Southeastern Festival of Song http://www.sefos.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:00:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 en “Blithe Spirits” http://www.sefos.org/arts-letters-live/ http://www.sefos.org/arts-letters-live/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:00:15 +0000 Ryan http://www.sefos.org/arts-letters-live/ SEFoS’ Fifth Annual Collaboration with Arts & Letters Live

featuring:
Suzanne Ramo, soprano
Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano
Scott Scully, tenor
Ricardo Herrera, bass-baritone
David Shimoni, piano

Saturday, June 14, 2008; 8:00pm
Horchow Auditorium
Dallas, Texas

]]> http://www.sefos.org/arts-letters-live/feed/ The Tender Land, Aaron Copland http://www.sefos.org/the-tender-land-aaron-copland/ http://www.sefos.org/the-tender-land-aaron-copland/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:14 +0000 Ryan http://www.sefos.org/the-tender-land-aaron-copland/ A collaborative, semi-staged, concert performance with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra

“The Tender Land is in every respect a major statement by Copland and an essential American opera,” states American Music magazine. “It presents a tale resonant with meaning and emotion for everyone who cares deeply about America’s history and culture. The Tender Land addresses issues of continuity and discontinuity that explain much about the American character…”

featuring:
Courtenay Budd, soprano
Jessie Hinkle, mezzo-soprano
Jeffrey Pícon, tenor
Michael Mayes, baritone
Matthew Burns, bass-baritone
Scott Terrell, conductor

Friday April 25, 2008; 7:00pm
Sottile Theatre
Charleston, South Carolina

]]> http://www.sefos.org/the-tender-land-aaron-copland/feed/ Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini http://www.sefos.org/madame-butterfly-giacomo-puccini/ http://www.sefos.org/madame-butterfly-giacomo-puccini/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:00:59 +0000 Ryan http://www.sefos.org/madame-butterfly-giacomo-puccini/ A collaborative, semi-staged, concert performance with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra

Madame Butterfly is without question Giacomo Puccini’s most famous operatic heroine. Her story, set in Japan around 1900, is a tragic one of innocence betrayed - a story that lives on through an immortal musical score.

featuring:
Shana Blake Hill, soprano
Adam Diegel, tenor
Jason Ferrante, tenor
Dan Allcott, conductor

Sunday April 20, 2008; 3:00pm
Wattenbarger Auditorium
Cookeville, Tennessee

]]> http://www.sefos.org/madame-butterfly-giacomo-puccini/feed/ “Shakespeare Remixed” http://www.sefos.org/shakespeare-unplugged/ http://www.sefos.org/shakespeare-unplugged/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:00:01 +0000 Ryan http://www.sefos.org/shakespeare-unplugged/ SEFoS at the Barns of Wolf Trap
The Discovery Series

Join us at Wolf Trap for an evening of songs, poems, and riffs on some of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters. Berlioz and the Beatles spotlight Ophelia in Hamlet; Clara Schumann, Kurt Weill, and Stephen Sondheim illuminate characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The story of the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet is told through lyrics by Francesco Cavalli and Roger Quilter, and befuddled Beatrice and Benedict become “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered!” So don’t protest too much; get thee to the Barns for a classic evening of demythified Elizabethan splendor!

featuring:
Angela Gilbert, soprano
Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano
Ross Hauck, tenor
Ryan Taylor, baritone
Kim Pensinger Witman, pianist

Friday, March 28, 2008; 8:00pm
The Barns of Wolf Trap
1645 Trap Road
Vienna, Virginia

]]> http://www.sefos.org/shakespeare-unplugged/feed/ “The Great Escape” http://www.sefos.org/the-great-escape/ http://www.sefos.org/the-great-escape/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:00:07 +0000 Ryan http://www.sefos.org/the-great-escape/ SEFoS’ second annual presentation as an Coca-Cola Ensemble-In-Residence at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ever need to just get away? It’s human nature to unleash the imagination in dreams, to flee situations of danger, trouble and oppression, to be intrigued by people and places which lift us from our mundane experience, and to ponder life’s path even as our own hastens along at a clip…

In a program inspired by these multi-layered compulsions for the unknown, the Southeastern Festival of Song presents The Great Escape. Singers Jennifer Aylmer, Marie Lenormand, Brian Stucki and Jason Hardy, and pianist Kathleen Kelly will be joined by special guests to offer an evening of songs spanning many styles, moods, and themes drawing from the twists and turns of escape routes great and small. The concert will include works by Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Britten, Poulenc, Wolf and Vaughan Williams, as well as music from Berlin, Springsteen, Simon, and the Beatles.

