WFU orchestra “haunts” audiences at annual Halloween concert
October 13, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events
At the stroke of midnight Oct. 31, Wake Forest University’s orchestra will begin their unpredictable annual Midnight Halloween Concert at Brendle Recital Hall in Scales Fine Arts Center. Bach’s famous “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” will begin the evening with traditional haunting sounds. Throughout […]
WFU fall choral concert to feature Mozart, Bruckner and Thompson
October 13, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events
The Wake Forest University choirs will begin the 2003-2004 concert season with their annual Fall Choral Concert Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall in Scales Fine Arts Center. The Wake Forest Concert Choir and the Collegium Vocal Ensemble will both perform music […]
Local businessman gives personal account of “Days of the Dead” at museum
October 9, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology will host a free gallery lecture with Christopher Avila titled “Dias de los Muertos, Me Experiencia y otras leyendas” (“Days of the Dead: My Experience and Other Tales”) Oct. 30 at 4 p.m. in the museum gallery. The lecture […]
Novelist Rita Ciresi to read at WFU
October 9, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
Novelist Rita Ciresi, one of this year’s featured novelists in the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series at Wake Forest University, will read Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in DeTamble Auditorium in Tribble Hall. A reception and booksigning will follow the reading. Ciresi is the author […]
Stories this week at WFU
October 8, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Media Advisory, Speakers
MEDIA INVITED TO FALL CONVOCATION WITH NEW CHAPLAIN – The Rev. Timothy L. Auman, who was appointed chaplain in July, will be the featured speaker at the university’s Fall Convocation at 11 a.m. Oct. 9 in Wait Chapel. Auman’s address, “The Conversion of Language,” is intended […]
Vanguard founder John Bogle to speak at WFU
October 8, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Speakers
John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, will speak at Wake Forest University in the Benson University Center’s Pugh Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 30. A booksigning will follow the lecture. The event is free […]
Lecture on rare friendship doll at Anthropology museum
October 3, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events
Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology will host a lecture titled “Miss Kagawa, Japanese Friendship Doll” with Darlene Guerry, founder of the North Carolina Friendship Doll Exchange Association, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. Guerry will discuss “Miss Kagawa’s” history and the history behind the Friendship […]
The love of Dido and Aeneas unfolds at WFU’s first opera
October 3, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events
With an all-student cast, chorus and orchestra, Wake Forest University’s department of music will unfold the story of two lovers and their torment in its first fully staged opera, “Dido and Aeneas” Oct. 24 and 25 at 8 p.m. at Brendle Recital Hall in Scales […]
Cuban art exhibit opens with flair at WFU art gallery
October 3, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events
In a complementary blend of both visual and performing arts, Wake Forest University’s Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery will celebrate the opening of “Inside/Outside: Contemporary Cuban Art,” on Oct. 24 from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. The celebration will feature a gallery lecture by […]
Stories this week at WFU
October 2, 2003 | Arts & Culture, Events, Research, Speakers
PREVENTING PHYSICAL DISABILITY IN OLDER ADULTS – The health issues that come with increased life expectancy of Americans create serious problems because of the cost of treatment, says Jack Rejeski, Wake Forest Professor of Health and Exercise Science. Rejeski edited a collection of research on disability […]
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