Category: Music
German Cabaret Artist Performs at Sweet Briar
André Hartmann, a cabaret artist and musician from Starnberg, Germany, will present a musical cabaret program at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in Memorial Chapel at Sweet Briar College. Hartmann was born in 1976 in Starnberg and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. A high school music teacher in Bavaria, he [...]
2012 Presidential Medalist is Crazy Like a Vixen
Once a year, Sweet Briar bestows upon a senior its highest honor, the Presidential Medal. Alexandra St. Pierre accepted this year’s medal from President Jo Ellen Parker on Wednesday, March 21, during the Academic Recognition Dinner. The annual event also celebrates first-year honors and dean’s list students. Speculation is typically rampant as the ritual ceremony [...]
St. Pierre to Perform Voice Recital
Alexandra St. Pierre will perform her senior voice recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 25, in the College’s Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.
Annual Gospel Fest Set for Feb. 26
Sweet Briar College will host its annual Gospel Fest at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, in Memorial Chapel. Gospel Fest is a longstanding tradition at Sweet Briar, known to draw some of the region’s finest gospel singers and choirs. It has variously been described over the years as a “feast to the ears” and a [...]
Voice Recital Promises Range — From Uplifting to Deeply Emotional
Amanda Helms will perform her senior voice recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, in Sweet Briar College’s Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Helms is majoring in English and creative writing with a minor in music. Among the songs she has selected for the recital are “Ah, Love, but [...]
2012 Fringe Festival Celebrates Arts and Landscapes
Initiated in 2008, Sweet Briar’s Fringe Festival is all about bringing people together to appreciate the arts, from the traditional and serious to the offbeat and funny. This year’s lineup boasts a colorful mix of art exhibits and performances centered on the College’s unique “landscape for learning.” The Fringe Festival will be held Thursday, Feb. [...]
How the Class of ’99 Rules in ‘The King and I’
Sarah Kingsley ’99 is performing in “The King and I” with Lyric Opera Virginia at venues in Richmond and Newport News between Jan. 20 and Jan. 29. She is cast to dance as well as sing in the chorus.Performing in the children’s chorus are Virginia Ames Tillar, age 8, and Claudia Tillar, 4, daughters of [...]
Concerts Round Out December Calendar
December has arrived, bringing with it a flurry of end-of-semester activities, including Sweet Briar student and faculty performances.The Sweet Tones, the College’s student a cappella group, will kick the holiday season into high gear with a presentation of “A Sweet Christmas” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7 in Memorial Chapel. The performance will include a [...]
‘Holiday Pops’ Warms up Christmas Lessons and Carols
The Sweet Briar Choir will perform a Holiday Pops Concert from 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. before the College’s annual Christmas Vespers service at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4 in Memorial Chapel. The pops concert program includes a jazz arrangement of “White Christmas,” and beloved favorites such as “Carol of the Bells” and “Deck the Halls,” [...]
Claremont Trio Performs at Sweet Briar
Sweet Briar College will present a free chamber music concert by the award-winning Claremont Trio at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25 in Memorial Chapel. Violinist Emily Bruskin and her twin sister Julia, a cellist, formed the trio with pianist Donna Kwong in 1999 at The Juilliard School. They are winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio [...]
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