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FALL SEMESTER 2019
FALL SEMESTER 2019
What are Curricular Connections?
Many of the performances presented at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts feature additional programming
where Bucknell’s faculty and students can connect with visiting artists through masterclasses, pre-show talks,
class visits, and community meals. These active-learning opportunities support the core values of a liberal arts
curriculum as they engage students with real-world problems and ideas, challenge students to think critically and
increase cultural intelligence. Curricular Connections with artists are designed to enrich the educational
experience at Bucknell by expanding the walls of the classroom.
Examples of past Curricular Connections
During the 2018-19 Season Series, 19 faculty across 11 Bucknell University academic departments involved their
students in programming with 84 individual performing artists. Some of the many ways students engaged with
our visiting artists include the following:
• Practiced Arabic with Egyptian musicians while discussing the Arab Spring
• Learned the nuanced relationship of Indian and Sri Lankan dance and participated in masterclasses with
professional dancers
• Addressed immigration with a Sudanese-refugee and musician
• Dissected the process of film scoring with a composer and Oud master
• Shared a meal with a world-renowned wildlife photographer and conservation activist
• Engaged with masters of Spanish cultural traditions of flamenco and Galician bagpipes
We’re happy to help forge future Curricular Connections to help achieve the learning goals of your courses.
Click here for a carefully curated list of potential connections for the current season. You may access the entire
2019-20 Season Series at bucknell.edu/WeisCenter Please contact us if you see a curricular connection we may
pursue together. E-mail Rachel Martine at rm053@bucknell.edu to organize your class connection.
How to engage in Curricular Connections
• Participate in pre- or post-concert discussions or share community meals with artists
• Schedule in-class workshops/lectures with visiting artists for face-to-face discussions about process,
historical influence or cultural context
• Use a performance to enhance classroom discussion
• Offer extra credit for students who attend performances and complete critical analysis
Ticketing
Bucknell students always receive a special ticket rate, deeply-discounted from
the regular public ticket charge. Additionally, there are five free performances
this academic year. Workshops, lecture/demonstrations and classroom visits
with Weis Center artists are always free of charge.
curricular connections
Ryan Flannery Trio
Thursday, Aug. 29, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center Atrium • FREE
A native of Lewisburg, Pa., and a graduate of the College of Charleston
School of Music, guitarist/composer Ryan Flannery is steadily building
his name as one of the most compelling and impressive young jazz
artists in the southeast. Flannery possesses a strong technique, a RELATED EVENT
warm luminous tone and a natural sense of swing and distinctive LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION
chording. The trio includes Ron Nihoff on drums and McCarthy Fitch Thursday, Aug. 29, 1 – 2 p.m.
on bass. They will perform a memorable set that includes funk, ballads Weis Center Atrium
and uptempo hard bop. ryanflannerymusic.com
AFST/MUSC 257
JAZZ, ROCK & RACE
MUSC 196
GUITAR
MUSC 197
PERCUSSION
MUSC 178
STRING BASS
MUSC 260
JAZZ ENSEMBLE
MUSC 201
CHROMATIC THEORY
jazz
© Ryan Flannery
curricular connections
Jazzmeia Horn
Thursday, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center RELATED EVENT
Grammy Award-nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn has a name that LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION
captures her very essence. Since winning the Thelonious Monk Thursday, Sept. 12, 1 – 2 p.m.
Competition in 2015, Horn’s star has continued to rise, along with Weis Center Atrium
her reputation as an artist with an assured maturity and a vocal
confidence far beyond her years. Her debut album, A Social Call, was
released to overwhelming acclaim, earning Horn her first Grammy AFST/MUSC 257
Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album with its great story- JAZZ, ROCK & RACE
telling, inspired message, fluid vocals, scat-singing, and spirited group
MUSC 146
performances. theartistryofjazzhorn.com
VOICE METHODS
MUSC 172
VOICE
MUSC 170
PIANO
MUSC 178
STRING BASS
MUSC 187
SAXOPHONE
MUSC 197
PERCUSSION
MUSC 199
IMPROVISATION
MUSC 201
CHROMATIC THEORY
MUSC 260
JAZZ ENSEMBLE
WMST 227
RACE & SEXUALITY
© Tim Walter
jazz
vocalist
curricular connections
Jane Bunnett & Maqueque RELATED EVENT
LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION
Thursday, Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center Thursday, Sept. 19, 1 – 2 p.m.
