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VSU's Trojan Explosion brings its sound to Muhammad Ali drama
The national renown of Virginia State University's Trojan Explosion Marching Band has expanded beyond the realm of sporting events, White House visits and musical competitions , and is now dabbling in television drama. VSU announced Nov. 5 the band performed music for the official trailer of Amazon Prime Video's eight-episode drama, "The Greatest," on the early life and career of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Under the baton of band director Taylor Whitehead and the VSU Department of Music, the Explosion recorded original songs written by Mic Ferrante, who scored the trailer. The university said Ferrante came to the Ettrick campus to work directly with the band and the staff .oembed-frame { width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; border: 0; } According to the university, Ferrante's VSU connection is through Kieran Casey, a Richmond native and Los Angeles-based film composer and ethnomusicologist. The music was recorded on campus by students from the music department under the guidance of department Chair Samuel Rowley and Dustin Painter, assistant professor of music production and technology. "The opportunity placed VSU students at the center of a major entertainment production, showcasing the distinctive sound and musical excellence of historically Black colleges and universities," VSU said in
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VA Eastern Shore field trip yields magical discovery of ancient spear
Brooklyn Rolph, Mary Baldwin University Class of ’28, had a few minutes to explore the Eastern Shore of Virginia island. She spent them looking for shark teeth. What she found instead was a stone spear point about 6 inches long and 3,000 to 4,500 years old. According to Rolph, the archaeologist who examined it said he had never seen one in such good condition. Rolph, a biology major from Hampton, Virginia, found the point on Sept. 21. It was the last full day of a four-day field trip for her ecology course, BIOL 245, to the University of Virginia’s Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Four of Mary Baldwin’s biology faculty led the trip: Dr. Paul Callo, Dr. Adam Seroka, Dr. Rebecca Haberman and Kadrin Anderson. How the discovery happened A narrow window. The find almost didn’t happen. Until the wind settled down, the class wasn’t sure it could take the boats out at all. After a morning in wetsuits, wading through a seagrass bed and collecting specimens, the tides and currents allowed only 35 to 40 minutes on a nearby barrier island. Students had just a few minutes after lunch to explore. “The set of circumstances that