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Information trouvée : Fletcher Collins Jr., a leading scholar of the music and drama of Elizabethan and
medieval times and an officially recognized cultural treasure of Virginia, died May
6 2005. Known to students and colleagues as "Fletch," Dr. Collins founded the outdoor
Oak Grove Theater in 1953.A professor of drama at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton
for more than three decades, Dr. Collins was a musician and filmmaker (Visitatio Sepulchri"
(Visit to the Sepulcher), was made in 1979 at the St. Benoit de Fleury abbey in the
Loire Valley of France,), founded two theaters, did research on folk songs and wrote
a study of the songs in Shakespeare's plays. Dr. Collins was editor of Medieval Music-Drama
News. In 1981, the Virginia General Assembly gave him the title of Cultural Laureate
of Virginia. Fletcher Collins Jr. was born in Pittsburgh on Nov. 19, 1906,
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