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Friends of the Williams Center |
        Picture
yourself enjoying special events, such as the champagne reception following
Orpheus' 50th Williams Center concert, the Chateau Chavaniac concert by
the Four Nations Ensemble and the trip to the New York City Opera. Click on the logo to see photos from Orpheus' 50th Williams Center performance and the Friends' post-concert champagne reception.  |
| Friends
of the Williams Center, founded
in 1999, is a group of some 300 performing arts enthusiasts from the
Lehigh Valley and beyond. An advisory council of 18 has representatives
from the community, alumni, and Lafayette faculty and staff. |
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Friends
of the Williams Center support the
performing arts!• Provide financial resources to enhance programming • Ensure continuation of our series with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra • In 2006–2007 we celebrated their 20th season at Lafayette with three extraordinary guest soloists: pianists Emanuel Ax and Jeremy Denk, and tenor Ian Bostridge • Easton audiences are often the first to hear programs that are subsequently performed at Carnegie Hall • Create new commissioned works • Rennie Harris’ Facing Mekka had its world premiere at the Williams Center, as a Lafayette College commission • Orpheus premiered Paul Seiko Chihara’s An Afternoon on the Perfume River in February 2004; the same month, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company premiered Mulgrew Miller’s A Clearing in the Woods. Both works were Williams Center 20th Anniversary commissions, funded by Friends of the Williams Center • Expand partnerships with such exemplary artists as Rennie Harris, Edgar Meyer, and Headlong Dance Theater • Encourage new ventures in enhancing artistic quality of programming • Expand educational and community outreach opportunities with visiting artists, to strengthen the impact of engagements • Six Lafayette students rehearsed and performed with Headlong Dance Theater in Britney’s Inferno in September 2003 • Rennie Harris’s extended residency in developing Facing Mekka (first shown as a work-in-progress in April 2002) included workshops, master classes, and open rehearsals • Dancers from Susan Marshall & Company, Ben Munisteri Dance Projects, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and Philadanco worked with theater and dance students • New York Voices, Meridian Arts Ensemble, and Arturo O’Farrill held master classes for college and high school students • Alexander String Quartet coached Lafayette string students in their performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons • Reduced Shakespeare Company taught a master class for Lafayette theater students • Strive for greater financial security during an era of accelerating fees Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law
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| last updated July 25, 2007 | |
