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December 2007
12-18 Alice Walker to Place Her Archive at Emory University
12-4 Von Mueller's "Life of the Mind" Lecture Explores New Technologies and Cinema - Emory Report
November 2007
11-20 15th Celtic Christmas Highlights Winter Concert Calendar
11-20 Emory Hosts 800-Panel Aids Quilt Nov. 30
11-09 A "Brilliant Constellation" of Creativity: First Person Perspectives - Emory Report
11-08 "Cartooning for Peace" Features International Artists at Emory
11-07 Susan Booth Directs Reading of José Rivera Play at Emory
11-02 Diverse Slate of Authors Highlights Creative Writing Reading Series - Emory Report
October 2007
10-29 Theater Emory Premieres "Slapping Bernard," A Film Noir Inspired Play
10-24 Emory Dance Company Fall Concert: "Frames and References"
10-09 Theater Week at Emory Highlight is 365 Days/365 Plays “Walkabout” Production
10-09 Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, Emory Coca-Cola Artist in Residence Oct. 17-27
10-09 “STIR: Emory’s Annual Student Arts Festival” Has Rock, Jazz, Graffiti, and More
September 2007
09-21 Theater Emory: Please Join Us on the Battlefield - Emory Report
09-07 Flannery O'Connor Exhibit Debuts with Dramatic Reading - Emory Report
09-07 Emory, Guest Artists and Anniversaries Highlight Music Season - Emory Report
August 2007
08-31 Organ Season Will Resonate With All Ages - Emory Report
08-27 Candler Series Features Resident and Guest Artists - Emory Report
08-06 Emory Chamber Music Society Celebrates 15th Season - Emory Report
08-06 Music Department's Stewart Hosts Radio Program - Emory Report
08-06 Emory Report Profile: Ariel de Man - Emory Report
08-06 Faculty Featured in TV Program on "Cradle of Christianity" - Emory Report
July 2007
07-20 Faculty Concerts, David Dorfman Highlight Emory Dance Season - Emory Report
May 2007
05-07 Benefactor, Alumnus Cherry Logan Emerson Leaves Legacy of Arts and Sciences - Emory Report
05-07 Emory to Stage Reading of Flannery O'Connor Letters
April 2007
04-04 Jazz Pianists Kenny Barron and Gary Motley Perform with Emory Big Band
04-04 FUSION 2007: A Collision of Cross-Cultural Collaboration!
04-04 Color and Sound Explored in Concert and Exhibition Featuring Artist Lori-Gene
04-06 Rare Editions Give Clues to Poets' Lives and Minds - Emory Report
04-17 Emory Announces 2007-2008 Candler Concert Series
04-20 Trethewey Wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Emory Report
04-20 Emory to Unseal Flannery O'Connor Letters - Emory Report
04-20 Legacy of Conceptual Art Pioneer Lives on at Emory - Emory Report
March 2007
03-02 Jazz Meets Classics at Sold-Out Carnegie Hall Event - Emory Report
03-02 Theater Emory's "The Time of Your Life" Closes Youth-Focused Season
03-03 Fantasy Basball According to Radcliffe Bailey and Alejandro Aguilera
03-07 Sweet Honey in the Rock Founder Offers "Songtalk"
03-19 Women's History Month Reading and Lecture Honors Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Emory Report
03-30 U.S. Marine Praises Vega String Quartet Performance - Emory Wheel
February 2007
02-02 Emory Annual Jazz Festival Features Vocalist Jon Hendricks
02-02 Classical Austrian Pianists to Perform at Emory, Feb. 11, 2007
02-05 Tango Concert features Osvaldo Barrios, bandoneón, Feb. 21, 2007
02-16 Composer Bruce Broughton's Emory Visit an Interdisciplinary Windfall
02-19 Rushdie Arrives on Campus as Distinguished Writer in Residence - Emory Report
02-19 Wayne Fishell Experiment Creates "Musical Art" - Emory Report
02-23 Marshall-Linnemeier's Storytelling Through Art - Emory Report
January 2007
