Department: Music

Mildred Allen

Professor of Music

Office

Hill 121

Contact Information:

Birmingham-Southern College
900 Arkadelphia Rd
Birmingham, AL 35254
Office Phone: (205) 226-4963
Office Fax: (205) 226-3058
E-mail: mallen@bsc.edu

Brief Career Background:

Principal Artist Metropolitan Opera Company
Principal Artist Santa Fe' New Mexico Opera
Principal Artist Central City Colorado Opera Company
Principal Artist Washington Opera Company
Principal Artist Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona,Spain
Soloist New York Philaharmonic Orchestra NBC Opera Company

Educational Background:

Undergraduate Degree University of Misissippi, BA Magna Cum Laude
Masters Degree, The New England Conservatory, Suma Cum Laude, MM

Areas of Academic Interest:

• Art Song, Operatic Literature
• Founding Fathers Literature
• History of Enlightenment
• Survey of late nineteenth, early 20th century "impressionist" Music, Literature, and Painting Techiques

Courses Taught:

MS 120 Voice (¼)

MS 320 Voice (½)

MU 242 Opera Workshop (¼)
The study and performance of operas and excerpts from operatic literature. Lighting, staging, and acting, as well as singing, are included. This course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent. Fall, Spring.

HON 240 World Wide Impressionism (1)
A seminar examining impressionism on a world-wide scale in the fields of painting, music, and literature from 1860-1920. The course explores the movement from the French roots to a much broader time and place frame, as a manifestation of the shift from formal style, and as a reflection of changes caused by the Industrial Revolution in societies around the world. (Satisfies Disciplinary Foundations requirement in arts.)

GEN 44 Meeting Arts Leaders Across the Region (Interim)