College of Fine Arts Spring 2019 Season Brochure by University of Montevallo

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Department of Music Davis Hall • 205-665-6670

Spring Preview day: March 16

Department of Theatre Reynolds Hall • 205-665-6210

Registration deadline: Friday, March 15 Robby Wise ’16 (BFA Art) is employed at the McWane Science Center where he has been promoted to exhibits graphic designer. Jeff Speetjens ’05 (BFA Theatre) continues to work in LA and around the U.S. as a film director, art director and commercial director/editor. He also performs as a puppeteer in a Beverly Hills nightclub.

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DEGREES OFFERED Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Art, Communication Studies, Mass Communication, Theatre Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Art, Theatre Bachelor of Music (B.M.)

ACADEMIC BUILDINGS 1 University of Montevallo on Main 2 Davis Hall 3 Wallace Speech & Hearing 4 Peterson Hall 5 3D Art Complex 6 Bibb Graves Hall 7 Anagama Kiln 8 Myrick Hall 9 Child Study Center 10 Strong Hall 11 Hill House 12 Harman Hall 13 Morgan Hall 14 Comer Hall 15 Bloch Hall 16 Wills Hall 17 Tower 18 Sharp House 19 Carmichael Library

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Department of Communication Strong Hall • 205-665-6625 Department of Art Bloch Hall • 205-665-6400 College of Fine Arts Davis Hall • 205-665-6663

HJ Farris ’12 (B.A. Theatre) is now the head production stage manager at Alabama School of Fine Arts.

You can also read about all of this in this issue of Connections, along with other interesting stories about our students and alumni and news briefs from the departments. We have much to celebrate this year and we could not do any of this without your generous and continued support. Thank you! Please come to campus and visit us during this historic new year. 205-665-6030 or 800-292-4349 | admissions@montevallo.edu Schedule a campus tour. Tours are offered by appointment MONDAY through FRIDAY at both 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. SATURDAY tours and PREVIEW DAYS are offered on select Saturdays. Register at montevallo.edu/tours.

Come visit.

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Music Program/Scholarship & Acceptance Auditions Saturdays: Feb. 2, March 2 and 9, 2019

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Tickets: montevallotickets.universitytickets.com Season information: montevallo.edu/performances-and-events facebook.com/finearts.montevallo.edu Instagram: UM_fineartsmoments If you would like to receive our monthly email, COFA Calendar of Performances, contact us at cfa@montevallo.edu or call 205-665-6663.

Brad Simmons ’97 (B.M. Vocal and Piano Performance) is a Broadway music director, composer and concert artist. He currently performs with Tony Award winners Alice Ripley and Tonya Pinkins, Madam Secretary’s Erich Bergen and impressionist Christina Bianco. He has five Broadway shows in development, a weekly show at Birdland Theatre and he recently released his newest CD “The Simon & Garfunkel Collection.”

Steve Peters, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Fine Arts

Lindsey Bristol ’12 (BFA Theatre) recently worked as an associate casting director on new musicals/workshops in Toronto and New York City, while performing in summer theatre musicals in New Hampshire during 2018.

Center for the Arts OPENING FALL 2019

Perry Barnett ’08 (B.S. Communication Studies) is the owner of Ensley Fairfield Mattress Company. “Communication Studies has given me the ability to transcend multiple industries while being able to be an asset wherever I have been. With the skills and confidence that was developed by the professors and the variety of classes that were offered, I was able to build a steady foundation of principles to use in all of the career opportunities I have had.”

What a year 2019 is going to be for the College of Fine Arts at the University of Montevallo! In February, the University Choir will present a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York and Art will host the Annual Alumni Art Auction. A few weeks later, the Department of Theatre’s first New York Senior Showcase will be presented for agents and casting directors. In April, Theatre will say “goodbye” to Reynolds Hall as we present the final theatre production in Reynolds, “Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert.” Just before Easter, we will host the fourth annual Forte Festival of Creativity in conjunction with the Montevallo Arts Council’s Arts Fest in Orr Park. Finally, in May, we will begin the transition from Reynolds Hall into the new Center for the Arts Collaboratory and will complete the move just before the Center opens for the fall 2019 semester.

