HAMPTON ROADS LOCAL HEROES
ACCESS the ARTS Application
The mission of the Sandler Center Foundation's Education Committee is to promote enjoyment and lifelong learning of the arts. It is our intent to provide all citizens of Hampton Roads with the opportunity to build personal expression and confidence through our education programming in the arts at the Sandler Center.
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Performance (please select 2 – 1st choice and 2nd choice):
*all shows will be held at Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Choose an item. Fountains of Rome
Sunday, October 18, 2015 – 7 p.m.
JoAnn Falletta, Conductor, begins the concert with Bax’s lush Tintagel. The performance continues with a multi-sensory presentation of Respighi’s Fountains of Rome. Photographsof each of the fountains that inspired this seminal workwill be displayedon a large screen behind the orchestra as they play.
Choose an item. Enigma Variations
Sunday, November 1, 2015 – 2:30 p.m.
Zuill Bailey, a Virginia native and widely considered to be one of the best cellists in the world, takes the stage for the Virginia debut of Michael Daugherty’s Tales of Hemingway for Cello and Orchestra. Elgar’s Enigma Variations explores a theme and variations that illustrate, according to Elgar, “the idiosyncrasies of 14 of my friends, not necessarily musicians.”
Choose an item. Beethoven Festival
Friday, February 12, 2016 – 8 p.m.
Prisca Benoît—the resident musician for Sentara’s Music and Medicine program—once again joins the Virginia Symphony for an all-Beethoven program featuring the emotional and thematic Symphony No. 3, the valiant and expansive Choral Fantasy and the heroic and triumphant Egmont Overture.
Ballet Virginia International
Choose an item. Cinderella
Saturday, April 16, 2016
☐2 p.m.
☐7:30 p.m.
More show selections on the following page.
Symphonicity
Choose an item. Planets and Stars
Sunday, October 18, 2015 – 3 p.m.
Featuring Annika Jenkins, violin and visuals provided by NASA.
Choose an item. Rule Britannia
Sunday, February 21, 2016 – 3 p.m.
Featuring Megan Van Gomple, violin, Symphonicity Chorus, Old Dominion University Concert Choir and Virginia Children’s Chorus.
Choose an item. Grand Finale
Sunday, May 15, 2016 – 3 p.m.
Featuring Thomas Pandolfi, piano.
Tidewater Winds
Choose an item. Sounds of the Season: Celebrating Music from Around the World
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 – 7:30 p.m.
The Band is comprised of 48 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion musicians from across the Hampton Roads, Virginia area representing various military, professional, and college bands and orchestras. Selected high school students also perform with the band as part of our Student Intern Program.
Virginia Beach Forum
Choose an item. Allen B. West, Decorated Army Veteran and Former Congressman
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 – 7:30 p.m.
Choose an item. Ann Compton, Legendary ABC News’ White House Correspondent (1973-2014)
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 – 7:30 p.m.
Choose an item. Leigh Keno & Leslie Keno, Antique Experts on Antiques Roadshow
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 – 7:30 p.m.
The mission of the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Foundation is to enrich the lives of residents and guests by: providing great and diverse performances and experiences, providing educational programs for the arts, providing a home for regional community arts organizations, developing awareness of an appreciation for the arts in future generations, and promoting the arts in Virginia Beach.
All forms can be returned to Cara Olsen, Development Specialist: