College of Arts + Architecture

The University Chorale and Chamber Orchestra join forces to present a holiday-themed concert at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 9, in the Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. Randy Haldeman, director of choral studies, will conduct.

The Dec. 9 program will open with a piece for chamber orchestra alone, conducted by music student Faith Foster, who is one of two students in the Department of Music’s conducting mentorship program. The piece “March of the Little Lead Soldiers” is by French composer Gabriel Pierné.

UNC Charlotte alumna Karen Kirks Alexander was elected mayor of Salisbury on Tuesday, Dec. 1, by the Salisbury City Council, to which Alexander was elected in November.

Randy Haldeman, director of choral studies, and Jonathan Govias, director of orchestras, will be the guests on the Dec. 4 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. Starting at noon, they will discuss the upcoming University Chorale and Chamber Orchestra concert, scheduled for Dec. 9.

Shawn Smith, UNC Charlotte director of bands, conducted a performance that was broadcast to a worldwide audience on Nov. 20 on the American Public Radio syndicated show “Performance Today.” The program, available on 237 stations nationwide and streamed online, is the most listened to daily classical music radio show in the United States.

E/Ye Design (Ellinger Yehia Architects, LLC), founded in 2002 by Associate Professor of Architecture Jefferson Ellinger and Nona Yehia, has designed one of the first vertical greenhouses in the United States. The 13,500-square foot “Vertical Harvest” greenhouse, currently under construction in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has an innovative three-story design that will allow the production equivalent of a five-acre farm. Construction is scheduled to be complete in January 2016.

E.E. Balcos, associate professor of dance, and Shawn Smith, director of bands, will be the guests on the Nov.13 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. Starting at noon, they will discuss the upcoming Fall Dance (Nov. 19-22) and Wind Ensemble concerts (Nov. 23).

Department of Dance students will perform a Fall Dance Concert Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 19-22, in the Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. The five works on the program, choreographed by UNC Charlotte dance faculty, will reflect the rich diversity in contemporary dance with a wide range of styles.

The Department of Music Faculty and Friends Concert Series will honor composer Walter Hartley on Tuesday, Nov. 17. Hartley, whose daughter Carol Hartley is a business services coordinator in the Department of Languages and Culture Studies, has composed nearly 300 works and is most revered for his music for saxophones, brass instruments and wind ensembles. The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. in Rowe Recital Hall.

The UNC Charlotte Shakespeare in Action initiative has entered the final year of a six-year project to address all of Shakespeare’s plays before the 400th anniversary of the bard’s death in April 2016. Tackling six plays a year in formats ranging from lectures to full-blown theatrical productions, the “36 in 6” project has left for this final season the play that many consider to be Shakespeare’s best “The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.” The Department of Theatre will present “Hamlet” Wednesday, Nov. 4, through Sunday, Nov. 15, in the Black Box Theater in the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts.

The National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD), the national accrediting agency for dance and dance-related activities, has granted full membership to UNC Charlotte, making the University one of its 79 accredited institutions. Gained through an intensive peer review process, membership is granted only to institutions that meet all of the standards of NASD.