Piccolo Spoleto Stelle Di Domani Theatre Series

A variety of entertaining performances that feature the Stars of the Department of Theatre at the College of Charleston School of the Arts: 

WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE - A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son’s remains which were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the Women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. Government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane’s wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim’s families. The Women of Lockerbie is loosely inspired by a true story, although the characters and situations in the play are purely fictional. Written by Deborah Brevoort, the play is described as a poetic drama about the triumph of love over hate. [more info and tickets]

GOD OF CARNAGE - By Yasmina Reza, this piece is drenched in conflict, immaturity, and awkward circumstances. Carnage is a “dark” comedy about two adult couples meeting with each other to discuss a dispute between their children. This play is about how “infantile” someone can become when defending themselves, or others. [more info and tickets]

UNDER THE LIGHTS - Back for the seventh year, this Piccolo favorite highlights original student works. A series of 10-minute plays, Under the Lights features winners of the Franklin B. Ashley Playwriting and the Todd McNerney Student Playwriting Awards. Join us for an evening celebrating the voices and ideas of the next generation of writers. [more info and tickets]

SPARK - A free staged reading of the 2013 Todd McNerney Play writing Competition winner, Spark by Caridad Svich. Caught in the aftermath of war, three sisters face poverty and trauma, and must find a way to carry on. This play, attributed to US veterans, employs faith, love, war and healing to discover the ultimate strength of family. [more info and tickets]

BUNKER 13 - Bunker 13 is an improvised comedy revolving around five soldiers in the Vietnam War. As Sarge, Joker, Rhino, Mick and “Z” rest and refit in their bunker the audience gains an insight into their hopes, fears and experiences through hilarious improvised dialogue, flashbacks and trips “downrange” into the jungle. [more info and tickets]

THE PINK COLLAR COMEDY TOUR - The Pink Collar Comedy Tour returns! Don’t miss Erin Judge, Abbi Crutchfield, Carrie Gravenson and CofC alum Kaytlin Bailey as they bring their cutting edge, hilarious stand-up comedy back to Charleston. They debuted here last year and have since traveled to more than a dozen cities, bringing laughter and fun to audiences all across the U.S. Hang onto your day job and enjoy a night of hilarious, world class comedy with the women of Pink Collar! [more info and tickets]

LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC – Piccolo veterans, the Collective Collaborative Players (Stelle di Domani ’10 and ’12) return with their production of Arlene Hutton’s charming and heart–tugging, The Last Train to Nibroc (previously performed at PS in 2000). The story of two young people, Raleigh and May, who meet on a train returning to the mountains of Kentucky, Nibroc explores with grace, wit, and humor the development of their relationship against the backdrop of the turbulent 1940s. [more info and tickets]

MAD GRAVITY – A free staged reading of the 2013 Todd McNerney National Play writing Competition runner-up, Mad Gravity, by William Missouri Downs. Mad Gravity takes us to a home where every conversation is a performance and an attempt to create “reality theatre.”  While two Dada performers host their conservative guests in their home/theatre, the performance gets eerie when they find out an astronomical-sized problem is heading their way. [more info and tickets]

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Piccolo Spoleto Young Artists Series

The College of Charleston School of the Arts is excited to announce this year’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival Young Artists Series. The series features some of the College’s most accomplished music students and alumni. Tickets are $11 and available at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival Box Office 1-(866)-811-4111 or online. All concerts take place at 12:00 noon in the College’s Recital Hall in the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip Street, except for May 27 at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul, 126 Coming St.

SCHEDULE:

Saturday, May 25 – Outstanding Seniors Sing! [buy tickets]
Ashley Fabian – Purcell–We Sing to Him, Sweeter than Roses; Handel–La Farfalletta; Beach-Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Cat Richmond – Brahms–Geheimnis, Jucche!, Serenade, Vergebliches Ständchen
Kori Miller – Schubert-Gretchen am Spinnrade, Wanderer’s Nachtlied; Vaughan Williams–Silent Noon, Love’s Last Gift
Jordan Boyd – Copland–Simple Gifts, Little Horses, At the River (Old American songs)

Monday, May 27 – College of Charleston Concert Choir [buy tickets]
Conducted by Robert Taylor. This concert takes place at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul, 126 Coming St.

