Bauson will guide the audience on a journey of harp music from around the world, including works inspired by Spanish guitars, Asian poetry, the vistas of Antarctica and more. The concert is free and open to the public.
A harp professor in UMW’s Department of Music, Bauson has performed with the American Youth Harp Ensemble in venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, and the Kennedy Center. She also has been a featured soloist in concerto performances at the Chautauqua Music Festival and with the Kokomo and Ball State symphony orchestras. Her students have performed in numerous national and international tours with the American Youth Harp Ensemble.
Bauson’s instructors have included Elizabeth Richter, Judy Loman, Adelheid Blovsky-Miller and Lucile Lawrence. She holds a doctorate in music from Ball State University.
For more information, call (540) 654-1012 or visit cas.umw.edu/music.UMW Presents Harp Concert
October 13, 2014 by
The University of Mary Washington will present “Around the World in 80 Minutes,” a music concert featuring harpist Grace Bauson on Friday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. in Pollard Recital Hall.
Bauson will guide the audience on a journey of harp music from around the world, including works inspired by Spanish guitars, Asian poetry, the vistas of Antarctica and more. The concert is free and open to the public.
A harp professor in UMW’s Department of Music, Bauson has performed with the American Youth Harp Ensemble in venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, and the Kennedy Center. She also has been a featured soloist in concerto performances at the Chautauqua Music Festival and with the Kokomo and Ball State symphony orchestras. Her students have performed in numerous national and international tours with the American Youth Harp Ensemble.
Bauson’s instructors have included Elizabeth Richter, Judy Loman, Adelheid Blovsky-Miller and Lucile Lawrence. She holds a doctorate in music from Ball State University.
For more information, call (540) 654-1012 or visit cas.umw.edu/music.
Bauson will guide the audience on a journey of harp music from around the world, including works inspired by Spanish guitars, Asian poetry, the vistas of Antarctica and more. The concert is free and open to the public.
A harp professor in UMW’s Department of Music, Bauson has performed with the American Youth Harp Ensemble in venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, and the Kennedy Center. She also has been a featured soloist in concerto performances at the Chautauqua Music Festival and with the Kokomo and Ball State symphony orchestras. Her students have performed in numerous national and international tours with the American Youth Harp Ensemble.
Bauson’s instructors have included Elizabeth Richter, Judy Loman, Adelheid Blovsky-Miller and Lucile Lawrence. She holds a doctorate in music from Ball State University.
For more information, call (540) 654-1012 or visit cas.umw.edu/music.UMW Commemorates 25th Anniversary of Berlin Wall
October 13, 2014 by
The University of Mary Washington will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with “Fall of the Wall Campus Weeks” starting Monday, Oct. 13.
Campus Weeks, coordinated by UMW’s German Program in cooperation with the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., will continue through Thursday, Nov. 6. All events, with the exception of the German Gala on Nov. 6, are free and open to the public.
The program will open with the building and painting of a wall in memory of the assembly of the Berlin Wall by the German Democratic Republic in 1961. Construction will begin on Monday, Oct. 13 on Campus Walk in front of Ball Circle and concludes on Thursday, Oct. 16 with a ceremony at 4 p.m.
Other program events include:
Campus Weeks, coordinated by UMW’s German Program in cooperation with the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., will continue through Thursday, Nov. 6. All events, with the exception of the German Gala on Nov. 6, are free and open to the public.
The program will open with the building and painting of a wall in memory of the assembly of the Berlin Wall by the German Democratic Republic in 1961. Construction will begin on Monday, Oct. 13 on Campus Walk in front of Ball Circle and concludes on Thursday, Oct. 16 with a ceremony at 4 p.m.
Other program events include:
- Film Screening of Sonnenallee, Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 139
- German Game Night, Monday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 412
- Film Screening of Nikolaikirche, Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 139
- Panel Discussion, “Living (with)out Walls: The Korean, Palestinian, and Mexican Experience,” Thursday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 411
- Reading and discussion with German author Martin Jankowski, Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 5 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 412
- Halloween Celebration and Film Screening of We are the Night, Thursday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 237
- Film screening of Berlin is in Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 237
- German Gala, Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Faculty Staff Dining Room at Seacobeck Hall
UMW Raises Awareness of Dating Violence
October 13, 2014 by
The University of Mary Washington is raising awareness of dating violence on college campuses through the Red Flag Campaign, a student-run movement that helps students recognize and respond to ‘red flags’ associated with dating violence.