A MESSAGE FROM DEAN STEVE PETERS

30 McChesney Student Activity Center 31 Organic Community Garden 32 Farmer Hall & Wilkenson Student Life Center 33 Anna Irvin Dining Hall 34 Barnes & Noble Campus Bookstore

17 Tower 18 Sharp House 19 Carmichael Library RESIDENCE HALLS 20 Napier Hall 21 Main Hall 22 Hanson Hall 23 Tutwiler Hall 24 Ramsay Hall 25 Brooke Hall 26 Lund Hall 27 New Hall 28 Peck Hall

ATHLETIC FACILITIES 35 Softball Complex 36 Track & Lacrosse Field 37 Cross Creek Field 38 Kermit A. Johnson Baseball Complex 39 Intramural Field 40 Outdoor Basketball Court 41 Soccer Field 42 Tennis Courts 43 Sand Volleyball

STUDENT ACTIVITIES & DINING 29 John W. Stewart Student Retreat

Piano • Voice • Organ • Classical Guitar Other instruments Please visit montevallo.edu/music for details and to complete your audition reservation.

Spring 2019 Season

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Festival of Creativity

Feb. 21-24 Seminar by Theresa Rebeck

Feb. 21-23, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 24, 2 p.m. Reynolds Theatre Directed by Dylan Dagnan BFA Senior Project Production

Feb. 9 Annual Alumni Art Auction and Bloch Party

Feb. 9, 4-5:30 p.m.; Feb. 8, Preview and early bidding, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; The Gallery at Bloch Hall

In Seminar, a provocative comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck, four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder, alliances are made and broken, sex is used as a weapon and hearts are unmoored. The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this biting Broadway comedy. Seminar is presented through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. ADULT CONTENT. Tickets: $5.

This exciting auction and party is your best opportunity to take home some of the incredible works of art created and donated by alumni, faculty and current students in all media. For 23 years, this event has been the centerpiece fundraiser for the Department of Art.

Jan. 10-31

media: Michael Lorsung

Feb. 14, Opening Reception and Gallery Talk, 4:30-6 p.m.; Runs through March 7, weekdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The Gallery at Bloch Hall This show is a collection of works that intend to explore the word “median” as it pertains to the liminal spaces both literal and figurative. Michael Lorsung is interested in an investigation of culture that reads between the lines of iconography and overt imagery and seeks out the unnoticed and unspoken that exists in these spaces.

Media Day

10 a.m.-1 p.m. McChesney Student Activity Center and Strong Hall Mass Communication majors meet and network with representatives from mass media outlets and other communication professionals. Features Q&A panels for Multimedia Journalism, Creative Media Production, Corporate Communication and Public Relations.

March 15-18 “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”

Stephen Adly Guirgis March 15-18, 7:30 p.m.; March 17, 2 p.m.; Chichester Black Box Theatre

3:30-5 p.m. Strong Hall

This event is for general studies students who are exploring options for an academic major to learn how Communication Studies might fit their personal and career aspirations. Current COMS majors and faculty will lead brief workshops and walk participants through simulations that illustrate what’s possible with a degree in COMS.

Men’s Choir Festival Concert

Lynn Faulkner and Eun-Hee Park, Piano Duo Recital

Community School of Music Honors Recital 7 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall

July 8-19

Dr. Eun-Hee Park and Dr. Lynn Faulkner team up to present an evening with piano duo music. Faulkner-Park Duo will perform works by Mozart, Corigliano, Ravel and Rachmaninoff.

A showcase of the exciting musical talent in our community. Intermediate and advanced-level students exhibit a high level of skill and professionalism on their instruments and in their performances.

Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, Mountain Brook

March 18

May 5

Department of Music Honors Recital

Community School of Music Recital

Concert features winners of the honors recital auditions. Free and open to the public.

A showcase of the exciting musical talent in our community. Intermediate and advanced-level stu-

4:30 p.m. Palmer Auditorium

Directed by Michael Walker “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” is a hilarious, poignant and thought-provoking play by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. This story asks one of the most plaguing questions in the Christian ideology: What happened to Judas Iscariot? Set in a courtroom in Purgatory, “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” puts Judas on trial with hilarious, riotous and piercing results. This play and the audience reconsider what they thought they knew about forgiveness, faith and the human inside one of history’s most infamous figures. ADULT CONTENT. Tickets: $20 adults; $12 UM faculty/staff and senior citizens; $10 students.

Feb. 21 Chamber Recital: Dr. Eun-Hee Park & Cholong Park, piano; Benjamin Fraley & Tracy Wiggins, percussion Time TBA Thompson High School Performing Arts Center

Featuring two composers who wrote pieces for two pianos and two percussionists: Béla Bartók (18811945) and Lansing McLoskey (b. 1964). Hungarian composer, Bartók, wrote the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, in 1937, which received rave reviews after its premier performance. Commissioned by Ensemble Berlin Piano Percussion, McLoskey, Professor of Composition at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, wrote a four-movement work titled Rite.

