Greetings!
WDIY's Fall Membership Drive has officially passed the half-way point! We are now looking towards wrapping up the drive this week. A heartfelt thank you is extended to our members who have given so far.
Remember that the partnership between Valley National Financial Advisors and Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley is providing 21 meals to those in need for every $100 raised by WDIY. So far, WDIY member donations have resulted in
9,600 meals
that will distributed to those in need by Second Harvest! In these next few days as we close out the drive, let's strive to make that number even higher.
More information is available here.
With thanks,
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Shamus McGroggan
Membership & Development Manager
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Dala with the Young Novelists
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* Thursday, October 18
* 8 pm
* Jim Thorpe, PA
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Juno nominees and winners of the 2010 Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year, Amanda Walther and Sheila Carabine of Dala write and sing in harmony, best described as angelic. Drawing upon influences like The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Dala writes songs that are both catchy and insightful. Amanda’s ethereal soprano voice blends seamlessly with Sheila’s velvety alto, creating the lush harmonies that have become their trademark.
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Steve Coleman and Five Elements
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* Friday, October 19
* 8 pm
* Easton, PA
For saxophonist Steve Coleman, music is not a separate discipline from any other activity created by people, but a form of energy, a holistic part of the entire vibratory spectrum, from micro to macro. This MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award-winner’s unconstrained and preconceived compositional techniques start with the great African American spontaneous composers, and his global exploration of how humans, animals, and plants communicate gives his refined tonal progressions and disciplined rhythmic structures a distinctive conversational flow. With Five Elements, Steve Coleman takes the expressive possibilities of improvisation to uncharted, intriguing new territory.
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Sara Caswell Quartet
Part of Miller Symphony Hall's
Jazz Upstairs Series
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* Friday, October 19
* 7:30 pm
* Allentown, PA
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2018 Grammy Nominee Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to the late David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and former Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility intertwined with her gift for lyricism continue to attract growing attention to her artistry as a jazz soloist, sideman, and teacher.
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LU Philharmonic:
The Romantic Orchestra
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* Friday, October 19
* Saturday, October 20
* 8 pm
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Zoellner
Arts Center, Lehigh University
* Bethlehem, PA
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Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre with soloist Michael Jorgensen, and Bizet’s popular Carmen Suite. Eugene Albulescu, director.
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JazzReach's Stolen Moments: The First 100 Years of Jazz
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* Saturday, October 20
* 2 pm
* Easton, PA
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JazzReach’s critically acclaimed Metta Quintet introduces audiences of all ages to the ever-changing, vital, and truly American art form of jazz.
Stolen Moments: The First 100 Years of Jazz
is an interactive, multimedia program that illuminates the rich history of jazz and the names, faces, and stories of its many masters—Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, and Marsalis among them. Underscoring the interplay between the jazz movement and the evolution of American culture throughout the 20th century, the show highlights the myriad ways that jazz has inspired and influenced multiple genres of music.
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6:30 - 7 pm
Host: Charles James
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Host Charles James talks with
Philadelphia Film Festival
artistic director
Michael Lerman
about the 100 feature films being shown this year. The festival runs October 18-28 on 3 to 4 screens for 11 hours each day. Highlights of the festival, now in its 27th year, will be discussed.
Paul Willistein of the
Lehigh Valley Press
reviews this
musical romantic drama film produced and directed by Bradley Cooper (in his directorial debut) starring Cooper, Lady Gaga, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, and Sam Elliott.
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9 - 11 pm
Host: Rob Reagan
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Host Rob Reagan highlights a couple of
upcoming concerts in the Lehigh Valley: saxophonist
Steve Coleman and
Five Elements
at the Williams Center at Lafayette College, (Friday, October 19) and violinist
Sara Caswell
with her Quartet at Miller Symphony Hall's Jazz Upstairs (Friday, October 19).
An interview with
Sara Caswell
will be featured during the first hour of the program.
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6 -7 pm
Host: Stephen Smith
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WDIY presents a special broadcast of
Educate
from American Public Media, titled
'Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read?'
This one-hour national documentary and podcast program by Emily Hanford and the Educate team focuses on
Bethlehem public schools and the difficulty they face with teaching children.
Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators around the country don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids are being set-up to fail.
This edition of
Educate
puts Bethlehem public schools in the spotlight as they confront and try to turn around a startlingly low proficiency on the state reading test.
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Dina Hall and Dave Fry return for another special Membership Drive edition of Live from Godfreys featuring live sets from the Godfreys archives. Plus plenty of studio cuts of Godfrey’s artists past, present, and future.
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6 - 7 pm
Host: Laurie Siebert, CPA, CFP
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, AEP
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Laurie Siebert, CPA, CFP®, AEP® and her guest, Attorney
Dennis Pappas
from the Law Offices of Vasiliadis Pappas Associates discuss:
“Essential components of an estate plan.”
Phone lines will be open during the program for questions and donations to the Fall Membership Drive at 610-758-8810. Questions can be submitted early at
yourfinancialchoices.com
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6 - 7 pm
Host: Sally Handlon
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The Lehigh Valley and tourism has been a long term passion for
Mike Stershic
, president of
Discover Lehigh Valley
. In December Mike will be retiring from this position. Listen in as he shares both his career and vision with host Sally Handlon.
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11 pm - 1 am
Host: Bill Fox
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Bill Fox continues the month-long Special Focus on
Robert Carty
. The Featured CD at Midnight will be
"The Living"
on Deep
Sky Music. You will also hear music by
Cosmic Ground.
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11 pm - 12 am
Hosts: Matt Molchany & Shamus McGroggan
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Allentown noise rock/punk band
Tile
perform a Rooftop Session recorded on top of the historic Cigar Factory building; plus, we listen to a mixtape from Poconos pro-wrestling-themed pop-punk band
Cheap Pop.
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