2013 Fayetteville State University Ovation III Series Magazine

a celebration of the arts, culture, & ideas

FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY 2012–2013 Season Fine Arts Series and Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series

The Department of Performing and Fine Arts Building Community through the Arts Vision: The Department of Performing and Fine Arts will be the cultural and intellectual center for Fayetteville and its environs.

Mission: The primary mission of the Department of Performing and Fine Arts is to produce graduates in the performing and fine arts — music, dance, theater, visual arts — that will be leaders in their respective fields and its advocate. The Department is also committed to building community through the arts by being a resource for performing and fine arts pedagogy, cultivating a climate where creativity flourishes, engaging the community with the arts, and making the arts assessible to all.

The Department of Performing and Fine Arts invites you to follow your passion for the arts by pursuing a degree in visual art, music, or theater at Fayetteville State University. The department provides everything you need to succeed — credentialed and caring faculty, small classes, and access to facilities, equipment and current technology. Degrees in the arts can be the foundation for many rewarding careers that require innovation, critical thinking and creativity.

On the cover: Golden Dragon Acrobats perform on the Spinning Wheel as part of their dynamic program. See them perform at Seabrook Auditorium on November 8, 2012.

Fine Arts Series 2012-2013 July 2012 28 Discovering Art Program Exhibition Rosenthal Gallery Series: July 28-August 1 August 2012 04 High Times, Hard Times North Carolina Rosenthal Gallery Series: August 4-18 24 The Human Form Rosenthal Gallery Series: August 24-September 14 25 24 Hour Theatre Project 4.0

The Department of Performing and Fine Arts is committed to building community through the arts. From gallery exhibits to performances by The University Choir, each area of the department contributes to the cultural fabric of Fayetteville. The department’s Fine Arts Series brings nationally recognized speakers and performers to campus; and throughout the year the 1,134 seat Seabrook Auditorium is filled with the passion and drama of opera, symphony and live theater.

The power of the arts to inform, enrich, and inspire is what makes the Department of Performing and Fine Arts the cultural and intellectual center of the university and beyond.

Series at a Glance September 2012 18 George C. Fraser, Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series 21 North Carolina Symphony Orchestra 22 Afrocentricity: Works by Jon Onye Lockard Rosenthal Gallery Series: September 21-November 10 23 Man 1 – Bank O, Butler Theater Series 27 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Butler Theater Series: September 27-30 28 Al Sharpton, Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series October 2012 02 FSU Faculty and Friends 04 John Silvanus Wilson, Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series 06 West End Mambo Salsa Group

Cumberland Jazz Series 14 Marian Anderson String Quartet 23 Alvin Ailey II 30 Chamber Music Night

November 2012 03 Festival of Student Film Shorts Guided by Walter Allen Bennett the Visiting Professor in Theater 05 General Janet C. Wolfenbarger, Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series 08 Golden Dragon Acrobats 10 North Carolina Symphony Orchestra 11 Jazz at the Pate Room Cumberland Jazz Series 13 Senior Art Show Rosenthal Gallery Series: November 13 – December 14 15 Spoon River Anthology Butler Theater Series: Nov. 15-18 17 Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra 29 Holiday Spectacular!

Featuring Dianne Reeves December 2012 02 Winter Concert Featuring the FSU Concert Band, University Concert Choir and FSU Orchestra

Table of Contents

Letter from the Chancellor-------------------- 2 Letter from the Chair-------------------------- 3

Degrees

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Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts with a concentration in: Ceramics, graphics, painting, printmaking, or sculpture.

Bachelor of Science in Art Education (K-12) with a concentration in: Ceramics, graphics, painting, printmaking, or sculpture

Seabrook Series------------------------------- 6 Cumberland Jazz Series---------------------- 12 Butler Theatre Series------------------------- 16 Rosenthal Gallery Series---------------------- 20

Bachelor of Science in Music Education (K-12) with a concentration in Instrumental, Keyboard, or Voice.

Harmony Series------------------------------ 26

Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in: Instrumental, Keyboard, or Voice.

Campus Map--------------------------------- 34

Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series----- 30

Support Arts at FSU--------------------------- 35

The music area is accredited by the National Association for Schools of Music.

Fine Arts Series Committee------------------- 36

Minor in Dance

Save the Dates------------------------------- 37

January 2013 07 Contemporary Ideas in Art Rosenthal Gallery Series: January 7-February 22 21 MLK Celebration 22 Bob Zellner, Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series 25 Motown Madness, Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County Fourth Friday Event February 2013 02 FSU Concert Choir 130th Anniversary Celebration 09 Cornel West, Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series 11 Aesop’s Fables, Butler Theater Series February 11-12 21 North Carolina Symphony Orchestra 23 Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra 24 Boston Brass

March 2013 Hilda Pinnix-Ragland, Chancellor’s 12 Distinguished Speaker Series 16 24 Hour Theatre 5.0 19 Evening of Trumpets and Percussion 22 Evening of Dance 26 Evening of Voice, Strings, Woodwinds April 2013 06 Straight Ahead

Cumberland Jazz Series 19 Opus III/ World premiere of And Then Came Tomorrow A new play by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. April 19-21 and 26-28 20 Senior Art Show Rosenthal Gallery Series: April 20-May 11 28 Concert Band Concert

May 2013 11 WFSS/All-American Jazz Festival June 2013 19 The Seagulls Sweet Tea Shakespeare Company June 19-23 July 2013 17 Romeo and Juliet Sweet Tea Shakespeare Company July 17-21 AUGUST 2013 23 Power of Sounds and Rhythms

Rosenthal Gallery Series:

August 23-October 5

From the Chancellor Dear Friends of the Arts, Welcome to another wonderful and exciting season of performing and fine arts at Fayetteville State University (FSU). One of FSU’s strategic priorities is to establish the institution as an Intellectual and Cultural Center. This year’s lineup is a clear indication that we are committed to achieving that goal.

One of the highlights of this year’s season is the world renowned Alvin Ailey II Dance Theater. This group of talented artists has attained international fame for its style, showmanship, and artistry. We are pleased to bring them to our campus for the enjoyment of students and the community.

Another offering will be the Marian Anderson String Quartet, an all-female all-African American string quartet, named for the famous African American contralto Marian Anderson. I was personally involved with garnering financial support for the Marian Anderson String Quartet while I served as a Vice President at Texas A&M University. They were the artists-in-residence at that time. This performance further demonstrates our commitment to serving and working with the Fayetteville community. This concert will be held at the Cumberland County Public Library and will be free and open to the public.

In addition to these internationally renowned artists, students and faculty within the Department of Performing and Fine Arts will display their skills and talents through various exhibits, recitals, and theatrical and music performances. I am certain you will be impressed with their talents.

I applaud Dr. Earnest Lamb, chair of the Department of Performing and Fine Arts, and his outstanding staff and faculty for all of the efforts they have put forth to ensure a dynamic season. Please show your support and appreciation by attending this spectacular season of the arts.

Sincerely,

James A. Anderson Chancellor

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From The Chair Another season of great music, art, dance, and theater is in store for you this year. The Fine Arts Series officially opens with a Weekend Celebration of the Arts in September. The weekend begins with a performance by the North Carolina Symphony under the baton of Maestro Grant Llewellyn. This performance is followed by an art exhibition of works by celebrated African American painter and scholar Jon Onye Lockard on Saturday. The celebration ends with an inspirational one man play about how right eventually triumphs over might.

Music has always been at the center of the Seabrook Series. We’ve listened to your requests and there is more jazz in our programming this year. Highlights of the Cumberland Jazz Series include performances by the multi- Grammy Award winner Dianne Reeves and the Grammy nominated all-female jazz group Straight Ahead. For the first time, the Fayetteville Symphony and the Cape Fear Regional Theater will join forces for a special performance of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn. The North Carolina Symphony returns to Seabrook for three performances. Be sure to attend Freedom! — a concert that commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Another commemoration in 2013 will be the 130th Anniversary of the FSU Choir. Our concert choir is on its way to perform at Carnegie Hall in March and this special concert will support their efforts.

Opus III: A Scholarship Benefit for the Performing and Fine Arts will be the world-premiere of a new play by our Visiting Professor in Theater, Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. Bennett’s play And Then Came Tomorrow, written especially for FSU, is inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and explores the state of American race relations in the years following the Civil Rights Movement. Mr. Bennett, perhaps best known as a writer for The Cosby Show, is also a nationally recognized play write and director.

