News Releases from Previous Years

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2005

12-12 Emory Celebrates the Season with the “Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert”
12-08 Emory’s Musical Family Performs a Duo-Organ Performance at the Schwartz
11-21 Emory Celebrates the Season with Three Festive Holiday Concerts
11-01 "Unfolding" Emory Dance Company Fall Concert
10-31 Theater Emory Presents Shakespearean Tragedy "King Lear"
09-29 Theater Emory and Out of Hand Theater Present a Modern Retelling of "Alcestis"
09-07 Theater Emory 2005 Season is 3,000-Year March Through History
08-31 Ethos Percussion Group Performs at the Schwartz Center in October
08-29 Emory Celebrates Its New 14-Ton Pipe Organ During the "Year of the Jaeckel"
08-18 Relationships, Nature and Music Inspire Emory Faculty's Choreography
08-01 Variety is Key to Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta's 2005 Season
06-01 2005 Candler Concerts at Emory Include World Premiere, Rare Pairing and Varied Artists
03-29 Emory Presents New York New Music Ensemble Program with World Premiere of John Anthony Lennon's "Red Scimitar"
03-08 Emory to Open New Visual Arts Building, Gallery and Inaugural Exhibit
02-09 2005 Emory Jazz Fest Boasts Eddie Daniels and Big Band
02-01 Emory Guitar Fest is First for Schwartz Center
01-27 Emory/GSU Host Urban Bush Women Performances
01-21 Emory Center for Women Presents Female Directors Film Series
01-21 Emory Event Explores Role of Race in Music

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2004

12.20.2004 Rare Jewish Cantata to be Performed at Emory
12.14.2004 Emory Acquires Microfilm Set of Important Cairo Geniza
10.20.2004 Emory Dance Events Scheduled in November
09.24.2004 Emory is Given Largest Private English Language Poetry Library
09.18.2004 Emory Creative Writing 2003-04 Reading Series
09.17.2004 Emory Photography Exhibit Highlights Everyday People
09.08.2004 Salman Rushdie to Deliver Emory's Ellmann Lectures, Give Reading Oct. 3-5
08.19.2004 Theater Emory Announces Season of Brave New Works
07.01.2004 What Makes for a Successful Movie Villain?
03.22.2004 Emory Inaugural Arts Festival April 1
03.25.2004 "Voyeur" Performance to Provide Peek at New Emory Choreography
03.09.2004 Emory Launches Irish Studies Program
03.05.2004 Edward Beckett Presents Recital of 20th-Century French Music
01.30.2004 Emory Hosts Jazz Series Feb. 6-April 26, 2004
01.21.2004 Theater Emory Premieres Silent-Film-Styled "Life Goes On"
01.14.2004 Emory Friends of Dance Presents Illustrated Lecture on Black Women’s Identity in Modern Dance

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2003

12.05.2003 Annual Celtic Christmas Concert Presents Irish and Southern Holiday Themes
11.26.2003 Theater Emory to Premiere Gunderson's "Leap"
10.29.2003 Emory Presents "12 Black Classicists" Exhibit, Lecture
10.23.2003 Emory Dance Company Presents "Six Senses" Fall Concert
10.17.2003 Emory Great Directors' Series Offers Diverse International Films
10.17.2003 Emory Visual Arts Faculty Offer Two Fall 2003 Exhibitions
10.10.2003 Theater Emory Presents Contemporary, Urban "Midsummer Night's Dream"
09.24.2003 Emory Acquires Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney Letters
09.12.2003 Theater Emory Unveils "Dating and Mating in Modern Times"
08.21.2003 Theater Emory Presents Theater From Contemporary India
06.16.2003 Jim Grimsley Given Georgia Author of the Year Award
05.28.2003 Theater Emory 2003-04 Season Features Three World Premieres
05.16.2003 Emory Awards DuBois Biographer Honorary Degree May 12
05.16.2003 Ted Hughes Library Acquired by Emory
05.28.2003: Theater Emory 2003-04 Season Features Three World Premieres
04.04.2003: Emory Dance Company's "Naked" April 24-27
04.04.2003: Theater Emory's "Three Sisters" Asks Meaning of Life
03.14.2003: Contemporary Arts Emory Weekend, March 21-23
02.28.2003: Theater Emory Presents Woolf in SITI Co's "Room"
02.25.2003: Artists Discuss Religion & Art at Emory Symposium
02.07.2003: Emory Acquires Important Yeats/Gonne Letters
01.17.2003: Emory Completes $36.6 Million Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
01.14.2003: Theater Emory Presents Brave New Works II