April 12-14

March 1

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT the Musical

Wind Ensemble

April 12-13, 7:30 p.m.; April 14, 2 p.m.; Reynolds Theatre

7:30 p.m. Palmer Auditorium

Book by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott; Musical arrangements and orchestrations by Stephen ‘Spud’ Murphy; Developed for the stage and originally directed by Simon Phillips; Based on the Latent Image/Specific Films Motion Picture distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.; Directed by Marcus Lane; Musical direction by Jennifer Hartsell; Guest choreographer Jared Max Wright

Based on the smash-hit movie, “Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical” is the heartwarming, uplifting adventure of three friends, Tick, Bernadette and Adam, a glamorous Sydney-based performing trio who agree to take their show to the middle of the Australian outback. They hop aboard a battered old bus (nicknamed Priscilla) searching for love and friendship and end up finding more than they could have ever dreamed of. With a dazzling array of outrageous Olivier and Tony award-winning costumes and a hit parade of dance floor favorites including “It’s Raining Men,” “I Will Survive,” “Hot Stuff,” “Boogie Wonderland,” “Go West,” “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “I Love the Nightlife,” this wildly fresh and funny musical is a journey to the heart of fabulous! ADULT CONTENT. Tickets: $20 adults; $12 UM faculty/staff and senior citizens; $10 students. PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT the musical is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. (866) 378-9758 www.theatricalrights.com

Jan. 14

Single Reed Symposium

LeBaron Trio

The Single Reed Symposium is a weekend of concerts, guest recitals and master classes especially designed for clarinet and saxophone enthusiasts of all ages, from middle school through college and beyond! The participation fee for students and adults is $30. The Symposium concludes with a finale concert where all participants perform in one of the instrumental choirs. The Symposium Saxophone Choir is directed by music alumnus Rick Ardovino and Symposium Clarinet Choir is directed by music alumna Amy Moore. The Symposium final concert on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. in LeBaron Recital Hall is free and open to the public.

March 1-3 High School Honor Band Festival Davis Hall

The High School Honor Band Festival consists of director recommended students from across the state of Alabama and the area southern states. The festival will include opportunities to perform standard and contemporary concert band repertoire. The finale concert of this three-day festival consisting of three bands of students conducted by guest conductors is March 3 at 3 p.m. in Palmer Auditorium. Free and open to the public.

March 14

Jan. 12-13 Davis Hall

Exploring Communication Studies

May 3

The Middle School Honor Band Festival consists of director-recommended students from across Alabama and southern states. The festival will include opportunities to perform standard and contemporary concert band repertoire. The finale concert of this two-day festival consisting of three bands of students conducted by guest conductors is Feb. 16 at 5:30 p.m. in Palmer Auditorium. Free and open to the public.

Other Events

March 6

March 14

Davis Hall

Communication

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Jan. 25

Middle School Honor Band Festival

Jan. 10, Opening Reception and Gallery Talk, 4:30-6 p.m.; Runs through Jan. 31, weekdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The Gallery at Bloch Hall

Feb. 14-Mar. 7

The Forte Festival of Creativity celebrates creativity across disciplines. The annual festival is a collaboration between all four colleges at UM and the Montevallo Arts Council. The 2019 theme is Open Table. Guest presenters, UM student groups and faculty present innovative approaches and hands-on experiences related to the theme in this unique three day festival.

Feb. 15-16

Sandbox of Symbols: Jonathan Cumberland

Inspired by the use of symbols and metaphors as a means of visual communication, Cumberland searches for fresh solutions to familiar problems. Illustrations explore an array of topics within our culture with graphic conceptual solutions.

A cross-college and community convening of creative minds

Male singers are invited to join the 2019 Men’s Festival Chorus. This musical event is designed to affirm the participation of young men in the vocal arts. The festival chorus is comprised of high school and middle school students from public and private high schools in Alabama.

Gallery Shows

7:30 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall The Lebaron Trio consists of members of the music faculty at the University of Montevallo. Formed in 2010, Lebaron Trio has performed extensively across the U.S. as well as at international festivals such as the International Association of Women in Music and the International Clarinetfest. Their repertoires span a wide range of styles and are advocates for new music. Members are Dr. Melanie Williams, soprano, Dr. Lori Ardovino, clarinet, and Dr. Laurie Middaugh, piano.