Weis Center Atrium
AFST 199
INTRO TO AFRICANA STUDIES
AFST 222
CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
AFST/MUSC 257
JAZZ, ROCK & RACE
AFST 271
POLITICS OF ANTI-BLACKNESS
ANTH 109
INTRO TO CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
EDUC 318/618
MULTICULTURALISM &
EDUCATION
ENLS
US LATINX MEMOIR
GEOG 101
GLOBALIZATION, PEOPLE & PLACE
GEOG 316
GEOGRAPHIES OF NATIONALISM
LAMS 150
Five-time Juno Award winner, Jane Bunnett has turned her bands LATIN AMERICA: AN INTRO
and recordings into showcases for the finest musical talent from MUSC 201
Canada, the United States and Cuba. Maqueque, which started out CHROMATIC THEORY
five years ago as a project to record and mentor young Cuban female
musicians, has become one of the top groups on the North American MUSC 260
jazz scene. In the last year, they have played in major festivals; been JAZZ ENSEMBLE
featured on NPR; were nominated for a Grammy Award and were SPAN 280
voted as one the top 10 jazz groups by DownBeat magazine. LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL
The members of Maqueque are: Jane Bunnett, soprano TRADITIONS
saxophone and flute; Melvis Santa, vocals and percussion; Mary Paz,
congas and vocals; Dánae Olano, piano; Tailin Marrero, acoustic and
electric bass; and Yissy García, drums. janebunnett.com
afro-cuban
jazz
curricular connections
Jeremy Denk
Sunday, Sept. 22, 2 p.m., Weis Center
Winner of a MacArthur Fellowship (known as the Genius Grant) and
the Avery Fisher Prize, Jeremy Denk has also been elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Denk frequently plays at
Carnegie Hall and has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, New York RELATED EVENT
Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and MASTER CLASS
Cleveland Orchestra. jeremydenk.net Saturday, Sept. 21, Time
Location
While at the Weis Center, he will perform Bach: A minor English
Suite • Ligeti: Etudes Book one • Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 • Berg:
Sonata • Schumann: Fantasy MUSC 121
INTRO TO FUNDAMENTALS
MUSC 252
CHANT TO BEETHOVEN
© Shervin Lainez
classical
pianist
curricular connections
Steel Betty
Friday, Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center
With music flavored by bluegrass, folk, blues, Tex-Mex and classic
country, Steel Betty is a reflection of today’s American music
scene. The hip, virtuosic trio, includes David McD, guitar and vocals;
Maddy Froncek, banjo, upright bass and vocals; and Micah Motenko, MUSC 172
mandolin, piano and vocals. Steel Betty’s performances are filled VOICE
with the melodies of Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, spirituals, the
Conjunto tradition and more. The trio regularly conducts workshops MUSC 170
for aspiring musicians and students. steelbettyband.com PIANO
MUSC 178
STRING BASS
MUSC 196
GUITAR
MUSC 258
MUSIC & CULTURE
IN AMERICAN LIFE
traditional
folk/
bluegrass
curricular connections
Kat Edmonson
Thursday, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center
Critically acclaimed vocalist and songwriter, actor and dancer, Kat
Edmonson has played major stages across the United States, Europe
and Japan. She’s appeared in major motion pictures, performed on
radio and television and released four groundbreaking albums. Her RELATED EVENT
newest album is Old Fashioned Gal which was written and produced LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION
by Edmonson with associate production by band member and Thursday, Oct. 17, 1 – 2 p.m.
drummer Aaron Thurston. The album follows her critically acclaimed Weis Center Atrium
2014 release The Big Picture, which debuted at no. 1 on Billboard’s
Heatseekers and Contemporary Jazz Chart and no. 2 on the Total
Jazz Chart. katedmonson.com MUSC 170
PIANO
MUSC 172
VOICE
MUSC 178
STRING BASS
MUSC 258
MUSIC & CULTURE IN AMERICAN LIFE
UNIV 199
ARTS LEADERSHIP
jazz
vocalist
© Kat Edmonson
curricular connections
50TH ANNIVERSARY
PHILADANCO!
The Philadelphia Dance Company
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center
The Philadelphia Dance Company, better known as PHILADANCO!, DANC 120
is celebrated for its innovation, creativity, and preservation of MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE
predominantly African-American traditions in dance. Founded by Joan
Myers Brown in 1970, PHILADANCO! has a legacy of breaking barriers DANC 275
and building bridges across cultural divides. philadanco.org DANCE CONDITIONING
DANC 250
HISTORY OF DANCE
THEA 255
ART OF COSTUME CRAFT
While at the Weis
Center, the dance
company will perform:
• Super 8
• With(in) Verse
• Suite en Bleu contemporary
dance
• Enemy Behind Gates
curricular connections
RELATED EVENT
Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein PUPPET WORKSHOP
Sunday, Nov. 3, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center
Weis Center
Love, loss and creation merge in unexpected ways in this thrilling
retelling of this classic gothic tale, as conceived by Manual Cinema. ARST 131 DRAWING
The stories of Mary Shelley and of Victor Frankenstein and his ARTH 222 PHILOSOPY OF ART
monster expose how the forces of family, community, and education BIOL 220 HUMAN ANATOMY
shape personhood — or destroy it by their absence.
