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Tarleton’s Langdon Center
For Young People
Summer Theater Camp
July 14–18: Daily classes
July 19: Graduation Performances
Noon–1 p.m. Ages 7–10 (cost $55.00)
2 p.m.–4 p.m. Ages 11–14 (cost $90.00)
Students study stage movement, theater terminology, script reading and developing a character.
Site: Langdon Center Concert Hall
Instructor: Betty Jacobs
Summer Fashion Camp
July 21–25: Daily classes
July 26: Fashion Show
12 p.m.–1 p.m. Ages 7–10 (cost $65.00)
2 p.m.–3 p.m. Ages 11–14 (cost $65.00)
This program, for girls only, encourages confidence and poise through age appropriate skin & hair care, modeling, etiquette and manners.
Site: Langdon Center Concert Hall
Instructor: Betty Jacobs
A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
Tarleton State University, an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
Summer 2008 Community Education Classes
For Registration Information Contact:
Tarleton’s Langdon Center
308 East Pearl Street
Granbury, TX 76048
Phone: 817-279-1164
langdoncenter@sbcglobal.net
Reservations taken on a first come, first serve basis. All registrations fees must be paid in advance of the class starting date.
Personal Computers
Microsoft Word
Date: June 10, 12, 17 & 19
Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Cost: $65.00
Instructor: Jon Back
Excel
Date: June 23, 25, 30 & July 2
Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Cost: $65.00
Instructor: Jon Back
Digital Graphics
Date: July 8, 10, 15 & 17
Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Cost: $65.00
Instructor: Jon Back
Web Page Creation
Date: July 21, 22, 23 & 24
Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Cost: $65.00
Instructor: Jon Back
Leisure
Calligraphy
June 14
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Langdon Center Carriage House
Cost: $30 (includes book & pen set)
Instructor: Phil Delucchi
Scrapbook Class
June 28
Time: 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Site: Tarleton's Langdon Center Carriage House
Cost: $65 (includes basic kit & class supplies)
Instructor: Karen Gossett
Genealogy Research: Historic American Lineage
Date: Saturday, July 19
Instructors – Eloise Horak. M. Ed,
Site - Tarleton's Langdon Center
Time: 9:00 a.m. to Noon
Cost: $20.00
Wreath Making & Floral Design
Date: Saturday, August 9
Time: 10am to 1pm
Cost: $50.00
Site: Langdon Center Rock House
Instructors: Karen Gossett, artist & floral designer
Culinary Courses
Cooking for Kids
In cooperation with Heflin’s Produce Market
Carol Carlisle leads participants ages 8-years to 10-years in discovering safe cooking techniques and healthy eating choices.
Tuesday, June 3: Cool Summer Snacks
Thursday, June 5: Presto Panini & Pizza
Tuesday, June 10: Fun with Fresh Fruits & Veggies
Thursday, June 12: Get Your Grill On!
Time: 10am to Noon
Cost: $20 per person per class; $70 for all 4 classes
Site: Langdon Center Gordon & Carriage Houses
Summer Adult Cooking Classes
In coordination with The Pan Handle, A Gourmet Tool Shop & Inn on Lake Granbury
Time: 6pm – 9pm Cost: $75.00 per class; $400.00 for all 6
Location: Inn on Lake Granbury
Tuesday, May 27
Sean Merchant, Executive Chef & Jamie Fulton, Owner & Award Winning Brewmeister of The Covey
Tuesday, June 17
Jon Bonnell of Bonnell’s Restaurant, Fort Worth
Tuesday, July 15
Eric Hunter, chef & Britton Schweitzer, owner & creator of The Fire Oak Grill, Weatherford
More exciting classes scheduled for
Tuesday, August 19
Tuesday, September 16
Tuesday, October 21
For Registration Information Contact:
Tarleton’s Langdon Center
308 East Pearl Street
Granbury, TX 76048
Phone: 817-279-1164
langdoncenter@itexas.net
Reservations taken on a first come, first serve basis. All registrations fees must be paid in advance of the class starting date.
A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
Tarleton State University, an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
Cultural Events & Activities
Birds, Bones and Other Things
Suzanne Gentling Prints
June 7–28
Historic A.P. Gordon House
Weekdays 9pm to 6pm
Saturdays 1pm to 5pm
Langdon Center Big Band Dance
June 28 Granbury Skating Rink
7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Jacket Required
$12.00 per person
All-American Jazz Concert
Featuring the Langdon Center Big Band
July 4
Langdon Center Lawn
7:30 p.m. (Followed by fireworks over Lake Granbury)
Free event
The Artwork of Vern Johnson
July 3–26
Historic A.P. Gordon House
Weekdays 9am to 6pm
Saturdays 1pm to 5pm
Provence Revisted
The artwork of Jeanette Alexander and members of the 2008 Provence Travel Study Program
August 2– 29
Historic A.P. Gordon House
Weekdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturdays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The Greg Ball Trio
August 23
Langdon Center Concert Hall
7:30 p.m.
