The 2008-2009 Season

Bach: Magnificat

The BSC Concert Choir
The Canterbury Church Choir
Members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Canterbury United Methodist Church
350 Overbrook Road, Mountain Brook
November 23 at 5:30 p.m.
Bach certainly knew how to make a great first impression! This stunning setting of The Song of Mary was composed for his first Christmas service as Cantor of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, which would become the location for his most important mature works. For this performance, the four Christmas motets Bach composed for companion performance to the Magnificat will be included.
Admission is free.

72nd Service of Lessons and Carols

Presented by the Choirs of Birmingham-Southern College
Canterbury United Methodist Church
350 Overbrook Road, Mountain Brook
December 5 at 7:30 p.m.
December 7 at 4:30 p.m.
The 72nd annual service continues a beloved Hilltop tradition, featuring the Concert Choir and Alumni Choirs conducted by Lester Seigel, and the Southern Chorale conducted by David Smith.
Admission is free.

Concert featuring Ensemble Sirius

Hill Recital Hall
February 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Percussionist Stuart Gerber and pianist Michael Fowler will present Stockhausen’s Kontakte and five works by composers from the Birmingham Art Music Alliance. Works will also include Dr. Dorothy Hindman’s Tapping the Furnace, a work based on text by works from Sloss Furnace, and new works by Charles Norman Mason for piano, percussion and electronics and Monroe Golden for microtonal music will be premiered.
Admission is free.

Orff’s Carmina Burana

Alys Stephens Center
February 6-7 at 8:00 p.m.
BSC Concert Choir, with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Justin Brown, conductor

Winter Soirees with Karen Bentley Pollick

Chamber Music of Scott Eggert
Hulsey Hall, Admission Welcome Center
Birmingham Southern College campus
February 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Violinist Karen Bentley Pollick and Louisiana State University cellist Dennis Parker will reprise Scott Eggert’s trio Six Wooden Blocks with University of Alabama clarinetist Osiris Molina. Inspired by a poem of Sally McNall, Six Wooden Blocks was premiered at Lebanon Valley College and Pennsylvania State in February 2008. Artist Dan Massad’s response to the poem will also be on exhibit. The string duo has performed Eggert’s
ragtime and tango infused Dance Card throughout the Czech Republic during their appearances at the 2007 and 2008 American Spring Festivals and will premiere
a new duo entitled Songbook on this occasion.
Admission is free. Seating is limited.

Prophet Birds
Hill Recital Hall
March 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Australian pianist Lisa Moore returns to Birmingham-Southern College for a recital of avian inspired duos for violin and piano with violinist Karen Bentley Pollick. The duo will perform Bird as Prophet by Yale composer Martin Bresnick and offer world premieres by the young California composer Samuel Adams and Cardinal Fantasy by the legendary Egyptian composer Halim El-Dabh in honor of his 88th year. Other repertoire will include Road Movies by Pulitzer Prize winner John Adams and sonatas by Leos Janacek and Claude Debussy.

Whittington Competition Winners in Concert with the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra

Hill Recital Hall
February 15 at 3:00 p.m.
Admission is free.

BSC Concert Choir Homecoming Concert

Canterbury United Methodist Church
350 Overbrook Road, Mountain Brook
April 5 at 4:00 p.m.
The Concert Choir returns from its annual tour, performing a varied program. Admission is free.

Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, K. 339

James Cook, conductor
Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, soprano
David Smith, tenor
Choirs of First United Methodist Churchand the Cathedral of St. Paul
April 26 at 6:00 p.m.
The Cathedral of St. Paul
BSC Professor Dr. James Cook conducts this performance of Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore featuring BSC soloists and the combined choirs of two historic downtown
Birmingham churches. Admission is free.
For more information, call 226-4950.

Southern Chorale Spring Concert

David Smith, conductor
Hill Recital Hall
April 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free.

Hilltop Singers Season Finale

Hill Recital Hall
May 4 at 7:30 p.m.
You are invited as the Hilltop Singers end a busy season of performances with great vocal jazz and popular standards, as well as the always popular “senior solos!” Admission is free.

Provost’s Forum events

William DeVan: Gaspard de la Nuit
Hill Recital Hall
September 25 at 11:00 a.m.
A lecture and performance of Maurice Ravel’s suite “Gaspard de la Nuit.” DeVan will discuss the way that Ravel has transformed three poems by Aloysius Bertrand into musical compositions, with emphasis on Ravel’s use of tone color and structure.
Admission is free.

From Stage to Screen: The Arts in the Media Age
Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, John Jones, Curtis Long, Allan Pizzato
Hill Recital Hall
September 30 at 11:00 a.m.
We live in a world where visual images constantly surround us through our televisions, the internet, the big screen, and even on our mobile phones, but how have these media impacted the performing arts? This panel of experts will explore the convergence that is happening between the world the performing arts and the world of media.
Admission is free.
For more information, call 226-4950.

Recitals

Daniel Seigel, baritone
Lester Seigel, piano
Hill Recital Hall
September 2 at 7:30 p.m.
The BSC Conservatory voice faculty member presents the premiere performance of Is This Then a Touch, composed by BSC faculty member Dorothy Hindman, along with arias by Gounod,
Mark Adamo, and Franz Lehar, Lieder by Mahler and Strauss and other art songs by Herbert
Howells, Gerald Finzi, Debussy, Hahn, and Poulenc.
Admission is free.