The campaign’s central feature is a poster series depicting situations in which students should say something if they see a “red flag” in a relationship of a friend, acquaintance, neighbor or even in their own relationships. Throughout the month of October, students are placing the posters and red flags on the Fredericksburg campus.
The Student Anti-Violence Educators, or SAVE, a student-run organization at UMW, coordinates the campaign in conjunction with UMW’s Office of Judicial Affairs and UMW’s wellness team, as part of the Healthy Campus 2020 initiative. Other UMW organizations participating in the campaign include Empowerhouse, Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault, and the university’s Talley Center for Counseling Services.
“This month, SAVE is working with the Red Flag Campaign to create a more developed understanding and awareness of relationship violence within our community,” said sophomore Theresa Buczek, president of SAVE. “This includes breaking down myths and stereotypes that heterosexual white women are the only victims of assault. Relationship violence can affect anyone.”
In addition to the red flags and the posters, SAVE members will chalk messages about healthy relationships on Campus Walk, and will paint the Spirit Rock red. In addition, SAVE will host a healthy relationship photo shoot on Friday, Oct. 17 to highlight the model relationships of couples from the UMW community. The campaign will conclude on Thursday, Oct. 30 with an open mic night and candlelight vigil for survivors of relationship violence and supporters of the Red Flag Campaign.
The Red Flag Campaign is held on college campuses across the country. UMW has participated since the beginning of the campaign eight years ago and has been chosen to be a partner school for the past several years because of its strong work on the campaign.
For more information, contact the Office of Judicial Affairs and Community Responsibility at (540) 654-1200.
The campaign’s central feature is a poster series depicting situations in which students should say something if they see a “red flag” in a relationship of a friend, acquaintance, neighbor or even in their own relationships. Throughout the month of October, students are placing the posters and red flags on the Fredericksburg campus.
The Student Anti-Violence Educators, or SAVE, a student-run organization at UMW, coordinates the campaign in conjunction with UMW’s Office of Judicial Affairs and UMW’s wellness team, as part of the Healthy Campus 2020 initiative. Other UMW organizations participating in the campaign include Empowerhouse, Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault, and the university’s Talley Center for Counseling Services.
“This month, SAVE is working with the Red Flag Campaign to create a more developed understanding and awareness of relationship violence within our community,” said sophomore Theresa Buczek, president of SAVE. “This includes breaking down myths and stereotypes that heterosexual white women are the only victims of assault. Relationship violence can affect anyone.”
In addition to the red flags and the posters, SAVE members will chalk messages about healthy relationships on Campus Walk, and will paint the Spirit Rock red. In addition, SAVE will host a healthy relationship photo shoot on Friday, Oct. 17 to highlight the model relationships of couples from the UMW community. The campaign will conclude on Thursday, Oct. 30 with an open mic night and candlelight vigil for survivors of relationship violence and supporters of the Red Flag Campaign.
The Red Flag Campaign is held on college campuses across the country. UMW has participated since the beginning of the campaign eight years ago and has been chosen to be a partner school for the past several years because of its strong work on the campaign.
For more information, contact the Office of Judicial Affairs and Community Responsibility at (540) 654-1200.UMW to Host Executive-In-Residence
October 7, 2014 by
The University of Mary Washington will host the 2014-15 Executive-in-Residence featuring Daniel R. Wolfe ’84 beginning Wednesday, Oct. 15.
Dan Wolfe
The two-day program, “The Future of Movie Business,” will feature a presentation and reception by Wolfe on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. in the North Building on the Stafford campus. The session is open to the public, but space is limited and registration is encouraged.
Wolfe is a 1984 graduate of Mary Washington, which honored him with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004 and as the Distinguished Graduate in Residence in 2007. He currently serves on the College of Business Advisory Board.
As the executive vice president of Worldwide Creative Operations at NBC Universal, Wolfe oversees a staff of more than 100 in Los Angeles and London who provide creative, post production, technical and other support worldwide for the marketing campaigns of all Universal’s motion picture releases. His department is responsible for the development and execution of a film’s marketing message for theatrical trailers, television commercials, print advertising, new media, radio, theme park placement and home entertainment including sell thru, pay-per-view and video-on-demand.
