Electric Ensemble presents One-Hit Wonders
One-Hit Wonders was this year’s theme for the Elon University Electric Ensemble’s spring concert, and judging from the audience’s non-stop participation throughout the night, it was quite a hit.
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One-Hit Wonders was this year’s theme for the Elon University Electric Ensemble’s spring concert, and judging from the audience’s non-stop participation throughout the night, it was quite a hit.
Jason Aryeh, assistant professor of performing arts at Elon University, grew up in what he described as a typical small village in Ghana.
What is something everyone has in common, regardless of discipline? When the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences first came together to brainstorm a way to honor their disciplines during Elon University’s Celebrate! week, the answer was unclear. “There were a lot of question marks floating around about why we were there and what we have in common,” said Chris Burnside, adjunct performing arts professor. “Then we realized that time was something we all dealt with. There is metered time in music, deep archeological time where it takes millions of years for something to happen and farm time with the cycles of the seasons.” Celebrate! week is Elon’s annual celebration of student achievements in the arts and academics that runs from April 28-May 3. This year, to celebrate the arts and sciences, faculty, students and community members have come together to present the event “Time Unplugged: A Celebration of the Arts and Sciences at Elon University.” “There is a lot to check out. There are lectures and presentations, performances and gallery showings, and there is a table outside that will be going all day long with archeological information,” Burnside said. The event will take place from 2 - 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, and attendees are encouraged to begin at Gallery 406 in Arts West, then follow the artwork to Young Commons to experience a wide range of scientific discovery. Soundscapes and recycled costumes will be shared in the Center for the Arts along with various performances, including a percussion piece that will be played by Elon and community musicians around Lake Mary Nell. “We want to open our doors to the community and bring people on campus,” said Angela Lewellyn Jones, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “We want them to come here and be a part of the exciting things happening here, so we sent home notes about the festival with all the kids in the Alamance and Burlington school systems.” The idea behind “Unplugged” is to be mindful of the environment and sustainability, according to Jones. The festival will have a low environmental impact and low cost. “Community members were told that we will have some tables and some chairs and that is just about it,” Burnside said. Those involved with the festival will be the ones setting it up and tearing down, and everything that comes onto campus must be taken back off. “The issues our planet is facing environmentally are monumental, and it’s not going to just be one group of people solving it,” Burnside said. “If every kind of person in every kind of discipline is at the table solving this, there is more of a change of something really creative being proposed to address some of these issues.” While there are currently no plans for the festival to become a yearly event, Jones said it would be exciting to think of a new theme every year. “We will see how this first year goes,” she said. “I know we are competing with Festivus, but I hope Elon students will come out and support the event.” Tickets are not required for admission, but a donation of a nonperishable food item is encouraged to help support Campus Kitchen and Allied Churches. All donations will be collected in the parking lot in front of Arts West.
Sixteen different drums played by four of the five members of Elon’s Percussion Ensemble opened the group’s spring concert last Wednesday with a loud roar and a tight groove.
Junior Kelsey McCabe kicked off the Autism Speaks U benefit concert at Midnight Meals in Irazu with the staggering facts about autism.
Elon University has grown tremendously since 1889 from a single building to its current size of 620 acres. This history is now on display in the 125th Anniversary Exhibit in the Isabella Cannon Room in the Center for the Arts.
Although it still feels like winter outside, the Elon University Dance Company is hard at work preparing for this year’s spring dance concert, titled “Looking Back to Spring Forward.”
It is time to reconsider any thoughts that classical music cannot be deeply moving, highly inspiring or fiercely passionate.
At the beginning of this year a new band hit the Elon University music scene, and although they are young, Knockout Perez is making a big splash.
Every year on Valentine’s Day, people around the world perform “The Vagina Monologues” as part of an international movement called the V-Day Campaign.
Elon University music theater majors dream a dream of one day making it big on Broadway. North Carolina Theatre (NCT), one of the region’s premiere producers of professional Broadway musicals, recognized the potential in Elon senior music theater students.
Every year, Varsity Vocals produces “BOCA: Best of College A Cappella” and “BOHSA: Best of High School A Cappella.” These two albums feature the best tracks from groups around the world.
Set in Messina, Italy, Shakespeare’s comedy, “Much Ado About Nothing” chronicles two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice and Claudio and Hero, as they navigate through good, old-fashioned Shakespearean chaos.
At this point, we have all heard the commercials for Disney’s newest animated film, “Frozen,” that advertise critics who call the film Disney’s best since “The Lion King.” While this is still an opinion open for interpretation, the numbers at the box office are beginning to tell the same story.
Fall is one of the most popular seasons for its cool climate, warm drinks and exciting holidays. Elon University offered students and members of the community a chance to mingle with friends, eat free food, face paint and carve pumpkins at this year’s Fall Pumpkin Festival.
It is uncommon for an artist to share his or her work before completion.
Ronnie Wall was first elected mayor of Burlington in 2007. Since being re-elected in 2009, he has run unopposed, according to the Burlington Times-News.
Captivating, haunting, playful, emotional, romantic and comical.
On May 2, just a few weeks before finals at Elon University, around 100 students and community members took a break and came out to McCrary Theatre to hear the music of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album, as performed by the Elon Electric Ensemble, also known as E3.