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, February 8
Mark Levine Trio with special guest Jon Metzger
Yeager Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
Free
Levine is a Concord Jazz recording artist and author of The Jazz Piano Book and The Jazz Book. Active on the San Francisco jazz scene, he has recorded with many jazz artists, including Joe Henderson, Carmen McRae, and Cal Tjader.
Wednesday, February 9
Josh Abrams, The Dogwood Alliance
McKinnon Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Free
The Dogwood Alliance, an environmental protection policy advocacy organization based in Brevard, has recently joined with numerous local governments to assist in a federal assessment of the effects of clear-cutting and chip-milling practices on the environment in Southeastern United States. Abrams will present the assessment’s most recent findings.
Thursday-Sunday, February 10-13
Department of Performing Arts presents A Chorus Line
Music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban, book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante
Directed and Choreographed by Linda Sabo, Musical direction by Kenneth Lee
McCrary Theatre, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday
Admission by ticket only: $10 or Elon identification*
Come see Elon’s own chorus line of Broadway hopefuls in a celebration of the unsung hero of the American musical theater — the Broadway gypsy. As these young performers sing and dance their way through the final cuts of a Broadway audition, experience their longing, frustration and determination with such songs as At the Ballet, Nothing and What I Did For Love. This musical has mature language and subject matter.
Sunday, February 13
Jessica Van Ord, soprano, faculty recital
Yeager Recital Hall, 4 p.m.
Free
Join us for a classical sacred song recital featuring faculty member Jessica Van Ord and accompanist Andrew Mock. The program includes vocal works by Dvorak, Rodrigo, Hindemith, Wolf and Hall Johnson.
Monday, February 14
Closing Art Reception: Photography by Paige Critcher, Liz Priestley and Susan Page
Isabella Cannon Room, 5-7 p.m.
Free
This exhibit features images that reflect the concerns of women photographers in North Carolina and Virginia. Exhibit ends February 14.
Wednesday, February 16
Division of Social Sciences Annual Symposium I — The Future of the American Family
Yeager Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Free
Elon faculty members Gary Bailey, human services; Angela Lewellyn Jones, sociology; Maurice Levesque, psychology; with Bernard Curry, sociology, as moderator, will examine factors affecting the future of the family and marriage in America.
Sunday, February 20
The Tom Erdmann Quartet
Yeager Recital Hall, 3 p.m.
Free
Tuesday, February 22
Ohio Ballet’s Kings of Swing
McCrary Theatre, 8 p.m.
Admission by ticket only: $12 or Elon identification
The Ohio Ballet is an outstanding contemporary ballet company of 18 dancers. This elaborately costumed performance to the music of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington is a glamorous, rhythmic and high-energy program that varies from slow swing to straight jitterbug
Wednesday, February 23
President Oscar Arias
McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Free
President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990, Dr. Arias was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his instrumental efforts in ending the decades of political violence in Central America. In 1998, he and seven other Nobel Peace laureates unveiled an international code of conduct on arms transfers to curtail the global arms trade.
Thursday, February 24
Jerry and Tammy Sullivan
McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Free
This extraordinary father-daughter gospel team has performed their uplifting music for audiences from small Southern churches to the Grand Ole Opry. Their CD, A Joyful Noise, earned a Grammy nomination.
Monday, February 28
Art Reception: “A Painter’s View” works by Tim Ford, Margie Stewart and Ann Wilkinson
Isabella Cannon Room, 5-7 p.m.
Free
This exhibit features the colorful and richly textured paintings of North Carolina artists Tim Ford, Margie Stewart and Ann Wilkinson. On exhibit from February 16 to April 27.
Tuesday, February 29
Adam Werbach, lecture
McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Free
Werbach encourages public involvement in the conservation of our natural resources. Werbach is the best known conservationist of his generation. He served two years as president of the Sierra Club.