(left to right) Coin Laundry and Potted Plant #1 by Louise
Parsons
Fall Arts Events at Erskine Begin Sept. 1
Music, drama, and traveling
exhibits highlight the fall arts season at Erskine College, with students,
faculty members, and guest artists displaying their talents.
The National Players, America's longest-running classical touring company,
will stage Thornton Wilder's Our Town Sept. 23 in Lesesne Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m. Also in Lesesne Auditorium, the Pummill Family will present
"ClaviVoce," a concert of traditional classical, sacred and
popular music, Sept. 27 at 2 p.m., and Sinfonia, Erskine's instrumental
ensemble, will offer a concert Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
At the Bowie Arts Center on the Erskine campus this fall, the works of
Navajo artist Elmer Yazzie open the season and remain on display Sept.
1 through Oct. 15. Yazzie, who has painted dozens of murals in churches
in the southwestern United States, will be on campus for an opening reception
Sept. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Southern and Caribbean photographs by Louise Parsons, who has exhibited
her work at a number of schools and galleries, including Duke University
and the Galerie Lumiere, Savannah, Ga., will be on display at the Bowie
Arts Center beginning Oct. 16 and remaining through Dec. 11.
The Bowie Arts Center will host several music events this fall. "Romantic
Rachmaninoff and More," a program of works by Beethoven, Schumann
and Rachmaninoff, performed by pianist Dr. Matthew Manwarren and cellist
Elizabeth Austin, both members of Erskine's music faculty, will be presented
at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 as part of the Brawley Chamber Music Series. Two pianists,
Milton Stern and Tellef Juva, will offer recitals in the Koonts-Lampton
Keyboard Series, with Stern set to perform Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Juva
scheduled for Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m.
A presentation in which Erskine drama students and guest musicians combine
forces, focusing on "Shakespeare's Music," will be offered Nov.
6-8 at 7:30 p.m., also in the Bowie Arts Center. The Erskine Players will
enact scenes from Shakespeare's plays, and soprano Julianne Baird and
lutenist Richard Stone will provide music.
Capping the fall arts events held in the Bowie Arts Center is Erskine
Music Department's ninth annual production of "A South Carolina Colonial
Christmas," an evening of dinner, drama, and Christmas music. Seatings
are at 5:30 and 7 p.m. Dec. 4-6, and reservations are required.
Erskine students will perform in Bowie Chapel on the Erskine Seminary
campus, giving three student recitals (Oct. 16, Nov. 6, and Nov. 20, all
at 4 p.m.). A fall choral concert will be held Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m., when
the Erskine College Choraleers, the Erskine Chamber Singers, and the Erskine
Women's Chorale will sing, directed by Dr. John Warren.