In his long career at Universal Pictures, Wolfe has been involved in more than 400 films, including “Jurassic Park,” “Fast and Furious,” “Bourne” and “American Pie” franchises. Wolfe has been a part of 15 films that were nominated for Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and four that won Oscars® for Best Picture including “Schindler’s List,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “Gladiator” and “A Beautiful Mind.” Before joining Universal in 1990, he was a manager of creative advertising at New Line Cinema and prior to that, Orion Pictures. While at Orion Pictures, Wolfe worked on campaigns for the Academy Award® winning films “Dances with Wolves” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
He has a postgraduate degree in communication industries management from Emerson College and is a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.
For more information or to register for the presentation and reception, call (540) 654-1242 or visit business.umw.edu/eir.
UMW Philharmonic Opens 44th Season
October 6, 2014 by
The UMW Philharmonic opens its 44th season on Saturday, Oct. 18, with a tribute to composer Leonard Bernstein.
Jamie Bernstein
The performance, narrated by Bernstein’s daughter Jamie, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium. Tickets for the concert start at $15.
The orchestra, hailed as one of the finest college-community ensembles in the country, is coming off a banner year in which it shared the stage with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman. This year, the Philharmonic will feature four unique and groundbreaking concerts.
Considered one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein wrote music for the concert stage as well as for Broadway.
“We decided to segment the show according to the genres of music Bernstein created during his career,” said Kevin Bartram, the Philharmonic’s music director. “That way, we can offer some of his best-known works alongside some of his lesser-known gems. Jamie will provide details about how her dad wrote the score, and add other personal anecdotes.”
The segment titled “For the Cinema” features Bernstein’s mammoth score to “On the Waterfront.” The 1954 classic, starring Marlon Brando, was ranked No. 8 on the list of all-time great films by the American Film Institute, and became Bernstein’s only film score not adapted from a stage play.
Another segment, “For the Opera,” includes his “Overture to Candide” and the song “Make our Garden Grow.” “Simple Song,” an addition to the “For the Stage” segment, was written for the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971.
While Bernstein’s contributions to music were immense, he is best remembered for his Broadway scores. In the “For Broadway” segment, the Philharmonic will perform the original scores to both “Fancy Free” and “On the Town,” and conclude with the classic “West Side Story.”
To purchase tickets or become a Friend of the Philharmonic, visit philharmonic.umw.edu or call (540)654-1324.
UMW To Host 1st Congressional District Debate, Oct. 6
October 1, 2014 by
A third candidate has joined the 1st Congressional District Debate to be held on Monday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium.
Independent candidate Gail Parker will debate incumbent Republican Rep. Rob Wittman and Democratic challenger Norm Mosher. The 1st District includes more than 15 counties and includes parts of Stafford, Spotsylvania, and the city of Fredericksburg. The event is free and open to the public.
Parker, a retired officer of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, has spent 34 years as a U.S. civil servant. She has been involved with numerous organizations including the Fairfax Federation of Citizen’s Associations, Washington Region Council of Governments Transportation Committee and Federally Employed Women.
Wittman, a resident of Montross, has held the seat since 2007. He co-chairs the House Chesapeake Bay Watershed Caucus and serves on the House Natural Resources Committee. Prior to his election to Congress, he served in the House of Delegates for the Northern Neck.
A former captain of the U.S. Navy, Mosher is a resident of Irvington. He served on the Irvington Town Council and as chair of the Lancaster County Democratic Committee.
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, will moderate the program. Panelists will be Chelyen Davis, assistant editorial page editor at The Free Lance-Star, and Ted Schubel, news director for B101.5 and WFVA’s News Talk 1230.
The debate is co-sponsored by the Fredericksburg Area Chamber of Commerce; The Free Lance-Star; UMW’s Young Democrats; UMW’s College Republicans; The Blue and Gray Press; and the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies.
For more information about the debate, contact Stephen Farnsworth at sfarnswo@umw.edu. Additional information on each candidate can be found on their respective websites: www.robwittman.com, www.normmosher.com and www.gailparker.us.
Independent candidate Gail Parker will debate incumbent Republican Rep. Rob Wittman and Democratic challenger Norm Mosher. The 1st District includes more than 15 counties and includes parts of Stafford, Spotsylvania, and the city of Fredericksburg. The event is free and open to the public.
