Blog Posts by Westmont

The Westmont Theatre and Dance Department presents a New Works Festival, with performances of works by professors and students, 8 p.m. April 30 and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. May 1 in Porter Theatre. Admission is $5.

The festival will feature the Westmont Theatre Arts Repertory Co. and Westmont Windancers.

“Original works are the emphasis, including original theatre pieces, mime, music and dance,” Professor Erlyne Whiteman explained.

The Jazz Ensembles, directed by adjunct music professor Ron McCarley, will perform 8 p.m. April 24 in Deane Chapel on Westmont’s lower campus. Admission is free.

The ensembles with perform “Move” from “Birth of the Cool” by Miles Davis; “Whisper Not”; “Yardbird Suite”; “Anthropology”; “Here's that Rainy Day,” sung by Alicia Burns; “Moonlight Serenade,” sung by Sarah Stockton; “It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing”; “Red Clay” and others.

Rev. Dr. Craig Bartholomew of Redeemer University College in Toronto will speak on “Athens and Jerusalem: Ingredients in Theological Interpretation” 4 p.m. April 16 in Hieronymus Lounge, in Kerrwood Hall on the upper campus.

The lecture, sponsored by the Erasmus Society, is free and open to the public.

Bartholomew will discuss how the postmodern era has created a renewal of interest in theological interpretation of the Bible.

The annual Spring Choral Concert featuring the Choir, Chamber Singers and Vox Lumina Women’s Chorale will be 8 p.m. April 30 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. (at Micheltorena). A free-will donation will be requested.

Westmont musicians will showcase their skills at the spring concert for the Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra at 8 p.m. April 23 in Deane Chapel on the lower campus. Admission is free and the concert is open to the public.

The Chamber Orchestra, directed by Emily Sommermann, has 12 student members. The program includes the Haydn Cello Concerto in C major with soloist Erin Crumley, a junior. Also on the program is Serenade for Strings by Josef Suk.

Westmont’s graduating art majors’ best work will be displayed during Reynolds Gallery’s annual Senior Art Show, April 13 through May 1. An artists’ reception, which is open to the public, will be 5-7 p.m. April 16 in the Art Center.

The work on exhibit is art that has been created during a seminar class in which each student designs and plans his or her own project, concentrating on an area of expertise, for example, ceramics, sculpture, photography or painting.