Vertical Dancing, Michael Feinstein, The Amazing Max, The New York Philharmonic and silk weaving, kids outreach, and more! Get to know Zoellner Arts Center and learn what this dynamic cultural institution based at Lehigh University has planned for a vibrant, engaging season ahead! Executive Director Mark Wilson was recently featured on Creative Conversations with Mandee K. Hammerstein on WDVR, where Wilson talked about Zoellner’s passions, programming, the upcoming 25th Anniversary and even his own professional Opera background!
See below for Zoellner’s Fall Programming, Winter Programming to Follows:
Lehigh Music Department
NEW YORK JAZZ REPERTORY
HELL’S KITCHEN FUNK ORCHESTRA
SAT SEP 10 | 8pm
The NYC-based orchestra returns to perform selections from their new recording, Chain Reaction. The group’s music is a mixture of adventurous, modernistic pieces, Jazz-tinged Salsa and Post-Bop hipness. Jazz Times refers to Bill Warfield as a “top-rate craftsmen, perhaps one of the best on the scene.”
Lehigh Music Department
LUVME: THE LIFE AND LOVE OF JOE COOGAN & THE OVERLOOK QUARTET
SAT SEP 24 | 7:30pm
A concert performance of a one-act opera based on a Dick Van Dyke TV show episode by Carl Reiner, libretto by Kate Light, music by Paul Salerni. Special guest ensemble The Overlook Quartet performs music by Shelley Washington and Trevor Weston. Guest singers include Disella Larusdottir, Keith Phares, Branch Fields, Tyrone Chambers, Helen Huang, Sarah Ann Duffy and even Zoellner’s Executive Director, Mark Fitzgerald Wilson.
Lehigh Department of Theatre
THE SALONNIÉRES
WED SEP 28* – SAT OCT 1 | 7:30pm
In pre-Revolutionary Paris, a young girl fresh from the convent is promised in marriage to an older nobleman to pay off her father’s debts. She flees to the literary salon of her late mother’s friends, aristocratic women who conceal radical politics within reinvented folk tales. But which of them is her fairy godmother, and which is the cruel stepmother? Is the duke a Prince Charming or a Beast? And is the maid the humble nobody they treat her as, or the hero of a story none of them knows they are in? Augustine Ripa, director.
Presenting Series
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
SAT OCT 1 | 7:30pm
The New York Philharmonic, which helped inaugurate Zoellner Arts Center in 1997, and marked its 10th anniversary, returns for a third performance in Baker Hall to commemorate our 25th anniversary. Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts the orchestra in a concert that blends the impressionistic delicacy of Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun with the Romantic virtuosity of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with Bomsori Kim as soloist. The rediscovered Symphony No. 4 by Florence Price completes the program. Price was a pioneering composer in the 1930s. She was the first woman of African American descent to receive national recognition as a symphonic composer and have her music performed by a major American orchestra during that period.
Zoellner’s Executive Director, Mark Wilson was recently featured on WDVR’s Creative Conversations with Mandee K. Hammerstein