Events

  • Bakithi Kumalo & The Graceland Tribute Band

    Friday, 24 January 2020 - 7:30pm

    South African artist Kumalo, the original bass player on Paul Simon’s Graceland, whose iconic bass lines and bright smile bring authenticity to a show that has passion, energy and pulsing rhythms featuring all of the Grammy-winning hits (Call Me Al, Graceland, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, etc). Click HERE for artist's website. LU Undergraduates attend for FREE, click for more info.   

    Watch Bakithi talk about his music with Grover Wilcox on PBS39 Counter Culture HERE. 

    FREE Curtain Warmer | Panel | 6:30pm | Todd Watkins: The LU Professor of Economics moderates a panel discussion about Reflections on Contemporary South Africa. Seniors in Lehigh’s Martindale Student Associates Honors Program offer reflections and insights from their ongoing year-long research on current major cultural, social, political, economic and business issues in South Africa. 

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    FREE PARKING on levels 2-4 of the attached garage for this event

  • Swan Songs and Dances

    Friday, 31 January 2020 - 7:30pm

    Join us for a celebration of work and wonder acknowledging the career and retirement of Zoellner artistic director, Deborah Sacarakis! The program features work by RIOULT Dance NY; Musicians Doug Hawk & Alyssa Allen; Dancers from The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts; “4 Corners” by Ronald K. Brown performed by dancers from DeSales University. Please join us for poetry, pleasantries, and most importantly, a party!

    Tickets are not required; You and your guests are welcome. Please let us know how many will be in attendance by clicking HERE so we may plan refreshments. 

     

  • Curtis Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven & Sibelius

    Saturday, 1 February 2020 - 4:00pm

    Emerging virtuosos all, the musicians of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra meld into an expression of something much greater. Repertoire: Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor); Sibelius, Symphony No. 2. Osmo Vänskä, conductor; Jonathan Biss, piano. Click HERE for artist's website. LU Undergraduates attend for FREE, click for more info. 

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  • LUVME: February Songs Part I

    Sunday, 2 February 2020 - 3:00pm

    Letters: Music by Schubert, Ives and Salerni featuring Earl Kim’s Letters Found Near a Suicide. Featuring Jan Opalach, bass-baritone and Ted Taylor, piano. Part of LUVME’s celebration: A Season of Words and Music to Commemorate the Centennial of Art Song Composer Earl Kim. LU Music Department website

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  • Notations: Brenda Shaughnessy

    Tuesday, 4 February 2020 - 7:00pm

    Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and raised in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019). 2012’s Our Andromeda was a New York Times’ 100 Notable Book, a finalist for the Griffin International Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. She’s the recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.  Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.  She is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.

     

  • LU Chinese Student and Scholar Association: Lunar New Year Celebration

    Friday, 7 February 2020 - 7:00pm

    The Lehigh University Chinese Students and Scholars Association present their Spring Festival Gala as a celebration of the 2019 Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rat. The Gala will include traditional Chinese dances, electronic dance, singing and other amazing performances.

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  • Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra

    Saturday, 8 February 2020 - 8:00pm

    NYC-based Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra plays selections of R&B, funk and experimental jazz from their newest record release. Bill Warfield, director. LU Music Department website

     

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  • Kenner Lecture: Charlie Dent--A View from Inside the Trenches

    Tuesday, 11 February 2020 - 8:00pm

    Lehigh University's College of Arts and Sciences presents and evening with Charlie Dent '93G, Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper - CNN Contributor, Former member, US House of Representatives, 15th District of Pennsylvania:"A View from Inside the Trenches: The Politics of Anger and What Challenges Centrist Problem Solvers." 

    The Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding is an endowed lecture series of The College of Arts & Sciences at Lehigh University established in 1997 by Jeffrey L. Kenner ‘65. 

    For Kenner Lecture information  |  Event is FREE; No Tickets Required | To reserve seating for groups of 10 or more call 610-758-3996 or email incasip@lehigh.edu

  • Rennie Harris: Funkedified

    Saturday, 15 February 2020 - 8:00pm

    Rennie Harris is a Philadelphia hip-hop legend. In his new work Funkedified, Harris’ Puremovement company pushes the boundaries of street dance to create a multi-media performance set to the soundtrack of 1970s funk music and more. Through live musicians and an eclectic soundscape, audiences follow his personal journey from the culture of funk music to the evolution of hip-hop. Click HERE for artist's website. LU Undergrads attend for FREE, click for more info.

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  • LU Jazz Faculty: The Great American Songbook

    Sunday, 16 February 2020 - 3:00pm

    The group performs the music of popular American composers from Cole Porter to Stevie Wonder and more. Bill Warfield, director. LU Music Department website

     

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