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Date: Sat, March 31st 07
Performance Time: 7:00 pm
Cover Charge: Tickets are required.
Online Ticket Sales Link: http://lenfest.wlu.edu/calendar/usso/
Performance Info/Notes: USSO with Leon BatesA favorite in Lexington, Leon Bates performs Gershwin’s jazzy Piano Concerto in F and Ravel’s snappy Piano Concerto in G.

Tickets are required.

Attention W&L Community: Tickets are free to the W&L Community. Free tickets are not available online. Please contact the Box Office, 540/458-8000, Monday - Friday, 9 - 11 a.m. or 2 - 4 p.m. The Box Office opens two hours before each performance.
Venue Info:

Directions 

 From I-81

  • Exit I-81 at exit 188b (Lexington).
  • The exit will put you on Route 60 west.
  • Continue on Route 60 west through Lexington.
  • Route 60 becomes Nelson Street in Lexington.
  • As you are about to leave Lexington, the Lenfest Center will be on your left and the parking garage will be on your right.

From I-64

  • Exit I-64 at the Lexington, Route 11 Exit.
  • Proceed south on Route 11 towards Lexington.
  • After crossing bridge, bear right to Downtown Lexington, business district.
  • Continue on Route 11 (Jefferson Street) to Route 60 (Nelson Street).
  • Turn right on to Route 60 west (Nelson Street)
  • Continue on Nelson Street. As you are about to leave Lexington, the Lenfest Center will be on your left and the parking garage will be on your right.

Parking

The W&L parking garage, directly across Nelson Street from the Lenfest Center, is the primary parking area for the Lenfest Center and is available to you, free of charge, on the evenings when performances are presented at the Center.

Enter the parking garage from Washington Street directly off of Nelson Street (Rt. 60). After parking in the garage, use the elevator to go to level L. The level is marked "Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts". The elevator will open at footbridge level allowing you to cross Nelson Street on the walkway above traffic.

The Lenfest Center appreciates your help and hopes your use of the parking garage will make your Lenfest experience safer and more enjoyable.



Artist Name: USSO with Leon Bates
Artist Website: http://www.rilearts.com/leonbates.htm
Artist Info/Notes: Leon BatesAs one of America's leading pianists, Leon Bates has earned for himself a place on the international concert circuit. His performance schedule includes dates across the United States, in Canada, Italy, France, Austria, Ireland, England as well as Africa. He is invited to perform on the major concert stages around the world and audiences and critics find his musical spirit to possess all the elements of greatness.

Mr. Bates has performed with many of the major U.S. symphonies such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Atlanta Symphony, to name a few.

In Europe, he has performed with the Vienna Symphony, the Basel Symphony, the Radio Orchestra of Dublin, the Strasbourg Symphony, and the Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, among others. Whether in recital or as a soloist with orchestra, his praises are enumerated in many different languages--but they are all in agreement on one point: Leon Bates is a major artist and one of America's best.

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