April 2, 2010 I The Clarion
News
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ACA Race, continued from page 2
and encompassed several more rapids than
the course
from
Saturday.
Along
with
piloting
their
canoes
through
the rapids
safely,
students
also
had to
navigate
two
different
check-points along
the river where teams would switch
paddlers for the next leg of the race. It was
a tight race all the way to the finish line.
Albion College placed first and Brevard
College edged out Warren Wilson College
for second place.
As the final race came to a close,
colleges and
universities
came
together in
the drizzling
rain with
the hope
of being
crowned
ACA
Southeast
College
Canoe &
Kayak Race
Champions.
The final
results were
Albion College in first place
and Brevard College just beat Warren
Wilson College by one point to take second
place.
Brevard College student and Paddling
Club president Charles Jordan commented
on the race noting, “The race was a huge
success with the Brevard Paddling Club
coming home with 2nd place. I would
like to thank everyone who planned,
volunteered, raced in and sponsored this
event. Without them it wouldn’t have
been as fun or as beneficial to the paddling
community”.
The ACA will be hosting the Collegiate
Canoe & Kayak National Championship
this fall, October 9-10 on the Tuckaseegee
River Through experiences such as the
Southeast Collegiate Race and Collegiate
National Championship, students can
experience the fun and excitement of
paddlesports.
It is our hope that students will carry
these skills and enthusiasm for the sport
past their collegiate years and develop them
into a family and lifetime activity. For
more information please contact festatt@
brevard.edu or visit the ACA website
(WWW. americancanoe.org).
Two participants canoe the Tuclaseegee
Anonymous 4 returns to Porter Center April 10
Anonymous 4, the internationally known
four-woman ensemble that has long been
at the forefront of modem interpretation
of medieval chant and polyphonic music,
will return to Brevard College’s Porter
Center for Performing Arts on Saturday,
April 10.
The a cappella quartet will perform a
program called Secret Voices: The Sisters
of Las Huelgas. Coming on the heels of
Anonymous 4’s Four Centuries of Chant
recording, the Secret Voices program is a
return to the heart of the ensemble’s favorite
century.
The varied repertoire of 13th and early
14th century polyphony and monophonic
Latin song was collected for a Cistercian
convent of noble and aristocratic women in
north-central Spain. The “Secret Voices”
program is structured like a day of music
devoted to the Virgin Mary, including a few
songs with texts dealing with the daily lives
of the nuns themselves.
Renowned for their unearthly vocal
blend and virtuosic ensemble singing, the
four women of Anonymous 4 combine
musical, literary and historical scholarship
with contemporary performance intuition as
they create ingeniously designed programs,
interweaving music with poetry and
narrative. In addition to their uimiatched
medieval repertoire. Anonymous 4 has often
reached out into the realm of contemporary
music, and has premiered works by Peter
Maxwell Davies, John Tavener, Steve
Reich and Richard Einhom. The group
has most recently expanded their repertoire
to include traditional music of the British
Isles and America.
Anonymous 4 has performed in major
venues and festivals throughout North
America, Europe and the Far East. The
ensemble, which performed at Brevard
College’s Porter Center in 2006, has also
appeared on numerous radio and television
programs, including Garrison Keillor’s “A
Prairie Home Companion,” “CBS Sunday
Morning,” A&E’s “Breakfast With the
Arts” and NPR’s “Weekend Edition.”
Anonymous 4’s award-wiiming recordings
have attained unprecedented popularity,
rising to the top of Billboard’s classical
chart, and selling almost 1.5 million copies
worldwide.
Tickets to the 7:30 performance are $35
for adults and $ 10 for students. They may
be purchased from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Monday through Friday at the Porter Center
Box Office. The Box Office will be open
one hourbefore the performance. For more
information on tickets, please contact the
Porter Center Box Office at 828.884.8330.
Additional information is available online
at www.theportercenterorg.
IWIL Spring Break
Service Presentation
Monday, April 12th, at 7 pm in
Dunham Auditorium, the Institute
for Women in Leadership will be
giving a presentation of their spring
break service trip to Charlotte, North
Carolina.
The first year IWIL women spent
spring break volunteering at various
organizations in the Charlotte area.
Come and enjoy a fun-filled
evening featuring skits, video clips,
and a special appearance by a Yeti.
Refreshments and laughter will be in
abundance!