University of North Carolina School of the Arts - Spectrum Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Highlights In February 1969, the School’s produc- tion of Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer’’ was chosen as one of 10 finalists out of 1,976 colleges in the first American College Theatre Festival. The 10 finalists performed in Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. in May 1969. In August 1970, the student orchestra from the North Carolina School of the Arts summer session in Siena, Italy gave a concert of works by American and Italian composers honoring Rome’s first 100 years as the capital of a unifed Italy. A five-day Aaron Copland festival on campus in 1971 celebrated his 70th birth- day with his conducting the North Carolina School of the Arts Orchestra. His works were also played for dance perfor- mances and by chamber groups. In April 1972, the School’s production of Lillian Heilman’s “The Little Foxes’’ was chosen as one of four finalists in the American College Theatre Festival and performed in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In September and October 1973, Agnes de Mille’s “Heritage Dance Theatre’’ was prepared on the School’s campus for the national tours through 1973 and 1974. Of the original cast of 25, 15 were drawn from the School. A film produced by the School of Dance using Agnes de Mille’s “Cherry Tree Carol’’ won the Cine Golden Eagle award for outstanding non-theatrical television films. The International Festival Orchestra, in Italy for the 1976 summer session of the International Music Program, was selected by the American Embassy to present a concert in Rome on July 26, 1976, as the Bicentennial Event to Italy. 18

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