'The Arts of Spain' celebration begins Sept. 8

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (09/02/2010)(readMedia)-- The Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Elizabethtown College hosts "The Arts of Spain" Wednesday, Sept. 8, to showcase nationalism in Spanish art during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The interdisciplinary program begins at 11 a.m. in Musser Auditorium, Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, and includes music, art, poetry and drama.

With art direction by Elizabethtown College's Associate Professor of Art Patricia Ricci, the performers include Lecturer in Music Debra Ronning and Assistant Professor of Music Justin Badgerow, on piano; Assistant Professor of Music Sarah Daughtrey, mezzo-soprano; and David Cullen, adjunct faculty member, on guitar. Dr. Kurt Barnada, Associate Professor of Spanish from the Department of Modern Languages, will read.

There also will be performances by student musicians, readers and dancers.

The event, open to the public, is sponsored by The Office of the Dean of Faculty. Contact: the Office of Marketing and Communications at 717-361-1410.

Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed college with degrees in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education. The hallmarks of an Elizabethtown education are academic rigor, high expectations and intellectual curiosity. Our faculty members are teacher-scholars, pursuing their academic areas of expertise while sharing that expertise with students. For more information about Elizabethtown College, please visit our website at www.etown.edu.

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