by Becca Risley | Apr 19, 2016 | Galleries
Freshman Cole Buttrey won the third annual Mr. Lipscomb pageant Monday night in Shamblin theater, hosted by Delta Omega to raise awareness for Best Buddies. The pageant consisted of four categories: formal, cold-weather wear, talent and interview. Photos by Becca Risley « ‹ of 3 › »...
by Becca Risley | Apr 7, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
Lively characters, music and the age-old tale of Charlie Brown bring Lipscomb Theatre’s spring musical to life opening April 8th in Collins Auditorium. You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown is told in short vignettes, pulled straight out of the Peanuts comic strip, but will feature original music. The story follows a day in the life of Charlie Brown and his friends. Audiences will follow their successes, joys and various shortcomings as they go through the day at school, at home and during extra curricular activities. Kari Smith, the show’s director, said she wanted to stay faithful to the cartoon and create characters that are familiar to the audience while producing unique content as well. “We even found places in script where we can pop out of that fourth wall on the stage and interact with the audience a little bit, which is fun when there are kids in the crowd,” Smith said. The musical is based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic, Peanuts. Written in 1967 by Clark Gesner, the musical follows Charlie Brown in his attempts to win the heart of the Little Red-Haired Girl. Senior Elijah Wallace plays Charlie Brown and is joined on stage by sophomore Haley Sue Pearson as Lucy, sophomore Scott Wilson as Schroeder, junior Bekah Purifoy as Sally, and sophomore Connor Weaver as Snoopy. Among these, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Pig Pen, Woodstock, Freida and Marcie will make appearances as well. “Preparing for the role, my cast mates and I were encouraged to dig deep into ourselves and find our childlike nature and qualities that we would give our...
by Becca Risley | Apr 5, 2016 | Galleries
RAINEY, a band composed entirely of Lipscomb students, opened for Colony House Monday night in Bison Square to kick off the 2016 spring concert. Photos by Ben Davis and Stephanie Schiraldi ...
by Becca Risley | Mar 10, 2016 | News Slider
It all started with a passion for music. Clarence Paul Brown, father of Lipscomb professor Larry Brown and grandfather to Lipscomb sophomore Emily Butts, donated 323 hymnals to the The Bailey Hymnal Collection in February. The hymns are to be stored in the Beaman Library Special Collection archives. “Paul’s donation is monumental because to have a collection from a member of the Church of Christ and in the Nashville area is something special,” special collections librarian Elizabeth Rivera said. “What makes his gift so significant is that a lot of them are from the 1920s and they are just treasures of what different churches and denominations used for worship.” Brown began leading singing at the age of 16 and just before donating his collection of hymnals to the archives, he celebrated 70 years of song leading. While several of the donated hymnals were his own, a bulk of the collection came from Michael Moore. Moore was also a song leader and spent several years collecting hymnals. “Unfortunately he died of a heart attack,” professor Brown said. “His widow knew Dad was a good friend of his and loved music too, so she gave them to him. “The books were from multiple people. Inside, you can see they were gifts from lots of different people – all from a lifelong love of hymns.” Because of this donation, which included three CD’s and a few newspaper clippings, the archives now have over 2,800 hymnals. “I know letting go of those hymnals was hard for him because that meant acknowledging that that part of his life was over, but I’m proud of...
by Becca Risley | Mar 4, 2016 | Galleries
The 53rd annual Singarama show kicked off in Collins Alumni Auditorium Thursday night after a late start due to the Bisons Atlantic Sun tournament game. The theme of this years shows is “Life,” “Liberty,” and the pursuit of “Happiness.” The three shows were judged based on the quality of their theme Thursday evening and will be judged on other categories throughout the weekend. Photos by Becca Risley...