Britten-Jubilate Deo, Festival Te Deum
Brahms-Warum ist das Licht gegeben
Tormis-Helletused
Esenwalds-O Salutaris Hotias, Northern Lights
Johann Michael Bach-Sei lieber tag willkommen
Robert Decormier,arranger-Let Me Fly
W.C. Handy/arr. Hall Johnson-St. Louis Blues

Tuesday, May 28 - Strings Attached!  [buy tickets]
Corelli – Trio Sonata in d minor, Op. 3, No. 5
Jordan Elum and Zoe Whittaker, violins;
Zachary Litchfield, cello; Martin Dawson, harpsichord

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) – Navarra (Danza espagnole), Op. 33 for two violins and piano
Jordan Elum and Henry Cain-violins

Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), Op. 20, No. 1

Rachel Yi, violin, and Chee-Hang See, piano

Ysaye – Solo Sonata No. 6 in E major, Op. 27 for violin 
Yuhong Tu, violin
Beethoven (1770-1827) – Sonata in A major, Op. 69
Allegro, ma non tanto
Scherzo, in A minor
Adagio cantabile – Allegro
Vivace
Unusdian Errandonea, cello, and Chee-Hang See, piano

Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 2 in a minor, 1st movement-Adagio, Allegro

Yuhong Tu and Jordan Elum, violins; Antonio Alvarado, viola; Shelby Bowden, cello

Wednesday, May 29 - Piano Recital by Diego Suarez  [buy tickets]
Bach-Busoni-Chaconne
Schumann-Fantasie
Brahms- Variations on a Theme of Paganini

Thursday, May 30 – Beethoven and Chopin  [buy tickets]
Yutong Tu, violin & Chee-Hang See, piano – Beethoven-Sonata for violin and piano in c minor
Emily Tran, piano – Chopin-Scherzo in C sharp minor
Bach-Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
Matthew Griswold, piano – Chopin-Ballade in G minor

Friday, May 31 - A French Affair!  [buy tickets]
Nathan Matticks – Duparc-Phydilé, Extase, Chanson Triste
Ashley Fabian – Debussy-Quatres Chansons de Jeunesse (Pantomime, Claire de lune, Pierrot, Apparition)
Jordan Boyd – Poulenc- Le Bestiaire (Le dromadaire, La chevre du thibet, La sauterelle, Le dauphin, L’ecrevisse, Le carpe
Clare Elich – Debussy-Fleur des Bles; Gounod-Ce que je suis sans toi
Emily Tran, piano – Debussy-Claire de lune
Kori Miller – Debussy-Beau Soir, Mandoline; Liszt-Oh, quand je dors

Saturday, June 1 - College of Charleston Opera Scenes  [buy tickets]
Excerpts from recent productions of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Shakespeare revue Brush Up Your Shakespeare, plus some other surprises

Monday, June 3 – Songfest!  [buy tickets]
Joseph Ford – Schumann-Ich grolle nicht, Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen; Obradors-Del cabello mas sutil; Rorem-The Lordly Hudson
Laura Owens – Charles-When I Have Sung My Songs to You; Bononcini-Per la gloria d’adorarvi; Schubert-Seligkeit
Samantha Mazzola – Brahms-Vergebliches Ständchen; Rachmaninoff- К детям (K detyam)To the Children; Duke-Last Word of a Bluebird
Clare Elich – Debussy-Fleur des Bles; Schumann-Widmung; Hoiby-Where the Music Comes From
Cherise Sickles – Bellini-Ma rendi pur contento; Schubert-Wanderer’s Nachtlied; Della Joio-How do I love Thee
Savannah Shelby – R. Strauss-Ich trage meine Minne; Berlioz-Villanelle (Les Nuits d-Été); Vaughan Williams – Silent Noon

Tuesday, June 4 - College of Charleston Jazz Combo  [buy tickets]
Jazz classics and original compositions – Andy Childs-saxophone, Gary “Trey” Cooper-piano, Brett Belanger-bass, Jon Peace-drums

Wednesday, June 5 - Violin/Guitar/Cello/Piano  [buy tickets]
Francois Couperin (1688-1733) – Duo for two cellos
Vivement
Agreablement
Sarabande
Chaconne
legere
Gayment
Unusdian Errandonea and Shelby Bowden, cellists

Luigi Legnani (1790-1877) – Fantasia
Ulyana Machneva, guitar

Johannes Brahms – Sonata for Viola and Piano
Antonio Alvarado, viola, and Chee-Hang See, piano

Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) – Sonata Concertata in A major, op 61
Allegro spiritoso
Adagio assai espressivo
Rondeau
Yuhong Tu, violin and Gregory Guay, classical guitar

Astor Piazzola (1921-1992) – History of Tango
Yuhong Tu, violin, and Gregory Guay, classical guitar

Thursday, June 6 – Piano Recital by Matthew Griswold  [buy tickets]

Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847
Mozart - Sonata in C Major, K. 330-Allegro
Rachmaninoff – Three Preludes
Scriabin – Sonata in G sharp minor, Op. 19, No. 2-Andante, Presto
Griswold – Five Preludes
Chopin – Étude in G Flat major, Op. 10, No. 5; Ballade in G minor, Op. 23, No. 1

Friday, June 7 - Tan and See Piano Duo  [buy tickets]
Amy Tan & Chee-Hang See, pianos

Music for One Piano Four Hands and Two Pianos:
Milhaud-Leboeuf sure le toit (The Ox on the Roof)
Guastavino-Tres Romances Argentinos (Las Niñas, Muchacho Jujeño, Baile)
Liszt-Réminiscenses de Don Juan

Saturday, June 8 – College of Charleston Opera – Arias and Broadway Songs  [buy tickets]

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2012-13 School of the Arts Awards

The School of the Arts celebrates the accomplishments of all of its graduates. The School will honor the achievements of a select group of students who have demonstrated excellence in their respective disciplines. The Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 10 will recognize those who have set a standard for their peers as well as those who will follow in their footsteps. The event will begin with a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. in the lobby of the Simons Center for the Arts, followed by the ceremony at 9 a.m. in the Recital Hall. (54 St. Philip Street)

The School will also recognize alumni who have made significant professional and personal contributions to their communities since graduating from the College of Charleston. These alumni are leaders in the arts, business, philanthropy and other areas who honed their skills through the study of the arts at the College and now share their talents and their resources with others.

