Welcome to our 22nd installment of Weis Center Sessions. Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. This week, we feature Flora and the Gleaners, featuring Flora Eyster-Newburgh on flute, Mark Doncheski on vocals and acoustic guitar and Mary Hermann on acoustic upright bass. Flora shared that nine members of her family attended Bucknell over the decades. Her great uncle, botanist Dr. William Eyster, was a professor at Bucknell and he was the first Burpee partner growing at Bucknell grounds and on the Eyster family farm in Sunbury, PA where they coordinated hybrid […]

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The Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University will host a virtual holiday performance of Manual Cinema’s A Christmas Carol on: Saturday, December 5, 8 p.m. Sunday, December 13, 4 p.m. Thursday, December 17, 8 p.m. The runtime for the performance is one hour and is suggested for ages 5+. The performance is sponsored, in part, by Martha and Alan Barrick and Coldwell Banker Penn One Real Estate. In this world premiere online event created for audiences of all ages, interdisciplinary performance collective Manual Cinema takes on Charles Dickens’ holiday classic with a visually inventive adaptation made to […]

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Welcome to our 21st installment of Weis Center Sessions. Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. This week, we feature Bucknell Music Professor Paul J. Botelho performing a vocal improvisation. Praised for his “vocal virtuosity,” Azorean-American composer/performer Paul J. Botelho performs worldwide. His work includes acoustic and electro-acoustic music, vocal improvisation, multimedia installation pieces, visual art works, and one-act operas. As a countertenor, he performs vocally primarily through extended technique and incorporates the voice into much of his music. His recent work explores vocal responses to composed and prerecorded sonic environments and […]

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Welcome to our 20th installment of Weis Center Sessions. Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. This week, we feature Bucknell student Ryan Hill ’24 performing the piece “Waltz for Debby” on piano. Ryan is from Bethlehem, PA. Ryan is a music education major with a concentration in piano and is involved with the jazz band, improv club, theatre program, and Rooke Chapel singers at the university. He says, “Waltz for Debby is one of my favorite jazz charts, and in my opinion has a beautiful piano solo. There is a lot […]

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Welcome to our 19th installment of Weis Center Sessions. Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today we feature Bucknell student Nora Kamerow ’21 as she reads three original poems related to the topic of “Defining Beauty.” Nora’s poems are: Norma Jeane, kallos/beauty, and Fatal Rigidity. Nora is from State College, PA and is studying French, English and Creative Writing. Recorded at and produced by the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University. Enjoy! #WeisCenterSessions

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Welcome to our 18th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the BucknellU University community. Today we feature Carl Kirby on guitar and Steve Catania on mandolin performing “Bossa Dorado.” Carl Kirby (guitar) is a Professor in the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences. Steve Catania (mandolin) has produced instruments such as gourdolins, dulcimers, tongue drums, gourd kalimbas, and his invention Catpaws, a type of wooden spoon percussion instrument with a more civilized sound than metal spoons. Although Carl and Steve have played a lot of music together in numerous jam […]

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Welcome to our 17th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today we feature Bucknell student Chiara Evans ’21. Chiara is a senior biology major with a dance minor from Natick, Massachusetts. Chiara is a biology Teaching Assistant, an arts merit scholar for dance, a member of the Bucknell Dance Company, a participant in the University Gamelan, and an employee of the Campus Box Office. After graduation, Chiara plans to apply to medical school. Chiara has been dancing since she was four (mostly ballet), and became interested […]

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Welcome to our 16th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today we feature guitarist Ben Feuerstein performing a John Mayer cover “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room.” Ben is a 10th grader at Lewisburg Area High School. He is a student at the Uptown Music Collective where he has studied for the past year and a half. His current musical interests range from Yngwie Malmsteen to John Mayer. He says, “I’m trying to soak in as much guitar playing knowledge as possible. When I’m not playing the guitar […]

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Welcome to our 15th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today we feature Jim Van Fleet performing “Mo Ghile Mear” or “My Gallant Hero” on the uilleann pipes. Jim Van Fleet has been the librarian for science and engineering resources, in the Bertrand Library at Bucknell University, for thirty years. His interest in Irish traditional music pre-dates his library career. The uilleann pipes are a bagpipe design unique to lreland; a bellows provides air to the seven different cane reeds of the chanter, drones, and keyed […]

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Welcome to our 14th installment of Weis Center Sessions! Each Friday, we release a video that features a member of the Bucknell University community. Today we feature Bucknell student Quentin Andrews ’24 as he recites an original work. Quentin is a first year Bucknell student (Class of 2024) from Washington, DC. He is a POSSE scholar currently pursuing a double major in economics and statistics. He enjoys writing poetry and has performed multiple times with one appearance at the Kennedy Center. He is a member of the T.E.A.M. program and enjoys bike riding and playing basketball on campus. Recorded at […]

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