April 14, 2007

Cultural Arts Week Swings Into Spring



HANCEVILLE, Ala.-The Wallace State Music Department presented "Swing
into Spring" on Friday night, the sixth event of the college's Cultural
Arts Week series. The dining and dancing extravaganza featured big band
music by the Wallace State Jazz Show Band.



The Jazz Band, directed by Robert Bean, played three sets and
approximately 30 songs for dances of all variations, including the cha
cha, mambo, foxtrot, rhumba, samba, tango, waltz and swing.



More than 200 were in attendance, and the dance floor filled with each
tune. There was a dance for everyone, even a line dance to Boot Scootin'
Boogie, which the band performed with Wallace State voice instructor and
soloist Tiffany Richter.



Funds raised from the event will go to support the Wallace State Jazz
Band's spring tour.



Earlier this week, the Music Department hosted an opera performance on
Monday, and a master class and open rehearsal for the Wallace State
choirs with visiting faculty from Texas State University on Tuesday. On
Wednesday, the theater department presented "Clue." Thursday featured
English Department guest Kathryn Tucker Windham.



Cultural Arts Week continues on Saturday, when the Wallace State art
department presents a juried visual art exhibition in the James C.
Bailey Center foyer from 9 a.m. to noon. Admission is free. The art
exhibition will be open for public viewing April 10-14.



To close out the week, the Wallace State concert choir will perform its
spring tour bon voyage concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday in the music
department's recital hall for a $5 donation. The group will perform
Franz Josef Haydn's "Missa Sancti Johannes de Deo: Psalms, Hymns and
Spiritual Songs."



For more information about any of the events scheduled for Cultural Arts
Week, visit www.wallacestate.edu/events/caw.

On Friday, the Wallace State Music Department presented "Swing into
Spring," an evening of dancing and dining to the big band sound of the
Wallace State Jazz Show Band. Robert Bean directs.

  Kristen Holmes
  Director, Communications and Marketing
  Wallace State Community College
  P.O. Box 2000
  Hanceville, AL 35077
  256/352-8118
  E-mail: Kristen.Holmes@WallaceState.edu