$6 adults
$4 senior citizens & students
Visit the sites of other music presenters in Granbury:.
Granbury Live - www.granburylive.com
Music at Acton - www.actonumc.org
The Granbury Opera House - www.granburyoperahouse.net
Warm Country Heart Theater - www.warmcountryheart.com
A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
Tarleton State University, an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
Community Meetings at Tarleton’s Langdon Center
Granbury Civic Chorus
Mondays 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Langdon Center Concert Hall
Suzanne Cate, Director
817-326-4242
(Auditions: Monday, August 25 at 7:00 p.m.)
Lake Granbury Stamp Club
A branch of the Mid-Cities Stamp Club
4th Tuesday of each month, 7:00 p.m.
Site: Langdon Center Studio
Contact: David Stockbridge
817 573-7168 stockdave44@yahoo.com
A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
Tarleton State University, an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
Janice Horak, Director
308 East Pearl Street, Granbury, TX 76048
Telephone: 817-279-1164
Fax: 817-579-0206
E-mail: langdoncenter@sbcglobal.net
Founder
Dora Lee Langdon was a composer, musician, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Mrs. Langdon's love for music and the performing arts was well known in the Granbury and Fort Worth areas. In 1982 Mrs. Langdon purchased and established the Chrysalis Foundation to support music education and the performing arts. The center provided music scholarships to talented and deserving elementary and secondary students in the Cross Timbers area. The center, encompassing a full city block, served as a sanctuary for young and aspiring musicians until November 1995. The Chrysalis Foundation donated the center to Tarleton State University in June 1996, when it was renamed the Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Educational Center. During Tarleton Homecoming Festivities in 1998, Mrs. Langdon was honored posthumously as Tarleton's Distinguished Friend.
A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
Tarleton State University, an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
Mission
The mission of the Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Educational Center is to provide facilities and opportunities for Tarleton State University to develop and expand educational & cultural programs for its constituencies.
Tarleton's Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Educational Center is situated one block from Granbury's historic square, nestled in the heart of the Brazos River Valley.
The addition of the Langdon Center provides a more diverse and convenient extension for Tarleton students and residents of Granbury and Hood County.
A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
Tarleton State University, an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
THE LANGDON CENTER BIG BAND
Granbury, Texas
REHEARSALS
Sunday, September 16, at 2:00 p.m. to 5pm at First Christian Church.
Next Performance
Sunday, October 21 at 2:00pm
Tarleton's Langdon Center Jazz on the Green
Please let David know if you cannot attend so Mark Hettle can plan rehearsals accordingly. Most everyone has been very conscientious about this. It is certainly more fun and productive when everyone is at rehearsals.
We are in the planning stages for future performances and dances. As soon as David has possible dates and places, he will get them to you. Please send any suggestions you might have to David or Janice.
We also have found possible financial backing to purchase a sound system, keyboard and stand lights. David will keep you informed.
We need to develop by-laws. If you can help, please let David or Janice know.
Any questions? E-mail bigbandgranbury@yahoo.com
A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
Tarleton State University, an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
Facilities
The Historic A. P. Gordon House
One of the oldest homes in Granbury, this two-story neoclassical structure was built in 1882 by A. P. Gordon. His heirs lived continuously in the home for the next 100 years. The Gordon house was one of the first in Granbury to be wired for electricity. The house originally contained five bedrooms, a parlor and kitchen. It also had a cellar. Summer sleeping porches, removed during extensive remodeling in 1956, were built off the east, west and south sides of the house. Fireplaces, unused today, were built in each of the four main rooms as a primary heat source. Today, the Gordon House is home to the Langdon Center staff offices and art gallery.
The Rock House
The "Rock House," originally a frame structure, was built sometime before 1919. The house was purchased in 1932 from Mattie J. Wilkerson by Jesse Gilliam and his wife Robbie Dee. Improvements were made over the years including screening the porch, adding a bedroom, and covering the outside walls with native stone. A double garage was added in the 1970s which today houses the restroom facilities at the Langdon Center. The Rock House is home to Tarleton's Small Business Development Center and offers a comfortable classroom for the Center's academic programs.
The Concert Hall
This structure was originally the First Christian Church of Granbury. It was built by the founders of Add-Ran Male & Female College in Thorp Springs. (Add-Ran moved to Waco, then to Fort Worth, and was renamed Texas Christian University.) The building served the congregation for 97 years. In 1991 it was purchased by the Chrysalis Foundation to serve as a concert hall, and the structure was moved five blocks north and east to its present site. It now serves Tarleton State University's faculty and students as an alternative performance hall.
A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
Tarleton State University, an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
Tarleton State University’s Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Educational Center presents the premiere full-length concert performance of The Granbury Saxophone Quartet.
