Category: What’s New @ UMW

The Department of Music at the University of Mary Washington is pleased to host the First Annual Electroacoustic Barn Dance, a three-day festival of electronic music and art, to be held Thursday, October 27 to Saturday, October 29 on the campus of UMW and Eyeclopes Gallery, 624 Charlotte Street in Fredericksburg.

This year’s festival will feature the works of 58 composers and 21 performers from across the U.S. and Great Britain, including nine students from the UMW electronic music class.

The schedule of concerts is as follows:

Concert I 10-27 8PM @ Pollard 304 Recital Hall

Concert II 10-28 11AM @ Pollard 304 Recital Hall

Concert III 10-28 2PM @ Pollard 304 Recital Hall

Paper Session I 10-28 3:30 PM @ duPont 207

Concert IV 10-28 4:30PM @ Pollard 304 Recital Hall

Concert V 10-28 8:30PM @ Eyeclopes Gallery – 624 Charlotte Street

Concert VI 10-29 11AM @ Pollard 304 Recital Hall

Paper Session II 10-29 2PM @ Pollard 213

Concert VII 10-29 3PM @ Pollard 304 Recital Hall

Paper Session III 10-29 4:30PM @ Pollard 213

Concert VIII 10-29 8PM @ Pollard 304 Recital Hall

For more information, visit http://www.eajj.org or call (540) 654-1012.

Join the UMW Galleries this Thursday for our exhibition SUPER-SIZED: Large Scale Drawings in the duPont Gallery, located inside duPont Hall. The exhibition will feature works of art by seven different artists, including Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Joshua Bienko, Pat Bretano, Karen Brummund, Ray DiCapua, Dennis Jones and Ben Tolman. The free opening reception will be held from 5 – 7 p.m. in the duPont Gallery. Light refreshments will be provided.

The exhibition is intended to explore ways in which artists involved in the drawing medium employ scale in their process of creating works of art and how that use of scale affects the impact of the work. The drawings in this exhibition vary greatly in the artists’ choices of materials and methods, which range from graphite, ink or charcoal to the blade of a knife.  Some of the artists combine drawing with other media, such as acrylic and oil or digital printing.  Some of the work is site-specific; some incorporates text.  Each speaks from a unique perspective.

Free street parking is available near the duPont Gallery on College Avenue. The exhibition will be on display in duPont Gallery until December 2, 2011. Please call us at (540) 654-1013 with any questions.

On Saturday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m., the UMW Philharmonic heralds its 2011-2012 season with “Pomp & Circumstance: Music of the Royal Wedding.” With guest artists the Chamber Chorale of Fredericksburg and the Capital Herald Trumpets, the orchestra will perform the music featured at the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. The concert will be held in Dodd Auditorium.

Under the direction of Dr. Kevin Bartram, the Philharmonic will perform the same arrangements, in the same order from the ceremony. Featured works include “I Was Glad,” played for the Bridal Procession, “March from the Birds,” played for the Queen’s Procession and “Crown Imperial,” played for the Recessional.

Tickets are $10 for general admission and $2 for students, faculty and staff with a UMW ID. To purchase tickets, visit philharmonic.umw.edu or call 654-1012. Tickets will also be available at the door.

The Great Lives program is sponsoring a contest to see which student can identify the greatest number of famous faces on a display in Monroe Hall. “These are all people of the past, who will each by the subject of a biographer or historian’s lecture during our 2012 season,” said Charles J. Shields, associate director.

The Great Lives/Chappell Lecture Series features approximately 18 biographers, scholars, and historians each spring to talk about the lives of influential persons from all walks of life. The student who can identify the greatest number of famous faces on the display will have his or her choice of dinner for two at a Fredericksburg restaurant, or dinner for two with a guest speaker this spring. Entries must be submitted to Shields (cshield2@umw.edu) by Wednesday, October 26 at 5 p.m.. In case of a tie, the first entry received with the highest number of correctly identified faces will be the winner.

“This is the perfect opportunity,” said Shields, “for a student to impress someone special with his or her outstanding grasp of history.”

Join the newly formed Eagle Business Book Club on Friday, November 11 at 7:30 a.m. in the Minor Board Room of the Jepson Alumni Executive Center.

The club was formed to give UMW faculty and staff an opportunity to read books that pertain to our work environment—our goal is to learn and share best practices in the workplace!  To that end, each month we will read a different ‘business book’ and then discuss it.

The first book selected is a classic.  Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” written in 1936, is one of the most widely read and impactful books worldwide.  Pick up a copy, read it and join us on November 11 for a discussion on how we can use Carnegie’s ideas at UMW.

The Eagle Book Club Steering Committee members are Rosemary Arneson, Erma Baker, Donna Mejia, Fred Pierce, Lynne Richardson, Doug Searcy and Justin Webb.  If you have specific questions, please contact a member of the Steering Committee.  And we hope to see you on November 11th.  Oh, and it’s BYOC (Bring Your Own Coffee)!

— Lynne Richardson, Dean, College of Business