KENNETH LEE
McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday; An ingeniously constructed “musical double feature” in tribute to Hollywood’s heyday. A Day In Hollywood is set in the lobby of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre where a group of singing and tapping ushers pay homage to those marvelous ‘30s films. A Night in the Ukraine is a zany parody of Chekov’s The Bear as performed by the Marx Brothers! Vosburgh and Lazarus’s fabulous original score is complemented by popular songs like “Just Too Marvelous,” “Easy to Love,” and “Ain’t We Got Fun.”
Admission: $12 or Elon ID.
Tickets available January 18.
Monday, February 12 Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships are the three R’s for the 21st century. Diana Beasley, a biology teacher at Hickory High School and 2006-07 North Carolina Teacher of the Year, presents a strategy in which dynamic lifelong relationships are created between teacher, student and learning itself, resulting in a competent 21st century citizenry. Sponsored by the Elon Teaching Fellows Program
Tuesday, February 13 Teacher Man, by acclaimed memoirist Frank McCourt, is the final story of the trilogy that started with Angela’s Ashes, and focuses on his 30-year teaching career in New York City’s public high schools. McCourt’s honest wit and storytelling gift remain unsurpassed as he describes both the dignity and difficulties of his largely thankless profession. Admission: $12 or Elon ID. Tickets available January 23.
Thursday, February 15 In her first book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy introduces the latest“empowered woman” thriving in America’s pervasive raunch culture. FCPs claim to be brave and funny; however Levy asserts that the joke is on them. Sponsored by General Studies and the Liberal Arts Forum
Thursday, February 15
The culmination of Elon’s
two-day Jazz Festival, this concert features the All-Festival
High School Big Band directed by Jon Metzger with this
year’s clinicians, Jack Wilkins, tenor saxophone,
Howard Curtis, drums, and
Saturday, February 17 In his second season as associate concertmaster, Dovid Friedlander will perform Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the North Carolina Symphony. The program also includes Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz and Brahms Symphony No. 1. Admission: $26 for adults, $23 for students or Elon ID. Tickets available January 26.
Sunday, February 18 University of Virginia music faculty member, Paul Neebe, and Thomas Brown, Organist/Choirmaster, University Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill, perform a duo recital including a world premiere trumpet concerto composed for Dr. Neebe by Walter Ross, Professor Emeritus at UVA. The concert will include music from the Baroque period to the new contemporary composition.
Sunday, February 18 Musical concert by Michela Musolino and the campus premiere of Un bellissimo ricordo / A Beautiful Memory, an original 45 minute documentary by UNC Greensboro author and film professor, Anthony Fragola, and Elon University staff film maker, Jason McMerty. Un bellissimo ricordo examines the life, death and legacy of Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato (1948 - 1978), an anti-mafia youth activist and Sicilian radio personality, murdered by the mafia in May 1978. In addition to the film and discussion, Michela Musolino, will perform traditional and original compositions in the Sicilian folk-roots tradition, accompanied by members of the music Americana ensemble Mebanesville.
Monday, February 19 A reading in support of the Alamance County Food Bank. Students, faculty and staff from across the university read short selections from their favorite writers. Bring a can of food for the collection. Sponsored by the English Department and the Arts & Letters Learning Community
Monday, February 19 Winner of the 2004 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Born into Brothels is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta. Shown in conjunction with Director Ross Kauffman's lecture on Wednesday, February 21. Sponsored by ElonDocs, The Elon Program for Documentary Production
Tuesday, February 20 The Bulgarian State Opera presents unique productions combining the best of the opera worlds of all of Europe. Since 1996, the company has performed on many of the world’s most prestigious opera stages including Amsterdam, Solingen, Remscheid, Salzburg, Zurich, Lisbon and Madrid. At Elon, the company performs Puccini’s climactic love story set in Rome during the Napoleonic wars. Elon University Lyceum Series
Admission: $15 or Elon ID
(RS). Tickets available
Wednesday, February 21 Kauffman, director of the 2004 Academy Award-winning documentary Born into Brothels, speaks about the continuing efforts on behalf of children of the Sonagachi red light district of Calcutta and more recent projects with youth in Haiti, Cairo, Jerusalem and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum
Thursday, February 22 Sponsored by the Elon members of Phi Beta Kappa and Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences
Sunday, February 25
Paolo André Gualdi, winner of several
prestigious piano competitions and a former Elon music
student, returns to Whitley Auditorium for this guest recital
with his wife,
Monday, February 26 Diane Choplin, a documentary photographer, traveled through Lahore and the province of Punjab, Pakistan following the region’s 2005 earthquake. The images in this exhibition tell the stories of the people she encountered along the way. Exhibition continues through April 11.
Wednesday, February 28 This elite group of gymnasts, jugglers, cyclists and tumblers has left audiences spellbound by the graceful athleticism of their ancient folk art, acrobatics. Accompanied by live music, the troupe performs centuries-old traditional feats of strength and agility in a finely balanced circus of wonders. Elon University Lyceum Series Admission: $15 or Elon ID. Tickets available February 7.
Wednesday, February 28 Harvest of Shame was the final documentary in the career of Edward R. Murrow. The 1960 film examined the plight of farm laborers in rural Florida and provided stark images of desperate poverty. The subjectivity of the film was denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate, yet rallied public sentiment for better laws to protect workers’ rights. Sponsored by ElonDocs, The Elon Program for Documentary Production
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