Category: Music
Gospel Fest features African drums, Endstation
Sweet Briar College is celebrating Black History Month with its annual Gospel Fest at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, in Memorial Chapel.
Trip to Trinidad pans out for music professor
On Dec. 28, visiting assistant professor of music and percussionist Jeffrey Jones is headed to Trinidad to participate in the 2013 Panorama competition for steel orchestras.
College presents ‘ASIA: An Evening of Performance’
Sweet Briar College’s Division of Performing Arts will present “ASIA: An Evening of Performance” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, in Pannell Gallery. The event takes place in conjunction with the art exhibition “ASIA,” which opened Sept. 14 and runs until Dec. 14.
Renovation gift honors music professor
Visitors to Babcock 127 will find the space much improved for teaching, rehearsing and performing thanks — in a roundabout way — to music professor and pianist Rebecca McCord.
Sweet Briar performs ‘The King and I’
Sweet Briar College’s Division of Performing Arts will present its second musical, “The King and I,” at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 18-20, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21 in Babcock’s Murchison Lane Auditorium.
Syrian jazz comes to Sweet Briar
Sweet Briar College will present “Kinan Azmeh’s CityBand” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8 in Memorial Chapel. The concert is part of the College’s 2012-13 Babcock Season.
Sweet Briar Choir and Orchestra Present Spring Concerts
At Sweet Briar College, the month of April promises to end on a musical note, with the Spring Choir Concert taking place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 23, in Memorial Chapel, followed by the Spring Chamber Orchestra performance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, also in the chapel. Both events are free and open to [...]
Sweet Briar Celebrates 26th Annual Arts Day
The 26th annual Arts Day will be held at Sweet Briar College on the morning of Friday, April 20. Shelbie Filson, who is organizing this year’s event, says the College is expecting 314 Amherst County fifth-grade students. Before attending workshops across campus, the students will eat breakfast in Prothro Dining Hall beginning at 9:15 a.m. [...]
‘And Then Mozart Stole It’: André Hartmann Performs the History of Music
Before his show Wednesday night at Sweet Briar, German cabaret artist André Hartmann greets each attendee individually. Having performed in front of 200 people in Washington, D.C., the day before, the 35-year-old Bavarian clearly appreciates the College’s intimacy. “The sense of community here is wonderful,” he says, and he’s not just talking about Sweet Briar. [...]
Senior Hopes Joy of Singing is Contagious
Stacy Ludington will perform a senior voice recital at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 7, in Sweet Briar College’s Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Ludington, a coloratura soprano, has prepared a program featuring several operatic arias as well as some folk tunes. One of her favorites arias, “Písen Rusalky o [...]
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