Gregory Broughton News Today

This weeks look ahead features a Parade of Flags & World Fest to kick off UGA’s International Education Month, multiple arts events for the tenth annual Spotlight on the Arts

Pensacola Opera inspires in a season of uncertainty | Guestview Cecily B. Kopytchak “Aspire to inspire before you expire” is an adage that continues to resonate in my mind almost two decades after I first heard it in the studio of my undergraduate voice teacher and life changing mentor, Dr. Gregory Broughton, at the University of Georgia. It is a phrase that when spoken literally, to a singer, certainly possesses a valuable didactic meaning, since “breath” is the absolute foundation of ...

The night of Black Theatrical Ensemble’s first performance on March 8, 1976, in the University of Georgia Chapel, founder Larry Calhoun and other members of the organization gathered in a circle to pray. “We knew what it meant to us — but we prayed that what we had to present would mean something to our fellow students on campus,” Calhoun said. Calhoun decided to form BTE when he was a graduate student at UGA in 1976. Six years before Calhoun founded BTE, Nawanna Lewis Mille...