Wittenberg Series Welcomes Award-Winning Dance Company Feb. 6
Springfield, Ohio – The 2012-13 Wittenberg Series continues on Wednesday, Feb. 6, with a performance by Doug Varone and Dancers. The award-winning dance company will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. in Kuss Auditorium at the Clark State Performing Arts Center, 300 S. Fountain Avenue. All Wittenberg Series events are presented free of charge, although [...]
Wittenberg Hosts Medieval Candlelight Vespers Service, Candlemas, Feb. 2
Springfield, Ohio – Historic Weaver Chapel is the site of one of Wittenberg University’s most cherished annual events at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, with the Medieval Candlelight Vespers Service, better known as Candlemas. The event, which takes place each year on the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, will be led by University [...]
Award-Winning Author Offers History Lesson During Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation Address
Springfield, Ohio – It has been 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. authored his famed letter from a Birmingham jail, and it has been 150 years since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was appropriate then that the 2013 Wittenberg Series-sponsored Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation turned into a history lesson for [...]
Wittenberg Series Welcomes Award-Winning Author Peniel Joseph For Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation Jan. 21
Springfield, Ohio – As the nation remembers one of the foremost Civil Rights leaders in history, Wittenberg University holds its annual Wittenberg Series-sponsored Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in historic Weaver Chapel. The featured speaker is activist, professor and award-winning author Peniel Joseph, Ph.D. A professor of history [...]
Wittenberg University Hosts Annual German Language Epiphany Service Jan. 6
Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University’s annual German Language Epiphany Service will take place at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, in historic Weaver Chapel. Pre-service music begins at 7:15 p.m. The service, a campus tradition since 1985, brings the Christmas season to a close. The service is conducted entirely in German and uses a format from [...]
2012-13 Wittenberg Series Continues With Annual Lessons And Carols For Advent And Christmas
Springfield, Ohio – The 2012-13 Wittenberg Series continues at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7, with the annual Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas service at Wittenberg University’s Weaver Chapel. The event is free and open to the public, with pre-service music starting at 7 p.m. Music will be provided by more than 125 musicians, [...]
Wittenberg University Hosts 31st Annual Community Messiah Sing
Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University will host the 31st annual Community Sing of George Friedrich Handel’s Messiah at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in Weaver Chapel. The concert, in which the audience is the chorus, is sponsored by Wittenberg’s Department of Music. Soloists for the performance include April Bennett, soprano, Rachael Boezi, mezzo-soprano, Jason Heister, [...]
Wittenberg Choir Participates In Innovative Christmas Concert Series In Dayton
Springfield, Ohio – The widely acclaimed Wittenberg Choir, directed by Associate Professor of Music Adam Jonathan Con, will participate in a special series of Christmas concerts titled “Traditions” with the United States Air Force Band of Flight (USAFBF) and MUSICA!, Dayton’s Professional Chamber Choir, Nov. 30-Dec. 2 at the Dayton Masonic Center. The performances are [...]
Wittenberg Professors To Host Reading And Roundtable Discussion Of Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Mo Yan
Springfield, Ohio – Nobel Prize-winning Chinese novelist Mo Yan, author of the acclaimed novel Red Sorghum, is the subject of a Reading & Roundtable Discussion at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in 131 Hollenbeck Hall. Four faculty members will lead the Reading & Roundtable Discussion, highlighted by Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Cultural Studies [...]
Wittenberg Collaborates With Springfield Symphony Orchestra For Fourth Annual Night At The Symphony Nov. 10
Springfield, Ohio — One of Clark County’s premier cultural institutions, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (SSO), and one of America’s finest liberal arts institutions, Wittenberg University, are once again collaborating to celebrate the fourth annual Wittenberg Night at the Symphony on Saturday, Nov. 10. Designed to introduce more members of the Wittenberg community to the SSO, [...]