Parker, a retired officer of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, has spent 34 years as a U.S. civil servant. She has been involved with numerous organizations including the Fairfax Federation of Citizen’s Associations, Washington Region Council of Governments Transportation Committee and Federally Employed Women.
Wittman, a resident of Montross, has held the seat since 2007. He co-chairs the House Chesapeake Bay Watershed Caucus and serves on the House Natural Resources Committee. Prior to his election to Congress, he served in the House of Delegates for the Northern Neck.
A former captain of the U.S. Navy, Mosher is a resident of Irvington. He served on the Irvington Town Council and as chair of the Lancaster County Democratic Committee.
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, will moderate the program. Panelists will be Chelyen Davis, assistant editorial page editor at The Free Lance-Star, and Ted Schubel, news director for B101.5 and WFVA’s News Talk 1230.
The debate is co-sponsored by the Fredericksburg Area Chamber of Commerce; The Free Lance-Star; UMW’s Young Democrats; UMW’s College Republicans; The Blue and Gray Press; and the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies.
For more information about the debate, contact Stephen Farnsworth at sfarnswo@umw.edu. Additional information on each candidate can be found on their respective websites: www.robwittman.com, www.normmosher.com and www.gailparker.us.James Monroe Museum to Host Forum on Virginia Governors
September 26, 2014 by
The James Monroe Museum and Library will host a public forum on Wednesday, Oct. 22 that focuses on the development of the role of Governor in Virginia since 1799. “From Monroe to McAuliffe: The Evolution of the Office of Governor of Virginia” will trace the history of the Virginia governorship and analyze the development of the office from the time James Monroe held the title to today.
The forum features a panel of experts, including The Honorable Gerald Baliles, 65th governor of Virginia; Stephen J. Farnsworth, UMW professor of political science and international affairs and director of the UMW Center for Leadership and Media Studies; Daniel Preston, editor of the Papers of James Monroe; and Scott Harris, director of the James Monroe Museum.
The event will be held at the University of Mary Washington in Lee Hall, Room 411 at 7 p.m. The forum is free and open to the public. Contact the James Monroe Museum and Library at (540) 654-1043 for more information.
Gari Melchers Home and Studio to Host Film Screening
September 26, 2014 by
Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont will host a screening of the new documentary “The Great Confusion: The 1913 Armory Show,” produced by 217 Films, on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m.
Terri Templeton, filmmaker and executive producer, will introduce the film and hold a question and answer session afterwards. The screening is free and open to the public.
The film highlights the historic and controversial International Exhibition of Modern Art, located in a New York City armory in 1913. Known simply as the “Armory Show,” the exhibition changed the face of art in America, giving many Americans their first taste of a new, revolutionary kind of art.
“The more we dug deeply into the history of the Armory Show,” said the film’s director, Michael Maglaras, who also wrote the film and narrates it, “the more it became clear to us that, with this exhibition focused on ‘the new,’ we had truly entered the American century: the century of our greatest achievements as a nation and the beginning of our preeminence on the world stage.”
From February 17 until March 15, 1913, Americans by the thousands pushed their way through the doors of the 69th Regiment Armory to experience “Modern Art” for the first time. What they saw annoyed and infuriated some, and captivated, delighted and inspired many.
President Theodore Roosevelt, upon visiting the exhibition, called the most modern of these works “repellent.” That was just the beginning of the controversy surrounding this historic exhibition.
What resulted from these four weeks of mass exposure to European artists such as Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh and the upstart Marcel Duchamp with his “Nude Descending a Staircase”—as well as such Americans as Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Charles Sheeler—changed how Americans came to understand their own times.
“The Great Confusion: The 1913 Armory Show” features works by more than 60 American and European painters and sculptors. The film probes deeply into the history of how the show was organized; examines the critical efforts of American artists such as Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach, and Walt Kuhn; and explores the impact that the show had on collectors of art as well as ordinary citizens.
For more information, call Gari Melchers Home and Studio at (540) 654-1015 or go to garimelchers.umw.edu.
Terri Templeton, filmmaker and executive producer, will introduce the film and hold a question and answer session afterwards. The screening is free and open to the public.
The film highlights the historic and controversial International Exhibition of Modern Art, located in a New York City armory in 1913. Known simply as the “Armory Show,” the exhibition changed the face of art in America, giving many Americans their first taste of a new, revolutionary kind of art.
