Greg Funfgeld, Music Director & Conductor of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, speaking about the 114th Annual Bethlehem Bach Festival, May 13 & 14 and 20 & 21, 2022, featuring the Bach Choir and the Bach Festival Orchestra, Soloists & the Bel Canto Youth Chorus of the BCofB; Artist-in Residence Eliot Fisk and more.

The B Minor Mass will be streamed live online on May 21, in addition to the in-person performance at Packer Memorial Church on the Lehigh University campus. www.bach.org/

Dr. Adam Pratt, Associate Professor of History at the University of Scranton, speaking about a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities titled, "Scranton's Story; Our Nation's Story" and the third theme centering on the Indigenous History of NEPA.

There will be a lecture/discussion with Dr. Nicole Eustace of NYU, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Covered with Night" on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 5:00 pm at the Loyola Science Center on the U of S campus; & Wednesday, May 18 at 5 pm at the Albright Memorial Library in Scranton featuring Dr. Samantha Seeley of the University of Richmond, author of "Race, Removal & the Right to Remain." www.scranton.edu/scrantonstory

Bill Payn, Music Director & Conductor of the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, speaking with WVIA's Fiona Powell about the group's return to in-person performances with a spring Pops Concert featuring "Music of Queen" and pieces by Elton John & Billy Joel on May 13 & 14, 2022, at 7:30 each evening at Weber Auditorium on the campus of Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove. www.svcmusic.org/

Maureen McGuigan, Deputy Director of the Lackawanna County Department of Arts and Culture, speaking about the arts in the community and country at this point in the pandemic, and about the upcoming events supported by county grants, including a partnership for Mother's day with Artworks Gallery and Studio on May 7, 2022, at the Electric City Trolley Museum, 300 Cliff Street, Scranton, on the property of Steamtown Historical Site.

There will be a co-presentation of the ballet "Peter & the Wolf"

on June 11 at 2:00 at Covington Park with Ballet Theatre of Scranton

and the NEPA Philharmonic. For more information, it is Lackawanna

Arts and Culture on Facebook.

Dr. David Steinau, Associate Professor & Department Head of Music at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, speaking about the concert to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Cyril Stretansky, emeritus director of choral activities at Susquehanna University, on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at 7:30 pm, in Weber Chapel Auditorium. The program will feature the Faure Requiem and more. The concert is open to the public without charge or tickets. www.susqu.edu/

Beth Romanowski, founder of The Bench Project in Shavertown, PA,

speaking about the development of the concept and its expansion across the country. For information about the benches, the journaling and where to find current locations or develop a bench on your own,

www.thebenchproject.net/

Nancy Sanderson, Executive Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, speaking about the 50th anniversary season and the final Masterworks concert on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at 8 pm--an all-Tchaikovsky program conducted by Melisse Brunet at the Peoples Security Theatre at Lackawanna College in Scranton.

For more information: www.nepaphil.org/

Sophie Till, Associate Professor of Violin/Viola & Director of the String Project at Marywood University in Scranton, and Skye Steele, violinist and educator from NY & creator of "A People's History of Strings", speaking about their yearlong collaboration culminating in the String Project's Spring Gala Concert celebrating its 20th anniversary with Skye and his band on hand.

Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:30 at the Sette LaVerghetta Center on the Marywood campus. Admission is free and the public is invited.

www.marywood.edu/ www.sophietill.com/ www.skyesteele.com/

Susan Minsavage, vocalist, educator, writer and speech language pathologist, speaking about Dr. Steven Thomas, her husband, who passed away on July 12, 2020. Dr. Thomas was Professor of Music and Chair of the Division of Performing Arts at Wilkes University; conductor and music director of The Arcadia Chorale, and tenor with The Lyric Consort. There will be a memorial concert, "Celebrating Dr. Steven Thomas" on Sunday, May 1, 2022, at 4:00 pm, at St. Stephen's

Episcopal Church, 35 S. Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre. Admission is

free, but free will offerings will be accepted to support the Arcadia

Chorale's Dr. Steven Thomas Memorial Fund. www.arcadiachorale.org.

Jill Carletti, Creative Director of Harmony in the Woods in Hawley, PA, speaking about Harmony Presents and its history, in anticipation of a partnership between the Foundation for Harmony Presents and the Milford Theater to offer a program titled, "Songs of New York" created by the award-winning tenor Blake Friedman, with a narrative thread rooted in his autobiography and featuring opera arias and tunes from musical theatre that he will perform on May 7, 2022, at the Milford Theater, 114 E. Catharine Street in Milford, PA. www.themilfordtheater.com/ www.harmonyinthewoods.org/

www.blakefriedmantenor.com/