The series is extending its reach into the community and into the summer months. We are also proud of our new partnership with the Cumberland County Public Library. The Pate Room will be the venue for some of the Fine Arts Series’ small ensemble performances, lectures, and workshops. The Fine Arts Series is extending its programming into the summer months with the WFSS 91.9FM All-American Jazz Festival (formerly Jazz on the River) in May and performances by the Sweet Tea Shakespeare Company in June and July. The Fine Arts Series at FSU – it’s more than you imagined.

Enjoy!

Dr. Earnest Lamb, Chair Department of Performing and Fine Arts Fine Arts Series Committee

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WEEKEND CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS  September 21-23, 2011 For one incredible weekend Fayetteville State University is the center for music, art, and drama.

Come discover the arts at FSU — it’s more than you imagined.

MUSIC North Carolina Symphony 80th Anniversary Season Opening Reception September 21  8:00 p.m. Seabrook Auditorium Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Berlioz: Love Scene from Romeo et Juliette Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville Brahms: Symphony No.1 For ticket information please call the NCS ticket office: 919.733.2750 ext. 401

ART Afrocentricity: Works by Jon Onye Lockard Exhibition — September 22–November 10  Rosenthal Gallery  Curated by Dwight Smith Lecture — September 22–November 10  Rosenthal Gallery Reception — September 22  11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.  Rosenthal Gallery

DRAMA Man 1 — Bank 0 September 23  4:00 p.m.  Butler Theater Patrick Combs tells the amazing-but-true story of how he deposited a $95,093.35 junk-mail check marked ‘non-negotiable’-hoping to spread a little banking cheer to tellers-and how it erupted into a staggering and funny David vs. Goliath-like adventure that still continues today if you count his internationally touring, award winning, off-Broadway one-man show about the incident. Call the FSU ticket office at 910-672-1724 for ticket information.

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North Carolina Symphony 80th Anniversary Season September 21  8:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Berlioz: Love Scene from Romeo et Juliette Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville Brahms: Symphony No.1 For ticket information please call the NCS ticket office: 919.733.2750 ext. 401

Ailey II Sylvia Waters, Artistic Director October 23  7:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Ailey II is universally renowned for merging the spirit and energy of the country’s best young dance talent with the passion and creative vision of today’s most outstanding emerging choreographers. Alvin Ailey personally appointed former Ailey member, Troy Powell, Artistic Director. Under his direction, Ailey II has flourished into one of the most popular dance companies in the country, combining a rigorous touring schedule with extensive community outreach programs. $10.00 general admission. FSU students free with ID. Sponsored in part by the Division of Student Affairs.

Golden Dragon Acrobats November 8  7:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium The Golden Dragon Acrobats represent the best of a time honored tradition that began more than twenty-five centuries ago. The Golden Dragons are recognized throughout the United States and abroad as the premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company of today. $10.00 general admission. FSU students free with ID.

North Carolina Symphony Grant Llewellyn, Music Director  Andrew Lowy, clarinet November 10  8:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Dukas: Fanfare from La Peri Debussy: Clair de lune Debussy: Rhapsody for Clarinet Dvořák: Scherzo capriccioso Weber: Concertino for Clarinet Mozart: Symphony No. 38, “Prague” For ticket information please call the NCS ticket office: 919.733.2750 ext. 401

Fayetteville Symphony Fouad Fakhouri, Music Director and Conductor November 17  7:30 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Experience the beauty, power, fire and passion of Spain along with the magnificence and grandeur of ancient Rome. The evening’s selections include Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, Respighi’s Pine of Rome, and the world premiere of Fakhouri’s Furia. For ticket information please visit the FSO website at www.fayettevillesymphony.org or call the FSO office at 910-433-4690. Methodist University & FSU students admitted to ALL FSO events FREE by showing valid school ID at Box Office the night of the concert. NOTE: As a courtesy to FSO patrons, there will be FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE guaranteed for every 2011-2012 Season Concert. Call the FSO Office for details and reservations.

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FSU Concert Choir 130 Anniversary Celebration February 2  7:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Singers from around the state join the FSU Concert Choir as it celebrates its illustrious history with a concert of choral classics sung by a 130 voice choir.

North Carolina Symphony William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor James Westwater, photochoreography  Scott Macleod, baritone  David Hartman, narrator February 21  8:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Harris: When Johnny comes Marching Home John Adams: The Wound-Dresser Copland: Lincoln Portrait Ives: Symphony No. 2 For ticket information please call the NCS ticket office: 919.733.2750 ext. 401

Boston Brass Photo Credit: Chip Litherland

Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream February 23  7:30 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra and the Cape Fear Regional Theatre join forces for this production of the Shakespeare’s classic with incidental music composed by Felix Mendelssohn.

This captivating production will bring Shakespeare mercurial masterpiece to life.

Boston Brass February 24  4:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium For 26 years, Boston Brass has set out to establish a oneof-a-kind musical experience. From exciting classical arrangements, to burning jazz standards, and the best of the original brass quintet repertoire, Boston Brass treats audiences to a unique brand of entertainment, which captivates all ages. $5.00 general admission. FSU students free with ID.

Ailey II Photo Credit: Eduardo Patino

Golden Dragon Acrobats

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North Carolina Symphony Bold. Exhilarating. Romantic. Powerful.

The North Carolina Symphony is pleased and proud to return to Fayetteville in 2012-13 for an exciting 80th anniversary season of concerts at beautiful Seabrook Auditorium. Since our first concert in 1932 on a spring night in Chapel Hill, the NCS has committed itself to serving the citizens of North Carolina.

Through the eight decades of our history, we have never stopped perfecting our musicianship, our dedication to our art form and believing in our power to enrich the lives of North Carolinians, young and old.

Ours is an ephemeral art form meant to be absorbed through all the senses. Sitting in a darkened concert hall, as in no other circumstance of life, we can examine in complete security our deepest emotions and listen to them reflected back to us. The power is in the convergence of musicians and audience, in the risk of live performance, and in the knowledge that what we hear will never exist in quite the same way again. That is why we perform. That is why we come together as a community of listeners to hear great music in a concert hall.

Under the artistic leadership of Music Director Grant Llewellyn, along

Henry Curry, Resident Conductor William

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with Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, the orchestra continues to grow in stature and sophistication, now advancing a well-earned reputation for innovative programming and collaborative projects. In addition to bringing music to the entire state of North Carolina, the orchestra counts as one of its proudest achievements an extensive education program, unrivaled in scope by any U.S. orchestra.

This season, the North Carolina Symphony brings three exceptional concerts to Fayetteville. The first, on September 21, 2012 brings a delightful program that includes Overtures to both Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.

In addition, we’ll hear music from Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliette, long considered one of the composer’s finest accomplishments. A highlight of the concert is Brahms’ glorious Symphony No. 1 in C minor, a work he wrote and perfected over a period of 14 years.

William Henry Curry conducts this excellent evening of music.

The orchestra returns on November 10, 2012, with Music Director Grant Llewellyn and soloist Andrew Lowy.

Lowy, the North Carolina Symphony’s principal clarinetist, will perform Debussy’s Rhapsody for Clarinet and Weber’s Concertino for Clarinet.

Also on this entertaining program is Dukas’ Fanfare from La Peri, Debussy’s Clair de lune, Dvořák’s Scherzo capriccioso and Mozart’s “Prague” Symphony, written for the people of that city in gratitude for their love of the composer.

Grant Llewellyn, Music Director

The final concert of the season takes place on February 21, 2013. To honor the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the North Carolina Symphony has planned an exceptional and unusual concert. The performance features noted photochoreographer James Westwater’s evocative, multiimage photo essay—The Eternal Struggle—set to Aaron Copland’s moving Lincoln Portrait and narrated

by Symphony radio broadcast voice and former Good Morning America host David Hartman. Additional events will supplement our understanding of the Civil War, the Lincoln presidency and the civil rights movement.

Thank you for joining us for an unforgettable season of beautiful music!

Mendelssohn + Shakespeare

Cape Fear Regional Theatre + Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra

CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE Cape Fear Regional Theatre (CFRT) has built a strong foundation in its 50 year history: a loyal audience, acknowledged artistic excellence, and a strong commitment to the diverse Fayetteville community.

CFRT is committed to presenting exceptional work that will enlighten, inspire, and educate performers and audiences. The Theatre brings together a unique combination of artists: professionals from outside the region, regional professionals, and local nonprofessionals. CFRT seeks to maintain a working environment of mutual respect and support, creative freedom, and collaboration.

FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Founded in 1956, the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra (FSO) holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously-funded orchestra in North Carolina.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra intends to be a leader in Fayetteville’s emergence as a regional cultural center. The Orchestra ensures artistic excellence while serving a diverse community that takes pride in the Orchestra’s artistic success.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare Music by Felix Mendelssohn Cape Fear Regional Theatre & Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Directed by: Tom Quaintance, Artistic Director, Cape Fear Regional Theatre Conducted by: Fouad Fakhouri, Music Director and Conductor, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Public Performance: February 23, 2013 Student Performances: February 25&26, 2013 Tom Quaintance. “We all want the same thing – a vibrant, active arts community.”

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a perfect project for the two iconic Fayetteville institutions. It is one of the greatest plays ever written, and the Mendelssohn score is rich and theatrical. When it is played in conjunction with a theatrical production the meaning behind the music intensifies. Mendelssohn’s score accentuates the plot and adds an extra dimension to the already musical text.

“Collaboration also happens to be a lot easier when you genuinely like the people you are working with,” continued Quaintance. “The fact that Fouad and I get along so well makes this project a no-brainer.”

While everyone has heard of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, they may not be aware that Mendelssohn’s Dream is perhaps even more famous. The “Wedding March” is one of the single most famous pieces of classic music in history. “Collaborating and working with Tom Quaintance on a Shakespearean literary work set to music

by a great composer like Mendelssohn is a project that excites me and allows for a great opportunity to present both of our audiences with a truly unique experience.” said Fakhouri who also remarked, “This project is a treat for our Fayetteville audiences. The incidental music composed by Mendelssohn is frequently performed during symphonic concerts and the play is, also, often performed without music; however, the combination of incidental music accompanying the play is seldom heard.”

THE CLASSIC THEATRE SERIES For seventeen years, CFRT’s Classic Theatre Series has served as the foundation of its commitment to using theatre as a tool to engage, educate, and entertain students through a partnership with the Cumberland County School District. Over 2,000 Cumberland County School District high school students will attend the performance at no charge during two school matinees February 25th and 26th. There will also be a public performance February 23rd.

THE COLLABORATION A renewed focus on collaboration led to this partnership between Cape Fear Regional Theatre and the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. “It is critical that the most important cultural institutions in Fayetteville are seen working together,” said CFRT Artistic Director

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The FSU Concert Choir Celebrates 130 Years of Music Making: A History of the University Concert Choir The Choir, a part of the Department of the Performing and Fine Arts, dates back to 1883. Records show that vocal music and music theory were incorporated into the curriculum as early as 1883. During the 1930’s there existed the Mozart Club,The Girl’s Glee Club, the Men’s Glee Club, and the Jubilee Singers.

In 1944, Mr. George Van Hoy joined the Music Faculty as Choir Director. A graduate of Hampton Institute, he was a pupil of the renown African-American composer, Dr. R. Nathaniel Dett. In 1947, the Choir made a radio broadcast from station WPTF in Raleigh and also sang for the first time at the Fayetteville Kiwanis Club. This choir was honored to be the first choral group to sing a Sunday morning service at Hampton Institute in Ogden Hall, a service reserved only for the Hampton Choir. They were also the first choir invited to sing for a broadcast of the Interracial Commission on WPTF in Raleigh. Within the choir were four ensembles: large mixed group, female ensemble, male ensemble, and the female chorus. The Choir made its first recording under Mr. Collins.

In 1950, Mary E. Terry (later Marry T. Eldridge) became Choral Director. A graduate of Oberlin College, she received her MFA from Carnegie Institute of Technology and did additional work at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute, University of Pittsburgh, University of North Carolina, University of California at Berkeley, and Atlanta University. Under her leadership, the Choir’s reputation grew. Mrs. Eldridge composed the Alma Mater, Old White and Blue, for Fayetteville State. Dr. Lemuel Berry became Choral Director in 1975. A graduate of Livingstone College, he received his Master and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Under his leadership, the Choir made their second recording in 1976.

He was followed by Dr. Richard Hadley who served as Department Chair and Choral Director. In 1979, Dr. Augustus Pearson assumed the mantel and the Choir performed for the Installation of Chancellor Hackley. The guest speaker for that event was the Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. Dr. Pearson led the Choir in a performance for the North Carolina Music Educators Association conference at Duke Chapel. Dr. Robert G. Owens followed as Director in 1991 and later by Dr. Frank Perry in 1993. Dr. Owens resumed conductorship for a second time in 1994. Dr. Marvin V. Curtis was appointed in 1996. Since 1996, the FSU Concert Choir has been on the

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move. In November of 1996, the Choir performed for former President Jimmy Carter at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux in Fayetteville. This was followed by their participating in A Vocal Extravaganza in Black in Las Vegas. The Choir released its third recording and its first CD, Sing Till the Spirit Moves in My Heart in the fall of 1997. In 1997, the Choir more than doubled in size to 88, and so two groups were formed, FSU Concert Choir and the FSU Choral Ensemble.

Dr. Curtis continued with the Concert Choir and Dr. Owens conducted the smaller Choral Ensemble. In the spring of 1998, both choirs, along with the Brass Ensemble and soprano Denise Payton, embarked on their first European tour.

The groups performed at The American Church in Paris, Notre Dame, and Euro Disney. They left Paris and sang at three venues in Belgium, including the fifth largest cathedral in the world, the BasilicataKockelneberg. The ensembles released their second CD, a live recording, called What A Mighty God We Serve featuring Denise Payton as soprano soloist.

In the fall of 1999, Mr. Paul DeBrey, impresario of Transmusical International, invited Dr. Curtis to bring members of the Choir back for an all-expense tour of Belgium during December of that year. From this idea, the FSU Chamber Singers were created. This 28 member ensemble comprised of students from the Concert Choir and Choral Ensemble left on December 3rd for a three week tour of Belgium that included singing at The Cathedral of St. Michel, the church of the Royal Family. The tour included a stop in France and a day trip to Paris.

One of the highlights of the tour was a taped broadcast of the choir produced

by Belgium Public Television that was shown throughout the country on December 25, 1999. It is estimated that it was watched by two million people. On December 25, 2001 at 3 p.m., this concert was broadcast on NBC-17, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina as a one hour special. This event marked the first time any choir from Fayetteville State University had appeared on television.

Dr. Robert Owens embarked on three tours of the Choral Ensemble through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia from 1999-2003. His group sang at such places at Covent Ave Baptist Church in New York., Ebenezer Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia and others. On April 26, 2003, the Concert Choir made its debut with the Vancouver

Symphony Orchestra of Vancouver, British Columbia in Orpheum Hall.

Invited by Classic Concert International, the Choir took part in a gala concert called Songs of the People,conducted

by Dr. Will Kesling. However, the FSU Concert Choir opened the program by performing, City on the Hill, composed

by Dr. Marvin V. Curtis, who also conducted their performance. The Choir then joined five other choral groups for a series of selections, including Feel the Spirit by John Rutter and Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing by Mack Wilberg.

Ms. Denise Payton accompanied the Choir and was the guest soloist. With the retirement of Dr. Owens in 2003, the FSU Concert Choir is now 160 members. The plans for the 2003-2004 Choir include a performance of Handel’s Messiah (part I) in December, a tour of the southern states in the spring, and a gala concert at Constitution Hall on April 30, 2004 which also featured the Heritage Restoration Chorale conducted by Mrs. Denise M. Payton.

In 2008-09 Denise Murchison Payton becomes the new director of the concert choir. Professor Payton came to FSU after 28 years of teaching public school music with Cumberland County Schools. Payton holds degrees from NC A&T State University, Fayetteville State University and is presently a doctoral candidate at Walden University. Mrs. Payton has renewed relationships with FSU alumni and has presented concerts for special programming. During her tenure, the choir has grown and the premiere group “Mane Attraction”, FSU women’s ensemble and “Men of Distinction”, FSU’s men’s ensemble as well as the concert choir are in demand through the state and country. Since 2008, students from the choir have been represented in the 105 Voices of History at the Kennedy Center, on the Grand Ole Opry Stage, as well as performing special concerts for Governor Beverly Perdue for Christmas at the Governor’s Mansion and now have received the ultimate invitation to perform on the Carnegie Hall Stage.

The FSU Concert Choir will make its Carnegie Hall debut in a 30-minute program of choral favorites on April 15, 2013. Afterwards, they will then join a choir of 400 voices in a performance of Verdi’s Requiem under the direction of John Rutter.

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Cumberland Jazz Series West End Mambo Salsa Group

October 5  7:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Portico Formed in 1999, West End Mambo is comprised of musicians from North, South and Central America as well as the Caribbean. This nine piece band performs a fiery mix of classic salsa from bolero and rumbas to guaracha and son montuno.

