January 2–25, 2009
Inspired by The Beat Show, exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1995, and juried by Maryann J. Riker, Altered and Assembled takes up the tradition of altered art/books and assemblage art/sculpture by artists of today. These artists, working in the traditions of such notables as Rauschenberg, Cornel, and Kienholz, exhibit altered and assemblage work done with their own fresh perspective.

Opening reception with curator's talk:
January 11, 2009, 3–5 p.m.
(Snow date: January 25)

The Council of Lafayette Women is pleased to invite you to tour the special exhibit Art and Love in Renaissance Italy with Diane Cole Ahl, Lafayette Professor of Art History.

Plan to arrive at 10:30 a.m. for security clearance, coat check, and check-in at the group registration desk at the Great Hall.

Tour participants are invited to a luncheon
with Professor Ahl following the tour at 1:00 p.m.

Giovanni Venticinque Restaurant
25 East 83rd Street (between 5th & Madison Avenues)
New York, NY 10028

This event is now sold out.

For assistance with reservations, contact the Office of Alumni Affairs,
(610) 330-5040, 1-800-LAFAYETTE (outside of PA), alumni@lafayette.edu

For information about the exhibit, visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art website www.metmusuem.org.

January 29–March 7
For 40 years, painter and printmaker William T. Williams has created art that demonstrates his desire to integrate the content of his personal experiences with his knowledge of the modern aesthetic. Themes and Variations follows Williams’ creative process from his early studies through many of the printing experiments that resulted in the serigraphs produced during his Lafayette's Experimental Printmaking Institute, EPI, residency.

In a Williams Center 25th Anniversary commission, Orpheus and sitar master Anoushka Shankar perform a new Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra by the great Ravi Shankar.

The evening also includes Haydn’s Symphony No. 99, incidental music from Mozart’s Thamos, King of Egypt, and Zoltan Kodaly’s tone poem, Summer Music.

The Shankar commission was generously supported by funding from the Amaranth Foundation.

Committee Meetings

Easton-based pianist Mulgrew Miller began his career with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, under the direction of Mercer Ellington, in 1975. He went on the perform with the Betty Carter Trio, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and a number of all-star groups. He maintains a working trio and a renowned sextet, Wingspan.

Philadelphia-born Kenny Barron's unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms is what inspired the Los Angeles Times to name him “one of the top jazz pianists in the world” and Jazz Weekly to call him “The most lyrical piano player of our time.”

The two kings of the keyboard join forces for an exceptional evening of duo piano improvisations.

The Class of 1957 is sponsoring a Western Caribbean Cruise Southeastern Vacation in January 2009. The Class ran a cruise in 2005 that was very well received, and they would like to extend the invitation for their 2009 Cruise to all Lafayette alumni and families.

For more information, please contact Glenn Grube '57 at glenngrube@bellsouth.net.