BIOL 375 NEUROBIOLOGY
In a special world premiere presentation, internationally renowned
multimedia company Manual Cinema stitches together the classic BIOL 618 PHYSIOLOGY
story of Frankenstein with Mary Shelley’s biography to create an BMEG 250 BIOMECHANICS
unexpected story about the beauty and horror of creation. The show BMEG 400 BIOTRANSPORT
combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and
CHEG 472 GENETIC ENGINEERING
innovative sound and music to create immersive visual stories for
this sweeping stage production. manualcinema.com ENCW 102 WRITING FICTION
FOUN 098 CREATING A LIFE, UTOPIA: IMAGINE
THE IMPOSSIBLE, SCIENCE & THE NEWS
NEUR 250 BIOPSYCHOLOGY
PHIL 100 LAW MORALITY SOCIETY, GODS,
HUMANS ANIMALS
PHIL 225 METAPHYSICS
PSYC 325 PERSONALITY, PSYCHOPATHS &
SERIAL KILLERS
RESC 098-01 THEATRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
RESC 098-04 THE ART OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
RESC 098-26 CREATIVITY & THE BEAST
RESC 098-10 ILLUSIONS: THE SCIENCE
AND ART OF DECEPTION
RESC 098-11 SCIENCE AND SERENDIPITY
RESC 098-16 WHAT IS THE HUMAN?
RES 098-28 THE FUTURE IS NOW
THEA 101 TECHNICAL THEATRE/SCENE PAINTING
THEA 145 BUCKNELL BACKSTAGE
THEA 255 ART OF COSTUME CRAFT
THEA 342 DEVISING PERFORMANCES
UNIV 199 ARTS LEADERSHIP
WMST 150 INTRO TO WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES
WMST 220 FEMINIST THEORY IN PRACTICE
multimedia/
puppetry/
live musiccurricular connections
Nobuntu
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center
FREE pre-performance music featuring Bucknell University’s ensemble
Voices of Praise, in the Atrium Lobby from 6:45 – 7:15 p.m.
Nobuntu, the female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, has drawn
international acclaim for its inventive performances that range from RELATED EVENT
traditional Zimbabwean songs to Afro jazz to gospel. The ensemble’s LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION
concerts are performed with pure voices, augmented by minimalistic Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1 – 2 p.m.
percussion, traditional instruments such as the mbira (thumb piano) and Weis Center Atrium
dance movements.
Nobuntu was nominated for Musician of the Year at the Zimbabwe
International Women Awards in London in 2015.
Nobuntu is an African concept that values humbleness, love, unity AFST 199
and family from a woman’s perspective. The ensemble represents a new INTRO TO AFRICANA STUDIES
generation of young African women singers who celebrate and preserve
their culture, beauty and heritage through art, believing that music is ANTH 109
an important vehicle for change that transcends racial, tribal, religious, INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
gender, and economic boundaries. nobuntu-music.com
GEOG 101
GLOBALIZATION, PEOPLE & PLACE
GEOG 218
GEOGRAPHY OF JUSTICE
GEOG 316
GEOGRAPHIES OF NATIONALISM
GEOG 322
URBAN AFRICA
FOUN 098
GLOBAL DRESS & FASHION SYSTEMS
RESC 098-20
THE EMPIRE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
WMST 150
INTRO TO WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES
world
musiccurricular connections
Natalie MacMaster
and Donnell Leahy:
A Celtic Family Christmas
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center
Join Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, the award-winning GEOG 101
fiddle virtuosos, in an intimate and unique Christmas concert series. GLOBALIZATION, PEOPLE & PLACE
McMaster, one of the most important exports from Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia, Canada and a superstar in the Celtic music world, is a fiddler and GEOG 316
step-dancer who has built a sterling, multi-decade career on electrifying GEOGRAPHIES OF NATIONALISM
playing and must-see live performances. Her extensive discography MUSC 174
showcases her as a soloist and a marquee collaborator, most notably
VIOLIN
with Leahy, her husband and fellow fiddler. He is recognized as one of
the best Celtic fiddlers in the world. The accomplished duo has toured UNIV 199
extensively together and separately. ARTS LEADERSHIP
Accompanied by an incredible array of talented musicians — and
their children — “A Celtic Family Christmas” will guide the audience
through a true MacMaster-Leahy Christmas celebration with a mix of
song and dance, including a lineup of familiar Christmas and classic
Celtic songs. natalieanddonnell.com
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