William DeVan Faculty Recital
Hill Recital Hall
September 28 at 2:30 p.m.
Admission is free.

Mildred Allen Faculty Recital
Hill Recital Hall
October 26 at 2:30 p.m.
Professor Mildred Allen, Soprano, will present a recital featuring the works of composers Max Reger and Maurice Ravel. She will be accompanied by pianist Dr. Virginia Dismukes.

Organ Spooktacular: James Cook Faculty Recital
Hill Recital Hall
October 31 at 9:00 p.m.
Organists behaving badly.
Admission is free.

Faculty/Alumni Recital
Mildred Allen, soprano
Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, soprano
David Smith, tenor
Kevin Chance, piano
Hill Recital Hall
November 16 at 2:30 p.m.
BSC’s voice faculty will perform with alumnus Kevin Chance, pianist and music faculty member of the Alabama School of Fine Arts, in a collaborative performance of classical solos and ensembles.
Admission is free.
For more information, call 226-4950.

Dorsey and Frances Whittington
Concerto/Aria Competition
Hill Recital Hall
December 8 at 4:30 p.m.
You are invited to the annual student competition, where students vie for an opportunity to perform concertos and arias with the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra in February 2009.
Admission is free.

Faculty Recital A Te!
Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, soprano
Virginia Dismukes, piano
Hill Recital Hall
March 8 at 2:30 p.m.
The lyric spinto soprano will perform arias from Verdi’s Don Carlo and La Forza del Destino, songs from Giacomo Puccini’s Composizioni vocali da camera, and Dominick Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf.
Admission is free.
For more information, call 226-4950.

“Live from New York!”: An Alumni Recital
Joshua South, baritone
William DeVan, piano
Hill Recital Hall
March 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Joshua South returns to BSC from New York City to perform Schubert’s last and best known song cycle, Winterreise. With a voice described as “unforgettable” by The New York Times, South will sing this heart-rending portrayal of a winter journey based on the evocative poetry of German lyricist Wilhelm Mueller.
Admission is free.
For
more information, call 226-4950.

Student Voice Recital
BSC Voice Students
Hill Recital Hall
March 15 at 2:30 p.m.
Having received the 2008 Award for Vocal Excellence by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Voice Department is pleased to present its own outstanding students in recital. Admission is free.
For more information, call Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, 226-4962.

Jim Cook Faculty Recital
Hill Recital Hall
April 19 at 2:30 p.m.
Farewell recital from Jim Cook—a celebration of 35 years of dedicated service to Birmingham- Southern.
Admission is free.

New to Birmingham! Lucerne DeSa Faculty Recital
Hill Recital Hall
May 3 at 2:30 p.m.
BSC is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. DeSa as assistant professor of piano. Her inaugural recital will include works by Haydn, Schumann, Debussy, and Ernesto Nazareth. Please join us in welcoming her to Birmingham!
Admission is free.

The Hugh & Barbara thomas MasterClass Series
presented by Thomas & Jennifer Waters

The Hugh and Barbara Thomas Master Class Series has been made possible by generous contributions from Jennifer and Thomas Waters, Kathryn and Leon Waters, and State Farm Insurance.

Voice

The Goliard Ensemble
Hill Recital Hall, February 19 at 11:00 a.m.
New York’s Goliard Ensemble will work with BSC voice students in this public performance class.
Admission is free.
For more information, call Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, 226-4962.

Composition

The Goliard Ensemble in Concert
Hill Recital Hall, February 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Established in 1983, the Goliard Ensemble presents concerts, children’s programs, outdoor park concerts, and senior citizen programs year-round throughout New York City, regionally, and in annual national tours. Goliard has appeared in such venues as Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and the Brooklyn Museum. The Ensemble has premiered works by such composers as Vincent Persichetti, Lowell Lieberman, Ronald Roseman, and Charles Mason among many others. Each season the Goliard Ensemble commissions and performs a new work by their Composer in Residence, who teaches and interacts with each audience. Goliard’s 2009 tour will feature Composer in- Residence Dorothy Hindman, associate professor at Birmingham-Southern College.
Admission is free.

Piano and Composition

Lisa Moore and Martin Bresnick
Hill Recital Hall, March 10 at 11:00 a.m.
Students from the studios of Dr. Dorothy Hindman and Dr. Charles Norman Mason will have an opportunity to have their piano compositions critiqued by Australian pianist Lisa Moore and Yale composer Martin Bresnick.
Admission is free.

Voice

Joshua South, baritone
Hill Recital Hall, March 13 at 6:00 p.m.
In this master class with BSC voice students, Joshua South provides insight into the interpretive performance practices of German Lieder, while sharing experiences from his journey as a young professional singer.
Admission is free.
For more information, call 226-4950.

Voice

Lorraine Manz, mezzo-soprano
Hill Recital Hall, April 4 at 10:00 a.m.
This master class with BSC voice students will feature renowned mezzo-soprano Lorraine Manz. Manz is a distinguished professor of voice at Oberlin Conservatory, where she is the director of the Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center.
Admission is free.

Choral

Simon Carrington
Hill Recital Hall, April 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Simon Carrington, Professor of Choral Conducting and Director of the Schola Cantorum at Yale University, will work with the BSC Concert Choir in a public lecture/demonstration. Carrington, who has also served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory and the University of Kansas, was a founding member and first Music Director of The King's Singers, and is in demand as a clinician and conductor throughout the world.