This past Saturday Swarthmore's "most fun and most female" a capella group performed their fall concert in the Lang Concert Hall. Dressed in their signature purple shirts and bluejeans they [...]
Any audience member who entered the previous two Orchestra 2001 concerts with a measure of trepidation because of the difficult and intimidating program was offered a welcome reprieve with this [...]
Grammy-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds offered a demonstration of their instruments and the quintet to Elementary School students from Toby Farms school in Chester and the Swarthmore-Rutledge school district
In his lecture "Oh Say, Can You See" eminent art historian and critic Leo Steinberg addressed the problem of writings about art, rather than the art itself, forming the basis by which images are interpreted. His lecture was both [...]
Last night Orchestra 2001 continued its 19th season with a concert in Lang Concert Hall featuring Kurt Weill's Violin Concerto, Steven Mackey's recent work No Two Breaths and Olivier Messiaen's [...]
Jacob Olupona, a professor of African religious traditions at Harvard Divinity School, gave a lecture yesterday entitled "The New Diaspora: African Immigrant Religious Communities in America". Olupona stated that in traditional African religions a god was judged by his functional effects in
Tonight at 8 PM in the Lang Concert Hall, the renowned pianist Simone Dinnerstein will give a recital of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The Goldberg Variations is a piece that has [...]
Last weekend the Philadelphia Orchestra opened its 2007-2008 concert season with a concert of Tchaikovsky's 1st symphony and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring , conducted by music director Christoph Eschenbach. [...]
by Shilpa BoppanaOrchestra 2001 performed the world premier of a major new work by George Crumb.