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ALL PROCEEDS BENEFITS THE STUDENT ARTISTS WITH 10 % DONATED TO F.A.C.E.S. AND 20 % GOING TO STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS.
THERE WILL ALSO BE RAFFLE PRIZES OFFERED BY LOCAL BUSINESSES AND WORK BY THE ART FACULTY.
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Get you tickets now for the 49th Annual Longwood University Holiday Dinner and Concert!
Book your tickets for Friday here: Friday December 5th
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Dr. Toby Emert, a Longwood Alum, who teaches at the Annie Louise Harrison Waterman Professor of Theatre, has written a children’s musical which he will return to Longwood and guest direct in April of 2026.
Adapted from American Public Radio’s award-winning podcast about money for young listeners, Million Bazillion: The Musical brings financial concepts to life through story and song. In a series of connected scenes, four “big kids” explore what money is, how it works, and why it matters. Catchy numbers like “Dollar Scholar,” “Open-Ended Question Maker-Upper Formula,” and “The Rewind Song” add humor and spark curiosity, making big ideas about the economy fun and accessible. Developed with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the show blends learning with entertainment in a way kids can enjoy and remember.
Running about an hour, the production is interactive, with characters engaging the audience throughout. It’s designed especially for children ages 7–11, but its playful approach and family-friendly humor make it enjoyable for all ages.
Performances of Million Bazillion will be April 14th through 17th at 7pm with a matinee on April 18that 2pm.
Tickets are available now at: https://www.longwood.edu/boxoffice/
Longwood Theatre will present the Tennessee Williams classic, The Glass Menagerie”, February 18th through the 21st at 7pm, with a matinee February 22nd at 2pm. All performances will take place in the Mainstage Theatre in the CSTAC Building.
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of The Gentleman Caller.
The play premiered in Chicago on 26 December 1944. After a shaky start, it was championed by Chicago critics Ashton Stevens and Claudia Cassidy, whose enthusiasm helped build audiences so the producers could move the play to Broadway where it won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1945. The Glass Menagerie was Williams’ first successful play; he went on to become one of America’s most highly regarded playwrights.
Tickets are available at: https://www.longwood.edu/boxoffice/
The Chrysalis Chamber player will perform on October 20th at 7:30pm in Molnar Recital Hall in the Wygal Building.
Classical trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden is a highly in-demand soloist, praised for “splendid, brilliant” playing (Gramophone Magazine) and her “pure, refined, and warm” tone (American Record Guide). A Gold Medal Global Music Award Winner, Opus Klassik Nominee, and Yamaha Performing Artist, Bowden works diligently to establish a new repertoire for the trumpet through creative, collaborative commissioning projects and award-winning albums.
Bowden’s recent highlights include four world premiere concerti with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, where she performed Clarice Assad’s Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra and Shostakovich’s Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra; with the Austin Symphony Orchestra in Reena Esmail’s Rosa de Sal and Assad’s Bohemian Queen; and with Oregon’s Rogue Valley Symphony in Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra. With the DuPage Symphony, she premiered a new arrangement of Gala Flagello’s Persist and Grace Williams’ Trumpet Concerto. Bowden also toured Vivian Fung and Clarice Assad’s trumpet concertos to the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, and Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra. She held residencies and masterclasses at The Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, Oberlin College, Swarthmore College, Domaine Forget, Festival Napa Valley, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
International engagements brought Bowden to the LizBrass Festival in Portugal, Jeju International Wind Ensemble Festival in Korea, Isla Verde Bronces International Brass Festival in Argentina, Festival de Metales del Pacifico in Mexico, and Lieksa Brass Week in Finland. Bowden’s Chrysalis Chamber Players embarked on a U.S. tour of trumpet and string quartet repertoire, presented by Live On Stage, and with Seraph Brass, Bowden released an album of new compositions for brass quintet for Tower Grove Records.
Bowden has released two acclaimed recordings on Summit Records: her debut album, Radiance (featuring new American works), and her second solo album, Rêverie with the Kassia Ensemble. Rêverie was featured as one of the Top Albums of the Year for the Global Music Awards and on Textura Magazine’s Top Ten Classical Albums of the Year. In summer 2024, Bowden released a new solo album with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra made up entirely of trumpet concerti by living composers, out on Cedille Records.
Among her many creative projects, Mary is a founding member and artistic leader of Seraph Brass, an ensemble of America’s top women brass players that was awarded the 2019 American Prize in Chamber Music and has performed around the world. The group’s debut album, Asteria, released on Summit Records, won the Silver Medal Global Music Award.
Mary earned her Bachelor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music, and her Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. She is currently Associate Professor of Trumpet at Shenandoah Conservatory.
