Posted on 08 February 2012.
Davidson Community Players will hold open auditions this Sunday and Monday, Feb. 12-13, for its June 2012 production of the Gershwin classic “Crazy for You.”
Auditions will be Sunday at 2 p.m. and Monday at 7 p.m., at Davidson Community Players’ Armour Street Theatre, 307 Armour St., Davidson. Callbacks will be Tuesday, Feb. 14, invitation only. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 February 2012.
The Arts & Science Council (ASC) will hold a community meeting in Cornelius Wednesday night to get citizens involved in defining a cultural vision for Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Community members are invited to attend the meeting and share ideas and opinions for ASC’s next “cultural action plan.” Read the full story
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Posted on 01 February 2012.
Ragtime pianist Ethan Uslan plays Sunday at St. Alban's. Listen to an audio interview below.
Ethan Uslan was trained as a classical pianist, but that all changed when he ran into ragtime.
“When I discovered the music of the 1920s, it didn’t really seem that old fashioned to me in comparison. In fact, I think it sounds pretty fresh and hip,” the Charlotte-based Mr. Uslan said the other day.
Listen to an audio interview and clips of Mr. Uslan below.
Mr. Uslan will be featured in the next Music @ St. Alban’s concert this Sunday, Feb. 5, when he plays a two-part program: a concert of syncopated music from the jazz age, followed by a live accompaniment to Buster Keaton’s 1924 silent film “Sherlock Junior.”
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Posted on 26 January 2012.
Davidson College will host lectures on ethics, foreign policy and food, the college’s Gamut Dance Company will perform two shows and productions of “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “Metamorphoses” will appear on the Duke Family Performance Hall stage in the coming weeks. Davidson’s February public events calendar also includes the 6th Annual Apocalypse Greek Step Show, a concert by fiddler Jon Singleton and a dedication of the solar panels installed on the Baker Sports Complex roof. Here’s the calendar: Read the full story
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Posted on 26 January 2012.
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue will perform at Lake Forest Church in Huntersville Saturday.
A blues concert and service in Huntersville with Mike Farris and a service in Davidson led by best-selling author Donald Miller this weekend will kick off a four-week message series called “Hope in a House of Blues” at the two campuses of Lake Forest Church. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 January 2012.
Anna Wittstruck
Davidson College Music Department invites the public to a Concert Series performance by cellist Anna Wittstruck on Sunday afternoon, January 29. The concert begins at 3 p.m. in Tyler-Tallman Hall of the Sloan Music Center.
Wittstruck will be accompanied by Davidson College pianist Cynthia Lawing in a performance of three works — 1.) Beethoven’s 7 Variations in E-flat Major on “Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen” from Die Zauberflote by Mozart for Cello and Piano (composed 1801) 2.) Poulenc’s Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, op. 143 (composed 1948), and 3.) Shostakovich’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, op. 40 (composed in 1934).
Ms. Wittstruck, a native of Asheville and granddaughter of Bill and Mary Vinson of Davidson, is currently completing a PhD in musicology at Stanford University. She has performed as a soloist with the Charlotte and Hendersonville Symphonies, and appeared as a soloist with the Stanford Philharmonia this past fall.
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