Birmingham Southern in concert

Birmingham-Southern College Concert Choir Homecoming Performance
Lester Seigel, conductor
Sunday, April 13, 5:00 PM
Canterbury United Methodist Church, 350 Overbrook Road, Mt. Brook AL
Free admission


"If Music Be the Food Of Love"
I. The love of God/Showing God's love for others:

Gloria, from Missa Brevis... Ruth Watson Henderson
Agnus Dei...Thomas Morley
Hymne á la Vierge…Pierre Villette
It Was in That Train…Barry Ferguson
Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese…Franz Joseph Haydn

II. Love of Nature/Love as Torment:

Ecco mormorar l'onde...Claudio Monteverdi
Non più Guerra, pietate...Monteverdi
Amor, Io Sento L'alma....Morten Lauridsen
Io Piango...Lauridsen
Se per Havervi, Oime....Lauridsen

III. Love From Youth to Age

The Sun is Setting (2006)...Jan Vičar (Three Moravian Folksong settings for women's voices and violin solo; Daniel Szasz, soloist; US premiere)

IV. Plunged Deep in Love

I Am Not Yours...Z. Randall Stroope
Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair...arr. René Clausen

V. Whimsical Love

Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?...arr. Robert DeCormier

Did you read about the Yale beating?

A Cappella News has some fun with it.



I found more of the story here, but it was quite a popular news item a couple of weeks ago.

Members of the Baker's Dozen, the renowned, all-male a cappella singing group from Yale, are pummeled outside a New Year's Eve party after singing "The Star-Spangled Banner."

The attackers allegedly include graduates from Sacred Heart Cathedral, one of the city's oldest and best-known private schools.

The attack happens outside the home of two prominent San Francisco police officers -- former mayoral bodyguard Reno Rapagnani, now retired, and his wife, Leanna Dawydiak -- who were both accused and later cleared of leaking internal SFPD personnel documents during the Fajitagate debacle.

As if that weren't enough, the dean of Yale College has weighed in, as has one of the victim's fathers, Sharyar Aziz -- a prominent New York banker whose son's jaw was busted in two places. He has not only called the mayor's office and police chief -- he's also retained the law firm Gonzalez (as in former mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez) and Leigh to keep the heat on the cops and make sure "the individuals behind this heinous assault (are) apprehended."

As Rapagnani tells it, his 19-year-old daughter was hosting a New Year's Eve party at the family's Richmond District home for the Baker's Dozen, who were in town as part of a West Coast tour.

The 16 singers showed up late to the party wearing preppy sport jackets and ties, and launched into "The Star-Spangled Banner."

A couple of uninvited guests started mocking them, and allegedly the words "faggot" and "homo" were tossed -- and so were a couple of punches.

Suspect Detained--Let's Hope He's Not a Music Teacher

I don't know if you've heard about the horrific murders of prostitutes in England lately, but they are now holding a suspect:

Police hunting a suspected serial killer following the murders of five prostitutes in eastern England arrested a 37-year-old man on Monday and cordoned off a group of houses.

The man was arrested at his home in Trimley St. Martin, near the port of Felixstowe, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull said in a brief statement to reporters. He declined to say where the suspect was being held.

I'm waiting for the news that he is either a music teacher or minister any day . . .