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FEBRUARY 26 - MARCH 3, 2020 ISSUE 2908
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other Nature may not have made up her mind, but we have. Never mind the weather, good or bad or tolerable. Life’s too short not to browse stalls at a crafts festival, go laugh at the Harlem Globetrotters, or go get laughed at doing a mud run named for a Revolutionary War general. What is there to do here this time of the year? What isn’t there, you mean. Have a look.
Mad Anthony Mud Run “Mad” Anthony Wayne would appreciate Waynesboro’s Mad Anthony Mud Run, and he might even win it. Waynesboro’s namesake earned his nickname as a brigadier general in the Revolutionary War, where he stormed the British fort in Stony Point, New York, boosting Colonial morale. Known for his personal courage and his tactical boldness, he would be impressive at hurtling, climbing, and crawling through obstacles like tires, tunnels, hay bales, rope walls, and whatever else the course designers come up with this year. The lowest recorded temperature in the first seven years of the race was
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Stepping Out in Central Virginia BY KEN WILSON
nine degrees Fahrenheit. That’s not quite Valley Forge, but it’s cold unless you’re a pig. Registration for the 8th Annual Mad Anthony Mud Run in Coyner Springs Park is $60 plus sign-up fee. The run will begin Saturday, February 29 at 9:00 a.m. The last participants to be officially counted will slog to the finish line around 11:15—but it’s not like any of them are going to look their best. Hail the gritty and bedraggled! Let their fun begin!
Lenten Baroque The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is “Ever Ancient, Ever New” as played by Charlottesville’s Three Notch’d Road, The Virginia Baroque Ensemble. Continuing their cycle of Bach cantatas, on Friday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Staunton’s Trinity Episcopal Church the 17-person ensemble will present Bach & Nowakowski on the Soul’s Awakening for Lent featuring penitential music of J.S. Bach from various sacred works, including arias from
his famous Matthäus-Passion and Johannes-Passion and solo organ works. Three Notch’d Road will also give the world premiere of a work it has commissioned from American composer Mark Nowakowski. Entitled Quo Vadis and scored for three singers and instrumental ensemble, the text recounts a Christian tradition that while fleeing certain martyrdom, St. Peter saw a vision of Christ, asking him, “Quo vadis/Where are you going?” Chastened, Peter returned to his duty and ultimately his own crucifixion in Rome. Tickets are $25.
Richmond Ballet at Piedmont Virginia Community College Founded in 1957, Richmond Ballet is the state ballet of Virginia, and a critic’s favorite when it dances out of state. The fine 28-member company returns to PVCC on Wednesday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. with another exciting evening-length program of classic 20th century works, to music by Tchaikovsky (Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55) and Carl Orff (Carmina Burana). Tickets are $23 for adults and $17 for students.
