Sept 23
Monday Series Concert: All-Faculty Recital Charter Week Celebration
Sept 23 7:30 PM
Celebrate the start of Etown’s Charter Week with a concert featuring performances by Elizabethtown College faculty. This 125th-anniversary celebration concert will feature musical numbers with connections to 1899 - the year of Etown’s founding. Performers include Music faculty members Justin Badgerow, Douglas Bomberger, Brent Behrenshausen, Emily Frantz, Anne Gross, Paula Nelson, and Faith Shiffer, who will interpret works by Beethoven, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Messager, and Brazilian composer Ney Rosauro. This event will take place in Leffler Chapel & Performance Center and is free and open to the public.
Etown Arts & Culture Events 125th Anniversary EventsSept 28
Homecoming Choral Concert
Sept 28 2:00 PM
Annual Homecoming Choral Concert in Leffler Chapel & Performance Center. Free and open to the public.
Oct 7
Monday Series Concert: "Images and Pictures" featuring Amy E. Gustafson, piano
Oct 7 7:30 PM
Recent Etown adjunct faculty member, pianist Amy E. Gustafson returns to play a diverse program of music that conjures the imagination and awakens the artistic spirit with works by Claude Debussy, Lera Auerbach, and Modest Mussorgsky. This event takes place in Leffler Chapel & Performance Center and is free and open to the public.
Amy E. Gustafson Etown Arts & Culture EventsOct 14
Monday Series Concert: "Stories Through Time" Solos and Collaborative Works for Saxophone and Piano
Oct 14 7:30 PM
Join us for solo and collaborative performances from Professor of Music Justin Badgerow (alto saxophone) and Professor of Piano at Indiana University of Pennsylvania Henry Wong Doe (piano), featuring music from around the world and spanning several centuries. Several significant saxophone transcriptions from Baroque violin repertoire will be featured including works of Bach and Handel. Other saxophone transcriptions include music by Ibert, Gershwin, and Rachmaninov. Dr. Wong Doe will perform solo music of Haydn, Debussy, and a new work by New Zealand composer Penelope Axtens. The duo will end the program joining forces at the piano with two dramatic piano duets of Dvořák. This event will take place in Leffler Chapel & Performance Center and is free and open to the public.
Henry Wong Doe Justin BadgerowOct 17
Senior Recital
Oct 17 7:30 PM
Senior recital featuring music therapy majors Rebecca Sauder, soprano and Michael Weir, guitar. Zug Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Oct 20
Senior Recital
Oct 20 3:00 PM
Senior recital featuring music education majors Julia Moore, piano and Lorelei Moser, trumpet. Zug Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Oct 21
Monday Series Concert: Celebrating the Music of Ephrata with the Ephrata Cloister Chorus
Oct 21 7:00 PM
Join us for this special concert that will feature the Ephrata Cloister Chorus performing four pieces composed at Ephrata and found in the Ephrata Cloister’s 1739 hymnal, Zionitischer Weyrauchs-Hügel. Co-sponsored by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, the program will also include music composed at the Lititz Moravian community, along with selections from the Shaker community of Mt. Lebanon, N.Y., music of William Billings, African American Spiritual hymnody, and several contemporary sacred anthems. Preceding the concert, Etown Archivist Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh will describe extensive conservation work completed in 2023 on two rare Ephrata music manuscript books housed in the College’s Hess Archives and Special Collections. Both books were created by hand at the Cloister in the mid-eighteenth century and contain beautiful examples of Pennsylvania German Fraktur. This event takes place in Leffler Chapel & Performance Center and is free and open to the public.
Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies Historic Ephrata CloisterOct 25
Junior Recital
Oct 25 4:30PM
Junior Recital featuring music education major Macey Lake, mezzo soprano. Zug Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Oct 28
Annual Concerto Competition
Oct 28 7:30PM
Annual Concerto Competition featuring music performances by Elizabethtown College Students from all major programs. Zug Recital Hall. Free and open to then public.
Oct 31
Senior Recital
Oct 31 7:30 PM
Senior recital featuring music education majors Micah Bidgood Enders, euphonium and Michael Sagedy, baritone. Zug Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Nov 4
Student Solo Recital
Nov 4 7:30 PM
Student Solo Recital featuring music performances by students from all major programs. Zug Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Nov 14
Jazz Band and Percussion Ensemble Concert
Nov 14 03:00 PM
Music performances by the Elizabethtown College Jazz Band and Elizabethtown College Percussion Ensemble. Leffler Chapel & Performance Center. Free and open to the public.
Nov 15
Junior Recital
Nov 15 4:30 PM
Junior Recital featuring music therapy majors Hannah Glant, soprano and Gabriella Lozada, mezzo soprano. Zug Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Nov 17
Elizabethtown College Symphonic Band Concert
Nov 17 3:00 PM
Fall Elizabethtown College Symphonic Band Concert. Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Free and open to the public.
Etown Arts & Culture EventsNov 18
Student Chamber Recital
Nov 18 7:30 PM
Chamber music performances by Elizabethtown College students. Zug Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
Etown Arts & Culture EventsNov 24
Elizabethtown College-Community Orchestra Concert
Nov 24 3:00 PM
Fall Elizabethtown College-Community Orchestra Concert. Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Free and open to the public.
Etown Arts & Culture EventsDec 4
Annual Holiday Concert
Dec 4 11:00 AM
Join the Music Department for our annual Holiday Concert! Students will perform music and poetry readings for the upcoming Christmas season. Festive attire is encouraged! Free and open to the public.
Dec 8
Winter Choral Concert
Dec 8 3:00 PM
Winter Choral Concert. Leffler Chapel & Performance Center. Free and open to the public.
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