feb liG PILOT Gardner-Webb College TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1976 BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA The Tempest Presented Tonight Members of the National Shakespeare Company perform THE TEMPEST. Bicentennial Events Occur The 1976 Bicentennial year has gotten imderway at Gardner-Webb under the di rection of Mr. Lansford Jol ley and Dr. Tony Eastman. Mr. Jolley is now in the process of conducting the “Attic Archeology.” This project consists of the col lecting of old tools, old Pat Teriy Appears Today The Pat Terry Group ap pears again tonight in Dover Chapel after appearing in “Chapel” this morning at 9:30. They will lead a Ves pers service at 6 p.m. The Pat Terry Group is based in Atlanta and sings of their belief in Jesus Christ. They have played colleges, coffeehouses, con ventions, and churches all over the southeast since 1974. Pat Terry writes most' of the material for the group. He also handles the majority of the vocal leads. His work is published by Word, Incor porated. Sonny Lallerstedt came to the group from another Christian singing group. Dove. He plays guitar, sings background vocals, and works in arranging much of the music for live perfor mance. Randy Bugg is the third member of the group. He plays the bass guitar and was also in Dove with Sonny before joining the Pat Terry Group. clothes, family and church histories, and other old arti facts. Gardner-Webb is also sponsoring Pam Smith in a speaking contest, dealing with the Bicentennial theme. Mr.' James Rash plans to bring several commemora tive arts and crafts shows to the campus. Reflections will be publishing some poetry along the Bicentennial theme. A trip touring several sig nificant places will occur this summer from May 22 through June 5. The tour will cover such cities as Wil liamsburg, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Bos ton. The Town Meetings under the direction of Dr. Eastman have begun as of last Thurs day night. They last from 7:30 to 9:30. The dates and the places for the meetings are as follows: February 5- Kings Mtn. Civic Center; Feb. 19-Boiling Springs Baptist Church; Feb. 26- Lawndale Baptist Church; March 11-Old Courthouse; Shelby; March 18-Kings Mtn. Civic Center; March 25 -Boiling Springs Methodist Chiu-ch; April 1-Lawndale Baptist Church; April 8- Boiling Springs Baptist Church; April 15-Kings Mtn. Civic Center; April 22- Lawndale Baptist Church; and April 29-Old Court house, Shelby. The National Shakespeare Company presents The Tem pest tonight at 8 p.m. The performance will be held in Hamrick Auditorium. Ad mission is free with student ID for Gardner-Webb stu dents. The Tempest tells the tale of an exiled wizard, Pros- pero, and his plan to regain his rightful dukedom. The play is set on a magical, mythical island. The island is peopled by strange crea tures such as Ariel, a spirit of light and joy, and Caliban, a deformed monster of dark ness and hate. All the crea tures are vmd^r Prospero’s power. The play opens while a violent storm is raging. The . storm is caused by Prospero in order to shipwreck and thus cause revenge upon his brother, Antonio, who had robbed the wizard years be fore and left him in exile with his daughter, Miranda. Antonio and his crew are stranded on Prospero’s strange island and Miranda falls in love with one of the young men on the crew, the first man, other than her father, she has seen in years. The play concludes as the brothers reconcile their dif ferences and Miranda marries her lover. Folger Library Elxhibit Arrives This college is currently exhibiting the Folger Shakespeare Library Traveling Ex hibit “A”. The exhibit, which began Jan. 26 and will continue through Feb. 13. It is be ing shown in the library from 9 a.m. imtil 5 p.m. in the Special Collections Room. This “show” is of particular importance in this Bicentennial year, in celebrating. America’s literary heritage. The exhibit is one of 11 such traveling shows owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. Exhibit A is the only one of its kind and contains the most rare material of all the ex hibits. Included is the First Folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s dramatic works. It was printed in 1623 and contains 36 plays. The Folger Exhibit owns 80 of the 200 copies which exist. Another rare part of the exhibit is the Second Folio of Shakespeare’s work. It was published in 1632. The 1664 and 1683 Folios (Third and Fourth, respectively) are also on The Quartos of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, published in 1619 and The Merry Wives of Windsor, also published in 1619 - are a part of the exhibit. The Folger Library was established in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s by Henry Clay Folger, due to his great interest in Shakes peare. He brought together the greatest col lection of Shakespearean material in the world. Under the terms of Mr. Folger’s will, the Trustees of Amherst College administer the foundation for the Library. The Library has the largest collection in the Western Hemi sphere of English books printed before the middle of the 17th century. The ultimate goal of the Folger Library is to procure in some form every significant book that influenced the English-speaking people in the Tudor and Stuart periods. Many scholars feel that 'The Tempest is Shakes- peeir’s last and most poetic comedy and that its “roman tic fantasies have delighted audiences for centuries.” The National Company began in 1963 under the di rection of Philip Meister and his wife, Elaine. Says Meister “We were asked to do an Emthology show for Upsala College in East Orange, N.J. as Elaine had just performed Goneril in King Lear at Stratford. The fee was $15. We spent it all on postage, formed “Stagecraft Productions,” wrote and called people, and in a short time had enough bookings for a six-week Shakespeare tour. We then hired a company, picked our plays, rented a bus, and off we went.” Meister is a theater vete ran of 25 years. Before he be came an independent pro ducer, he worked as an assis tant to Serge Koussivitsky at Tanglewood, and was di recting fellow at the Ameri can Shakespeare Academy. He served as production manager to Jose Quintero and assisted him in the (Continued On Page 2) Chamber Chorus To Perform Next Week The 22-voice Gardner- Webb Chamber Chorus^will perform in concert next Tuesday, Feb. 10, 8:15 p.m., on campus in the John R. Dover Jr. Chapel.' Organized in 1973, the group became known as the Chamber Chorus to distin guish it fi-om the larger 54- member College Chorus. Both groups are conducted by Dr. Phil Perrin, professor of music. LaCount Anderson, a jun ior church music major from Savannah, Ga., is the assis tant'conductor. 'Terri Saltz, a senior from Hayesville, N.C. is the accompanist. Miss Saltz is a music educa tion major with a concen tration in piano.

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