You’d never know it from the unassuming façade, but the Baptist Church of Beaufort is no ordinary place of worship. The ceiling of the sanctuary is a stunning work of art featuring molded plaster leaves and rosettes handcrafted by skilled slave artisans more than 165 years ago. “People are just amazed when they see the inside of the sanctuary,” said Judy Copeland, docent coordinator for the church. “It’s really quite lovely.”
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The Art League Gallery of Hilton Head, now located in the Walter Greer Gallery of the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, is presenting a unique exhibition by a group of 11 female artists, known as “Les Bonnes Artistes.” The show opens with a reception at the gallery on April 5 at 5:00-7:00 p.m., and continues through April 30. Les Bonnes Artistes is a diverse group of painters who joined together to share their talents and their professionalism. Though some paint in oils, others prefer watercolors or pastel. For some printmaking is their primary means of expression, while collage inspires others, yet these varied media come together for an interesting show.
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Normally, I title my column after it’s written. It’s the last thing I do – my final flourish. Every now and then, however, the process reverses itself. This is one of those times. As deadline approached, the title you see before you invaded my mind so suddenly – and with such ferocity – I had no choice but to commit to it (actually, it felt more like submitting), and see where it might take me. Even now, I’m not sure where that will be. But come along, if you’d like. It’ll be a lark!
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A Play In One Act (based on a true story) Dramatis Personae Mother: A frenetic, distracted editor/columnist for a small local newsweekly. Obsessed with politics, culture, religion, and other esoteric abstractions. 40-something, but fancies herself much younger. Daughter: A bright, energetic 4th grader with a great smile. Nine going on 35. Scene Mother sits at her desk in the breakfast nook, enthralled by something she’s reading on her computer screen. As usual. Daughter is on the couch, watching a poorly-written sitcom with a ubiquitous laugh track on the Disney Channel. As usual. It’s almost 5:30 pm.
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Six gifted local actors – Carrie Freeman, Joellen Hirschey, Benji Morgan, Tracy Smith, Rob Spencer, and Mike Young – play 57 different characters in a mosaic of vignettes in A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated classic, “The Dining Room.” The play, produced by Misspent Youth Productions and directed by Gail Westerfield, opens March 24 in the Black Box Theater at ARTworks. The play was a long-running Broadway hit and turned Gurney, who also wrote the popular “Love Letters,” into a major American playwright.
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Beaufort Theatre Company will hold auditions for To Kill a Mockingbird” on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 22 and 23 at 7 PM at 801 Carteret Street on the historic USCB campus. Based on the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Harper Lee, the play tells a story based on events that took place in the South of the 1930’s. Scout and her brother, Jem, are being raised by their widowed father, Atticus, and by a strong-minded housekeeper, Calpurnia. A lawyer, Atticus is appointed to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman.
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John Morris Russell, one of North America’s most celebrated orchestral conductors, has agreed to take up the baton as “Principal Guest Conductor” for the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra (HHSO) for the 2011-2012 season, which gets underway in October. “We are thrilled for this once in a lifetime opportunity to have a major international talent like Maestro Russell come to our community,” said Edward Parrish, chairman of the orchestra board. “When we learned of his interest in leading our orchestra we realized it would mark a major step forward for the presentation of great music in our community.”
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Once again, Edward Arron has arranged a varied program with works by both Clara and Robert Schumann as well as Beethoven, Ives and Copland for the March 27 concert. He is also introducing voice to the evening’s instruments with the debut of baritone Randall Scarlata. The concert will include Beethoven folk songs and a medley of American songs from the last century. The final piece of the evening will be the intimate and other-worldly d minor piano trio by Robert Schumann.
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Back by popular demand, the Duke Symphony Orchestra is coming to town Saturday, March 26 to perform a benefit concert for Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Keyserling Cancer Center and Healing Arts Program. It’s the eighth year the North Carolina university ensemble has made the springtime trip to the Lowcountry.
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The Baptist Church of Beaufort will welcome the Concert Choir of North Greenville University for a free concert on Sunday, March 27 at 7:30 pm. In recent years the choir has participated in the South Carolina Upstate Intercollegiate Choral Invitational Festival, the South Carolina Music Educators state convention, the South Carolina Baptist Convention state convention, and a performance at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. The choir is directed by Dr. Barry L. Combs, who is in his thirteenth year as Director of Choral Activities and Church Music at North Greenville University.
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