01-08 Emory Acquires Love Letters of Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill - University Communications
01-08 Emory Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Week - University Communications
01-31 Theater Emory Kicks Off Season with Brave New Works
December 2006
12-27 Burning River Brass to Heat Up the Stage at Emory’s Schwartz Center
12-06 Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile: Pushing Musical Limits at Emory, Jan. 27, 2007
12-05 Emory Music Faculty Offer Various New Releases
12-11 New Book Explores Frictions and Collaborations in Museums
November 2006
11-01 New and Old Musical Traditions for the Winter Holiday Season
October 2006
10-24 Insights and Worldviews: Emory Dance Company Fall Concert Offers It All
10-24 From Russia with Love: Ukrainian Organist Koshuba Performs at the Schwartz
10-16 Carter Woodson Collection On View through Dec. 20
10-10 Theater Emory’s “Spring Awakening” a Provocative Exploration of Youth
10-06 Salman Rushdie to Teach and Place Archive at Emory University
September 2006
09-26 Krakauer Rocks the Clarinet with his Avant-Garde Klezmer
09-26 “Young Acts” Kicks Off 2006-2007 Theater Emory Season of Youth
09-16 New Exhibit Tells the Story of Jews at Emory
09-15 The Vega String Quartet Performs the Bach-Bartók Cycle
09-05 STIR III Arts Fest Planned with Goal of Awakening Community Creativity
09-01 2006-2007 Emory Dance Season Offers a Broad Palette
August 2006
08-16 Emory Acquires Archive of Poet Lucille Clifton
08-16 Arts at Emory Events for Summer 2006 through June 2007
08-16 Emory Acquires Archive of Poet Lucille Clifton
08-03 Theater Emory's 2006-2007 Season: A Focus on Youth
May 2006
05.16 2006-2007 Candler Concerts at Emory Continue Distinctive Artist Collaborations with Spice
05.16 Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta’s 2006-2007 Season Features the Complete Solo String Works of Bach and Bartók’s String Quartets
05.12 Art and Business Meet at Emory University's Goizueta Business School
March 2006
03-30 Universes Brings Urban Theater and Riffs on Words to Emory
03-21 Former ASO Members Return for a Performance at Emory’s Schwartz Center
03-21 Renowned Filmmaker Mira Nair to Visit Emory
03-17 Pioneering Artist Alice Aycock Delivers Lectures at Emory University
03-16 Toronto Dance Theatre to Present "Sly Verb" at Emory
03-13 Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort Premieres Works by Emory Music Faculty
03-13 The Prairie Winds Blows Into the Schwartz Center
03-13 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Perform at Emory’s Schwartz
03-07 Emory Visual Arts Gallery to Feature Mark Steinmetz’s “Garden”
03-07 Emory Dance Honors Student Presents an Exploration of the Solo Work
February 2006
02-15 Theater Emory Presents Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer"
02-01 Acclaimed Dance Videographer, Filmmaker Douglas Rosenberg Presents Work
January 2006
01-27 Emory Concerts and Free Symposium Explore Osvaldo Golijov
01-25 Emory Opens Angela West Photography Retrospective
01-25 Emory Commemorates the Past with Two Baroque Concerts
01-11 Atlanta’s Vega String Quartet Presents a Chinese New Year Celebration
01-11 “Warmdaddy,” Motley and Guests Heat Up ‘06 Emory Jazz Fest
01-05 Emory Music Faculty Take Center Stage to Display Their Talents
01-05 “Doors That Open”: A Meeting Place Between Desire and Acceptance
01-05 Percussion Virtuoso Evelyn Glennie Performs at the Schwartz Center
2005
12-12 Emory Celebrates the Season with the “Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert”
12-08 Emory’s Musical Family Performs a Duo-Organ Performance at the Schwartz
11-21 Emory Celebrates the Season with Three Festive Holiday Concerts