Alumni Award of Achievement
Christie Will Wolf ’99
Jill Hooper ’94
Alumni Award for Philanthropy
Lily Mortimer ’12
Alumni Award for Service
Eunjoo Yun ’95
Young Alumni Award
David Lee Nelson ’00
Brooke Falk Permenter ’06
ART HISTORY
Departmental Honors
Deborah Florence Berg
Sarah Jane Hyde
Sara Frances Levin
Miriam Sarah Nicholson
ARTS MANAGEMENT
Departmental Honors
Chloe Cunagin
Aline Dick
Chloe Gilstrap
Chelsea Michael
Jennifer Popper
Alicia Raimann
Hannah Shepard
Outstanding Student Award
Chloe Cunagin
Casey Frails
Shelby Hintz
Alizay Khan
Jennifer Popper
Angeline Schoonover
Julie Jett Arts Management Citizenship Award
Alizay Khan
Sotheby’s Institute of Art, College of Charleston Summer Study Awards
Chelsea Michael
Megan Schaeffer
HISTORIC PRESERVATION & COMMUNITY PLANNING
Departmental Honors
Deborah Florence Berg
Sara Frances Levin
Emily Ann Soyka
Outstanding Student Award
Sara Frances Levin
MUSIC
Departmental Honors
Brian Arne
Jordan Boyd
John “Andy” Childs
Martin Dawson
Meghan Henson
Emmalee Hinson
Kirsten Onken
Paul Runyon
Stephanie Schecter
Outstanding Student Award
Brian Arne
Jordan Boyd
Gary “Trey” Cooper
Martin Dawson
Ashley Fabian
Emmalee Hinson
Jessica Kori Miller
Paul Runyon
Mary Stewart Allan Award for Violin
Zoe Whittaker
Marguerite Elfe Erckman Vocal Award
Jordan Boyd
Ashley Fabian
Jessica Kori Miller
The Melvin H. & Virginia Peacock Goodwin Award for Instrumental Performance
Robbie Chan
Julian Hayes and Clifford Milton Award for Excellence in Strings
Unusdian Errandonea
Edwin Davis Peacock Award for Excellence in Piano
Diego Suarez
Sue Simons Wallace Award for Excellence in Music
Martin Dawson
Chelsea Loew
Artist Certificate Recipients
Gregory Guay, Guitar
Ulyana Machneva, Guitar
Yuhong Tu, Violin
Pedro Uceda, Piano
STUDIO ART
Departmental Honors
Elizabeth Collins
Chloe Gilstrap
Sarah Green
Eliza Griffin
Ansley Jones
Crystal King
Chelsea Michael
Tiffany Nichols
Jackie Pennoyer
Helen Phan
Christina Rodino
Erin Skinner
Sophie Treppendahl
Outstanding Student Award
Joshua Beckman
Sarah Davis
Adam Eddy
Rachel Ekdahl
Kathleen Hansen
Alizay Khan
Kevin McLean
Joseph Nelson
Hanna Reed
Kathleen Saunders
Anastasia Timina
The Artists and Craftsman Award
Christina Rodino
The Laura M. Bragg Memorial Award
Adam Eddy
The Corrie McCallum Award for Printmaking
Alizay Khan
The Seltzer Prize in Studio Art
Chloe Gilstrap
The Seltzer Prize for Young Contemporaries
Sage Graham
The Tyzack Prize
Kevin McLean
Charleston Fine Art Dealer Award
Mary Koch
THEATRE AND DANCE
Departmental Honors
Kacie Friedman
Victor Imko
Steven Moskos
Alanda Parker
John Prevost
Nicholas Smith
Anna Stephenson
Outstanding Student Award
Meg Buckner
Austin Cantrell
Jess Dick
Brenna McNamara
Franklin B. Ashley Playwriting Award
Peter Spearman
Center Stage Award
Corinne Williams
Maria Alicia Elfe Award for Theatre
Alanda Parker
Faculty Award of Merit – Theatre Faculty Award
William Klein
Brenna McNamara
Shelby North
Alanda Parker
Claire Sparks
Future Professionals Award – Performance
Haley Barfield
Future Professionals Award – Production
Alanda Parker
Future Teacher Award
Ashley Greene
Mary Jollensten Scholar
Adriana Boyd
Arthur McDonald Award for Theatre
Victor Imko
Todd McNerney Playwriting Award
Edward Precht
Valerie Morris Award for an Outstanding Performance
by an Actor or an Actress in a Play
Claire Sparks
The John Olbrych Prize for Excellence in Design
Austin Cantrell, Theatre
Alexia Sosa, Dance
Outstanding Dance Ambassador
Tim Brown
Emmett Robinson Scholar
Corinne Williams
The Seltzer Prize in Theatre
Austin Cantrell
The Stelle Award
Carrie Zollinger
Transfer Student Academic Achievement Award
John C. Prevost
AWARDS OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
College of Charleston Awards
Cistern Award – This award recognizes senior students who have been motivated and engaged workers or members of an organization. These individuals are not necessarily the ones who hold executive roles (president, executive member or other officer), but they are leaders because of what they do for the organization and the College community.
Gregory Mangieri, Theatre
Brenna McNamara, Theatre
ExCEL Awards (Excellence in Collegiate Education and Leadership Awards) – This award recognizes a student for his or her achievements at the College. The recipient represents the positive attributes of a student leader, and the award recognizes the recipient for his or her continued contributions to the campus and the broader community.
Student of the Year, School of the Arts • Grace Musser, Studio Art
Leadership Certificate Program – The Leadership Certificate Program is a customized experience that culminates in the completion of a personal Leadership Portfolio.
Zach Aaron, Arts Management
Brenna McNamara, Theatre
Ted Stern Cup – The Ted Stern Cup honors a member of the senior class of the College of Charleston who has most faithfully served the interests and ideals of the College and who by character and influence has best exemplified the ideals and qualities of Theodore S. Stern (1912-2013), both in the College and the community. Stern was the sixteenth President of the College of Charleston and an Emeritus member of the School of the Arts Council.
Brenna McNamara, Theatre
Regional and National Awards
Kennedy Center New Play Dramaturgy/MFA Playwrights’ Workshop Fellowship
Cara Beth Heath, Theatre minor
Palmetto State Writing Center Association Statewide Award for Logo Design
Katie Hetrick, Arts Management with minors in Studio Art and Hospitality and Tourism
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Spoleto Sneak Preview 2013

The College of Charleston Friends of the School of the Arts will host a sneak preview of the Spoleto Festival USA and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. This hour-long event will be presented by music professors Edward Hart and Robert Taylor, theatre professor Todd McNerney, and director of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Mark Sloan. The lecture will highlight various, must-see arts events, as well as give a brief history of both Festivals. The presentation will take place Monday, May 13, 2013 at 6 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip Street. Admission is free and seating is limited. A reception will follow the event.

