2007-08 Spring Cultural Events and Performing Arts

Dates and/or times of programs may change. Call 717-361-1587 for more information.

Art
Sept. 4–Mar. 15
Love Feast Exhibit
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

Jan. 18–Feb. 28
Photography by Matt Willen, assistant professor of English Hess Gallery, Zug Hall
Opening: 5 p.m., Jan. 18

Feb. 22–Mar. 20
Ceramics Show
“Collaboration Through Fire: Kenton Baker, Beverly Fisher and Willi Singleton”
Lyet Gallery, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Opening: 5 p.m., Feb. 22

Mar. 10–Apr. 18
Illustrations by Chris Raschka, artist for more than 40 children’s books, including the 2006 Caldecott Medal winner “The Hello, Goodbye Window”
Hess Gallery, Zug Hall
Opening: 4 - 6 p.m., April 1
Artist talks: 7 p.m., April 1, High Library; 11 a.m., April 2, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Mar. 30–April 18
Annual Student Show
Lyet Gallery, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Opening: 1 p.m., March 30

May 4–May 17
Senior Show
Hess and Lyet Galleries, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Opening: 1 p.m., May 4

Music
Feb. 11
Monday Series Concert featuring adjunct faculty members Paula Nelson (flutist) and Faith Shiffer (clarinetist) and lecturer Debra Ronning (pianist)
Zug Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 28
Flutefest
Zug Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Mar. 14–15
Las Madres de la Plaza
Original opera by Professor of Music James Haines (composer) and Associate Professor of English John Rohrkemper (librettist)
Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, 8 p.m.
Tickets cost $5 and are available by calling 717-361-1170.

Apr. 5
Concert of Anabaptist and Pietist hymns by the Elizabethtown College Concert Choir
Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, 7 p.m.

Apr. 7
Student Solo Recital
Zug Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Apr. 13
Ephrata Cloister Chorus
4 p.m., Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Apr. 14
Monday Series Concert featuring pianist and Assistant Professor of Music Hiu-Wah Au
Zug Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Apr. 20
Orchestra Concert
Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, 3 p.m.

Apr. 21
Student Chamber Performances
Zug Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Apr. 27
Symphonic Band Concert
Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, 3 p.m.

May 4
Spring Choral and Jazz Band Concert
Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, 3 p.m.

Theatre
April 10–12 and 17–19
The Diary of Anne Frank
Tempest Theatre, 8 p.m.
Tickets are required. Information is available just prior to the event at 717-361-1170.

Lectures
Jan. 30
Mellon International Faculty Seminar Symposium featuring former NATO commander Jack Sheehan
“Geography Matters: Changing International Relations in the North Atlantic”
11 a.m., Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Feb. 6
2008 John F. Chubb Lecture on Business, Public Policy and World Affairs by John Hemingway
“Papa’s Grandson: Times and Turbulence in a Famous Literary Family”
7:30 p.m., Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Free tickets are required and are available by calling 717-361-1410.

Feb. 13
Mellon International Faculty Seminar Symposium featuring Richard Alley
Penn State geosciences professor and member of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore
“Greenland’s Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future”
11 a.m., Leffler Chapel and Performance Center 

March 13
Women's History Month Speaker Cynthia Enloe
"Women, the Iraq War, and the Militarization of American Culture”
7:30 p.m., Event Space of Brossman Commons

March 31
Two-time American Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
8 p.m., Leffler Chapel and Performance Center.
Free tickets required for the event are available by calling 717-361-4757.

Apr. 1
PA State Police Commissioner Jeff Miller '95
7 p.m., Gibble Auditorium, Esbenshade Hall
Tickets cost $1 (fundraiser for Criminal Justice Club) and are available at the door beginning at 6:15 p.m.

Apr. 2
Chris Raschka, children's book writer and illustrator, recipient of the 2006 Caldecott Medal
11 a.m., Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Apr. 4 at 7:30 p.m., Bucher Meetinghouse, Young Center
Apr. 5 at 10:30 a.m., Bucher Meetinghouse, Young Center
Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Durnaugh Lectures by Rebecca Slough, academic dean, associate professor of worship and the arts, and director of the Spiritual Formation Program at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Apr. 8
Ware Lecture on Peacemaking
F.W. de Klerk, former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, 7:30 p.m.
Free tickets required for the event are available by calling
717-361-4757.

Apr. 9
"Out of the Ashes: A Holocaust Survivor's Story"
Hilda Mantelmacher
11 a.m., Leffler Chapel and Performance Center

Apr. 16
"The U.S. Response to the Holocaust"
David Brown, associate professor of history
11 a.m., Hoover 212

Gretna Music at Elizabethtown College

All events are held in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Tickets and information available at 717-361-1508 or www.mtgretna.com/music.

Feb. 2
Adele Anthony, violin; Bach’s complete Violin Partitas and Sonatas, Part II

Mar. 17
Paul Galbraith, guitar
Six strings weren’t enough for the genius of Paul Galbraith, so he had David Rubio, the Brazilian Stradivari, add two more. With his brand new eight-stringed masterwork, Galbraith is now an orchestra unto himself.

Apr. 6
Russell Malone Quartet
Drawing on the blues and country strains of his native Georgia, Russell Malone has risen to become one of the great jazz guitarists of his generation. He’s got virtuoso chops to spare, but what sets him apart is his ability to sing through his instrument, “the way a minister in church would deliver a sermon.”

Apr. 12
Chanticleer
A seamless blend of 12 male voices, Grammy award-winning Chanticleer is without doubt, as the New Yorker says, “America’s favorite choral ensemble.”