Brevard College
For hearts and minds as large as the mountains Friday, November 15, 1996
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arts center receives funding
This marker stands in the place where the future Paul Porter
Performing Arts Center will be located. (Photo by G. Spitzer)
Volume 65: Issue 2
Performing
Press Release
BC News Bureau
Brevard College is pleased to
announce completion of funding for
Phase 1 of construction for the Paul
Porter Performing Arts Center.
Construction on Phase 1 will proceed as
soon as the contractor has submitted the
necessary construction documents to the
Transylvania Country Inspection
Department and received a go-ahead
from local officials. The project has
previously been approved by the
Brevard Planning Board.
Phase I of the project, consisting of
the foundation, steel, roofing, masonry,
electrical, plumbing and mechanical
workr will begin this month and is
projected to be completed by August
1997. Phase II to finish and equip the
building and landscape the grounds will
follow as fundraising for Phase II of the
campaign is completed.
The new Center will become the
flagship for the College’s long respected
programs in the performing arts, just as
the college emerges as a senior college.
Brevard College has one of the largest
full time faculties in music of any
private college or university in the
South. For the past 30 years, the A.F.A
degree program has been fully
accredited by the National Association
of Schools of Music, making Brevard
one of only a handful of junior college
programs so accredited in the nation.
Plans for the new baccalaureate
programs in music have been approved
by N.A.S.M, and the 4-year programs
in music and art, as well as
environmental studies, have received
full accreditation by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.
The new center embodies Brevard
College’s strong tradition and its
commitment to excellence in education
®nd performance.
The concert hall in the Center,
designed in consultation with an
internationally known consultant, is
intended to be a superlative acoustical
performance space for music, as fine as
any in the nation. Other performance
venues in the Center will include a
performance and teaching playhouse for
the College’s theater studies program,
an entrance pavilion suitable for small
chamber performances, and a large
outdoor amphitheater.
All in all, the Center will extend
dramatically Brevard College’s already
extensive range of performance and
teaching opportunities for the faculty,
students, and the community of Brevard
and Transylvania County. The College
is plaiming an inaugural season of
musical, dance, and theatrical
performances for the year 1998-99. An
invitation has been extended to the
Brevard Chamber Orchestra to make the
Center its permanent home.
Other ensembles, such as the
professional Britten Choir from Atlanta
and the Dehler Quartet from the
Staatskappell Orchestra of Weimar,
Germany (recently appearing at the
College as Musica Europa) have been
invited to return as residents or visitors
over the years ahead. The College has
recently launched a curricular program
in sacred music that will also be housed
in the new facility.
Alumni come
home to BC
Rhonda L. Parker
Editor
The BC campus brought back fond
memories for the alumni as they walked
the grounds last month. Brevard College
hosted its annual Homecoming
celebration on October 11 and 12.
The alumni from the classes of
1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971,
1981, 1986, and 1991 convened upon
the BC campus to host their reunions
with a golf outing, an art exhibtion, and
a live band, The Jumpstarts. President
Bertrand hosted a special dinner in
honor of the alumni from the classes of
1935-45 on Friday evening.
The 1996 Homecoming Court was
presented on Saturday. The winners
were: Queen, Tonya Lawson; King,
Juan Rodriguez; Princess, Leigh Anne
Johnson; Prince, Auggie Perez.
Court members included: Lawanda
McDowell, Rally Antonitti, Donna
Pimental, Christy Stevens, Elin Brask,
Melissa Jones, Patricia Wil^n, Sherod
Segars, Rob Gillespie, Austin Ortiz,
Phillip Holland, Thomas Howard,
William Dickey, and Paul Zinke.
Also in this issue:
Editorials
page 2
SGA addresses student concerns
page 5
Profile: Nancy Ballinger
page 8
Fall sports teams capture championships
page 10