The GRAMMY® Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet celebrates their 16th season as "a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity" (BBC Music Magazine). Comprising five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization, The Wire describes Akropolis as a "collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure." Akropolis has graced the Classical Billboard Charts with each of their last three albums, including #2 in April, 2024. Composed of the same five members that brought about its founding in 2009, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year and has premiered and commissioned more than 150 works by living artists and composers. Click HERE for artist's website. LU Students attend for FREE, click for more info.
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Discover the music that Jane Austen played and loved. The Jane Austen Playlist, founded in 2019, is a historical music project featuring the music of the Austen family in digitized notations, companion recordings, and dramatically narrated performances. In addition to Jane's passion for writing, she also loved music. All of Jane's writing, including her letters and colorful characters, express music's role in her life. Accomplishment in music by young ladies in Regency England is discussed in the backdrops of the Netherfield drawing room, displayed in the Cole's music room, and delighted in at Sir John Middleton's gatherings. Click HERE for artist's website. LU Students attend for FREE, click for more info.
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Installation runs select dates FEB thru APR (scroll down)
Traveling While Black is a film by Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams and Emmy Award-winning Felix & Paul Studios that transports viewers to historic Ben's Chili Bowl diner in Washington, D.C. Viewers share an intimate series of moments with several of Ben's patrons as they reflect on their experiences of restricted movement and race relations in the United States. Confronting the way we understand and talk about race in America, Traveling While Black highlights the urgent need to not only remember the past but to learn from it and to facilitate a dialogue about the challenges minority travelers still face today. Click HERE for artist's website.
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GRIMMZ Fairy Tales is a new play for children that centers on two modern-day street performers, Jay and Will, who bring the time-honored stories of the Brothers Grimm to life with a contemporary urban spin. They're known not just for their sounds but for the stories their music tells them through off-the-chart theatrical effects. Performed in hip-hop style amid a brick landscape with graffiti and flashing lights, the featured tales include Cinderella Remix, Rapunzel and Snow White & the Seven Shawties. Pay your bling and hear them sing in a concert experience like no other! "A hip hop revelation for the younger generation!" Click HERE for artist's website. LU Students attend for FREE, click for more info.
Thanks to Marcie & Glenn M. Yarnis ’80 for their support in providing healthy snacks for this event.
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Join us for Dirty Dancing in Concert, the classic film's first live film-to-concert experience. Enjoy the digitally remastered hit movie like never before on a full-size cinema screen, with a live band and singers performing the iconic 1980s soundtrack. Directly following the film, the band and singers will throw an encore party that will surely take you back to the time of your life as you sing and dance along to your favorite Dirty Dancing songs. Immerse yourself in the timeless romance and experience one of the most memorable movies of the past 35 years! Click HERE for artist's website. LU Students attend for FREE, click for more info.
In Big Band history, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra is recognized as one of the best all-around dance bands. It could swing with the best of them, and no other band could come close to Tommy's when it came to playing ballads. Tommy Dorsey, "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing," was a master at creating warm, sentimental, and always musical moods. Frank Sinatra credited Tommy with teaching him breath control, which helped to create such vocal classics as There Are Such Things, This Love of Mine, and I'll Never Smile Again. The music world lost Tommy at an early age, but his legacy of great music has transcended time. The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra still represents explosive and swinging Big Band entertainment at its very best. Click HERE for artist's website. LU Students attend for FREE, click for more info.
Bridge & Wolak’s Well-Being Concert invites audiences into a reflective and restorative musical journey that moves fluidly between classical, jazz, tango, and cinematic sound worlds. Through clarinet and digital accordion, the duo creates an intimate soundscape that balances moments of stillness with gentle energy, encouraging deep listening and emotional presence. Familiar melodies by Chopin, Morricone, Piazzolla, and Bach are reimagined with warmth and imagination, while improvisation and storytelling add a sense of play and human connection. Designed as a space to pause, breathe, and reset, this concert offers music not as performance alone, but as a shared experience of calm, memory, and renewal.
About: Bridge & Wolak are a globe-trotting musical duo from Canada who create life-affirming concerts full of beauty, virtuosity and humour. Michael Bridge, accordion, and Kornel Wolak, clarinet (both also play piano), met over a decade ago and immediately established an artistic alliance based on the attraction of opposites: Wolak-intensely focused with a world view infused with sardonic humour; Bridge-flexible and fearless with a playful wit. They share a love of classical, jazz and world music, a fascination with fusing genres and a passion for performance.
They've logged about 350,000 kilometres on the road-from Kraków to Quito, from France to Fargo, ND-about the same distance as a trip to the moon. Their concert offerings include a survey of musical hits from the 17th century to today, a program inspired by travel to the cosmos and a look at the outrageously scandalous behaviour of some of the greatest composers of all time.
12pm Event - Baker stage
Run time 60 min. approx.
Post-Show Reflection - up to 60 min.
General Admission - On-Stage Seating on cushioned mats or chairs.
6pm Event - Tickets - DaVinci Science Center
815 W. Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18101
For tickets go to www.davincisciencecenter.org
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"Cows that type? Hens on strike! Whoever heard of such a thing!" When his granddaughter Jenny comes for a visit, Farmer Brown declares the farm a tech-free zone. He takes her laptop in the cold barn with the shivering cows who use her computer to type messages requesting blankets. "No way," replies Farmer Brown. "No blankets!" The cows go on strike and the chickens join them in solidarity. No blankets? No milk! No eggs! Will Farmer Brown give in to the animals' demands? Click, Clack, Moo is written by Billy Aronson (book), Kevin Del Aguila (lyrics), and Brad Alexander (music); based on the book by Doreen Cronin with illustrations by Betsy Lewin. Click HERE for artist's website. LU Students attend for FREE, click for more info.
Thanks to Marcie & Glenn M. Yarnis ’80 for their support in providing healthy snacks for this event.
A worldwide phenomenon, they have won legions of fans with their quicksilver arrangements (spanning pop to classical) and dry British humor. Featuring only ukuleles-of various sizes and registers-the rock-star strummers have played for members of the British Royal Family, for the Houses of Parliament in London, and for millions of international television and online viewers. They've sold out twice at Carnegie Hall, The Royal Albert Hall in London, the Sydney Opera House and much more. Founded by George Hinchliffe and Kitty Lux, they are best known for playing versions of famous rock songs and film themes, sometimes changing these to subvert the audience's expectations, serving up a hilarious "soup of contrasts." Click HERE for artist's website. LU Students attend for FREE, click for more info.
Under the direction of founder Peter Phillips, hear one of the most prolific and decorated choral groups of the last century. Through their excellence and scholarship they have helped to establish Renaissance sacred music as a significant part of Western classical music today. The unified and pure sound that they weave from diverse voices is otherworldly. Their ability to capture both the deep emotion and consummate simplicity found in choral works of the Renaissance period has firmly established them as the leading performers of the genre worldwide. Click HERE for artist's website. LU Students attend for FREE, click for more info.