Community Concert Series
The Janet Lowrey Gager Community Concert Series continues in 2010 with two programs titled “Theme and Variations.” The first concert will take place at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 9 in Memorial Chapel. The performance is free and open to the public. Members of the audience are encouraged to bring a bag lunch to enjoy during the concert.
The program includes Franz Schubert’s “Trockne blumen,” performed by Jonathan Green, a baritone, accompanied by Anna Billias on piano. Billias will also join flutist Lynn Buck to perform Schubert’s “Trockne blumen Variations.” Pianist Rebecca McCord will perform the theme and selected variations from “Variations on a Theme of Handel” by Johannes Brahms.
The Honors Program theme, “Evolution/Devolution” informed the musical selections for the 2009-2010 Gager series. A chronological overview of musical styles and works by contemporaries of Darwin were features of the first and second concerts, said Green, dean of the College.
“The third and fourth concerts will address variation in different ways,” Green said. “In biological evolution…successful variations lead to evolutionary change. Variation is also a fundamental device in musical composition, so we are playing off of that idea in our programming for this concert.”
The Gager series is made possible by the support of Forrest Gager, in memory of his wife, Janet, who served as Sweet Briar’s director of public relations.
The next concert is scheduled for noon on Tuesday, April 6 in Memorial Chapel. For more information contact Green at “jgreen @ sbc.eduor” (434) 381-6205.