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Annual Juried Foundations Exhibition

March 14, Opening Reception, 4:30-6 p.m.; Runs through March 21, weekdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The Gallery at Bloch Hall The annual Juried Foundations exhibition recognizes the importance of work produced by current students in the foundations’ studios. The Foundations Program is comprised of a coordinated set of courses for students who are seeking degrees in art. This show enables students to submit artwork for review by professional artists and curators. The exhibition showcases the versatility and skill of Montevallo art students while simultaneously providing the important opportunity of viewing their work in a gallery context.

7:30 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall

dents exhibit a high level of skill and professionalism on their instruments and in their performances.

2 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall

Kodály Workshop

As the only Kodály certification program in Alabama, the UMKI provides an exceptional professional development opportunity that will equip music educators with tools and resources to enrich the curriculum, strengthen learning outcomes and foster best teaching practices. The Kodály Institute (UMKI) offers exceptional professional development in the Kodály Concept — an approach to music education that begins with the singing voice, an instrument carried by every child. Levels 1, 2 and 3 will be offered.

March 31-May 3 BFA Senior Capstone Art Shows Weekdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The Gallery at Bloch Hall

These exhibitions present the scope of the students’ creative research at the conclusion of their final semester.

April 11

Music Jan. 11 The Bent Frequency Duo Project

Jazz Ensemble

7:30 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall

The 20-piece jazz band features music selections from the Big Band Swing Era of the mid-1930s to late 1940s, as well as more contemporary compositions.

Percussionist Stuart Gerber and saxophonist Jan Berry Baker are The Bent Frequency Duo Project. Gerber and Baker have commissioned over 20 new works for their duo and have given countless performances of this new repertoire across the U.S., Mexico and Europe since 2014. Sponsored by the Concert and Lecture Committee, UM Department of Music and Selmer Music Company.

7:30 p.m. Palmer Auditorium

April 15 Brass, Woodwind and Percussion Ensembles 7:30 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall

Chamber Ensemble concert features students performing a variety of works ranging from classical to contemporary original and arranged works. Free and open to the public.

April 16 Concert Choir and University Chorus 7:30 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall

The Choral Ensembles are among the most highly regarded choirs in the southeast. Under the direction of Dr. Melinda Doyle, these ensembles are comprised of both music majors and non-music majors and perform a diverse repertoire ranging from choral masterworks to spirituals.

April 18 Wind Ensemble 7:30 p.m. Palmer Auditorium

The Wind Ensemble is the College of Fine Arts’ premier instrumental performing group. The ensemble consists of approximately 60 woodwind, brass and percussion students who perform classic wind band repertory and contemporary works. This concert will showcase our talented graduating senior instrumentalists who will conduct a piece or solo with the band.

April 19 Anthony Pattin Steinway Endowment Fund Legacy II Recital: Éperdu 7:30 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall

Pianist Drew Spradlin will perform an original program, which explores acoustic and electronic timbres, overtone interactions, and the influences of spectral music. The performance alternates between works for piano and through composed digital textures. The pieces are presented all attacca in order to blur the lines of definition and create a larger ambient effect. Proceeds from this recital go toward the Dr. Anthony Pattin Steinway Endowment Fund to repair, restore and maintain the 25 Steinway pianos in the Department of Music and to permanently name the piano lab in Dr. Pattin’s honor. Tickets required.

April 26-28 “Figaro’s Wedding” music by W.A. Mozart, an adaptation of “The Marriage of Figaro” by Professor of Music, Charles Wood April 26-27, 7:30 p.m.; April 28, 2 p.m. LeBaron Recital Hall

The spring opera presented by the Department of Music, will be an original adaptation of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” In this abbreviated version of the famous comic opera, which is full of surprises, unexpected twists, farcical situations, secret identities and happy resolutions, the opera has been shortened and the recitatives have been replaced by narration to make it more audience-accessible. All of the music is original Mozart, however, and will be sung in English, accompanied by an orchestra. Tickets: $12 adults, UM faculty/staff and senior citizens, $8 students.

summer Camp

April 26-27 BFA Theatre Showcases 7:30 p.m. Reynolds Theatre

Senior acting and directing BFA students showcase their work through a variety of theatrical styles. BFA acting concentration seniors perform a compilation of scenes. Free admission. ADULT CONTENT.

June 9-14 Young Musicians’ Camp Davis Hall

A week-long camp for young musicians providing excellent musical training, fun evening events and a chance to meet others from the state of Alabama and the Southeast.