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★ ★ GreensboroCelebrate North Carolina Art. Culture. Entertainment. Greensboro plays a starring role. ★Art. Culture. Entertainment. Celebrateby brian cook Greensboro North Carolina arbecue, basketball, and Yet there’s so much more to the city’s identity Tanger Family top collections of African culture, and the — museums, galleries, festivals, parks, music, Bicentennial Garden Greensboro Cultural Center at Festival Park business: It’s a conveniently and the dramatic arts. The combination of a includes galleries, gift shops, studios, and alliterative trio that’s synony- pleasant, four-season climate, a deep menu of rehearsal space. Nearby, Center City Park is mous with Greensboro, the restaurants, and a gracious Southern style is a popular spot for concerts, art shows, and tough to top. other events. historic hub of North Carolina’s A signature event is the annual Eastern Got kids? Get face-to-face with meerkats, picturesque Piedmont region. Music Festival, celebrating its 50th anniver- tigers, and more at the Natural Science sary summer 2011 (June to July). Other ways Center’s Animal Discovery Zoological Park. B to enjoy the performing arts: a concert by the The interactive Greensboro Children’s Greensboro Symphony Orchestra; a play at Putting the “Greene” in Greensboro Triad Stage or from the Community Theatre When Taking a Stand Meant Sitting Down of Greensboro; or a Broadway-style show With its abundance of trees and On February 1, 1960, four parkland, you might think the (plus a meal!) at The Barn Dinner Theatre, African-American students from city’s name is tied to the natural the oldest continually operating dinner Greensboro’s NC A&T State setting. Actually it’s a tribute to theatre in America. University sat down at the Gen. Nathanael Greene, a Rhode “whites only” lunch counter at Concerts and classic films are staples at onvention & visitors bureau Islander who led Continental c the F.W. Woolworth store on Army forces against the British in the beautifully restored Carolina Theatre, South Elm Street. The four were the Revolutionary War’s pivotal a landmark since 1927 and an example of all denied service and asked Battle of Guilford Courthouse in to leave, but they refused. The 1781. It remains a mystery why downtown’s dramatic rebirth. Greensboro’s watershed sit-in movement the third “e” in the general’s urban core has been infused with new life University of North Carolina at Greensboro was born, a bold but simple surname was dropped when over the past decade, and today it’s a vibrant is nationally recognized for its nearly 6,000- nonviolent protest that “Greensborough” (as originally piece permanent collection of modern art, garnered widespread attention spelled) was established in 1808, commercial and residential district with and inspired similar actions but you’ll see it in various places restaurants, pubs, boutiques, and condos. including works by Matisse, Warhol, and throughout the segregated including Greene Street, General Paintings and sculpture more your style? Calder. The North Carolina A&T State South. The former Woolworth Greene Elementary School, and University Galleries holds one of the nation’s store is now the International Natty Greene’s Brewing Co. The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the photos courtesy of the greensboro area Civil Rights Center & Museum. • 38 • • 39 • ★ Celebrate Greensboro Art. Culture. Entertainment. Who’s Where ArtQuest Eastern Music Festival & School 42 The Atlantic Coast Conference 50 Green Hill Center for NC Art 54 Greensboro Ballet 58 Guilford College Bryan Series 62 International Civil Rights Center & Museum 66 United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro 70 Weatherspoon Art Museum 74 Action Greensboro 78 Downtown Greenway 80 Blandwood 82 Carolina Theatre 84 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament The Community Foundation of Greensboro 86 Downtown Greensboro Inc. 88 Elsewhere Collaborative 90 plays in a state-of-the-art downtown stadium, Sports fans have plenty to cheer about in Greensboro Historical Museum 92 while fans of pro soccer get their kicks with the place dubbed “Tournament Town.” the Carolina Dynamo at Bryan Park each Greensboro Coliseum Complex 94 summer. Greensboro Children’s Museum 96 History buffs, don’t miss Guilford Greensboro Opera 98 Wordplay: The Rich Legacies of Two Museum offers a wealth of exhibits and Courthouse National Military Park, where Natural Science Center of Greensboro 100 educational programs. ArtQuest, a hands-on a key battle of the Revolutionary War was Native Sons Triad Stage 102 William Sydney Porter was born in Greensboro in studio at Green Hill Center for NC Art, waged, or Tannenbaum Historic Park and 1862, studying pharmacy until his late teens before fosters artistic talent in young ones. May the Colonial Heritage Center, just a short Greensboro Symphony 104 pursuing a writing career in New York. Working through September, have a blast at Wet ‘n walking distance away. At the Greensboro UNCG School of Music, Theatre, and Dance 106 under the pseudonym O. Henry, he wrote the classic Christmas tale “The Gift of