SMC to Host Showing of 1922 "Robin Hood," Scored to Live Music

03/04/11 — Musical Artists Hesperus Will Conduct Live Performance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SPARTANBURG - Spartanburg Methodist College will be offering a unique experience, blending music with silent film, on March 15.

The musical group Hesperus will conduct a live performance scored to the 1922 silent film Robin Hood on Mar. 15 at 7:30 pm in Camak Auditorium as part of SMC's Centennial Celebration events series. The performance is free and open to the public.

Founded in 1979 by the late Scott Reiss and his wife Tina Chancey, Hesperus has appeared throughout the US, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe, most recently at Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Lincoln Center, the Carmel Bach Festival and the Cloisters, as well as at festivals in Italy, Germany, Indonesia and Bolivia. The ensemble can be heard in three recent Hallmark Channel specials (including the Emmy-nominated Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland), the film Sleepy Hollow, and on seventeen recordings on the Koch International, Dorian, Golden Apple and Maggie's Music labels.

Cameras and any type of video and/or audio recording devices are prohibited at this event.

For more information on Hesperus, you can visit http://www.hesperus.org/

For more information on the event, please contact Centennial Committee chairman Briles Lever at (864) 587-4279 or leverb@smcsc.edu

Spartanburg Methodist College is in its 100th academic year of providing quality education to students in a Christian environment.  More than 90 percent of SMC graduates continue their education at other institutions of higher learning.