11-01 "Unfolding" Emory Dance Company Fall Concert
10-31 Theater Emory Presents Shakespearean Tragedy "King Lear"
09-29 Theater Emory and Out of Hand Theater Present a Modern Retelling of "Alcestis"
09-07 Theater Emory 2005 Season is 3,000-Year March Through History
08-31 Ethos Percussion Group Performs at the Schwartz Center in October
08-29 Emory Celebrates Its New 14-Ton Pipe Organ During the "Year of the Jaeckel"
08-18 Relationships, Nature and Music Inspire Emory Faculty's Choreography
08-01 Variety is Key to Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta's 2005 Season
06-01 2005 Candler Concerts at Emory Include World Premiere, Rare Pairing and Varied Artists
03-29 Emory Presents New York New Music Ensemble Program with World Premiere of John Anthony Lennon's "Red Scimitar"
03-08 Emory to Open New Visual Arts Building, Gallery and Inaugural Exhibit
02-09 2005 Emory Jazz Fest Boasts Eddie Daniels and Big Band
02-01 Emory Guitar Fest is First for Schwartz Center
01-27 Emory/GSU Host Urban Bush Women Performances
01-21 Emory Center for Women Presents Female Directors Film Series
01-21 Emory Event Explores Role of Race in Music
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2004
12.20.2004 Rare Jewish Cantata to be Performed
at Emory
12.14.2004 Emory
Acquires Microfilm Set of Important Cairo Geniza
10.20.2004 Emory
Dance Events Scheduled in November
09.24.2004 Emory
is Given Largest Private English Language Poetry Library
09.18.2004 Emory
Creative Writing 2003-04 Reading Series
09.17.2004 Emory
Photography Exhibit Highlights Everyday People
09.08.2004 Salman
Rushdie to Deliver Emory's Ellmann Lectures, Give Reading Oct. 3-5
08.19.2004 Theater
Emory Announces Season of Brave New Works
07.01.2004 What
Makes for a Successful Movie Villain?
03.22.2004 Emory
Inaugural Arts Festival April 1
03.25.2004 "Voyeur"
Performance to Provide Peek at New Emory Choreography
03.09.2004 Emory
Launches Irish Studies Program
03.05.2004 Edward
Beckett Presents Recital of 20th-Century French Music
01.30.2004 Emory
Hosts Jazz Series Feb. 6-April 26, 2004
01.21.2004 Theater
Emory Premieres Silent-Film-Styled "Life Goes On"
01.14.2004 Emory
Friends of Dance Presents Illustrated Lecture on Black Women’s
Identity in Modern Dance
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2003
12.05.2003
Annual Celtic Christmas Concert Presents Irish and Southern Holiday
Themes
11.26.2003 Theater
Emory to Premiere Gunderson's "Leap"
10.29.2003 Emory
Presents "12 Black Classicists" Exhibit, Lecture
10.23.2003 Emory
Dance Company Presents "Six Senses" Fall Concert
10.17.2003 Emory
Great Directors' Series Offers Diverse International Films
10.17.2003 Emory
Visual Arts Faculty Offer Two Fall 2003 Exhibitions
10.10.2003 Theater
Emory Presents Contemporary, Urban "Midsummer Night's Dream"
09.24.2003 Emory
Acquires Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney Letters
09.12.2003 Theater
Emory Unveils "Dating and Mating in Modern Times"
08.21.2003 Theater
Emory Presents Theater From Contemporary India
06.16.2003 Jim
Grimsley Given Georgia Author of the Year Award
05.28.2003 Theater
Emory 2003-04 Season Features Three World Premieres
05.16.2003 Emory
Awards DuBois Biographer Honorary Degree May 12
05.16.2003 Ted
Hughes Library Acquired by Emory
05.28.2003: Theater
Emory 2003-04 Season Features Three World Premieres
04.04.2003: Emory
Dance Company's "Naked" April 24-27
04.04.2003: Theater
Emory's "Three Sisters" Asks Meaning of Life
03.14.2003: Contemporary
Arts Emory Weekend, March 21-23
02.28.2003: Theater
Emory Presents Woolf in SITI Co's "Room"
02.25.2003: Artists