Jazz at the Pate Room Director, Dr. Neal Finn November 11  4:00 p.m.  The Pate Room , Cumberland County Library 300 Maiden Lane  Fayetteville, NC The FSU Jazz Ensemble along with FSU vocal ensembles with Mane Attraction and Men of Distinction perform jazz standards from the Swing Era.

Straight Ahead April 6  7:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Just in time for Jazz Appreciation Month, this ground breaking all female jazz group was named the finalist in the “Sony Innovators” competition in the first year they performed together. Since then they have amassed a string of honors, including opening for the legendary Nina Simone at the Montreaux-Switzerland Jazz Festival and being nominated for a Grammy. $10.00 general admission.

FSU students free with ID.

West End Mambo Salsa Group

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Straight Ahead

Out of Detroit’s lively jazz scene, which has produced some of the best musicians in the world, comes the ground breaking all female jazz group, Straight Ahead. A group of strong, inventive instrumentalists and vocalists, they have shown themselves to powerful and imaginative composers and arrangers as well.

Widely recognized for their eclectic and soulful approach to creating music, the Straight Ahead sound ranges comfortably from mainstream jazz, to R&B ballads, to Latin to funk. Their live performances are a dynamic celebration of power and joy. They delight in changing textures, moods and tempos seamlessly.

Discovered by legendary Motown songwriter and producer Sylvia Moy, the group was introduced to the New York jazz scene. After a riveting performance at the Montreux, Switzerland Jazz Festival as opening act for the legendary Nina Simone, they were signed to a recording deal with Atlantic Records.

Their first recording “Look Straight Ahead” was nominated for a Grammy Award and made the Billboard

Contemporary jazz Chart TOP TWENTY. They followed that release with “Body and Soul” and then with “Dance of the Forest Rain”, which received rave reviews that include a comment by Branford Marsalis who called the group “a monster unit that truly swings!”

These award-winning artists have traveled extensively in the United States, the Caribbean and Europe, garnering rave reviews. Recent appearances include an appearance at the prestigious Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where Sorab Modi, reviewer for “Jazziz” magazine, wrote that the group was “..particularily impressive”. A review of their appearance at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival stated that “This tight, dynamic outfit stole the show with its high-energy tour-de-force of musical styles. (Kansas City Star). Recent awards include the Motor City Music Awards HALL OF FAME, and Downbeat Magazine’s TALENT DESERVING WIDER RECOGNITION. Joy, Power, Love, Wisdom...Magic!

This is the sound of what is to come. This is Straight Ahead.

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Butler Theatre Series Main Stage Productions Man 1 — Bank 0 September 23  4:00 p.m.  Butler Theater Patrick Combs tells the amazing-but-true story of how he deposited a $95,093.35 junk-mail check marked ‘non-negotiable’-hoping to spread a little banking cheer to tellers-and how it erupted into a staggering and funny David vs. Goliath-like adventure that still continues today if you count his internationally touring, award winning, off-Broadway one-man show about the incident.

Call the FSU ticket office at 910-672-1724 for ticket information.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By Stephen Adly Guirgis Directed by Jeremy Fiebig Sept. 27-30  Butler Theater Thursday, Friday, & Saturday at 7:30 p.m.  Sunday at 3:00 p.m.

In this provocative, mysterious, funny, and deeply moving play with recent runs off-Broadway and in London’s West End, Judas Iscariot is put on trial to determine his ultimate fate.

Featuring witnesses from Pontius Pilate to Mother Teresa and Sigmund Freud to Satan, the play explores questions at the very heart of contemporary thinking about belief, suffering, damnation, forgiveness, and mercy. Not recommended for young or immature audience members due to language and subject matter.

Spoon River Anthology

By Edgar Lee Masters Directed Phoebe Hall November 15-18  Butler Theater Thursday, Friday, & Saturday at 7:30 p.m.  Sunday at 3:00 p.m.

Edgar Lee Masters’ poetry tears through the civility covering small-town America and exposes raw passions pushing the lives of its citizens. Set in a cemetery of the fictional town of Spoon River, ghosts of the deceased, voice secrets--crushed dreams and concealed pleasures— secrets they guarded during their days on earth and discovering that we are all made equal by the great leveler, death.

Aesop’s Fables | Theatre for Children & Children at Heart

By James Brock Directed by Susan Paschal Feb. 11-12  Seabrook Auditorium Monday & Tuesday at 11:00 a.m.  Monday at 7:30 p.m.

An updated version of four of the timeless storyteller’s most popular fables, Aesop’s Fables is a fast moving play in which all the scene changes and costume adaptations are done in view of the audience. As the actors become the Rabbit, the Turtle, the Fox, the Crow, or the Donkey in the Lion’s skin, the audience is brought into the action of the play. Four of the famous fables are delightfully created in this approach to story-teller’s theatre. $3 advance group tickets available for school groups

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Second Stage Productions 24 Hour Theatre Project 4.0 August 25  Butler Theater  7:30 p.m.

The new FSU Theatre tradition continues with plays written, rehearsed, and performed in one 24-hour period by FSU students. Admission: $2 or $1 and a canned good

24 Hour Theatre 5.0 March 16  Butler Theater  7:30pm

Butler Theater Series Tickets Advance Ticket Prices Base tickets: $10 Faculty, staff, seniors, and off-campus students: $ 8 FSU student tickets with ID up until showtime: $ 3

At The Door Ticket Prices Base tickets: $12 Faculty, staff, seniors, students and off-campus students: $ 10

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Visiting Professor Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. Teaches FSU Theatre Students Several Roles Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. a Hollywood writer and producer with credits like The Cosby Show and a degree from Yale, spent the 2011-2012 school year working with FSU students in a wide variety of projects. In the fall, he worked with writers and directors in FSU’s 24 Hour Theatre Project, and hosted the event. He also led classes in the theatre program as a guest lecturer. In January, he hosted an intensive playwriting workshop for 15 students and community members. In March, he returned to campus to host a festival of new student short films that he’d coached from mostly long distance. He also presented a reading of his newlycommissioned play, ‘And then came tomorrow,’ which will be presented as part of the FSU Theatre Season in 2012-2013.

Bennett’s projects have helped reshape the landscape of FSU Theatre, but some of his most valued work goes on behind the scenes. Bennett, who attended college in North Carolina, strongly identifies with FSU students, who he sees as sharing a similar story with his. He shares this story one-onone with students who stop by his office in the Butler building with questions like, “How do I get a job in the business?” and “What should I do? I’m supposed to graduate soon,” and “How do I get famous in Hollywood?” Bennett’s responses clearly resonate with our students and reaffirm what goes on throughout the entire Theatre curriculum: work hard, stay positive, have a plan. Bennett’s advice is not earth-shattering in this regard, but it is a strong, clear message to FSU students: it takes work. Persistent, unwavering work.

Coming from a Hollywood producer, published playwright, actor, and director

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who has “made it” in their eyes, students in the FSU program learn that success in the field doesn’t just happen. They also learn that it starts with the small stuff: show up, have something to show us, represent yourself well, and know how to “sell” yourself and your project.

Bennett’s work will continue in 2012-2013 as he returns to direct And Then Came Tomorrow in its world-premiere performance on the FSU stage in April 2013.

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Rosenthal Gallery Series Discovering Art Summer Program Exhibition Curated by Dwight Smith 28 – August 1

Curated by Shane Booth November 15 – December 7 Reception: Rosenthal Gallery November 16, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

High Times, Hard Times North Carolina

Contemporary Ideas in Art

Curated by Soni Martin August 4 – 18 Lecture: Rosenthal Gallery, August 16, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Art: Abstraction, Social Change and Cultural Identity in My Postwar America

by Dwight Smith Reception: Rosenthal Gallery August 18, 11:00 a.m. ­­­­– 2:00 p.m.

The Human Form An Visual Arts Alliance collaborative exhibition August 24 – September 14 Reception: Rosenthal Gallery August 24, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Afrocentricity: Works by Jon Onye Lockard Curated by Dwight Smith September 22 – November 10 Lecture: Rosenthal Gallery September 22, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

My Life in Art by Jon Lockard Reception: Rosenthal Gallery September 22, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

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Senior Show

Curated by Dwight Smith January 7 – February 22 Reception: Rosenthal Gallery January 5, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Senior Show Curated by Shane Booth April 25–May 11 Reception: Rosenthal Gallery April 26, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

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1. Untitled Work by program participant, acrylic on canvas paper, 18”x24” Discovering Art Summer Program Exhibition, July 21 – August 4, 2012 2. Cut Tack Cadence, 2012, collage assemblage on paper by Diane Wiecke for Contemporary Ideas In Art exhibition, January 5 – Feb. 16, 2013

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by Betti Pettinati Longinotti for The Human Form Invitational Exhibition.

