Williams Center for the Arts
Ethos Percussion Group Performs at Williams Center Feb. 8
Ethos Percussion Group, a quartet of virtuosos on percussion instruments from far-flung global cultures, will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, at the Williams Center for Arts. The performance features Steve Reich’s masterpiece “Drumming,” as well as compositions by Dafnis Prieto, John Hollenbeck, Susie Ibara, and other composers influenced by world music traditions from [...]
Exhibit of Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Will Run Feb. 5-March 26 in Williams Center Gallery
The exhibit Revisiting the Italian Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from the Allentown Art Museum will run Feb. 5-March 26 in the Williams Center Gallery. Diane Cole Ahl, Rothkopf Professor of Art History and exhibition curator, and J. Brooks Joyner, Priscilla Payne Hurd President and CEO of the Allentown Art Museum, will discuss the exhibit at [...]
Saxophone Summit Celebrates Coltrane’s Jazz Feb. 6 at Williams Center
Saxophone Summit will present an evening of John Coltrane’s jazz 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 6, at the Williams Center for the Arts. Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, and Ravi Coltrane’s recent release, Seraphic Light, marks a bold new beginning for Saxophone Summit following the untimely death of original member Michael Brecker in 2007. The sax trio appears [...]
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Performs Feb. 3 at Williams Center
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company will perform 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, at the Williams Center for the Arts. Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $5 for faculty and staff, and $20 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009. [...]
Grammy Award-Winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Performs with Violinist Vadim Gluzman Jan. 28
Recognized internationally as one of the world’s greatest orchestras, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will perform with Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, at the Williams Center for the Arts. The program will include Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s haunting concerto No. 2 in G minor, Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s dark and romantic Serenade (1966), [...]
Ryo Tokita’s Sei (Life) Print and Paint Exhibition Runs through Jan. 28 at Williams Center Gallery
Ryo Tokita’s Sei (Life), an exhibition of work by the Japanese-born printmaker and painter runs through Jan. 28 at the William Center Gallery. The painting and prints in the exhibition range from meticulously executed op art painting to subtle acrylics on rice paper mounted on a panel. The exhibition is free and open to the [...]
Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Performs with Soprano Kate Royal Dec. 3
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will perform with British soprano Kate Royal at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3 at Williams Center for the Arts. The concert expands upon the 3-B’s of classical music (Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms) to include works by Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten. The concert is Orpheus’ first performance of Beethoven’s powerful Seventh Symphony, [...]
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Performs Nov. 10
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov.10, at Williams Center for the Arts. The concert is the second performance in this year’s Chamber Music series, featuring two of New York’s most masterful pianists, Gilbert Kalish and Wu Han. The duo bring career-long passion for chamber music to two landmark [...]
Philadanco Performs Nov. 12 at Williams Center
The Philadelphia Dance Company celebrates its 40th anniversary and returns to the Williams Center for the Arts 8 p.m. Friday, Nov.12, with thrilling, new selections of funk and hip-hop. The company’s return to Lafayette features two new dances: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s By Way of the Funk is a feast of American rhythm and blues, [...]
Lust and Leisure in Edo Japan Exhibit Runs through Dec. 12 in Williams Center Gallery
Lust and Leisure in Edo Japan, an exhibit of Japanese woodblock prints that depict popular forms of entertainment such as teahouses, brothels, and Kabuki Theater during Edo period Japan (1603–1868), will run through Dec. 12 in the William Center Gallery. The prints are selected from the Allentown Art Museum’s large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. [...]
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