Category: Performing Arts
‘New York Voices’ features faculty talent
Ursula Kuhar, assistant professor of arts management at Sweet Briar College, will perform in a New York-themed recital at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 7, in Memorial Chapel. She will be accompanied by Sweet Briar piano instructor Anna Billias.
SBC singers boost local opera production
Last weekend, the Sweet Briar Chamber Choir performed with Lynchburg’s Opera on the James in a production of “The Magic Flute” at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Endstation premieres original play ‘In Sweet Remembrance’
Endstation Theatre Company and Sweet Briar College will host a reading of “In Sweet Remembrance” by playwright Tearrance A. Chisholm at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, in Pannell Gallery. A reception follows the event, which is free and open to the public.
‘Godot’ due on Sweet Briar stage
Samuel Beckett’s famously spare language and staging in “Waiting for Godot” leaves much to the viewer’s own interpretation. And that’s how J.T. Marlowe, who is guest-directing Sweet Briar Theatre’s production of the play, wants to keep it.
Senior Dance Concert blurs reality and fantasy
Jessica Murphy and Sarah Fletcher will share the spotlight during Sweet Briar College’s Senior Dance Concert, “Blurs,” at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, and Saturday, Feb. 23, in the Upper Dance Studio in Babcock Fine Arts Center.
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.
BLUR adds music and technical theater
Sweet Briar College is taking applications for the third annual Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists, known as BLUR, which will be held June 16 through July 7 on its campus. For the first time, the camp will offer music and technical theater, in addition to theater, creative writing and visual arts.
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.
Follow Us!