Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 23, 1993 TAG: 9304230047
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
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Tickets are $12 for the general public and $10 for senior citizens and students. For reservations, call the box offce weekday afternoons between 3 and 6. It's 375-2333.
"Giselle," a mystical ballet of a love that knows no bounds - the best kind, wot? - opens tonight at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center. The performances by the Lynchburg Regional Ballet Theatre continue Saturday, April 29 and May 1 at 8 p.m. and Sunday and May 2 at 2. Tickets for adults are $15, for seniors $10.50 and fors students and children $8. Call (804) 846-3804.
Chihamba of Dancescape in Charlottesville will present "A Journey to Africa: Chihamba Past and Present" Saturday night at 8 at the Charlottesville Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $7 in advance, $8 at the door. Call (804) 296-4986. Dancing and drumming will be highlighted.\
HANDY: Escape from our mass-produced world today through Sunday by visiting the Spring in the Valley Arts and Crafts Show at the Salem Civic Center.
Fine art, stained glass, leather goods, jewelry, musical instruments and other objects will be on sale at the event sponsored by the Virginia Mountain Crafts Guild. The show is today from noon to 9, Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
Admission is $1.50 and parking is free.\
WILD IN ROANOKE: The annual Wildflower Pilgrimage of the Science Museum of Western Virginia will be today through Sunday.
A reception and a talk on native plants and wildlife will kick it off tonight at 7:30 at Whitman Auditorium of Virginia Western Community College. Nature walks begin at 7:30 Saturday morning. The list includes three walks at Virginia's Explore Park, from 2 to 4 p.m., from 4 to 7 p.m. and an ITT Night Vision Goggle Walk from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Call the science museum for the complete schedule of prices and times.\
FLASHBACK: W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, two giants of black public life early in this century, didn't always see eye-to-eye. People sometimes wonder what they might've said in a debate with each other.
Drawing from their public writings and private letters, R. Rex Stephenson, drama professor at Ferrum College, has developed a conversation between them, put it into the form of a play and called it "A Movement to Lead."
It will be presented tonight at 7:30 at Franklin County High School (mostly for students but some extra seats may be available), Saturday afternoon at 2 at the Booker T. Washington National Monument in Franklin County, Sunday night at 7:30 at Ferrum's Schoolfield Hall, May 14 at 7:30 at the Reynolds Homestead in Critz and July 18 at 7:30 at Ferrum's Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre.
Discussions will be held after each performance.\
SOUND BITES: The Ying Quartet, winner of the 1993 Naumberg Award, will perform Saturday night at 8 at Olin Theater of Roanoke College. Tickets are $11 and $7. A preview will be in Olin 325 at 7:30 and a reception will follow.
"The Velveteen Rabbit," a children's musical, will be presented today at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 10 a.m., 1 and 4:30 p.m., Sunday at 1 and 4:30 p.m., and again next Thursday through May 2 at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke. Call 342-5740 for details.
"Five Hymns in Popular Style," John Gardner's marriage of Victorian hymns and modern popular music, will be featured in Sunday's 5 o'clock concert by the Parish Choir of Christ Episcopal Church in Roanoke.
The final concert of Roanoke College's Collegium Musicum will be tonight at 8 in Olin Gallery of Roanoke College. Admission is free. Begun in 1969 by Donald Moe, the group will disband because of Moe's teaching schedule next year and his planned retirement.
by CNB