The Roanoke College Olin Box Office is pleased to announce the line-up of events for the Fall Semester.

Tickets are available in the Roanoke College Olin Box Office by calling 540-375-2333 or going online to www.roanoke.edu/tickets. The box office is open Monday – Friday 1-4pm, closed school breaks and holidays.

SEPTEMBER

Art Exhibition: September 7^th-October 12^th

Olin Gallery                   Annie Waldrop – Leaves
Smoyer Gallery   Acquisitions

• Annie Waldrop Lecture, Friday, September 7^th, 5:30 p.m.  Olin Recital Hall
• Opening Reception Friday, September 7th 6-8 p.m. Smoyer Gallery

This exhibition by local artist Annie Waldrop will encompass mixed media collage, drawings, sculpture, installation, video and sound. Annie Waldrop’s work seeks to re-imagine a feminine narrative by linking personal experience and cultural myths with elements found in nature. By twisting wire, incorporating old photographs with organic materials and fabricated objects she reveals a meditative process that pays homage to family ties across generations and creates an unbroken lineage suggested by intimate symbols of the life cycle, fertility, and rebirth. Ultimately, each piece created is a spare reliquary, infused with ritual, mystery and a sense of hope.

www.anniewaldrop.com

This exhibition of new acquisitions brings together recent gifts to the Roanoke College’s Permanent Art Collection that augments the strengths of the College’s diverse holdings. Works represent internationally and nationally known artists: Cory Archangel, James Griffioen, Debbie Grossman, Mark Menjivar, Emily Roysdon and Andrew Zuckerman

Kandinsky Trio Concert: Silver Anniversary Concert
Saturday, September 15, 7:30 p.m.
Olin Theater $20/12
The Kandinsky Trio celebrates its 25th season with a unique commissioning project entitled “25 X 25.” Twenty-five composers are writing 25 short pieces, commemorating the Trio’s quarter century of music making.  The works will be performed through the next two seasons of the Trio’s series at Roanoke College.  The composers include Gunther Schuller, Richard Danielpour, Hilary Tann, Mike Reid, Jon Grier and John D’earth. 

This silver anniversary season kicks off with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1, #1 followed by the performance of the Kandinsky’s “25 X 25” commissioning project.  Three short works will debut by Kent Holliday, Tim Mauthe and Vladimir Smirnov. Johannes Brahms’ remarkable Trio in B Major, Op. 8 will round out the concert. 

RC Faculty Jazz and Friends Concert
Sunday, September 23, 4 p.m.
Olin Recital Hall
Non-ticketed, free event
A revue of jazz standards and new music performed by Roanoke Valley professionals.

Faculty Recital: A Program of Romantic Piano Music
Gordon Marsh, piano.
Sunday, September 30, 2012, 4 p.m.
Olin Recital Hall

Concert features a range of romantic masterpieces for the piano, including Franz Schubert’s Four Impromptus, Op. 90; Frédéric Chopin’s Ballade No. 3, Op. 47; Johannes Brahms’s Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79; and Gabriel Fauré’s Nocturne No. 74.

Admission Free

OCTOBER

Performing Arts Series Presents: Anthology: 25 Years with Anonymous 4
Tuesday, October 2, 7:30 p.m.
Olin Hall Theater
Tickets are $12 Adults, $8 Seniors and Students, $5 groups 8+

The Performing Arts Series presents the iconic vocal group in their only Virginia performance this season.  To mark their 25^th year together, Anonymous 4 have created a truly unique and very special concert program, ANTHOLOGY 25.  It features ancient, traditional, and modern works from each of their 19 prize-winning, chart-topping harmonia mundi CD’s, in one, two, three and four voices, ranging from 11^th century plainchant, richly harmonic English conductus and spicy French motets of the 13^th century, exotic 15^th-century Hungarian polyphony, 19^th century shape note hymns, and contemporary works.

The New Yorkers Company (**New Yorkers PR photo.jpg)

Friday Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Olin Theater
Complimentary Ticket Required

The New Yorkers, an innovative theater company, includes six young actors, writers, musicians and directors who will present work they have written and shaped especially for their debut performance in Virginia.  They are in residence at Roanoke College for a week in October through the generosity of a Copenhaver Grant. Their work originated with the internationally-known Dutch company, Orkater.

RC Wind Ensemble with Blacksburg Community Band
Thursday, October 11 7:30pm
Olin Theater
Non-Ticketed

The Roanoke College band will perform with guests, Blacksburg Community Band, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Blaha.

Art Exhibition October 26^th-December 2^nd
Olin Gallery          Roanoke College’s Studio Art Faculty
Smoyer Gallery    Gretchen Batcheller, Cole Hartson and Jeanne Stewart

• Opening Reception October 26^th   from 6-8 in Smoyer Gallery

This exhibition will showcase current work created by the Roanoke College’s Studio Art Faculty: Scott Hardwig, Eliz. S.-K. Heil and Katherine Shortridge.

Hardwig teaches ceramics and sculpture at Roanoke College and received his master of fine arts degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and has been a member of the college’s faculty since 1977. Heil joined the Roanoke College faculty in 1981 and teaches photography, computer graphics and printmaking, earning her master of fine arts degree in printmaking and drawing from Northern Illinois University. Shortridge received her master of fine arts degree from Indiana University and has taught painting and drawing at the college since 2003.

This exhibition in conjunction with the Studio Art Faculty show will highlight work by Gretchen Batcheller, Cole Hartson and Jeanne Stewart. Batcheller taught painting and mixed media courses during her 2011-12 visiting professorship in the Roanoke College Fine Arts Department Hartson has been teaching Graphic Design at Roanoke College in the art department since 2003 and Stewart is the college’s new professor of Arts and Crafts in Schools.

NOVEMBER

Theatre Roanoke College: The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Friday, Nov. 9 – Sat. Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 11, 2 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 16- Sat. Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Olin Theater, $10

Can you spell F-U-N-N-Y? Theatre Roanoke College will present the 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This hip musical by a Tony Award-winning creative team chronicles six young people who learn that winning is not everything and losing does not make you a loser. Get out your dictionaries because some audience members will be joining the cast onstage.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International. All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI at 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019, 212-541-4684(phone), 212-397-4684 (fax).  www.MTIShows.com

Roanoke College Choir performance of Lessons and Carols XVIII
November 25, 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. 
St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Roanoke

“The unofficial opening of the Christmas season in the Valley” is presented for the twenty-eighth consecutive year.   This year the Roanoke College Choir and Oriana Singers, directed by Jeffrey Sandborg, will be joined by guest choirs.  As is the tradition, a freewill offering will be received to support Roanoke Area Ministries.

DECEMBER

Kandinsky Trio: Anniversary Cake Concert
Saturday, December 1, 7:30 p.m.
Olin Hall Theater
Tickets $20/$12

Ludwig van Beethoven used the key of C Minor to create some of his most dramatic and unmistakably personal statements. His stormy Op. 1, No. 3 Trio in C Minor will be played, along with the third installment of the “25 X 25” project, featuring new works by Hilary Tann, Joseph Blaha and James Miley. Mike Reid’s “Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch,” with the composer narrating his take on the Michael Jackson classic, will end the program.

RC Jazz & Wind Ensemble Joint Concert
Thursday, December 6, 7:30pm
Olin Theater
Non-Ticketed 

The Roanoke College Jazz & Wind Ensemble will perform jointly under the direction of Dr. Joseph Blaha.

A Look Ahead

Performing Arts Series Presents: The American Shakespeare Center with “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 7:30 pm.
Olin Theater

$12 General Admission  $8 Seniors(55+) & Students, $5 Groups 8+

From Blackfriar’s Playhouse in Staunton, VA, the American Shakespeare Center On Tour brings Love’s Labour’s Lost to Salem

Wicked Fate

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. - V.i

 In Love’s Labour’s Lost, the King of Navarre and his three schoolmates are ripe for an education in love from the Princess of France and her three ladies. Joining the lovers is a brilliantly goofy troupe of clowns, including the love-warrior Don Armado and the lust-sick rogue Costard, who ardently pursue the affections of a winsome country maid — and who perform an unforgettable pageant for the royals. Written around the same time as Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this giddy and extravagant romantic comedy is Shakespeare’s most exuberant wordfest — a joyful carnival of love, loss, and hope.

Performing Arts Series Presents: The Hudson Vagabond Puppets with “Mammoth Follies”
Sunday, March 3, 2013, 3:00 pm.
Olin Theater
$7 General Admission $5 Seniors(55+) & Children

Back by Popular Demand!

From 1984 to 1998, Mammoth Follies was performed for audiences all over the country. In February 2012, this illustrious troupe of dinosaurs once again stormed the stage in a completely renovated production of this wildly popular and thoroughly educational production. Mammoth Follies explores the wonders of evolution in an old-fashioned revue of original songs, witty jokes, and earth-smashing dances performed by giant dinosaur puppets.

This program dramatizes historic and scientific facts (as well as some myths) about the great age of the dinosaur. Enormous puppets populate the stage, including your host Willie Mammoth, Smiley the Saber-Toothed Tiger, Bessie the lovable 27-foot long Apatosaurus, Tony and Trixie Triceratops, Terry the Pterodactyl, and the 11-foot tall T. Rex in a musical trip through pre-history.

Tickets are available in the Roanoke College Olin Box Office by calling 540-375-2333 or going online to www.roanoke.edu/tickets. The box office is open Monday – Friday 1-4pm, closed school breaks and holidays.

Roanoke College, an independent, co-educational, four-year liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia, combines firsthand learning with valuable personal connections in a classic, undergraduate setting. Roanoke prepares students for their futures through its commitment to providing a true classic college experience. Roanoke is one of just 280 colleges nationwide with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most prestigious honor society. The Princeton Review names Roanoke as one of the "best in the Southeast."

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