Concert Choir Spring Concert
Concert of choral and vocal chamber musical selections by the Lynchburg College Concert Choir, under the direction of
Dr. Jong H. Kim, professor of music.
Free. No tickets required.
Small Chamber Ensemble and Handbell Concert
Lynchburg College Handbell Ensemble, Mr. F. Johnson Scott, III, director; Con Brio Woodwind Quintet, Mr. William Parrish, director; LC Clarinet Choir, Patrick Gatti, director; and ARS Nova (violin, viola, piano), Noémi Lee, director.
Free. No tickets required.
Concert - Lynchburg College Choral Union
Choral Union Spring Concert under the direction of Dr. Jong H. Kim, professor of music.
Concerto Showcase - CANCELLED due to inclement weather
Dr. Oeida M. Hatcher, associate professor of music, dean, School of Communication and the Arts, will conduct the Lynchburg College Orchestra featuring winner Alexandra M. Curinga '13 performing Dmitri Kabalevsky’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major.
Also featuring performances by Con Brio Woodwind Ensemble; Tevin Ware, tenor (runner-up); and Victoria Rinker, trumpet (honorable mention).
Holiday Fair
Enjoy holiday shopping with over 40 vendors at LC's 3rd annual holiday fair.
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Spring Thornton Guest Reader - Christopher Bakken
Christopher Bakken is the author of two books of poetry, Goat Funeral (2006) and After Greece (2001), and a culinary memoir called Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table. He also co-translated The Lions' Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios. He has been awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize in Poetry, the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and he served as a Fulbright Fellow in American Studies at the University of Bucharest. He teaches at Allegheny College.
Spring Thornton Writer-in-Residence Joshua Kryah
Joshua Kryah was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a Schaeffer Fellow in poetry. He is the author of We Are Starved (2011) and Glean (2007). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Shenandoah, among other journals. He teaches at UNLV where he is the poetry editor of Witness.
The Pajama Game
LC Theatre Department production of the musical The Pajama Game.
Workers in the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory have requested a 7 1/2 cent raise. Things get complicated when the factory hires a new superintendent to deal with the demands, and love blossoms between the head of the grievance committee and the new superintendent. Song highlights include Hey There, Steam Heat, and Hernando's Hideaway.
Feb. 28, March 1, and March 2, 7:30 p.m.; March 3, 2 p.m.
Ida Wise East Memorial Lecture in the Humanities
The “Reel” Middle Ages: Does it Matter if the Movies Get it Right? Dr. Jennifer Paxton, professor of medieval history at Georgetown University, will present a talk contrasting modern notions about medieval Britain with the reality.
Event is free and open to the public.
2012-13 John Mills Turner Lecture
Douglas A. Blackmon, 2012-2013 John Mills Turner Lecturer, will present "A Persistent Past: Reckoning with Our Racial History in the Age of Obama."
Mr. Blackmon is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, and co-executive producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary of the same name.
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