Tenor, pianist, and violinist James Pannabecker will be the featured soloist in the first half of the Feb. 22 Rockbridge Symphony concert, where he will sing four “Old American Songs” arranged by Aaron Copland. He will also open the second half with two arias from Jules Massenet’s “Manon” and Verdi’s “La Traviata.”
The Rockbridge Symphony’s winter concert this Saturday will present a variety of American folk, jazz and opera selections. The music starts at 7:30 p.m. at Wil
A history professor specializing in U.S. foreign policy in Asia and the Pacific will speak at Virginia Military Institute Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 8 p.m. in room 502 of Scott Shipp Hall.
William Kurtz, managing director and digital historian at the University of Virginia John L. Nao III Center for Civil War History, will give a lecture on his soon to be released biography on Civil War Gen. William Rosecrans at 7:30 p.m. today, Wednesday, Feb. 19, at Nichols Engineering Building auditorium at Virginia Military Institute. The lecture is sponsored by the VMI Museum.
“Caught on Camera — Photos from a Tweety Bird Farm” will be the topic of the next Rockbridge Area Forestry and Wildlife dinner meeting to be held on March 5. Speaker Lin Koch will present a slide program of the more interesting wildlife captured by trail cameras on her small woodlot.
Registration is open for Virginia Military Institute’s 31st annual Environment Virginia Symposium, to be held March 31–April 2 in Marshall Hall. This event attracts about 600 participants, including leaders from Virginia’s state environmental agencies, industries, and nonprofit organizations.
The Blue Ridge Readers Book Club will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 4 p.m. in the Piovano Room at the Rockbridge Regional Library. The public is invited to a
In observance of Black History Month, Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Student Activities will host a showing of “Slavery By Another Name,” a film narrated by actor Laurence Fishburne, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Moomaw Center on the main campus in Clifton Forge.
The Youth Literacy program at Rockbridge Regional Library acknowledges the generous spirit of the following volunteer reading tutors who are having a positive impact on the lives of more than 70 young students in the Rockbridge area:
Michael J. Pulice, a veteran architectural historian with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources’ Western Regional Office, will present a free public program on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m. at the Paxton House inside Glen Maury Park. Light refreshments will be provided.
