Singer/Storyteller to Give Free Concert at WFU
March 11, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Ken Medema, a nationally-known contemporary Christian musician, recording artist and storyteller, will give a free concert of religious and secular music at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at Wake Forest University’s Brendle Recital Hall. Blind from birth, Medema has been writing and performing his own […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
March 5, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Community, Events, Research
Wake Forest to Hold Irish Festival The “wearing of the green” will last a week at Wake Forest University’s Irish Festival featuring Irish poetry, dancing, film and music March 16-21. Beginning Monday, March 16, with a film series, the festival continues throughout St. Patrick’s Day […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
February 26, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Events, Student
Drumming Workshop Brings African Beat to Campus Community members will explore the rhythms of West African drum music at Wake Forest University during a workshop taught by members of the world-renowned percussion quintet NEXUS on Saturday, Feb. 28. The hands-on workshop, “West African Drumming,” begins […]
WFU Band and Wind Ensemble to Share Stage
February 25, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest University Symphonic Band and the university’s Wind Ensemble, conducted by C. Kevin Bowen, will share the program at an 8 p.m. concert Tuesday, March 3, in Brendle Recital Hall of the Scales Fine Arts Center. Highlights of the Symphonic Band’s program will […]
Wake Forest Presents Bach Concert
February 25, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University music students will present “The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach” at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Brendle Recital Hall on the Wake Forest campus. The concert will feature instrumental and vocal ensembles as well as piano and violin solos. Highlights will […]
Museum Explores Garifuna’s Rite of Passage
February 25, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
“Keeping Culture: A Rite of Passage Among the Garifuna of Roatan Island” will open at the Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology Tuesday, March 3. The exhibit, curated by anthropology graduate student Rebecca Benedum Mankowski, will run through April 9. The Garifuna, a group of […]
WFU to Host Amnesty International Conference
February 20, 1998 | Events, International, Speakers
Human rights activists from across the state will gather for Amnesty International’s 1998 state conference to be held at Wake Forest University Feb. 21-22. The international human rights organization will hold the conference to increase awareness of human rights issues. The conference is open to […]
WFU Professor Presents Piano Four-Hands Concert
February 20, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
Pamela Howland, Wake Forest University music professor, and guest artist Jill Dawe will perform “French Music for Piano Four-hands” at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at Wake Forest’s Brendle Recital Hall. The program of music by Debussy, Ravel, Bizet and Faure will be recorded for […]
Stories this week at Wake Forest
February 19, 1998 | Events, Research, School of Law, School of Medicine
Facing Down Saddam The United States may face trouble if it continues to pursue a go-it-alone policy toward the use of military force against Iraq, says Charles Kimball, chair of Wake Forest’s religion department and an expert on the religion and politics of the Middle […]
WFU Orchestra Program Features Piano Concerto
February 18, 1998 | Arts & Culture, Events
The 80-member Wake Forest University Orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Brendle Recital Hall. For the concert, conductor David Hagy held a competition among Wake Forest music students to select the musician to perform a concerto for orchestra. Holly Jarrell, a […]
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