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Sunday, December 05, 2010

Holiday Classics

A Very Special Artburst Performance of Holiday Classics read by Bob Penny and Marsh Adams with music by After Class

On Sunday, December 5, 2010, at 2:30 p.m. The Seasoned Performers will present

A Celtic Cajun Christmas: Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales
read by Bob Penny
and a spicy Cajun version of
Night Before Christmas
read by Marsh Adams,

with Holiday Music by After Class.

The performance is part of the ArtBurst series, and will be held in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Homewood (4300 Hampton Heights Drive). Tickets are $15 and include a festive holiday reception afterward. Groups of ten or more are $10 per ticket.

Bob Penny is a founding member of The Seasoned Performers Salon Readers for whom he most recently participated in An Afternoon with Eudora Welty. Bob has done character and leading roles in Birmingham theatre for over 35 years and has also appeared in commercial films and national television dramas: among them, Sweet Home Alabama; My Cousin Vinny; The Legend of Baggar Vance; and In the Heat of the Night.

Marsh Adams, a New Orleans native, is a Reader and member of The Seasoned Performers Salon Readers and has been seen in their Vaudeville Salon and numerous performances since moving to Birmingham about five years ago. Marsh has been in show business for over 50 years and was last seen in Almost, Maine at Birmingham Festival Theatre.

After Class is an acoustic instrumental trio which performs interpretations of tunes by the blind Irish Turlagh O'Carolan. These talented musicians also play original arrangements of Scottish, Welsh, English, Appalachian, Irish, Traditional American and modern tunes. Members include: Rob Angus - hammered dulcimer, Mark Weldon - fiddle/mandolin and Brant Beene - guitar/mandolin.

Call 978-5095 for tickets or more information.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

CD Release Performance

"Rosas de Pulpa, Rosas de Cal -- the Music of Valdo Sciammarella"
  
Songs and Chamber Music from Argentina by its most respected living composer. 
" ... romantic, evocative and visceral."  ~ Michael Huebner, Birmingham News
   
Diane McNaron, Soprano
Adam Bowles, Piano, and
Kelly Jensen, Specialist in Argentine Culture
with Karen Bentley Pollick, violin; Melanie Richardson Rogers, viola; Craig Hultgren, cello
                                                                           
Sat, September 25, 8:00 PM 
Unitarian Universalist Church
4300 Hampton Heights, Homewood, AL 35209
Advance Reserved Seating: $22 Includes CD & Hors d'Oeuvres
205.838.1391 to Charge by Credit Card
http://dianemcnaron.com to Charge Online by Paypal or Credit Card
$10 Walk-in, with opportunity to purchase CD following performance
 

CD Cover
 

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

INCONGRUITY - MUSIC IN THE CRACKS

Recent Compositions by Monroe Golden
Performances by Donnie Ashworth (flute), Craig Hultgren (cello), Adam Bowles (piano), and Janet Elizabeth Simpson (voice).

What do prime numbers, wild turkey calls, Pythagoras, and Emily Dickinson have to do with a concert for flute, cello, and piano?  Come find out, when Adam, Craig, Donnie, and Janet perform microtonal music from Monroe's upcoming CD.  This will be a rare presentation from the historic ARTBURST Performance Series at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham.

Works on the program include Pinhoti (cello and media), 81 (piano), Reform (flute and media), 43 Commas (flute, piano, and media), Turkey Branch (media), Poems of Life and Bliss (voice, flute, cello, piano), and Whirl (flute, cello, media).  http://monroegolden.com for more information.

Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 4PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham
4300 Hampton Heights Drive - Birmingham, AL
http://uucbham.org/location.shtml for directions

Sliding Scale Admission
Pay as befits your circumstances, $10 suggested donation

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

This year

So far this season, we have, I think, a performance of new music by our friend Monroe Golden, and I think we will see the CD release party with Diane McNaron. I have at least seen the CD.

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Saturday, May 08, 2010

McNaron Studio Workshop Recital

Saturday, May 8, 4:00 PM

Featuring Singers presently studying with Soprano Diane McNaron
and Collaborative Pianist John King Carter

Classical Art Songs, Operatic Arias, Broadway, Pop and Jazz.
Attire is very casual.

At our usual location: 
Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham

Students and Senior Citizens $4.00
All Others $8.00

for information

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