Category: Performing Arts
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.
College recognizes faculty accomplishments
Sweet Briar professors are often praised for their excellence in teaching, but their commitment goes well beyond the classroom: They are also fully engaged in their disciplines as researchers, writers and artists.
From Asia to Amherst, through time and space
There is rarely a dull moment in the choreographies of Sweet Briar professors Ella and Mark Magruder, and this year’s Fall Dance Concert is no exception. Performances take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 10 in Murchison Lane Auditorium in Babcock Fine Arts Center at Sweet Briar College.
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.
Dance professor releases CD
Professor of dance and director of Sweet Briar College’s dance program Mark Magruder has released a CD of original music compositions, “Yoga Dreams.” The album is a compilation of works he wrote and performed to use during his yoga classes.
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.
A young artists’ mecca in the making
Several arts camps are set to convene at Sweet Briar College in June and July as the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival celebrates its fifth season. For the first time, the University of Virginia will hold its renowned Young Writers Workshop on Sweet Briar’s campus.
Sweet Briar students explore teaching at R.S. Payne
At Sweet Briar, internships are a vital part of the academic experience. For the past few weeks, rising seniors Alyssa Berkeley and Jessica Murphy have been teaching at Lynchburg’s Gifted Opportunities Center at R.S. Payne Elementary School.
‘Wicked’ Broadway sound comes to the Blue Ridge
Tory Ross, who has been seen in the national tour of “Wicked” and on Broadway in “9 to 5,” will perform in a benefit concert Saturday, May 19 to support Endstation’s fifth annual Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival.
Senior follows her ‘quiet passion’
When Sierra Wright ’12 graduated from high school, her career path was clear — at least as far as her parents were concerned. They urged her to study science, so Wright enrolled in the engineering school at the University of Virginia. This weekend, the Prince William County resident is graduating from Sweet Briar College — with a degree in theater.
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