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

Thomas Warburton

Updated Sunday, Jan. 9
The Jan. 11 Organ at Davidson concert by Thomas Warburton, emeritus professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, was postponed because of winter weather. The concerrt has been rescheduled to Tuesday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Davidson College Presbyterian Church. Read the full story

Henry Lebedinksy (left) accompanies the 1922 "Nosferatu," starring Max Schreck, on Halloween at DCPC.

The keyboard artistry of Henry Lebedinsky and the powerful Wicks organ in Davidson College Presbyterian Church will offer a chilling sound track for the classic classic horror film “Nosferatu (Dracula)” on Halloween night, Sunday, Oct. 31, at 7:30 and 11 p.m. It’s the fifth year for this spine-tingling event, which is part of the Organ at Davidson series.
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Our calendar in Davidson this week is chock full of the fun and the serious, from the opening of Davidson College’s production of “Pride & Prejudice” and Friday’s Halloween march on Main Street to meetings of the Davidson Planning Board (Mon.) and Town Board (Tue.). Halloween night (Sun.) brings screenings of the silent film “Nosferatu” with organ accompaniment. And coming up at week’s end, it’s Family Weekend at Davidson College, including a Friday night concert and Saturday’s annual fall convocation. Hough High’s theater department produces “Dracula” this weekend, while local children have organized a Think Pink Dog Show and Halloween party on the Village Green Saturday. Meanwhile, sports teams have a busy schedule this week as well, from soccer and volleyball to football and field hockey.

Details about those and other events below. And see our day-by-day calendar and local movie listings at right. Read the full story