So put the pedal to the metal and lose yourself in beauty and humor, poignancy and passion as the Southestern Festival of Song revs up for The Great Escape!

featuring:
Jennifer Aylmer, soprano
Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano
Brian Stucki, tenor
Jason Hardy, bass
Kathleen Kelly, pianist

with special guest artists:
The Atlanta Boy Choir; David White, Artistic Director
Wes Yoakam, guitarist

Saturday, September 22, 2007
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Emerson Hall, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

]]> http://www.sefos.org/the-great-escape/feed/ La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi http://www.sefos.org/la-traviata-guiseppe-verdi/ http://www.sefos.org/la-traviata-guiseppe-verdi/#comments Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:15:08 +0000 Ryan http://www.sefos.org/la-traviata-guiseppe-verdi/ presented with the Bar Harbor Music Festival

featuring: Angela Gilbert, Fenlon Lamb, Scott Scully, Ryan Taylor, Jerome Tan

Friday July 20, 2007, 8:15pm
Criterion Theater
Bar Harbor, Maine

]]> http://www.sefos.org/la-traviata-guiseppe-verdi/feed/ “Songs of Stage and Screen” http://www.sefos.org/songs-of-stage-and-screen/ http://www.sefos.org/songs-of-stage-and-screen/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:15:05 +0000 Ryan http://www.sefos.org/songs-of-stage-and-screen/ presented with the Bar Harbor Music Festival

featuring: Scott Scully, Ryan Taylor, Jerome Tan

Sunday July 15, 2007, 8:15pm
Parkside
Bar Harbor, Maine

]]> http://www.sefos.org/songs-of-stage-and-screen/feed/ “Women on the Verge” http://www.sefos.org/women-on-the-verge/ http://www.sefos.org/women-on-the-verge/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:00:56 +0000 Ryan http://www.sefos.org/women-on-the-verge/ presented with the Bar Harbor Music Festival

featuring: Fenlon Lamb, Jerome Tan

Sunday July 8, 2007, 4:00pm
Balance Rock Inn
Bar Harbor, Maine

]]> http://www.sefos.org/women-on-the-verge/feed/ Carmina Burana, Carl Orff http://www.sefos.org/carmina-burana-carl-orff-presented-with-the-bryan-symphony-orchestra/ http://www.sefos.org/carmina-burana-carl-orff-presented-with-the-bryan-symphony-orchestra/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:00:51 +0000 Ryan http://sefos/carmina-burana-carl-orff-presented-with-the-bryan-symphony-orchestra/ presented with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra

featuring: Alison Trainer, Scott Scully & Ryan Taylor

Sunday April 22, 2007
Wattenbarger Auditorium
Cookeville, Tennessee

]]> http://www.sefos.org/carmina-burana-carl-orff-presented-with-the-bryan-symphony-orchestra/feed/ “generation m: modern masters from the mid-century to the moment” http://www.sefos.org/generation-m-modern-masters-from-the-mid-century-to-the-moment/ http://www.sefos.org/generation-m-modern-masters-from-the-mid-century-to-the-moment/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:00:36 +0000 Ryan http://sefos/generation-m-modern-masters-from-the-mid-century-to-the-moment/ SEFoS’ Fourth Annual Collaboration with Arts & Letters Live

featuring: Courtenay Budd, Adriana Zabala, Jeffrey Picón, Ryan Taylor & Kathleen Kelly

Saturday, March 31, 2007
Horchow Auditorium
Dallas, Texas

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