The School of the Arts has a long-standing relationship with the Spoleto USA and Piccolo Spoleto Festivals. For many years, School of the Arts faculty have taught specialized Spoleto classes at the College of Charleston, introducing the arts to students in conjunction with the Festivals’ performances. Hart and Taylor have performed, or had their original compositions performed, for Piccolo Spoleto on numerous occasions. McNerney has served as Theatre Coordinator for Piccolo Spoleto for over a decade and currently coordinates the Stelle di Domani Series. The Halsey Institute has coordinated exhibitions with both Festivals; this year’s exhibit, part of Spoleto Festival USA, is Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art by Long-Bin Chen.

Additionally, School of the Arts faculty, students and alumni perform in Festival concerts and productions every year, including the Department of Music’s own Young Artists Series and the Department of Theatre and Dance’s Stelle di Domani Series, both of which involve award-winning students performing alongside well-established guests and alumni.

The Friends of the School of the Arts promotes and supports the School of the Arts’ departments and programs, and also strengthens the relationships amongst the School, the College, the community, and other academic and cultural groups.

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Free Concert Choir Performance

The nationally renowned College of Charleston Concert Choir will present its spring concert on Monday, April 22 at 8 p.m., at Grace Episcopal Church (98 Wentworth St.). The repertoire will include motets by Benjamin Britten and Morten Lauridsen celebrating their centennial and 70th birthdays, respectively; music of the Baltic nations by Veljo Tormis and Eriks Esenvalds; and Johannes Brahms’ great unaccompanied masterpiece Warum ist das licht gegeben. 
 
This performance, part of the Monday Night Concert Series, is free to the public courtesy of The Harry and Reba Huge Foundation.

The concert also celebrates the contributions to the choral program by one of the largest and finest senior classes in the choral area’s history. Please come and support these students!
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Projection Design for Theatre

Have you heard of Video Projection Mapping?
If not, watch this - http://vimeo.com/45569479 .

Learn how to set up your own equipment (e.g., for gaming, or for art) at a presentation by Jared LeClaire, who will demonstrate the software and equipment used by the modern projection designer.

Recognizing that projections and video design have become an increasingly prominent element in stage design, the Department of Theatre and Dance & the Department of Computer Science: Computing in the Arts have partnered to bring this guest to campus.

LeClaire studied scenic design and projection design at the University of West Georgia.  His work has been recognized at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and he was invited to participate in the Stagecraft Institute in Las Vegas.

Projection Design for the Theatre
Jared LeClaire, University of West Georgia
Monday, April 15th at 2:00 PM
Emmett Robinson Theatre, Simons Center for the Arts, 1st Floor
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R We Who R We Steals Music.

R We Who R WeThe Computing in the Arts program will host a lecture by R WE WHO R WE (Ted Hearne and Philip White), which will outline the creative process and concerns relating to the artists’ appropriating, rearranging and orchestrating popular music for homemade and hacked hardware, software and voice. This FREE event will take place on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 2 p.m., in room 315C of the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 Saint Philip St.

R WE WHO R WE mixes the free theft/collage style of Girl Talk with the raw noise of Merzbow. Philip White’s mixer feedback, controlled through a homemade rig of circuits and low-fi electronics, conjures the sound world of legendary experimental musician David Tudor, but becomes something entirely new when fused with the production aesthetics of pop pioneer Dr. Luke. Ted Hearne’s voice – inflamed, athletic and powerfully stark, with the operatic drama of a latter day Jeff Buckley, the experimentalism of Mike Patton and party chic of Ke$ha herself – does battle with his own auto-tune. A tribute and commentary to both classic and ephemeral artists of the pop landscape, R WE WHO R WE uses pop music like graffiti uses public space, exploiting the tension between theft and tribute, like collage artist John Oswald did 30 years ago with his seminal and mischievous Plunderphonic.

