Spring Calendar Includes Celebrated Artists, Performances, Lectures and Conferences
Baylor University will welcome several distinguished speakers and performers to campus this spring. Below is a list of the lectures, conferences, symposia, and performances that will be held during May at Baylor.
For additions, contact the Baylor Marketing and Communications at 254-710-1961 or e-mail that information to Melissa_L_Perry@baylor.edu. May 2010
Theatre Arts: Enchanted April
Apr. 27 - May 1, 7:30 p.m., Mabee Theatre, Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center
May 2, 2 p.m., Mabee Theatre, Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center
Follow the surprising adventures of four unfulfilled women in the 1920s who discover much more than simple escape during their Enchanted April trip to the Italian countryside. From the book by Elizabeth von Arnim. Directed by Steven Pounders.
Chamber Singers Spring Concerts
May 1, 7:30 p. m., McLean Foyer of Meditation
May 2, 4:30 p. m., McLean Foyer of Meditation
The Baylor Chamber Singers Spring Concerts will be held in the McLean Foyer of Meditation, under the direction of Dr. Alan Raines, Associate Professor of Ensembles-Music. For ticket information on these concerts, call the Baylor University School of Music box office at 254.710.3571.
Browning Festival 2010
May 6, 7:00 p. m., McLean Foyer of Meditation
The Waco Children's Choir, under the direction of Julie Bolin, will be premiering a new setting of Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Waco composer Carlos Colon-Quintana.
May 7, 2:30 p. m., McLean Foyer of Meditation
The China Spring High School Choir, under the direction of Susan Thrift, will feature the winning composition of a Browning text. The Annual Browning Day lecture, "'Boundless Life': A. J. Armstrong as Impresario," will be given by Dr. Scott Lewis, editor of The Brownings' Correspondence in the Treasure Room. A reception follows in the Cox Reception Hall.
May 8, 7:00 p. m., McLean Foyer of Meditation
Musical event to feature Richard Smith, Nashville acoustic guitarist with his wife Julie Adams, on cello, and a strings ensemble. For more information on festival events please call 254.710.3566.