ELON COLLEGE – To reserve tickets call the Elon College Box Office at
336-584-2199 from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For information about lectures call 336-584-2386.
Tuesday, September 7
John McCutcheon in Concert
7:30 p.m. McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Tickets: $10 or free with Elon identification
Songwriter, musician and storyteller McCutcheon offers a blend of original material and traditional music. He is a master of several instruments and a powerful singer of traditional material. His albums have received several Grammy nominations and two “Children’s Album
of the Year” awards.
Friday, September 17
United States Air Force American Clarinet Quartet
7 p.m. Yeager Recital Hall, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Admission is free
The quartet is part of the United States Air Force Heritage of America Band based at Langley Air Force Base. Its repertory features both chamber and popular music from Bach to Glenn Miller.
Wednesday, September 22
Hafsat Abiola, “Nigerian Politics and Society Today”
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Free
Hafsat Abiola is the daughter of Chief Moshood Abiola who died in 1998 after serving a four-year detention ordered by the Nigerian military government, which had accused him of treason. Gunmen in Lagos killed her mother. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, Hafsat is the spokesperson for the exiled Nigerian democracy movement.
Friday, September 24
The Pat Sullivan Quartet
8 p.m., Yeager Recital Hall, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Free
Tuesday, September 28
Shenandoah Shakespeare Express’ performance of Hamlet
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
Admission: $10 or free with Elon identification
Shenandoah Shakespeare Express is a professional company of 11 actors. The group’s goal is to perform Shakespeare’s plays as they were originally designed – on a simple stage surrounded by an audience sharing the same light as the actors who play several roles. Hamlet is a ghost story, a mystery, a thriller and seven-murder tale of revenge.
Tuesday, September 28
Wallace Sawyer, “High-Speed Civil Transport: Year 2020”
7:30 p.m., Whitley Auditorium
Free
Sawyer, a 1964 graduate of Elon College, is director of the high-speed research project at NASA Langley Research Center, is responsible for leading the development of critical technologies in aerodynamic performance, airframe materials and structures, flight deck technology, propulsion technology and systems integration to support the development of high-speed civil transport.
Wednesday, September 29
Shenandoah Shakespeare Express’ performance of Much Ado About Nothing
7:30 p.m., McCrary Theatre, Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts
$10 or free with Elon identification
Much Ado About Nothing delivers the witty tongue-lashings of the upper crust as well as the broad farce of the lower class. As the villain Don John devises schemes to shatter the wedding of young lovers Claudio and Hero, the friends of Beatrice and Benedick conspire to trick them into admitting their much-denied love for one another.