Jonathan Dimmock

Organ at Davidson announcement
Organ at Davidson presents international concert organist Jonathan Dimmock as the final artist in its 2011-2012 Sixth series. The program starts at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1, in the Davidson College Presbyterian Church sanctuary. The event is free with donations encouraged. Read the full story

Organ at Davidson
The annual Bach Birthday Bash, in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 327th birthday, will become an audience challenge at the next Organ at Davidson concert Tuesday, March 20. Organists will playt variety of works that may or may not have been written by Bach himself. The audience will be invited to guess – Bach or merely “Bach-ian”?
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Michael Rowland

Popular local organist Michael Rowland will perform on two organs in two parts of Davidson College Presbyterian Church during the next Organ at Davidson concert on Tuesday, Feb. 21.

Mr. Rowland, the church’s associate music director and an artist associate at Davidson College, will begin his recital on the mechanical action Ott organ in DCPC’s Lingle Chapel. Then he and his audience will move down the hall into the church sanctuary, where he’ll finish the program on the Wicks organ. Read the full story

Susan Heaton Bates

As a high school organ student at Davidson College, Susan Heaton Bates fell in love with the pipe organ and was organist for Davidson United Methodist Church in the late 1960s. After a lengthy music ministry at West Market Street UMC in Greensboro, last year she became Organist and Music Associate at Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem.

Ms. Bates returns to Davidson next Tuesday night for a performance in the Organ at Davidson series at Davidson College Presbyterian Church. It’s the fourth in a seven concert series offered annually from September through May on the refurbished Wicks organ at Davidson College Presbyterian Church. Read the full story

Joseph Roenbeck

Organist Joseph Roenbeck will accompany the 1928 silent French film “The Passion of Joan of Arc” as the second artist in the 2011-12 Organ at Davidson series Tuesday, Oct. 18, at Davidson College Presbyterian Church.

The concert and film begin at 7:30 p.m. on the Wicks Organ in the church sanctuary, North Main Street and Concord Road in Davidson. Read the full story

Organist Gail Archer opens the 2011-12 Organ at Davidson series Tuesday. She'll also lead an organ master class Monday night.

By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

Ever seen “Macbeth”? The Connie Company – Davidson Community Players’ youth program – will put its own twist on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy this week in five performances over three days beginning Friday night. Looking for something more thought-provoking? Holocaust survivor Susan Cernyak-Spatz of Charlotte will talk about her suffering at the hands of the Nazi regime on Monday afternoon at Davidson College. And author Sebastian Junger, whose book “The Perfect Storm” was made into a major motion picture, will deliver a lecture — also at Davidson College — on Tuesday night. Read the full story