August 24 – Sept. 14 4. Moving In the Spirit, 2011, mixed media on canvas, by Dwight Smith for High Times Hard Times North Carolina.

Exhibition of works by Dwight Smith.

August 6 – 18, 2012 5. Untitled Image , 2011, oil on canvas, by Jon Onye Lockard for Africentricity; Those Who Learn, Teach! Exhibition.

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The Rosenthal Gallery Season of Excellence in the Arts Art changes lives. The exhibitions at Rosenthal Gallery were chosen with the awareness that pivotal and life-changing experiences can occur through the exposure and participation in the arts.

From our collaborations with community organizations to presenting works by emerging and established artists, Rosenthal Gallery is committed to creating a positive supportive environment in which diverse artistic expressions flourish and artistic standards for excellence are maintained.

Since an informed audience is an engaged one, we invite the public to lectures and demonstrations especially developed for each exhibit. You will be informed, enriched, and inspired.

Each year FSU collaborates with CommuniCare Inc. and other youth service agencies to present a six-week program of artistic exploration for area youth. Participants in this year’s Discovering Art Summer Program will enjoy an expanded program in the arts that includes dance and theatre components under the direction of FSU professors Avis Hatcher (dance) and Jeremy Fiebig (theatre).

The exhibition calendar officially opens with new works by faculty member Dwight Smith who recently completed his MFA at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This exhibition — High Times, Hard Times North Carolina — is curated by Professor Soni Martin and represents the culmination of a two-year course of study by Smith.

Smith’s abstract expressionist body of work celebrates life, family histories and tributes to artists. According to Smith: I express certain social realities concerning the world while exploring aesthetic qualities of being black in America and addressing the literal symbology of contemporary

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blackness thereby creating a pliable structure for intuition, improvisation and chance.

The work represents a method of integrating opposites into a state of harmony and balance.

Iconic symbols, abstract shapes, patterns, materials and textures merge as a sum that is greater than its parts. Multiple meanings are always present. Elements of design referenced in African, African American or multicultural imagery create a catalyst to begin my movement through visual language that informs the voice in my work.

The Human Form is a multi media Visual Arts Alliance (VAA) Collaborative Exhibition that explores the figural form from a variety of views, expressive ideas and visual content. All eight member galleries and institutions of VAA will have simultaneous exhibitions under the same title. Their mission is to create an alliance of visual arts presenting venues dedicated to building a vibrant and enduring visual arts community. It is a working collaborative devoted to extending the ability of artists to reach a wider audience by increasing attendance at member organization events and activities.

Afrocentricity: Works by Jon Onye Lockard will open as part of the Fine Arts Series’ Weekend Celebration of the Arts.

The highly acclaimed artist is a painter, portraitist, muralist, educator and historian.

Lockard, a working artist and educator whose career spans more than 50 years, has exhibited and lectured both nationally and internationally. His work can be found in many private collections and museums throughout the country. For the last forty years he has served as an adjunct professor at University of Michigan’s Center for African and Afro-American Studies.

Additionally, he served as an art consultant to the Martin Luther King Jr., National Monument project in Washington D.C., served as past president and current board member of the National Conference of Artists and is an associate director for the Society for the Study of African Culture and Aesthetics.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Lockard resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He dedicates his visual practice to his family and to the millions lost in the trepidous history of the middle passage. Mr. Lockard’s mission is to provide stimulating cultural inspiration and to enhance each person’s personal surroundings with meaningful images reflective of various cultures.

Concerning Lockard’s art, historian Bamidele Demerson states, “[Lockard’s] work, heritage and destiny are inexorably linked as a perspective not only indigenous to the African American community, but also ultimately traceable to prototypical philosophical traditions in Africa. Through his experiences, the dynamic of African American urban life and keen awareness of the significance of political struggle became indelibly etched in Lockard’s worldview. And from this world view his sense of artistic mission has taken shape.”

What are the current trends of fine art visual producers today? Contemporary Ideas in Art, is an invitational exhibition of works by national and international artists that will examine the direction art is making in the new millennium. The selection committee will consider works by emerging and established artists from a wide range of visual practices and approaches to visual art making. The result will be an exciting and thought provoking experience for gallery visitors.

Power of Sounds & Rhythms: West African Drums and Musical Instruments Exhibition is another community-based collaboration between the Department of

Performing and Fine Arts and the Umoja Group, Inc. that brings Africa to America.

This year’s collaboration is an exhibition of traditional instruments from the West Coast of Africa. In order to bring this exhibition to life, master drummers and carvers from Africa will be available for master classes and workshops during the run of the exhibit. This will be the gallery’s second international exhibition of artifacts direct from the African continent. Last year they brought the glories of kente cloth to Rosenthal Gallery. Mrs. Isabella Ifon will be our guest curator for what will truly be a highlight of the exhibition calendar.

One of the most important functions of Rosenthal Gallery is to celebrate the visual voices of our graduating seniors in a Senior Show. With every ending comes a new beginning. At the end of each term, FSU seniors mount their exhibitions which signal the completion of their course work. The Senior Show is a rite of passage because it represents the culmination of a student’s life here at the university and their first steps into the world as a professional artist.

Rosenthal Gallery is located on the northern end of the Rosenthal Building that houses much of the universities

performing and fine arts department.

Situated next to Helen Chick and WFSS, accessible parking is available to the public.

Gallery hours are from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM Monday through Friday during the school year. Weekend times vary. Please check website for additional information.

Discover Rosenthal Gallery ­— it is more than you imagined.

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Jon Onye Lockard

Jon Onye Lockard, a working artist and educator, whose career spans more than forty years, has exhibited and lectured both nationally and internationally. He is a senior lecturer of University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jon Onye Lockard harmoniously blends visual reflections of our dynamic cultures into work spaces and living environments. The use of colors, shapes and forms are used to heal, inspire, and restfully replenish people in a spiritual and personal way.

His art is designed to aid and augment outgrowth of the African American cultural aesthetic into a spiritual and visual environment. His art reinforces and encourages spirituality, beauty, comfort, history and diversity in personal and professional environments.

He emphasizes visual and spatial rejuvenation.

Lockard’s mission is to provide stimulating cultural inspiration and to enhance each person’s personal surroundings with meaningful images reflective of various cultures. The environments that we share and the visual art we learn to appreciate can become a source of motivation and inspiration in the workplace and in the home.

Mary McLeod Bethune by Jon Onye Lockard

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Artist Jon Onye Lockard was a vital part of the coordinating team that worked with sculptor Lei Yi Xin on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project.

The King Memorial in Washington, D.C. it opened in the fall of 2011.

A past president of The National Conference of Artists, Lockard is currently Associate Director of The Society for the Study of African American Culture and Aesthetics. He hosted and co-produced The Society’s biweekly journal of cultural affairs, Sankofa, previously aired on Barden Cable Television of Detroit. He founded his company Visions of Destiny to share his art with the world. “The art of Jon Onye Lockard amplifies the often quoted folk wisdom of elderly African Americans who remind us: “You don’t know where you’re going, if you don’t know where you’ve been.” That heritage and destiny are inextricably linked as a perspective not only indigenous to the African American community, but ultimately traceable to prototypical philosophical traditions in Africa.

Among the Akan of Ghana, for example, Sankofa--the image of a bird with a “back-turned” head, symbolically alludes to the supreme wisdom of learning from the yesterdays of culture history in building the bright tomorrow of the future. Lockard’s art transports us across time and space. Without question, his subjects are diverse. But when placed in juxtaposition, the images reveal facets of a complex and continuing saga. Our ability to comprehend and appreciate Lockard’s art is a fundamental test of our own cultural literacy. His oeuvre offers didactic views on a past filled with glorious moments, a present shaped by victories over victimization, and visions of a destiny yet to be achieved.”

Students’ work for HIV positive children: Members of the Fayetteville State University digital arts, photography, and printmaking classes are doing their part to help children in Addis Ababa Ethiopia in a big way. For the past two years these students have donated their artwork to help raise money for a children’s home in Addis Ababa Ethiopia for children who have been double orphaned by HIV/AIDS. That means both of the parents have died of AIDS related deaths. These children are also HIV positive. Due to the hard work and donations by our students to Artists for Charity they have helped raise about $60,000 in two years. This money goes to help supply the children with the necessary medication to keep the virus at bay. The money also helps provide a stable environment for the children to grow up in. This includes the basic necessities like food, water, and other staple items. The home consists of 17 HIV positive children ranging from the age of 7 years to 18.

