Everyone recorded their parts via webcam and Caroline Ballard, daughter of Dana Ballard and host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” in Salt Lake City, mixed and edited the song in the now very familiar “Brady Bunch” style.
It’s important for teachers and our students to remain resilient in the face of adversity because it’s at times like these that the world needs art the most.”Ĭurtain Call kept meeting, albeit online, and on May 7, its performance of “Into the Unknown,” from the movie “Frozen 2,” debuted on YouTube. “Time never remains still, and there are always new directions and new ways of working in any given field. “As a group, we are learning to adapt to a new set of circumstances,” Wittman said in early April. This year, the concert was a no-go, but as they say in show biz, “The show must go on.” So Curtain Call’s directors, Loretta Wittman and Dana Ballard, along with New York City-based composer and songwriters workshop chief James Ballard, did what they do best: They improvised. Songwriter Rona Siddiqui, for example, once presented a Curtain Up song at the Kennedy Center. It’s a big deal for everyone, including the songwriters. The songs that emerge from the Curtain Up Songwriters Workshop have their world premieres at the concert. Students in Curtain Call, for instance, usually spend the semester at Dillard Fine Arts Center, where they work on Curtain Up, a spring concert of original songs written in collaboration with New York City songwriters. When classes went online in March, everyone at the University of Lynchburg had to figure out how to carry on while being physically separated.
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