TED HEARNE is a composer and performer in New York. He is the winner of the Gaudeamus Prize in composition, and his album Katrina Ballads was listed as a Top 10 classical album of 2010 by The Washington Post and Time Out Chicago. He has collaborated with artists as diverse as J.G. Thirlwell, M83, jazz singer Rene Marie and renowned filmmaker Bill Morrison. Upcoming commissions include works for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Eighth Blackbird, and a new work for the Brooklyn Philharmonic and hiphop legend Erykah Badu.
PHILIP WHITE performs on a non-linear feedback system consisting of a mixer and homemade circuits. He has been heard with Toshimaru Nakamura, Gene Coleman, Suzanne Thorpe, Kenta Nagai, ADACHI Tomomi, MV Carbon, Colonic Youth and Taylor Levine, and has recently performed at Diapason (NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Galerie Neurotitan (Berlin), Sonic Circuits (DC), Bent Festival, In/Out Festival, Floating Points Festival and NYCEMF 2010.
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Weekend of Ensembles – FREE Concerts

This weekend, the music department will offer two FREE concerts. The College of Charleston Flute Ensemble will perform on Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 5 p.m., in the Recital Hall of the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 Saint Philip St. Directed by Tacy Edwards, the 18-member choir of flutes of all sizes will present an array of music from the sensuous Allegretto of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, a 5-minute tour of Pictures at an Exhibition, to a Verdi overture and two original compostions for flute choir in their hour-long program.

On Sunday, April 14, the College of Charleston Wind Ensemble, led by David Heywood, will perform music by the “British March King” Kenneth Alford, Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” a tribute to the massacre of Native American Indians at Wounded Knee by Roland Barrett, music from the Disney/Pixar film “The Incredibles” and more. The concert will take place at 4 p.m., in room 234 of the Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts, 161 Calhoun St.

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CofC Theatre Presents Tony Award Winning ‘Spring Awakening’

Spring AwakeningThe Department of Theatre and Dance in the College of Charleston School of the Arts invites you  to this ground breaking musical, which remakes Frank Wedekind’s turn of the century (1890s) play with a bold rock score by Duncan Sheik. A universal coming of age story, it explores with contemporary honesty teenage self-discovery and budding sexuality. “Spring Awakening” celebrates the always thrilling, oft confusing, and completely unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, a poignancy and a passion you will never
forget. “Spring Awakening” is a winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical (2007). Directed by Todd McNerney.

Mature themes and language.

Emmett Robinson Theatre in the Simons Center for the Arts

April 11–14 and 18–21, 2013
7:30 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. only

General admission   $15
Senior citizens & College of Charleston students, faculty & staff   $10

Box Office: 843.953.5604 or oleksiakm@cofc.edu

Check out the FaceBook page for more information:  https://www.facebook.com/CofCTheatreAndDance

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Charleston Music Fest Presents ‘Heart Strings II’

Charleston Music Fest-Heart StringsThe College of Charleston School of the Arts is pleased to announce that Charleston Music Fest (CMF) will celebrate the spring season with a chamber concert fundraiser billed “Heart Strings II.” The performance will take place on Sunday, April 14 at 4 p.m., in St. Luke’s Chapel, 181 Ashley Ave. in downtown Charleston. The College’s internationally-acclaimed faculty and CMF co-directors violinist Lee-Chin Siow and cellist Natalia Khoma will be joined by their students on stage in an exciting and eclectic program featuring works from J.S. Bach to Samuel Barber.

Zoe Whittaker, a violin performance student who has been actively involved in supporting CMF behind-the-scenes as an intern, looks forward to the opportunity to take to the stage, combining a “live” performance with a good cause. “Opportunities such as these shape and help me grow as a musician,” says Zoe, “teaching me the importance of stage presence and emotional connectivity with the audience. Performing with my professor and other music students allows me to learn, participate and gain musical experience outside the classroom,” she adds.

Tickets are $25 each ($5 with student I.D.) and can be purchased online at http://music.cofc.edu or by calling (843) 953-0935 or emailing charlestonmusicfest@gmail.com. Tickets will also be sold at the door (cash and check only) one hour before curtain, based on availability. Reservations are strongly recommended. For more information, visit CharlestonMusicFest.com.

Charleston Music Fest is co-directed by College of Charleston music professors Lee-Chin Siow (violin) and Natalia Khoma (cello), to inspire their students and the community with high quality chamber music performances by world-class artists, including this season’s cellist Peter Stumpf, pianist Beatrice Long and violinist Nazar Pylatyuk.

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