For the past five years the big annual fundraiser has been held in Washington DC at numerous galleries. The students are always excited to tell people their work is showing in Washington DC. It is a privilege to be part of such a great exhibition. The

students have been showing work with many famous artists including Stan Lee. It is such a thrill for the students to be able to say they have hung work along side such a legend in the art/comic book world. The students also get a tastes of what a real working gallery is like and many of the works sale for hundreds of dollars.

Art professor Shane Booth has been working with the children’s home for about seven years and decided to get the students involved. Booth said, “By donating, the students learn how they can be part of a global problem and do their part in creating a great partnership with for a great cause.”

Because of people like our students the home has been able to care for these children without any fatalities. They are growing strong young children who attend school and have future goals! Two of the children who are now 18 years old either attend college or a trade school. Thanks to people around the globe these kids are really doing wonderful things!

Booth explains to his students how important it is to give back to the community whether it is global or local.

“The students learn so much by giving back and most importantly they are

making a difference on the other side of the world.” As part of a grant Booth got to travel to the children’s home and experience first hand what an amazing place it is. “The atmosphere is like walking into a big happy family reunion. The children know how lucky they are and take nothing for granted. They are the most caring and giving bunch of kids I have ever met.”

I am so proud of what our students are doing and how giving each of them has been. Each year I ask the students to donate work and most of them do so without any hesitation. We have such a talented group of students at Fayetteville State University and working with them is nothing short of amazing! It is so great to get to see my Fayetteville State family help with my Ethiopian family! If you would like more information on the children’s home, the website is www.artistsforcharity.org

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Harmony Series FSU Faculty and Friends Concert

Featuring the Highland Brass Quintet October 2  7:00 p.m.  Holy Trinity Episcopal Church 1601 Raeford Road  Fayetteville, NC “The Glories of the Baroque” FSU faculty are joined by a few of their friends for an intimate evening of chamber music featuring works written by Bach, Handel, Gabrielli, and Telemann.

Marian Anderson String Quartet “Songs of the Middle Passage” October 14  4:00 p.m.  The Pate Room , Cumberland County Library 300 Maiden Lane  Fayetteville, NC The quartet named for the famous African American contralto, Marian Anderson, presents Songs of the Middle Passage. This program is inspired by the cultural traditions of the Middle Passage, which was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World. The program is a catalyst promoting music of and dedicated to the African Diaspora. Within this program the MASQ performs new music and multimedia pieces as well as classic works from the 17th and 18th century that have yet to be performed on the concert stage.

Holiday Spectacular!

Featuring Dianne Reeves November 29  7:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium The Cumberland Jazz Series presents a Holiday Spectacular! like no other. Dianne Reeves, the pre-eminent female jazz vocalist in the world today, brings her special Christmas program called “Christmas Time is Here” to Seabrook Auditorium. Internationally recognized for her virtuosity, improvisational prowess, and unique jazz and R&B stylings, Reeves received the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for three consecutive recordings—a Grammy first in any vocal category. You will not want to miss Dianne Reeves perform all of your Yuletide favorites. FSU students free with ID. $10 general admission

Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration January 21  7:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium The FSU Concert Band is joined by the Army Ground Forces Band for an evening of music that celebrates the legacy of African American bandsmen that served our nation.

Fourth Friday—Motown Madness FSU Jazz Ensemble January 25  7:00 p.m.  Arts Council, 301 Hay Street FSUs Mane Attraction and Men of Distinction perform music from the Golden Age of Motown.

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Army Ground Forces Band

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Double Take

For the past nine years, the music program in the Department of Performing and Fines Arts at Fayetteville State University has expanded its instrumental ensemble offerings beyond what many HBCU institutions currently offered in this region. Two of the newly formed ensembles, FSU Percussion Ensemble and FSU Trumpet Choir can be directly attributed to the presence of the professional chamber ensemble, Double Take with FSU Associate Professors of Music, Dr. Sheryl Linch-Parker on trumpet and Dr. Don N. Parker on percussion.

Since the fall of 1994, the chamber ensemble Double Take, has provided a unique musical, cultural, and educational experience for audiences of all ages.

With the exploration of different sound textures and colors, this ensemble has enticed its listeners with an intensity that reflects an honest approach towards music that all can understand and enjoy.

Double Take has had the opportunity to present workshops and recitals in Illinois, Texas, South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Missouri, Washington D.C., and Nebraska.

The chamber ensemble has performed for the 1999 Premiere Performance Series at University of Missouri-St. Louis, the 2004 Mississippi Day of Percussion and Fayetteville State University 2003-2004 and 2006-2007 Fine Arts Series, Tarleton State Percussion Festival in 2009 and UNCPembroke Percussion Ensemble Festival 2009, Most recently Double Take presented a Winter 2012 Southeast Tour of Three Universities (University of Mississippi, Alabama State University, and BethuneCookman University. Double Take has released 2 CDs, a self-titled CD through PL Productions (DT001) in 2001, and “Atmospheres” (DT001) released in 2008, which features commissioned works by Howard Buss and William Cahn of Nexus, which are both available on www.cdbaby. com. The Percussive Arts Society (PAS), the International Trumpet Guild (ITG), and the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI) reviewed both recordings favorably. Since the fall of 2009, Double Take has embarked on a Fall Recruiting Tour to promote their unique chamber ensemble going to high schools

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in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C. The development of the FSU Trumpet Choir and Percussion Ensemble was a natural fit for what Double Take was prompting as a professional group and what FSU needed to give students, another avenue to develop their musical skills for the future and an opportunity to explore current trends in this genre. Throughout the country, there has been an explosion of professional chamber ensembles that have formed due to the lack of performance opportunities that are currently available with the traditional music organizations (orchestra, musical theatre, clubs, etc).

The chamber explosion has also been fueled by the trained musicians coming out of colleges and universities seeking to develop their own voice and control their product (entrepreneur attitude). Lastly, the explosion has spawned a variety of unique instrument combinations that would otherwise be dismissed as not possible such as marimba and bassoon or trumpet and voice duo just to name a few.

The FSU Percussion Ensemble was established by Dr. Don Parker in fall 2004 with the goal of performing traditional, contemporary, and world music literature for percussion ensemble. The ensemble has performed as a part of the UNCPembroke Percussion Ensemble Festival since Spring 2005, participated in the North Carolina Day of Percussion since 2006, and co-hosted the North Carolina Day of Percussion in 2007. The Trumpet Choir was formed by Dr. Sheryl Linch-Parker in the fall 2008 to provide great focus and opportunities for advancement on trumpet.

The FSU Trumpet Choir has developed a focus on traditional music pieces from the baroque era and related music periods with a twist closely related to the Presidents’ Own Herald Trumpets. The development of the fanfare has been a major part of its development. The two chamber groups have combined to put a unique FSU approach towards two particular styles of music, traditional military calls (Bugle and Drum) and salsa music.

The FSU Percussion Ensemble and The Trumpet Choir have combined since 2006 to present An Evening of Trumpet

Dr. Don N. Parker and Dr. Sheryl Linch-Parker are Double Take

and Percussion on campus with special presentations with guest artists and additional student groups such as the FSU Chamber Choir and FSU Dance Ensemble.

During the 2011 Opus I scholarship event with the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the two chamber groups combined to present an intermission of salsa music with singing and dancing by audience and performers. The two groups have also combined to present a Spring Recruiting Tour since 2007 performing at most of the high schools and middle schools in the Cumberland County School District. The Spring 2012 semester marked the groups’ reaching out to the surrounding schools with performances in Hoke County at Hoke County High School and Overhills High School in Harnett County. Beyond these two chamber ensembles, more FSU students have expanded their performance opportunities with the formation of student directed chamber groups featured as a part of their senior recitals and in the surrounding community.

The presence of Double Take with Dr. Sheryl Linch-Parker and Dr. Don N. Parker as an active professional chamber group recognized by its peers has positively impacted the students at FSU exposing them to new avenues for performance and education as it relates to chamber music playing.

You will not want to miss Dianne Reeves perform all of your Yuletide favorites at the Holiday Spectacular on November 29.

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Chancellor’s Distinguished Speakers Series George C. Fraser

September 18  6:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Theme: Financial Literacy. Tickets available starting September 4.

Al Sharpton September 29  3:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Theme: Democratic Process. Tickets available starting August 20 for students and September 4 for the general public.

John Silvanus Wilson October 4  2:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Theme: Fall Convocation.

General Janet C. Wolfenbarger November 5  6:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Theme: Military. Tickets available starting October 15.