Discuss Religion & Art at Emory Symposium
02.07.2003: Emory
Acquires Important Yeats/Gonne Letters
01.17.2003:
Emory Completes $36.6 Million Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
01.14.2003: Theater
Emory Presents Brave New Works II
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2002
11.15.2002: Emory
2002 Holiday Concerts
11.05.2002: Irish
Poet O'Siadhail to Give Reading
10.24.2002: Emory
Receives Major Gift to African-American Studies Archive
10.24.2002: Dance
Company Presents Fall Concert, "Connecting Voices"
10.04.2002: Theater
Emory Presents Arthur Kopit's "Discovery of America"
09.20.2002: Emory
Presents Dave Brubeck Festival And Symposium
08.16.2002: Theater
Emory Announces 20th Anniversary Season
05.31.2002: Concert
Hall to be Named for Cherry Logan Emerson
05.02.2002: Emory's
2002-2003 Candler Series to Feature Jazz, Classical Music and Contemporary
Theater and Dance
03.06.2002: Oscar
for Animation? It's About Time, Says Emory Professor
03.06.2002: Emory
Music Student/Contemporary Art Music Composer to Perform Three World
Premieres on March 30
02.07.2002: Theater
Emory Presents "Ah, Wilderness!" Feb. 15-March 2
02.04.2002: Peggy
Benkeser Brings "Kitchen Chaos" World Premiere Concert to
Emory Feb. 15
01.25.2002: Alvin
Ailey Dance Expert, Thomas F. DeFrantz, to Give Free Lecture at Emory
During Black History Month
01.10.2002: Annual
Emory Jazz Festival to Feature Caswell Sisters on Feb. 1 and Big Band
Night on Feb. 2
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2001
11-27-2001:
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Kicks Off Yuletide Season
11-06-2001: Netherlands
Chamber Choir to Perform at Emory Nov. 17
11-06-2001:
Emory Pianist Performs Third Concert Nov. 16 in the Complete Series
of Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
10.12.2001: Emory
Dance Company Presents Fall Concert Nov. 9 & 10
10.11.2001: Atlanta
Theater Community Launches Festival of Works By Playwright Naomi Wallace
10.11.2001: Media
Advisory: Oxford College Dedicates Performing Arts Center Friday
10.08.2001: Theater
Emory Spearheads City-Wide Naomi Wallace Festival With Production of
"The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek" Oct. 24-Nov. 10
10.02.2001: Piano
Virtuoso Arcadi Volodos Performs At Emory Oct. 17
08.24.2001: Arts
at Emory University Fall 2001
08.02.2001: Music
at Emory Announces 2001-02 Season
07.31.2001:
Emory Presents Beethoven's Complete Sonatas For Piano This Season
07.23.2001: Theater
Emory Hosts Readings for 2002 Olympic Arts Festival
07.12.2001: Theater
Emory 2001-02 Season a Decidedly American Affair
04.04.2001: Emory
Dance Company Presents Spring Dance Concert April 19-21
03.16.2001: Theater
Emory Presents Biennial New Play Festival, Brave New Works
02.01.2001: Jazz
Star Michael Brecker to Headline Emory Jazz Festival
01.22.2001: Emory
Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Presents Jun-Ching Lin
01.09.2001: Emory
Hosts Percussion Workshop For Kids and Family Percussion Concert
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2000
11.06.2000: Renowned
Violinist Pinchas Zukerman and Friends To Perform At Emory
10.27.2000: Emory
Presents Bach "St. John Passion" Symposium and Concert Nov.
9 and 11
10.27.2000: Emory
Dance Company Presents Fall Concert, "7 Considerations"
10.10.2000: Emory
University Breaks Ground Oct. 19 On Performing Arts Center
09.28.2000: Theater
Emory Tackles Shaw's Empic "Back to Methuselah" in Two Parts
09.13.2000: Music
at Emory Concert Season Offers Varied Fare from Classical Stars to Contemporary
World Music
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