Faculty Concert: "The Guitar in Jazz"
Pete Smyser Quartet

Friday, January 22, 2010 – 7:30 PM
Foy Concert Hall – Hurd Campus, Moravian College

Admission: $15 general admission / $10 seniors & students

A retrospective performance highlighting musical selections and stylistic nuances of the most prominent jazz guitarists from the 1930s through the early 1970s. Pete Smyser will be joined by several other jazz musicians to illustrate the musical contributions of such iconic artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Freddie Green, Johnny Smith, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, and others.

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10th Annual Satori Midwinter Concert:
Music of Dvorak, Schubert, Libby Larsen, and Salerni

Saturday, January 23, 2010 – 7:30 PM
Foy Concert Hall – Hurd Campus, Moravian College

Admission:
$14 general admission / $10 seniors & students / $5 children 12 and under

Features the music of Dvorak, Schubert, Libby Larsen, and the premiere of a new work by Bethlehem composer Paul Salerni

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Faculty Concert: "Letters, Lyrics, & Love Songs"
Nora Suggs, flute, John Arnold, guitar
Patricia Koch Budlong, soprano, Mark McKenna, narrator

Sunday, January 24, 2010 – 4:00 PM
Peter Hall – Hurd Campus, Moravian College

Admission: $15 general admission / $10 seniors & students

This interdisciplinary performance blends theatre and music. Through readings, monologues, character sketches, narrator Mark McKenna introduces music – ranging from 17th century songs for lute to settings of contemporary American poetry – performed by Two-Part Invention (flutist Nora Suggs & guitarist John Arnold) and soprano Patricia Koch Budlong. Explore life, love, and loss in the words and music of Appalachian story telling modern poetry, and Elizabethan England; in a music tribute to the memory of a friend; and in the internal music of a madhouse. Hear the sorrows of the American Civil War, and follow a joyous series of modern pets, misbehaving badly, and loving every minute of it! Letters, Lyrics, & Love Songs brings a new dimension to a concert performance, setting each musical selection firmly on a very personal and human stage.

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Faculty Concert: "A Tribute to Bill Evans"
The Dave Roth Trio: David Roth, piano; Paul Rostock, bass; Glenn Davis, drums

Friday, January 29, 2010 – 7:30 PM
Foy Concert Hall – Hurd Campus, Moravian College

Admission: $15 general admission / $10 seniors & students

Pianist Dave Roth pays tribute to pianist & composer Bill Evans (1929-1980) with this trio of jazz musicians. Prolific composer & recorder of music, Evans was noted for his purity of the song structure & concerned with the noble history of the jazz tradition. This trio honors that history and tradition in the intimate setting of Moravian’s Foy Hall which will be set in a cabaret style.

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Moravian College Opera Ensemble
Bronwyn Fix-Keller, director

Saturday, January 30, 2010 – 7:30 PM
Peter Hall – Hurd Campus, Moravian College

Admission: $5 general admission

This ensemble of Moravian College students will offer a narrated version of Pietro Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz (Friend Fritz), a beautiful, but little known late 19th century French opera.

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