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2002

11.15.2002: Emory 2002 Holiday Concerts
11.05.2002: Irish Poet O'Siadhail to Give Reading
10.24.2002: Emory Receives Major Gift to African-American Studies Archive
10.24.2002: Dance Company Presents Fall Concert, "Connecting Voices"
10.04.2002: Theater Emory Presents Arthur Kopit's "Discovery of America"
09.20.2002: Emory Presents Dave Brubeck Festival And Symposium
08.16.2002: Theater Emory Announces 20th Anniversary Season
05.31.2002: Concert Hall to be Named for Cherry Logan Emerson
05.02.2002: Emory's 2002-2003 Candler Series to Feature Jazz, Classical Music and Contemporary Theater and Dance
03.06.2002: Oscar for Animation? It's About Time, Says Emory Professor
03.06.2002: Emory Music Student/Contemporary Art Music Composer to Perform Three World Premieres on March 30
02.07.2002: Theater Emory Presents "Ah, Wilderness!" Feb. 15-March 2
02.04.2002: Peggy Benkeser Brings "Kitchen Chaos" World Premiere Concert to Emory Feb. 15
01.25.2002: Alvin Ailey Dance Expert, Thomas F. DeFrantz, to Give Free Lecture at Emory During Black History Month
01.10.2002: Annual Emory Jazz Festival to Feature Caswell Sisters on Feb. 1 and Big Band Night on Feb. 2

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2001

11-27-2001: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Kicks Off Yuletide Season
11-06-2001: Netherlands Chamber Choir to Perform at Emory Nov. 17
11-06-2001: Emory Pianist Performs Third Concert Nov. 16 in the Complete Series of Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
10.12.2001: Emory Dance Company Presents Fall Concert Nov. 9 & 10
10.11.2001: Atlanta Theater Community Launches Festival of Works By Playwright Naomi Wallace
10.11.2001: Media Advisory: Oxford College Dedicates Performing Arts Center Friday
10.08.2001: Theater Emory Spearheads City-Wide Naomi Wallace Festival With Production of "The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek" Oct. 24-Nov. 10
10.02.2001: Piano Virtuoso Arcadi Volodos Performs At Emory Oct. 17
08.24.2001: Arts at Emory University Fall 2001
08.02.2001: Music at Emory Announces 2001-02 Season
07.31.2001: Emory Presents Beethoven's Complete Sonatas For Piano This Season
07.23.2001: Theater Emory Hosts Readings for 2002 Olympic Arts Festival
07.12.2001: Theater Emory 2001-02 Season a Decidedly American Affair
04.04.2001: Emory Dance Company Presents Spring Dance Concert April 19-21
03.16.2001: Theater Emory Presents Biennial New Play Festival, Brave New Works
02.01.2001: Jazz Star Michael Brecker to Headline Emory Jazz Festival
01.22.2001: Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Presents Jun-Ching Lin
01.09.2001: Emory Hosts Percussion Workshop For Kids and Family Percussion Concert

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2000

11.06.2000: Renowned Violinist Pinchas Zukerman and Friends To Perform At Emory
10.27.2000: Emory Presents Bach "St. John Passion" Symposium and Concert Nov. 9 and 11
10.27.2000: Emory Dance Company Presents Fall Concert, "7 Considerations"
10.10.2000: Emory University Breaks Ground Oct. 19 On Performing Arts Center
09.28.2000: Theater Emory Tackles Shaw's Empic "Back to Methuselah" in Two Parts
09.13.2000: Music at Emory Concert Season Offers Varied Fare from Classical Stars to Contemporary World Music

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