The concert is set for Saturday, June 21 at 7:30pm in Tarleton’s Langdon Center Concert Hall at the corner of East Bridge and Brazos Streets in Granbury.
Ted Dolan, Earl Haberkamp, Hainds Laird and David Talmage make up the Granbury Saxophone Quartet.
“This ensemble is playing music literature that rarely gets played,” states lead alto saxophonist Ted Dolan. “We’re playing music performed by the New York Sax Quartet and the Paris Saxophone Quartet – a full range of genres.”
Composers in their repertoire include such classical heavyweights as Handel, Bach, Mozart and Grieg. It also includes some prominent 20th Century composers as Gershwin, Dvorak, Hoagy Carmichael and Dave Brubeck.
Ted Dolan originally hails from Chicago, Illinois and attended Northwestern University in Evanston receiving his Bachelors in Music Education. His day time jobs were in the retail music business, but Ted made time to free-lance with such great bandleaders as Tex Beneke, Les Elgart and Stan Kenton.
Earl Haberkamp joined the American Federation of Musicians at age 16. He’s played everything from Big Band to Medieval and Renaissance early music - playing odd instruments such as Renaissance Bagpipes and Shawms. Most recently Earl retired from high school orchestra and band directing. Earl received a BS in Music Education from Bowling Green University and an MS in Music Education from SMU.
Hainds Laird received his Music Education degree from the University of Houston. He went on to receive his Masters in Theology – New Testament from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate of Ministry – Pastoral Track from Denver Seminary. Hainds is now semi-retired and works with Covenant Care Hospice as a part time Chaplain
David Talmage retired from directing bands after 32 years. One never to truly retire, he is one of the instigators of the Langdon Center Big Band. He studied music at North Texas State University where he was a member of the Lab Band and later at Sul Russ State University. He has performed with the Ultra Club Big Band and his own Dixieland Band.
“Every note each one of us plays, count,” notes Laird.
This is exceptionally true in the acoustically live Langdon Center Concert Hall. The quartet’s many rehearsals will show. And they really like rehearsals.
“It’s great to be able to enjoy preparing for a rehearsal and have the opportunity to perform,” states Haberkamp. “I’m playing more now than in I have in thirty years.”
Talmage adds, “Quartet rehearsals improve my reading skills and technique tremendously.”
The Granbury Saxophone Quartet will host a reception in Tarleton’s Langdon Center Historic A.P. Gordon House following their concert. For more information and to secure reservations, please contact Tarleton’s Langdon Center staff at 817-279-1164 or e-mail HYPERLINK "mailto:langdoncenter@sbcglobal.net" langdoncenter@sbcglobal.net.
It has been an interesting life’s journey that has lead artist Suzanne Gentling to her current stop at Tarleton State University’s Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Educational Center and her one woman show entitled Birds, Bones and Some Other Things. Along the way she has stopped to smell a few roses along with much of what nature has to offer.
“My work has always been about my personal connection to the natural world,” states Gentling. “In the beginning, my interest was mostly in the beauty of things. Now I look for something more complex. I still, however, respond to the beauty.”
Born in Rochester, Minnesota, Suzanne Gentling moved to Fort Worth as a young child. The youngest of the four children, she began drawing and painting during her high school years. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Clinical Laboratory Science from The Medical College of Georgia, she moved to New Orleans where she lived for four years.
In 1974, the artist moved to the woods of Jefferson County, Mississippi. During this time she completed a large series of architectural portraits, as well as landscapes and still-lifes.
“After I made my exodus from urban life to the country, I realized I had come home,” reminisces the artist. “Something up until this time had always been missing. I learned more in those years in the woods than at any other time. Living in a pristine, wild and magical place was such a gift. The natural world had become my greatest teacher.”
Returning to Texas in 1984, Suzanne moved to Somervell County and continued her painting, specializing in landscape, working in watercolor, pastel and oil.
In 1999, Gentling’s journey took another detour as she entered the graduate program in painting at Texas Christian University.
“I spent so many years working in solitude; I finally hit a dead end with my art. I needed more education; I needed the camaraderie of other artists and to be prodded away from my comfort zone as an artist. I wanted to change the way I worked, the way I thought about my art.”
After graduating in 2002, Suzanne returned to her home near Glen Rose. In addition to her art, she gardens and is a wildlife advocate. Her work is in numerous private collections around the country, Europe and South America.
Birds, Bones and Some Other Things runs now through June 28 at Tarleton’s Langdon Center Historic A.P. Gordon House gallery at 308 East Pearl Street in Granbury. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and Saturdays from 1pm to 5pm. No admission is charged.
Gentling will be in the gallery during Last Friday Gallery Night on Friday, June 27 from 5pm to 9pm. Special refreshments will be served.
For more information contact Tarleton’s Langdon Center staff at 817-279-1164 or e-mail langdoncenter@sbcglobal.net.
