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MUSIC|MORAVIAN
 Faculty Concert
"The Guitar in Jazz"
Pete Smyser Quartet
January 22, 7:30 p.m.
Foy Hall, Hurd Campus
$15 admission:$10 seniors & students
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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.
 Chamber Music
Satori Midwinter Concert
Music of Dvorak, Schubert,
Libby Larsen, and Salerni
Saturday, January 23, 7:30 p.m.
Foy Concert Hall, Hurd Campus
$14 general admission / $10 seniors & students
Tenth annual concert features the music of Dvorak, Schubert, Libby Larsen, and the premiere of a new work by Bethlehem composer Paul Salerni.
 Faculty Concert
"Letters, Lyrics, & Love Songs"
Nora Suggs, flute, John Arnold, guitar
Patricia Koch Budlong, soprano, Mark McKenna, narrator
Sunday, January 24, 4 p.m.
Peter Hall, Hurd Campus
$15 general admission / $10 seniors & students
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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.
 Faculty Concert
"A Tribute to Bill Evans"
The Dave Roth Trio
Friday, January 29, 7:30 p.m.
Foy Concert Hall – Hurd Campus
15 general admission / $10 seniors & students
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Pianist Dave Roth pays tribute to pianist & composer Bill Evans (1929-1980) with this trio of jazz musicians; Paul Rostock, bass; Glenn Davis, drums. Prolific composer & recorder of music, Evans was noted for his purity of the song structure & concerned with the noble history of the jazz tradition.
Moravian College Opera Ensemble
Divas & Divos: Arias & Duet
Bronwyn Fix-Keller, director
Saturday, January 30, 7:30 p.m.
Peter Hall – Hurd Campus
$5 general admission - Purchase Tickets Online
The Ensemble will preform selections from: Handel: Acis & Galatea; Mozart: Marriage of Figaro; Donizetti: Don Pasquale & L’Elisir d’amore; Rossini: Il Barbiere di Saviglia; Mascagni: L’amico Fritz; Floyd: Susannah; Delibes: Lakme; & Puccini: La Boheme.
THEATER|MORAVIAN
 Clytemnestra's Daughters
A concert reading of a new play
by MCTC Director Christopher Shorr
January 28, 8:00 p.m.
Public Welcome | Free of charge
Touchstone Theatre
Christopher Shorr, director of theatre at Moravian College, has recently completed “Clytemnestra’s Daughters,” an original work adapted from the ancient Greek plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The concert reading at Touchstone Theatre, 321 E. 4th Street, Bethlehem. Performed by Touchstone Theatre and Moravian students.
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 SPECIAL EVENT|MORAVIAN
Kathy Mattea
My Coal Journey
Wednesday, February 17
7:30 p.m., Foy Concert Hall
Admission free-MC Students with I.D.
Public Welcome | Admission is $10
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The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer Kathy Mattea's “My Coal Journey” is a one-hour program incorporating stories from her family history and her current advocacy for the environment, combined with a PowerPoint slideshow and a performance of songs from her 2008 release, “COAL.”
Tickets from cancelled 11/11/09 date will be honored
 PAYNE GALLERY|MORAVIAN
Rivertime Offerings: Paintings,
Drawings & Wood Engravings
by Daniel Anthonisen
 Opening Reception
Thursday, January 28, 6:30-8 p.m.
The exhibition runs through March 7
Gallery Talk | Daniel Anthonisen
Saturday, January 30, 2:00 p.m.
Payne Gallery, Hurd Campus
public welcome | admission free
Daniel Anthonisen, a landscape painter who follows in the legacy of Bucks County Impressionists, shares 40 pieces of art, inspired by the beauty of the Delaware River and its surrounding area. Visit http://www.danthonisen.com/.
 LECTURES|MORAVIAN
Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Moving Toward Environmental Justice
Veronica Eady, Esq.
Tuesday, January 26, 7:30 p.m.
Prosser Auditorium
Free and open to the public
Veronica Eady Famira is a lawyer, policy consultant, and writer based who specializes in environmental justice and human rights on global, national, and local levels. Currently, Veronica is working with Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a Washington, D.C. civil rights organization on a comprehensive report on the status of environmental justice in America.
 LECTURES|MORAVIAN
A Roundtable Discussion
United Nations Climate Conference
Wednesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.
Snyder Room, Haupert Union Building
This discussion will be led by six students who were members of the Moravian College delegation to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen last month. Each of the students focused on a different topic related to the conference and negotiations as part of their work for the course COP15: Negotiation our Climate Future. Blog Link...
Conversations with Community Leaders
 Jose Rosado
Director, Community & Student Services
Allentown School District
Thursday, January 28, 7-8:30 p.m.
UBC Room - Haupert Union Building
The Spring 2010 semester will inaugurate a series of public “conversations” with individuals from the Lehigh Valley who lead efforts to meet the educational, health care, housing, nutrition and security needs of individuals and families within our regional community. For more information...
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