Bob Zellner January 22  6:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Theme: MLK. Tickets available starting January 2.

Cornel West February 9  1:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Theme: Black History Month. Tickets available starting January 7 for students and January 22 for the general public.

Hilda Pinnix-Ragland March 12  2:00 p.m.  Seabrook Auditorium Theme: Women’s History Month. Tickets available starting February 19.

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George C. Fraser George C. Fraser is Chairman and CEO of FraserNet, Inc. A company he founded some 25 years ago with the vision to lead a global networking movement that brings together diverse human resources to increase opportunities for people of African descent. He is considered by many to be a new voice for African Americans and one of the foremost authorities on economic development, networking and building effective relationships.

While George’s accomplishments are significant, his beginnings were very humble. He was born in Brooklyn, NY into a family of 11 children (8 boys and 3 girls). When George’s mom become mentally ill, George’s dad, a cab driver, couldn’t care for 11 children so George was orphaned at 3 and spent 14 years in foster homes. Growing up on the streets of New York he had little hope and no expectations.

Although his guidance counselor suggested he drop out of high school, George graduated from high school with a vocational diploma in woodworking because the school system did not consider him college material. Thank God George felt differently… for several years, he mopped floors on the midnight shift at LaGuardia Airport, while he paid his way through college. Later, in 1996, he graduated from the prestigious Dartmouth College; Minority Business Executive Program. In 1999, he was awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree of Humane Letters from Jarvis Christian College.

Dr. Fraser rose to leadership positions with Procter & Gamble, the United Way, and Ford Motor Company. It was some 25 years ago that God unveiled His real purpose for George. Mr. Fraser went on to author of three critically acclaimed books: Success

Reverend Dr. Al Sharpton Rev. Al Sharpton is the founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), a not-for-profit civil rights organization headquartered in Harlem, New York, with over 47 Chapters nationwide.

Rev. Sharpton is currently the only African-American host of an evening talk show called “PoliticsNation” on MSNBC that analyzes the top political and social news of the day featuring the country’s leading newsmakers. He also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show “Keepin it Real” that is heard daily all over the country, and two local New York radio shows. Typically Rev. Sharpton delivers live remarks at NAN’s weekly Saturday Rally at NAN’s Harlem headquarters the “House of Justice” that is broadcast live on NAN’s website www.nationalactionnetwork. net each Saturday from 9-11 a.m.

Rev. Al Sharpton and National Action Network’s documented recent accomplishments include a nationwide labor tour with leading labor organizations including AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) that led to the defeat of proposed bill SB5 (Senate Bill 5) that was an assault on worker’s rights; a March for Jobs and Justice on Capitol Hill; a 25-city Jobs rally; an Agreement, along with the NAACP and the National Urban League, and Comcast and NBC Universal (Memorandum of Understanding - MOU), to expand current diversity initiatives intended to increase diversity in a wide range of areas including programming and employment.

This Agreement was the largest Agreement with civil rights groups in history and commitments were made with at least eight new independently owned and operated networks where minorities have substantial participation either through ownership or operational control will be launched. Finally, other recent highlights include NAN opening a Washington, DC, Bureau to monitor and work on social policy issues that involve the

Runs In Our Race; Complete Guide to Effective Networking in the African American Community and Race For Success; The Ten Best Business Opportunities for Blacks In America and the most recent, Ten Truths for Building Extraordinary Relationships.

Dr. Fraser is also the publisher of the award-winning SuccessGuide Worldwide: The Networking Guide to Black Resources. He is the founder of the annual PowerNetworking Conference, where thousands of Black professionals, business owners, and community leaders gather to learn the art and science of networking, entrepreneurship and wealth creation.

Dr. Fraser is the Chairman of Phoenix Village Academy; which consists of three afro-centric charter schools that serve Cleveland inner city children. A popular speaker and author, George C. Fraser’s inspiring talks on success principles, effective networking, wealth creation, business ethics, and valuing diversity, are as popular among corporate professionals as they are among college students.

His views have been solicited by media as diverse as CNN and the Wall Street Journal. Over the past decade, the prestigious publication, Vital Speeches of the Day, has selected, reprinted and distributed worldwide, five of Dr. Fraser’s speeches--a first for any professional speaker in America, regardless of color.

UPSCALE magazine name him one of the “Top 50 Power Brokers in Black America”. Black Enterprise Magazine called him “Black America’s #1 Networker” and featured him on a cover issue.

Dr. Fraser has appeared on seven national magazine covers and was recently inducted into the Minority Business Hall of Fame and Museum.

TV host and journalist, Tavis Smiley called him a “visionary with the rare combination of leadership and management skills.”

Mr. Fraser was featured in the New York Times-bestseller, Masters of Networking, along with Secretary, Colin Powell. Dr. Fraser has been married to Nora Jean for 38 years. They have two sons, Kyle and Scott. ■ Congress and White House, and the successful 2nd annual Triumph Awards in New York at Jazz at Lincoln center, a starstudded event that was highlighted by Tyler Perry writing a personal check for $200,000 and funds and pledges raised over a million dollars for NAN. Whether it was his noteworthy Presidential run as a candidate for the Democratic Party in 2004, or his compelling speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, Reverend Sharpton has had an irrefutable impact on national politics and civil rights because of his strong commitment to equality and progressive politics. In April of 2001, Coretta Scott King hailed him as “a voice for the oppressed, a leader who has protested injustice with a passionate and unrelenting commitment to nonviolent action in the spirit and tradition of Martin Luther King Jr.” Forty-seven years after the historic March on Washington where her late husband Dr. King delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech,” Rev. Sharpton and National Action Network recently led 30,000 people in the “Reclaim the Dream” rally and march.

In the business world Rev. Sharpton has been successful in getting the private sector to engage in billions of dollars in contracts with minority communities. Sharpton’s stance on behalf of the disenfranchised has taken him, in his own words, “from the streets to the suites.” In 1999, in a united voice with African -American advertising agencies and marketing and media outlets, he launched the “Madison Avenue Initiative” (MAI) to ensure that those who do business with advertising outlets around the country deal even-handedly with agencies, media outlets and publications run by people of color. Sharpton’s work with the MAI has targeted major corporations, including PepsiCo, ColgatePalmolive, Microsoft, and others, who have subsequently extended their advertising dollars to reach more of African-American and Hispanic communities.

Rev. Sharpton is a champion for human rights and is passionate about the key issues that involve confronting human rights violations. ■

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John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. serves as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), where the challenge is to ensure that HBCUs are a significant force in helping the nation to reach the goal set by President Barack Obama of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the year 2020.

Before working with the White House Initiative, Wilson was an associate professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education, and an executive dean at the George Washington University. He spent the first 16 years of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he ultimately served as director of foundation relations and assistant provost.

He received a bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, and both a master’s and a doctoral degree in administration, planning and social policy, also from Harvard University. While working at MIT, he served as a teaching fellow in Harvard University’s AfroAmerican Studies Department as well as in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. ■

Bob Zellner Arrested 18 times in seven states, Bob Zellner organized in Macomb, Mississippi, Albany, Georgia, Danville, Virginia, Talladega, Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama, as well as New Haven, Connecticut, and Boston, Massachusetts. Zellner was charged with everything from criminal anarchy in Baton Rouge to “inciting the black population to acts of war and violence against the white population” in Danville, Virginia.

From 1963 to 1965, Zellner studied race relations in the Graduate School of Sociology at Brandeis University.

During Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 he traveled with Rita Schwerner while taking part in SNCC’s and CORE’s investigation of the disappearance of her husband Mickey, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman.

When SNCC became an all black organization in 1967, Zellner and his wife Dottie joined SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) to organize an anti-racism project for black and white workers in the Deep South called GROW, Grass Roots Organizing Work, also called Get Rid Of Wallace. GROW built a residential educational facility in New Orleans and began organizing the Gulf coast Pulpwood Association while working in Laurel, Mississippi where a wildcat strike involving black and white Masonite factory workers and woodcutters spread across the southern states.

Beginning in the mid-sixties Zellner worked on documentary and feature films, traveling to Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Mexico. The film Mississippi Burning so distorted the role of the FBI in the movement that Zellner toured college campuses lecturing on the real history of the struggle. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, far from being heroes of the movement, hounded Zellner’s friend and mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King and launched the Counter

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General Janet C. Wolfenbarger Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger serves as Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The command’s 83,000 people manage $60 billion annually in research, development, test and evaluation while providing the acquisition management services and logistics support required to develop, procure and sustain Air Force weapon systems.

General Wolfenbarger was commissioned in 1980 as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and began her career in acquisition as an engineer at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. She has held a variety of assignments at headquarters Electronic Security Command and Air Force Systems Command.

