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‘Bonhoeffer: Cell 92’ opens at EMU, slated for spring tour in Austria

January 16, 2022Last updated March 15, 2022 by EMU Communications

Theater-goers in the Shenandoah Valley will get the first look this winter at an Eastern Mennonite University production that will embark on a European tour in 2022. Bonhoeffer: Cell 92

Annual Bach Festival Christmas concert to feature classical, jazz, holiday favorites

November 27, 2021Last updated March 15, 2022 by EMU Communications

The Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival celebrates the holidays and its 30th anniversary year with “A Bach Festival Christmas” featuring soprano Jessica Spafford, pianist David Berry, violinist Domenic Salerni, and bassist

EMU musicians and The String Queens inspire at 2021 Gala Concert

November 15, 2021Last updated November 30, 2021 by Lauren Jefferson

With photos by Rachel Holderman Thanks to EMU students, community contributors and faculty David Berry, Benjamin Bergey, Kyle Remnant, James Richardson and Kimberly Souther for an amazing night of music

EMU Music Department presents 2021-22 Music Faculty Artist Series

November 9, 2021Last updated March 15, 2022 by EMU Communications

The EMU Music Department presents the 2021-22 Music Faculty Artist Series, with four free concerts. Each event is at 7 p.m. in Martin Chapel in the seminary building. The first

Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival announces artistic director transition

October 29, 2021Last updated March 15, 2022 by Lauren Jefferson

Summer 2022 will mark the retirement of Ken Nafziger as artistic director and conductor of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. Nafziger founded the festival 30 years ago. He will be

The String Queens bring their dynamic, electric music to EMU’s 2021 Gala Concert

October 25, 2021Last updated March 15, 2022 by Lauren Jefferson

Already in 2021, The String Queens headlined the presidential and vice-presidential inauguration celebration, were featured artists on the PBS “Great Performances: Arts Interrupted” series, and partnered with ESPN for a

NPR covers climate singers

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A "climate emergency choir," including several EMU students, performed in Richmond on Monday to ask Governor Northam to put an end to the Mountain Valley Pipeline and demand solutions to climate change. ... read more about NPR covers climate singers from NPR-WMRA

EMU’s original rock musical ‘U2 Romeo & Juliet’ is a gritty, rapturous tale of love in chaos

October 2, 2021Last updated March 15, 2022 by Florence Barrett

Editor’s Note 12/20/2021: This production earned multiple awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival: Certificates of Merit for co-creators Justin Poole and Jerry Holsopple and fight choreographer Wolf

Harpsichordist Joseph Gascho ‘95 to headline Homecoming concert

September 23, 2021Last updated September 29, 2021 by Lauren Jefferson

Joseph Gascho ‘95 has traveled across the world with his harpsichord, from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center to Paris, Tokyo and Taipei. He’s recently performed with the Chicago Symphony

DN-R: Play tells the story of Jesus at Arts Incarnate

September 9, 2021Last updated September 14, 2021 by Jillian Lynch/Daily News-Record

Renaissance painters like Caravaggio depicted religious scenes in chiaroscuro: a stark contrast between dark and light. Justin Poole, main performer and adapter of theatrical work for “The Gospel Project: A

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