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at Westmont. For information about becoming a Guild member or any aspect of this competition, contact the Westmont Music Office at (805) 5656040. Prior guild winners include William Ellzey (cello, 2016), Jonathan Wong (violin, 2015), Tim Beccue (cello, 2014), and Lalia Mangione (violin, 2013). While the judges deliberate, Chyna Charbonneau, Erik Fauss, and Dr. Jeong-ah Ryu will perform Charles Martin Loeffler’s “Rhapsody for Oboe and Viola.” Wong, Sierra Farrar, and Wynston Hamman will perform a string trio piece. The Kairos String Quartet, which includes Andrea Larez, Erik Fauss, Mangione and Beccue, will perform Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4, Allegro Molto.
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Theater Offers Passionate Blood Wedding
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he Westmont College Festival Theatre offers Blood Wedding, a tragedy written by Federico García Lorca, one of Spain’s most revered and controversial dramatists, March 2-4 at 7:30 pm in Westmont’s Porter Theatre. General admission is $12; $7 for students, children, and seniors. Tickets may be purchased online at westmont.edu/boxoffice. “The bride has chosen well; the man of her future is a glass of clear water,” says Mitchell Thomas, professor of theater arts who directs the play. “But the muddy river of her past won’t stop flowing. Written in 1932, Blood Wedding dares to explore a seductive tale of passion and doomed love that speaks to any heart longing for true connection.” Lorca was executed at 38 at the beginning of the Spanish civil war. “His murder by militant and nationalist forces for his socialist leanings and suspected homosexuality was a tragedy, robbing world literature of a remarkable poet and playwright, and
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should serve as a deep warning and urgent reminder of what human societies and governments are capable of,” Thomas says. Thomas’s production includes a subconscious or shadow universe that expresses the undercurrents of longing, danger, love, and passion. This creative storytelling device is set against the primary action of the play in its structured and enclosed world. The ensemble features 15 student actors, including junior Anna Telfer (Bride), who was featured as Rosalind in Westmont’s production of As You Like It in the fall, sophomore Karly Kuntz (Mother), and transfer student Troy Chimuma (Leonardo). “Blood Wedding is Lorca’s surrealist exploration into forbidden passion, identity, and societal structures that both support and cage its people — themes that Lorca knew very well,” Thomas says.
Top Musicians to Compete for Scholarships
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ships at the fifth annual Music Guild Competition on Saturday, March 4, at 7 pm at Westmont’s Deane Chapel on lower campus. The event is free and open to the public. The winner of the Guild Scholarship, who will be announced immediately following the event, will receive up to $10,000 in annual music scholarships funds (up to $40,000 over four years) to study at Westmont. This year’s finalists are violist Cameron Audrus, a senior at Oak Park High School, singer Elaina Crenshaw, a music major at Ventura College, violinist Christina Dubell, a senior at Orange County School of the Arts, cellist Logan Hodgson, a senior from Sierra Madre, violinist Anna Stenzel, a homeschooled student in Illinois, and violinist Jenna Walters, a senior in the Berean Christian High School Independent Study Program in Knoxville. The judges for this competition include Grey Brothers, professor of music; Steve Butler, professor of music; Steve Hodson, professor of music; Han Soo Kim, assistant professor of music; and Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship. The Guild Scholarship program is funded by The Guild for Music
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Lecture to Explore Chumash Traditions
Alan “Spirit Hawk” Salazar, a Native American storyteller and educator, shares his unique perspective in a talk, “Chumash Traditions: Storytelling and a Maritime Legacy,” on Tuesday, March 7, at 3:30 pm in Winter Hall, room 106. The lecture, part of Westmont’s Sustainability Speaker Series, is free and open to the public. “As residents of the Central Coast, it’s important that we have a deeper understanding of this region’s Native American history and traditions,” says Michelle Aronson, Westmont’s sustainability and marketing coordinator. “I hope people will leave the talk with a new understanding of the Chumash Native Americans, their history, culture, and reverence for Mother Nature.”
Talk to Explore Church Worship Practices
Lisa DeBoer, Westmont professor of art history, examines various church worship practices in a talk, “Becoming the Body of Christ, or Not,” Monday, March 6, at 7 pm in Hieronymus Lounge at Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. The Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture is free and open to the public. Christians have commonly looked to biblical and theological sources to guide their worship practices, but ecclesiology, an appreciation of what it means to be the church, can also shape worship. “This broader view gives critical insight into the universal and corporate dimensions of Christian worship,” says DeBoer, who will draw from her 10-year study of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox practices. Last October, the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts gave DeBoer the 2016 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Non-Fiction for her book The Visual Arts and the Worshiping Church. •MJ 2 – 9 March 2017