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Gala Vocal Chamber Music concert tonight

Brevard College will host a performance by Gala Vocal Chamber Music at 7:30 tonight in the Porter Center for Performing Arts.

Gala Vocal Chamber Music is composed of Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato, flutist Peter H. Bloom and pianist Mary Jane Rupert. Together, they perform chamber works from the European baroque period to 21st century America, including the music of Handel, Schubert, Ravel, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Elizabeth Vercoe and others.

Called “affecting, superb” by The New York Times, Fortunato has performed with pre-eminent American symphonies including Philadelphia, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco, Houston, Cleveland, Boston and Dallas. She has performed leading roles with major opera companies, including the New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and Opera San Jose and has appeared in festivals, including Berlin’s Spectrum Concerts, the Rome Bach Festival, Marlboro, Casals, Tanglewood, Blossom and Newport.

In 2006, Fortunato was a Grammy nominee in three categories, including best classical vocal recording. A regional Met Winner, she also received the Naumburg Prize and the Jacopo Peri Award. Fortunato serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory College Division.

Bloom’s work encompasses a wide range of chamber music, old and new. He is also a jazz performer. Bloom was

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An elk that butted heads with an Asheville, N.C., photographer in Great Smoky Mountains National Park was euthanized Friday after a YouTube video of the encounter went viral.

That video had garnered almost 1 million views and more than a 1,000 comments, though park officials said the elk had become used to eating people food and was a problem before approaching the photographer.

In the end, the elk was done in as much by Doritos as it was by the video fame, the park said.

The decision to euthanize the elk was a first for the park, spokeswoman Dana Soehn said.

The video “was the first incident that we know of that the elk engaged in physical contact” with a visitor, Soehn said. The footage “was a critical step in the decision-making” to euthanize.

“This was not a one-time incident,” she said. “(The video) was a trigger; the physical contact escalated our decision.”

The video, shot Oct. 20 along the Cataloochee Trail, shows the male elk head-butting James York, who was sitting along the trail shooting still photographs. Neither York nor the elk were hurt.

York said he was “truly saddened” by the decision to put down the animal. “I was really looking

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The Brevard College Theatre Studies Department will present the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Proof” through Sunday in the Morrison Playhouse of the College’s Porter Center for Performing Arts.

David Auburn’s play won the Tony award for best play as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. Performance times are 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. General admission tickets are $5 and available at Rockin’ Robin in Brevard, on Etix.com, and at the door 30 minutes before each performance.

CHRISTMAS IN FLETCHER

Shadrack Christmas Wonderland returns to the WNC Agricultural Center in Fletcher starting this Friday. Drive through to see Christmas lights and hear dance music. The festivities don’t stop at the end of the drive-through route. Stay to visit the huge Santa’s Village, meet and have a photo with Santa Claus, and enjoy festive refreshments like gourmet hot cocoa, coffee, funnel cakes, fried Oreos and s’mores. Visitors can also try the giant spider bungee, inflatable slides and bounces, or the Santa train and Ferris wheel. The holiday entertainment is open dusk to 10 p.m. every night, including holidays and even in the rain, through Jan. 1. Admission for cars or family vans is $20; activity van or mini bus,

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Visitors to Presbyterian College’s Templeton Center for Thursday’s tip-off to the Big South Volleyball Tournament had better expect to be close to the players of their respective teams.

“We sit really close to the court,” PC Athletic Director Brian Reese said. “You are right on top of the action.”

It is PC’s “time in the rotation,” Reese said, for playing host to a conference championship. The Thursday through Sunday win-or-go-home championship will be Presbyterian College’s first Big South championship.

“PC has done an outstanding job preparing for the event,” Big South Commissioner Kyle Kallander said. “We find that these small markets really embrace these events. This is a great opportunity to see some really good college volleyball.”

Reese said competition among the Big South volleyball teams has grown fierce as the seedings for Thursday’s tournament grew closer. Seedings were announced Sunday – Radford, out of Virginia, is the top-seeded volleyball team in the Big South.

PC plays Thursday – on home court – first serve at 7:30 p.m. against No. 2 seed Coastal Carolina.

“This is just like March Madness,” Kallander said. “The winner advances to the NCAAs.”

Kallander talked to The Chronicle about PC and Clinton playing host to the volleyball tournament following his

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Gala Vocal Chamber Music concert tonight

Brevard College will host a performance by Gala Vocal Chamber Music at 7:30 tonight in the Porter Center for Performing Arts.

Gala Vocal Chamber Music is composed of Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato, flutist Peter H. Bloom and pianist Mary Jane Rupert. Together, they perform chamber works from the European baroque period to 21st century America, including the music of Handel, Schubert, Ravel, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Elizabeth Vercoe and others.

Called “affecting, superb” by The New York Times, Fortunato has performed with pre-eminent American symphonies including Philadelphia, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco, Houston, Cleveland, Boston and Dallas. She has performed leading roles with major opera companies, including the New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and Opera San Jose and has appeared in festivals, including Berlin’s Spectrum Concerts, the Rome Bach Festival, Marlboro, Casals, Tanglewood, Blossom and Newport.

In 2006, Fortunato was a Grammy nominee in three categories, including best classical vocal recording. A regional Met Winner, she also received the Naumburg Prize and the Jacopo Peri Award. Fortunato serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory College Division.

Bloom’s work encompasses a wide range of chamber music, old and new. He is also a jazz performer. Bloom was

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Presbyterian College Men’s Basketball Grabs

Home Opening Win Over Toccoa Falls, 86-76

The Presbyterian College men’s basketball team grabbed its first win of the season on Monday night by knocking off the Toccoa Falls Eagles in PC’s home opener at Templeton Center, 86-76.

PC improves to 1-3 on the year and will next play at Old Dominion on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Norfolk, Va. Toccoa Falls moves to 0-5.

Reggie Dillard (Greensboro, N.C.) set a new Division I-era record with 12 assists on the night and posted his first career double-double with 14 points. William Truss (Vestavia Hills, Ala.) also tallied 19 points and a career-high 16 rebounds for another Blue Hose double-double. Truss’s six blocks against the Eagles mark a career-best for the junior as well, part of 10 team blocks that set another Division I-era record.

Jordan Downing (Huntersville, N.C.) led PC scorers with 21 points.

The Blue Hose overcame a hot-shooting Eagles team, who went 46.3 percent (31-for-67) from the floor. Toccoa Falls slashed an eight-point PC lead late in the game to only one point with 2:16 to go, but the Blue Hose responded with nine unanswered points to close out the win.

After a Derek

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