Ms. Barbara Strong

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  About Us... - [Cached Version]
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  Accompanist, Barbara Strong
  
  Educated at Indiana University School of Music, Barbara Strong has a wealth of musical experience.Barbara has been director of community and church choirs for 35 years in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States, and music director and accompanist for the Lake Wylie Community Theatre in River Hills, South Cariolina.She has served as accompanist for Metropolitan Opera Auditions and for Concerto competitions at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juliard School in New York.She was the accompanist for the winner of the Young Artists Award, sponsored by the Lincoln Center in New York City.Barbara also has a large resume of vocal performances in various operas and solo concerts.
  
  Barbara currently teaches piano and strings privately and at the Shenandoah Valley Academy in New Market, and is also a church organist/choir director.She is well known locally for directing Community Theatre under the auspices of Theater Shenandoah.In 1998, she won the Shenandoah Arts Council's Artie Award for Drama.We are grateful for the skill and expertise Ms. Strong brings to Masterworks Chorus.

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  Barbara Strong, Accompanist540-984-8076
  
  Masterworks Chorus of the Shenandoah Valley P.O. Box 752, Woodstock, Virginia 22664

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  Director of Music and Organist: Barbara Strong.
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  Barbara Strong using parish hall 7pm (E)
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  Barbara Strong using parish hall 7pm (A)

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  Shenandoah.com | Stories - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/28/2005    Last Visited: 1/28/2005  

  So does Barbara Strong, the director of Theater Shenandoah.She thinks the theater would have a hard time drawing patrons from Harrisonburg or Winchester.
  
  She's also a pianist for the Masterworks Chorus, which performs four Christmas concerts across the county.
  
  "We have a difficult enough time drawing from New Market, and it's the same thing in Strasburg, it's always the least audience we have," Strong said.
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  "The music festival would fall flat on its butt without Dennis (Lynch)," Strong said.

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  Shenandoah.com | Stories - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/30/2005    Last Visited: 7/30/2005  

  commented Barbara Strong, Theater Shenandoah Artistic Director.
  
  Led by Ms. Strong, Theater Shenandoah is a relatively new outgrowth of her prior community theater work under the auspices of VECCA.Theater Shenandoah formed as a separate organization in March 2004, and has mounted several productions- The Wizard of Oz, The Honey House, and The Sound of Music since then.Last year's Cabaret fundraising event was held in the Old Edinburg Mill's bar-unfortunately, attendance was severely limited by size.This year's production will be held in the Old Opera House, which the Town of Edinburg has graciously provided for the Theater's use."We were totally sold out last year," said Ms. Strong, "and we are excited to have more space for our audiences in our new home."

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  Published on: 12/8/2005    Last Visited: 12/8/2005  

  Educated at Indiana University School of Music, accompanist Barbara Strong has been director of community and church choirs for 35 years in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States, and music director and accompanist for the Lake Wylie Community Theatre in River Hills, South Carolina.She has served as accompanist for Metropolitan Opera Auditions and for Concerto competitions at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juliard School in New York.She was the accompanist for the winner of the Young Artists Award, sponsored by the Lincoln Center in New York City.Barbara also has a large resume of vocal performances in various operas and solo concerts.
  
  Ms. Strong currently teaches piano and strings privately and at the Shenandoah Valley Academy in New Market, and also is director and organist at the New Market Reformation Lutheran Church.She also directs Theater Shenandoah in Edinburg.In 1998, she won the Shenandoah Arts Council's Artie Award for Drama.

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  Shenandoah.com | Stories - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/8/2005    Last Visited: 6/8/2005  

  "I'd have to check with Barbara."
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  And of course, since Strong is the director of Theater Shenandoah in Edinburg, Pat has taken stage roles.

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  Shenandoah.com | Stories - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/8/2004    Last Visited: 12/8/2004  

  They weren't really naked, says Barbara Strong.
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  "It was Eloise Haun's idea," says Strong, the theater's director.
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  "She's a real stage ham," said Strong.Strong herself stands behind a piano, seemingly clad only in a red feather boa, as Miss February.
  
  "We were talking about fundraisers," Strong said.The best idea they could come up with was a yard sale."She said, 'I think we need to do a calendar.'" Another organization had tried it, and Theater Shenandoah members remembered the movie, "Calendar Girls," which strikes a similar theme.
  
  "We thought it was perfect," Strong said.
  
  The calendar is hot off the presses, so Strong hadn't heard any comments when she was interviewed last week.
  
  And Strong did more than bare a little skin for the shoot.
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  The calendar photographers were Kay Ely-Pierce, Sansara Nirvana Murphy, Chris Gatesman and Barbara Strong.
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  The scenes were staged at the Opera House, at the old Edinburg School, and the homes of Strong, Danny Sheetz and Ginny White.

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  Shenandoah.com | Valley Events - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/20/2004    Last Visited: 9/8/2005  

  For more information, call Barbara Strong, Director, (540) 984-8076.

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  The Shenandoah Valley-Herald - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/16/2004    Last Visited: 2/16/2004  

  Theater Shenandoah is being formed under the direction of Barbara Strong, who for the last 10 years has directed productions for the Valley Educational Center for the Creative Arts.
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  "I have always believed that a community theater should be a teaching theater, an organization in which amateurs and novices in the art can learn and enjoy performing," said Strong.
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  Strong says equipment is transported and sets are constructed and torn down by the cast of each show.
  
  "A permanent home would alleviate all of that and would allow us to do what we do best, perform.It's the dream of the entire Theater Shenandoah company to see that become a reality very soon.We need a home, and we welcome sponsors and patrons of our performing arts group," Strong says.
  
  The company has prospects.George Whiting, who owns the old theater on Main Street in Mt. Jackson, has approached Strong about the use of his building.
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  We, as a group, have committed ourselves to always strive to entertain our audiences with quality, wholesome, family productions," said Strong.
  
  To celebrate 10 years of directing theater productions in the county, Strong and Theater Shenandoah will recast "Oliver," the first musical she directed in 1994.The performance will be held at the Emanuel Lutheran Church in Woodstock, the site of the first show.The show will run May 28-30.
  
  Strong, who has spent most her career as a pianist and as a vocalist, has a background as a musician.A native of South Bend, she graduated from the Indiana University School of Music with a concentration in opera performance, piano, and cello.
  
  In her professional career, Strong directed community and church choirs for 35 years in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States.As a faculty member at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., Strong sang lead roles in various operas, and performed vocal solos in major cities in the Southeast, to include singing at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
  
  She has served as accompanist for auditions at the Metropolitan Opera and at the Juilliard School in New York City and also for concert to competitions at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.Strong was also accompanied a winner of the Young Artists Award, sponsored by the Lincoln Center in New York City.Currently she teaches piano and strings privately at the Shenandoah Academy in New Market and is also choral director/organist at the New Market Reformation Lutheran Church.
  
  In 1998 Strong was the winner of the Artie Award given by the Shenandoah Arts Council.

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