the Magi” and hundreds Wild Emerald Pointe Water Park, the largest Historical Museum, learn about many of other short stories, many featuring locations and of its kind in the Carolinas. aspects of the city’s past. Featured exhibits characters from Greensboro. A bronze, life-size Sports fans have plenty to cheer about in include the new 8,000-square-foot Voices of statue of the author, along with his beloved dog and a book, is located downtown on Bellemeade Street. the place dubbed “Tournament Town.” Some a City exhibit, Jugtown Pottery and more. Pioneering radio and of the PGA TOUR’s top players compete And you can’t overlook Greensboro’s Center City Park television broadcaster annually in August at the Wyndham Champi- bounty of parks, lakes, and gardens. Stroll Edward R. Murrow was born onship. The city is home for the Atlantic through the 17-acre Greensboro Arboretum at in southern Guilford County in 1908. He left with his Coast Conference. Founded here in 1953, Lindley Park, the new Gateway Gardens, and parents when he was a the conference’s heritage is showcased in the the Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden. The child, went on to graduate new ACC Hall of Champions adjacent to the onvention & visitors bureau popular Bog Garden, across the street from the from Washington State c University, and eventually 23,500-seat Greensboro Coliseum, site of Bicentennial Garden, has a half-mile, wooden landed a job with CBS more ACC basketball tournaments than any walkway leading to a neighborhood lake, as Radio. Murrow’s distinctive other venue, and host of the prestigious U.S. well as the tranquil Serenity Falls. baritone voice became famous when he broadcast Figure Skating Championships in 2011. There’s plenty to do and see in Greensboro from a besieged London Also in the shadows of the coliseum is the — the hard part is figuring out where to start! in the early days of World War II. Later, as a TV city’s new $19 million aquatic center, site of (For more information, contact the commentator, he signed off with his signature line, “Good night, and good luck.” A bust of Murrow is the 2012 U.S. Masters Swimming Spring Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors located behind the Greensboro Historical Museum. National Championships. The Single-A Bureau at 800.344.2282, 336.274.2282, or Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball team VisitGreensboroNC.com.) photos courtesy of the greensboro area • 40 • • 41 • ★ June 25–July 30, 2011 Celebrate Greensboro Art. Culture. Entertainment. 50 years of beautiful music Eastern Music Festival & To reach us: Eastern Music Festival & School Eastern Festival 200 N . Davie St. Orchestra Greensboro, NC 27401 Phone: 336.333.7450 Fax: 336.333.7454 School EasternMusicFestival.org To order tickets: two venues — a the opportunity to study with some of the resident professional orchestra hat do Yo-Yo Ma, Preservation Hall Jazz Triad Stage Box Of fice 1909 Carnegie world’s best teachers, interact with celebrated with accomplished performers 232 S . Elm St. Band, Midori, Bruce Hornsby, Wynton library and an guest artists, perform in formal and informal who also teach the students, and Greensboro, NC 27401 Marsalis, Doc Severinsen, Canadian Brass, intimate profes- settings, and gain exposure to a professional a unique artist-in-residence Phone: 336.272.0160 sional recital hall. musician’s lifestyle. program became a reality. He or 866.579.TIXX and Edgar Meyer have in common (other than Fax: 336.274.1774 Two student remained music director and music, of course)? They all have appeared as orchestras How Did Eastern Music Festival Begin? principal conductor for 36 years guest artists at Eastern Music Festival & School. perform each Sheldon Morgenstern (Shelly), a young horn until his retirement in 1997. week, in addition player from Greensboro, had long envisioned W to piano and a music camp offering instruction oriented What is EMF Like Today? What is Eastern Music Festival & School? chamber recitals throughout the season. toward the student. Shelly pitched his idea to Today, EMF offers more than This five-week summer experience in Various artists present a weekly, mixed series Guilford College’s president and arranged to 100 music events each summer Greensboro, NC, focuses on classical music of classical programs — from opera to organ start the music camp at the college. After to an audience of more than with two main components — training and galas to themed concerts. EMF also offers recruiting 72 students, hiring 14 faculty 60,000. Since 2006, Gerard performance. alternative music genres, children’s camps, and orchestra Mark by Wagoner members, and raising $22,000, Maestro Schwarz has put his own personal stamp on A professional orchestra composed of the and community participation programs. eMf Morgenstern presided over the first season the Festival as its music director. school’s faculty, directed by Gerard Schwarz, In the School’s orchestral division, of the “Guilford Musical Arts Center” (later Special features for the 50th anniversary performs weekly classical concerts headlined students form two orchestras, and the piano named EMF) in 1962.