Stop. Look. Listen.

Four saxophones, new music: the PRISM Quartet will perform at Franklin & Marshall College 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24. Since there’s not a lot of music out there for a quartet of saxes, the group has gotten quite a few noted U.S. composers to write new works, including William Bolcom and Steven Mackey.
Two pianos, two […]

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A fair number of galleries are opening shows this weekend. Here are some highlights:
“Clockwork,” paintings by Aaron Brooks, at the Hess Gallery in Elizabethtown College’s Zug Memorial Hall. An opening reception and artist talk will take place 5-7 p.m. Friday evening. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. […]

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Tapestry, a four-woman singing group that sprang from Boston’s lively early-music scene in 1995, sang of heaven and its inhabitants, beauty and light — and darkness, too – at Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center Sunday evening in a program titled “In the Company of Angels.” Soprano Cristi Catt and mezzo-sopranos Laurie Monahan, Daniela Tošić and Carolann Buff […]

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The cultural events just keep on coming: Here’s Elizabethtown College’s 2008-2009 cultural events calendar and the upcoming Gretna Music season, which starts out with the vocal ensemble Tapestry performing music by Hildegard of Bingen, the 11th century abbess, composer, philosopher, poet and mystic.

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As graduation nears for area colleges, they’re also giving over gallery space to students. In some cases the exhibits don’t run for very long, so hurry!
The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, 204 N. Prince St., will display a selected work from each graduating senior in its main gallery until May 23. In addition, the entire school will […]

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Imagine a land ruled by the military, a land in which people vanished silently overnight and no one dared mention their names. Imagine a time and place where it would take supreme courage just to say your child’s name – when your child is one of the disappeared. That is the military-ruled Argentina of the […]

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Music and drama come together to tell the story of a courageous group of women in “Las Madres de la Plaza,” a new opera being staged at Elizabethtown College Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Two Elizabethtown faculty members created the piece: John Rohrkemper, associate professor of English, wrote the […]

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