The general has held several positions in the F-22 System Program Office at Wright-Patterson AFB, served as the F-22 Lead Program Element Monitor at the Pentagon, and was the B-2 System Program Director for the Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. She commanded ASC’s C-17 Systems Group, Mobility Systems Wing. She was the Service’s Director of the Air Force Acquisition Center of Excellence at the Pentagon, then served as Director of the Headquarters AFMC Intelligence and Requirements Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB. She served as AFMC vice commander from December 2009 to September 2011.

Prior to her current assignment, General Wolfenbarger was the Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. ■

Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) a U.S. government attack designed to destroy the Freedom Movement.

In the early 1990s, studying at Tulane University for a PhD. in history, Zellner wrote a dissertation on the southern civil rights movement. While working on the dissertation, he taught the History of Activism at Rosemont College, Pennsylvania and Southampton College of Long Island University. Julian Bond, now the National NAACP chairman and Zellner organized the National Civil Rights Coordinating Committee. Zellner works with the Eastern Long Island Branch of the NAACP headed by Lucius Ware and with the Southampton Town Anti-Bias Task Force under the leadership of Dianne Rulnick.

As co-chair of the Town of Southampton Anti-Bias Task Force in 2000, Zellner’s right elbow was broken when he mediated a dispute between the police and the Shinnecock Nation. Troopers attacked Dr. Zellner and members of the tribe who were protecting ancestral burial grounds from developer’s bulldozers. All who were injured were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

A Federal jury, in 2007, agreeing with civil rights attorney Frederick Brewington, ruled that Zellner and the Shinnecock were victims of false arrest, malicious prosecution, and denial of civil rights. They were awarded compensatory and punitive damages.

In 2005, Bob Zellner was a featured Civil Rights luminary in the award-winning documentary Come Walk in My Shoes. The Annual Faith and Politics Congressional Pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama and other sites of the freedom struggle was led by the Honorable John Lewis and filmed by Robin Smith, award winning documentary director and producer and president and founder of VideoAction.

Zellner’s memoir, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, with Constance Curry and foreword by Julian Bond, was published by New South Books in the November, 2008. In August 2008, the Library Journal gave the book a Red Star Review: “He tells a story that is sometimes horrific, always interesting and ultimately inspirational about a white Southerner’s commitment to racial justice.” ■

Cornel West Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his dear Brother, Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV Show.

He is also co-host of the popular radio show “Smiley & West” heard on PRI around the country. The co-hosts have recently co-authored the book titled The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto. The new book is a game-changing text on economic injustice in America.

He made his film debut in the Matrix – and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk and Stand.

Last, he has made three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His spoken word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard’s Choices (which won the Grand Prix in France for the best Jazz Album of the year of 2009), The Cornel West Theory’s Second Rome, Raheem DeVaughn’s Grammy-nominated Love & War: Masterpeace, and most recently on Bootsy Collins’ The Funk Capital of the World. In short, Cornel West has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice. ■

Hilda Pinnix-Ragland Hilda Pinnix-Ragland is Vice President-Corporate Public Affairs for Duke Energy, the nation’s largest integrated utility headquartered in N.C. In that role, Hilda has responsibility for working with officials at the federal, state and local levels to develop responsible public policy that protects consumers and businesses. She also serves as Vice Chair of Progress Energy’s Corporate Diversity Council.

She received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from N.C. A&T State University in 1977 (graduating magna cum laude) and a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University in 1986. Hilda has completed the Harvard University Kennedy School of Public Policy Executive Leadership Program.

Currently, Hilda Pinnix-Ragland serves on the Board of Directors for: the NC State Board of Community Colleges (chair), the Research Triangle Institute International (RTI), the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, and the American Association of Blacks in Energy (former national chair). Pinnix-Ragland was recently confirmed to the National Parks Foundation Board of Trustees, the NC College Foundation Board of Trustees and the NC A&T University Board of Visitors.

Pinnix-Ragland has received numerous honors and awards; among them are: appointments by Governor Perdue to the Budget Reform and Accountability Commission (BRAC) and to the Governor’s Transition Team; the NC 4-H Lifetime Achievement Award; the Distinguished Alumni Award from N.C. A&T State University. Ms. Ragland was recently awarded the 2010 BOBB Award in Energy presented by the American Academy of Business and Commerce and featured as a “Phenomenal Woman” in the City Insight Magazine.

Hilda Pinnix-Ragland enjoys traveling, gardening and reading. She and her husband, Al, have a daughter, Katherine. They live in Cary, N.C. ■

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OPUS III A Scholarship Benefit for the Department of Performing and Fine Arts And Then Came Tomorrow

April 19-21 and 26-28  Butler Theater A new drama by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. World Premier Reception: Butler Theater, April 19, 6:00pm By invitation only World Premier Performance: Butler Theater, April 19, 7:30pm

A few words from Bennett about the inspiration for his new work . . .

African Americans and we as a country have been through much since Lorraine Hansberry penned A Raisin in the Sun. For the first time the United States has a President of African descent, a Tea Party, an economy and employment situation that has rattled the country, but shaken the African American community to its core. Our current times juxtaposed against the road we have traveled to get where we are today, socially, spiritually, and historically has posed very intriguing questions when viewed as a playwright and placed in dramatic context.

If he were alive today, Walter Lee Younger, the male lead in A Raisin in the Sun would be an elderly man. What would be his legacy? Since being introduced in a poetic speech by his father to Mr. Lindner, Travis, Walter Lee’s son, would be in his mid to late fifties now. What has Travis done with the pivotal choices that Lena, Ruth, Walter and Beneatha lived through by moving to and integrating the all white community of Clybourne Park. Does he and or his children respect or have a full grasp of the magnitude of what came before him? Whatever became of his unborn brother or sister that Ruth was carrying and contemplated terminating, but did not?

Who are Walter Lee’s grandchildren? Again, much has transpired since 1959 and if the Youngers reflect a breaking point among generations with regard to women’s rights, racial equality, and the aspirations of a family and people, where are we now? These questions are the germ for a new American play that explores the African American experience at the beginning of the second decade of the new millennium.

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Save the Date for the All-American Jazz Festival All-American Jazz Festival

Featuring The Jazz Crusaders, Keiko Matsui, Maysa and Marcus Johnson.

May 11, 2013  Festival Park  Downtown Fayetteville The All-American Jazz Festival is a one day festival that celebrates the legacy of jazz by providing opportunities for the community to experience jazz through the creative production of performances featuring local as well as world renowned artists and jazz masters.

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1. Center for Continuing Education 2. Charles W. Chesnutt Library 3. Police Public Safety OfďŹ ce 4. School of Business & Economics Building 5. G.L. Butler Learning Center 6. E.E. Smith Administration Complex 7. Rudolph Jones Student Center 8. Vance Hall 9. New Residence Hall 10 Honors Residence Hall 11. New Health, Physical Education and Recreation Complex 12. Nick Jeralds Football Field 13. Williams Hall 14. Mitchell Building 15. Hood Hall 16. Lyons Science Building 17. Joyner Hall 18. Physical Plant Building 19. Warehouse 20. Storage Shed

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21. Warehouse 22. Bryant Hall 23. Harris Hall 24. Cook Hall 25. Smith Hall 26. James M. Paige Alumni House 27. Spaulding InďŹ rmary 28. J.W. Seabrook Auditorium 29. Rosenthal Building 30. Helen T. Chick Building 31. Telecommunications Center 32. Knuckles Science Annex 33. Taylor Social Science Building 34. Newbold Building 35. Lilly Gymnasium 36. L.J. Taylor Gymnasium 37. Lyons Science Annex 38. Bronco Residence Hall 39. Bronco Student Plaza 40. University Place Apartments/Honors Program 41. Bronco Square Shopping Center.

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2012-2013 Fine Arts Series Planning Committee Dr. Earnest Lamb, Chair Dr. Michael DeValve Mr. Jeremy Fiebig Mr. David Griffie Dr. Richard Hall Dr. Don Parker Dr. Jane Peacock Ms. Denise Payton Mr. Dwight Smith The planning committee is interested in your programming suggestions or ways to improve the series. Please fill out our online survey at:

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Save the Dates!

May 2013 11 WFSS/All-American Jazz Festival

June 2013 19 The Seagulls

Sweet Tea Shakespeare Company

June 19-23 July 2013 17 Romeo and Juliet

Sweet Tea Shakespeare Company

July 17-21 AUGUST 2013 23 “The Power of Sounds and Rhythms”

Rosenthal Gallery Series August 23-October 5

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