“The more we dug deeply into the history of the Armory Show,” said the film’s director, Michael Maglaras, who also wrote the film and narrates it, “the more it became clear to us that, with this exhibition focused on ‘the new,’ we had truly entered the American century: the century of our greatest achievements as a nation and the beginning of our preeminence on the world stage.”
From February 17 until March 15, 1913, Americans by the thousands pushed their way through the doors of the 69th Regiment Armory to experience “Modern Art” for the first time. What they saw annoyed and infuriated some, and captivated, delighted and inspired many.
President Theodore Roosevelt, upon visiting the exhibition, called the most modern of these works “repellent.” That was just the beginning of the controversy surrounding this historic exhibition.
What resulted from these four weeks of mass exposure to European artists such as Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh and the upstart Marcel Duchamp with his “Nude Descending a Staircase”—as well as such Americans as Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Charles Sheeler—changed how Americans came to understand their own times.
“The Great Confusion: The 1913 Armory Show” features works by more than 60 American and European painters and sculptors. The film probes deeply into the history of how the show was organized; examines the critical efforts of American artists such as Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach, and Walt Kuhn; and explores the impact that the show had on collectors of art as well as ordinary citizens.
For more information, call Gari Melchers Home and Studio at (540) 654-1015 or go to garimelchers.umw.edu.UMW to Host Lecture in Observation of Constitution Day
September 15, 2014 by
The University of Mary Washington will commemorate Constitution Day, Wed., Sept. 17, with a public lecture by Doug Smith, executive director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier.
The lecture, “Does Our Constitution Still Work?,” will be held on Tues., Sept. 16 at 5 p.m. in the Underground in Lee Hall. Smith will speak about current support and criticism of the U. S. Constitution among citizens and lead an interactive conversation about citizen engagement.
In addition, the University will erect chalkboards on Campus Walk between Lee Hall and Trinkle Hall to elicit student reflection on the contemporary significance of the Constitution. The chalkboards will have two prompts asking members of the university community to reflect in writing on the ways in which the Constitution impacts their lives and what they think about the Constitution that ought to be amended.
Constitution Day, sometimes referred to as Citizenship Day, commemorates the September 17, 1787, signing of the Constitution by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The national observance of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution originates from legislation adopted by Congress in 2004 that requires all publicly funded educational institutions to provide educational programming related to the Constitution on that day.
UMW’s Constitution Day programming is a joint effort of the Center for Honor, Leadership and Service, the Department of Art and Art History and the Office of the Provost. For more information, please contact the Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service at (540) 654-1364.
The lecture, “Does Our Constitution Still Work?,” will be held on Tues., Sept. 16 at 5 p.m. in the Underground in Lee Hall. Smith will speak about current support and criticism of the U. S. Constitution among citizens and lead an interactive conversation about citizen engagement.
In addition, the University will erect chalkboards on Campus Walk between Lee Hall and Trinkle Hall to elicit student reflection on the contemporary significance of the Constitution. The chalkboards will have two prompts asking members of the university community to reflect in writing on the ways in which the Constitution impacts their lives and what they think about the Constitution that ought to be amended.
Constitution Day, sometimes referred to as Citizenship Day, commemorates the September 17, 1787, signing of the Constitution by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The national observance of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution originates from legislation adopted by Congress in 2004 that requires all publicly funded educational institutions to provide educational programming related to the Constitution on that day.
UMW’s Constitution Day programming is a joint effort of the Center for Honor, Leadership and Service, the Department of Art and Art History and the Office of the Provost. For more information, please contact the Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service at (540) 654-1364.UMW Celebrates Eagle Nation Day, Sept. 6
September 3, 2014 by
The University of Mary Washington will hold its second annual Eagle Nation Day on Saturday, Sept. 6.
The daylong event begins at 10 a.m. at the Battleground Athletic Complex off Hanover Street and features a host of activities, including an interactive exhibit by the Children’s Museum, water balloon games, moon bounces, horse and pony rides and a screening of the children’s movie “Brave.” The day ends with UMW Women’s Soccer and Field Hockey NCAA Competitions.
The event is co-sponsored by Fredericksburg Field House, B101.5, Paragon Village and Splitsville, Children’s Museum of Richmond-Fredericksburg, and SweetFrog. For more information call (540)654-1153.