The performance schedule is as follows:
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair…………………………………Claude Debussy (1862-1917) arr. Rick DeJonge
BWV 972 after Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto RV 230…J.S. Bach (1685-1750) arr. Benjamin Miles/James Stephenson
I. Allegro Moderato
Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout…………………………………………………Gabriela Lena Frank (b.1972)
I. Toyos
IV. Coqueteos
Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major (Hob. Vlle/1)………………..Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) arr. Benjamin Miles
Intermission
Spitfire…………………..James Stephenson (b. 1969)
Rondo Alla Turca from Piano Sonata no. 11 in A Major, KV 331….W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) arr. DeJonge
String Quartet in G Major…………………………………………………………….Florence Price (1887-1953)
II. Allegro moderato – Allegretto
Variations on Bellini’s Norma………………………………….Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) arr. DeJonge
Three Browning Songs………………………………………………Amy Beach (1867-1944) arr. Katie Jenkins
I. The Year’s at the Spring
II. Ah, Love, But a Day!
Siete Canciones Populares Españoles……………………….Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) arr. Miles I. El paño moruno V. Nana VII. Polo
The Spitfire Grill is an American musical with music and book by James Valcq and lyrics and book by Fred Alley, based on the 1996 film of the same name by Lee David Zlotoff. The off-Broadway production by Playwrights Horizons began previews at the Duke Theatre on 42nd Street on September 7, 2001, and concluded its scheduled run on October 14, 2001. It won the Richard Rodgers Production Award, administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The musical depicts the journey of a young woman just released from prison, who decides to start her life anew in a rural town in Wisconsin. She participates in a journey within the town toward its own tenuous reawakening.
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Join the Longwood University Chamber Orchestra and Studio Ensemble on October 30th, 2025 for an evening of musical works by Bach, Shostakovich, Phillips, Holst, and Newbold. From English folk tunes to soaring, Greek-inspired melodies, this concert has something for everyone!
Join us for an unforgettable evening of powerful storytelling and rich musical traditions as our Chamber Orchestra and Studio Ensemble present a dynamic and emotionally charged program that spans centuries and styles.
We open with Soon Hee Newbold’s Perseus, a dramatic and cinematic work that brings ancient Greek mythology to life. With driving rhythms and vivid musical imagery, this piece captures the heroic journey of Perseus—from his fateful encounter with Medusa to his triumphant return.
Following Perseus is the bittersweet elegance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2, one of the composer’s most recognizable and beloved melodies. Haunting yet graceful, this waltz offers a moment of reflection and nostalgia, blending beauty with an undercurrent of mystery.
The program continues with a masterpiece of Baroque dialogue: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor performed by the Longwood University Studio Ensemble. Often referred to as the “Bach Double,” this concerto is a virtuosic and expressive showpiece, highlighting the intricate interplay between two solo violins and the ensemble. Its timeless beauty allows it to serve as a pinnacle of the string repertoire. This piece will showcase violinists Sophia Edwards and Macey Hutto as soloists.
Following Bach is a burst of energy in Bob Phillips’ Impact, a contemporary work that lives up to its name. With its bold rhythms, modern textures, and high-octane drive, Impact brings the concert to a thrilling conclusion—reminding us of the excitement and vitality that music can ignite.
To end the program, we travel to early 20th-century England with Gustav Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite, a charming and energetic homage to English folk tunes. Originally written for the students at St. Paul’s Girls’ School, where Holst taught, this suite radiates joy and showcases the playful elegance of string ensemble writing.
From myth to modernity, this program promises a journey of musical contrast and celebration.
Admission is FREE
The Camerata Singers and Chamber Singers present their first concert of the academic year, and sing myself. The concert, centered around the first poem from Walt Whitman’s great epic Song of Myself, invites the audience to examine the many reasons we sing.
The program includes works by Fanny Hensel, Louis Lewandowski, Heinrich Schütz, and Gwyneth Walker, and closes with the Virginia premiere of Melissa Dunphy’s Ye Winds.
Admission is FREE and the public is invited to attend.
The event will take place on October 22nd beginning at 7:30pm in the Molnar Recital Hall in Wygal Hall on Longwood campus.
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Angela Eastman, the artist behind Flag Mountain Studio. At the heart of all of her work is a delight in materiality and a conviction that sharing the process of craft creates meaningful connections to histories of labor and place. Weaving is an underpinning of all the work that she does, whether it is making baskets and other crafts or teaching, and she loves the long history of connection to place that accompanies the craft of weaving.
Angela says, “For the last several years, I have been weaving baskets with foraged material, often invasive vines such as kudzu, wisteria, and honeysuckle. I am also cultivating five different varieties of basket willow plants on my land in the Piedmont of North Carolina.”
She also works sculpturally with metal, fibers, and found objects to create sculptures and installations that explore the intersections of industrial and natural material cultures.
There will be at artist talk open to the public on November 20th, with a weaving workshop, Friday November 21st from 10am to 1pm.
Learn more about the artist at https://www.flagmountain.studio/
