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A presentation by Andy Stoll on Monday, Aug. 25, about his 40-country journey of self-discovery is the first event in the 2014-15 Acts, Arts, Academia performance and lecture series at Tusculum College.

The performance and lecture series is a program of Tusculum College Arts Outreach and will feature 14 events throughout the academic year. Acts, Arts, Academic is supported by the late Dr. Sam Miller in memory of his wife Agnes Ault Miller, Arts Outreach, Hearts for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Andy Stoll’s presentation, “How (and Why) to Travel Around the World” will begin at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building on the Tusculum campus. The cost is $6 per person.

After finishing college, Stoll set off on a four-year, 40-country trip in search of experiences far off the beaten path in order to get a better understanding of how the world works. During his travels, he handed out micro-loans in China, played a 19^th century British soldier in a Bollywood movie, worked in a dress factory in Bangkok for 60 cents an hour, lived in a mud hut village in Zambia and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with 10 Tanzanian street kids.

Stoll’s presentation is much more than a travel slideshow. It is an insightful, inspiring, entertaining and often hilarious look at what it takes to find one’s place in the world and achieve one’s dreams.

The Tusculum College Community Chorus will perform “Rutter’s Requiem,” one of today’s best loved choral works during its spring concert Monday, May 5, at Tusculum College.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building on the Tusculum campus.

The first half of the program will be a performance of “Requiem” by John Rutter. The most common topics of art are the most mysterious and profound characteristics of human experience – love and death, Dr. David Hendricksen, conductor of the Community Chorus, noted during a lecture about the requiem earlier this month. Requiems were originally the addition of music to the texts used in the funeral mass, Hendricksen said, and evolved both lyrically and musically over the centuries.

In his work, John Rutter incorporates characteristics of previous requiems, Hendricksen explained. The piece was written in 1985 after the death of Rutter’s father. Hendricksen explained that Rutter was concerned with practicality so he wrote two versions – one for an orchestra and chorus and a scaled down version that could be performed by small music ensembles and choirs.

The Community Chorus will be accompanied by an instrumental ensemble of outstanding professional musicians in performing “Requiem.”  Beth Brimer and Jill Jones are the two soloists. James Winfree will be accompanist for the Community Chorus throughout the concert.

After intermission, the choir will sing a medley of music from “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein, and a whimsical setting of “Five Nursery Rhymes” by Ralph Hunter.

Founded in 1996 as a way to involve singers from throughout the community in a broad range of sacred and secular repertoire, the Tusculum College Community Chorus has grown to more than 50 singers.  For further information, please contact conductor David Hendricksen by phone at 638-0409 or email: conductordavid@embarqmail.com

For more information, please contact Tusculum College Arts Outreach at 423-798-1620, or email jhollowell@tusculum.edu.

One of today’s best loved and most performed choral works will be the focus of a lecture on Tuesday, April 22, at Tusculum College as Dr. David Hendricksen presents “Death, Music and Rutter’s Requiem.”

Hendricksen’s presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in the choir room (Room 46) on the lower level of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building (side entrance) on the Tusculum campus.

The lecture is in conjunction with the spring concert by the Tusculum College Community Chorus, which will feature the “Requiem” by John Rutter. The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 5, in the auditorium in the Annie Hogan Byrd building. Hendricksen, adjunct professor of music at Tusculum who also led the 2006 Theologian-in-Residence lecture series, is the director of the Community Chorus.

In his lecture, Hendricksen will first consider the context of what a requiem is. Love and death have been two of the most significant subjects artists have addressed in their works through history.  For many centuries, composers have written requiems to mark the passage from life to death to the mystery of life after death.
The musical traditions established prior to the composition of John Rutter’s “Requiem,” including music by Mozart, Brahms, Verdi, Faure and other composers will be examined. Hendricksen will explore the ways in which Rutter’s composition both sustains that tradition and departs from it.

The lecture is part of Tusculum College Arts Outreach’s Acts, Arts, Academia 2013-14 performance and lecture series.  Admission is $6. Tusculum College faculty, staff and students are admitted free with valid Tusculum identification card.

For more information, please contact Tusculum College Arts Outreach at 423-798-1620, or email jhollowell@tusculum.edu.

Rutter’s Requiem Lecture_David H 2014_PDF

Theatre-at-Tusculum will present the powerful and engaging drama “Twelve Angry Men” the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May.

The life of a young man hangs in the balance as the “twelve angry men” of the jury must decide whether he is guilty of murder in the play, which will be performed at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, April 25-26 and May 2-3 in the Behan Arena Theatre in the lower level of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building (side entrance). Sunday matinee performances will be at 2 p.m. on April 27 and May 4.

“Twelve Angry Men” was originally a teleplay by Reginald Rose, which was later adapted to the stage and also became a critically acclaimed film featuring Henry Fonda. Rose’s original work reflects the time period in which it was written in that only men served on juries. Theatre-at-Tusculum will be performing an adaption of the play by Sherman L. Sergel, which provides for jurors of both genders.

Those who are familiar with the film will find that the play does differ in several points. For example, the film’s focus is preventing an injustice whereas the play’s emphasis is how people from diverse backgrounds come to a consensus, said Frank Mengel, who is directing the play. Mengel is the technical director for Tusculum College Arts Outreach and has directed such productions as “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Dogg’s Hamlet” for Theatre-at-Tusculum in recent years.

When the play opens, the jurors are almost unanimous in a “guilty” vote, except for a single dissenter. As the jury discuss their views, individual biases and prejudices are revealed and seeds of doubt about the guilt of the accused man begin to grow.

Many familiar local actors will be portraying the jurors, who are not known by name but by their juror number, including Paige Mengel, Brian Ricker, Will Maddux, Parker Bunch, Angela Bride, Sandy Nienabar, Margo Olmstead, Jeff Reese, Eva Griffin, Larry Bunton, Michael Fillers and Jeff Klepper. Zach Gass will portray the guard to the jury room.

The jury room is the scene of all the action of the play and the single set is being constructed by DeAundra Bowker, Bonnie Parks, Jacob Hoffman, Devon Suttles, Ashley Brooks, Andrew Herzig and Gary Mitchell. The stage manager is Suzanne Greene and Barbara Holt is the costume designer.

Admission for the play is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 60 and over, and $5 for children 12 and under.

To make ticket reservations, please call Tusculum College Arts Outreach at 423-798-1620 or email jhollowell@tusculum.edu

To those not selected; Please do not be upset or feel you did poorly! You made this decision most challenging.  You each performed exceptionally well, and should be exceedingly proud of how well you did!

We would like to encourage you to keep your chin up and to PLEASE continue to audition for our various productions and programs, as we will have more audition opportunities next season. You may find information about possible future auditions and the latest Arts Outreach news on our website, http://arts.tusculum.edu/. Again, bravo to each of you for being so brave and displaying so much talent!

To those selected; Congratulations! We look forward to having you join our group and are excited to work with you! You will be receiving an e-mail within the next few days providing more information, but please reply to this message and let us know, if for some reason you are unable to accept our invitation. Again, Congratulations!

Once again, thank you all for attending GLAWPIGT auditions! We look forward to hopefully seeing all of you in the future. If you have any questions or would like more information regarding GLAWPIGT or any of our other Arts Outreach programs you may contact us by calling 423-798-1620, by visiting our website or Facebook page (TC Arts Outreach), or by emailing jhollowell@tusculum.edu or baricker@tusculum.edu.

On Monday, April 14, Arts Outreach will host open auditions for our performance group, GLAWPIGT, which is an acronym for Great Literature Alive, Well, & Playing In Greeneville, Tennessee. Auditions will take place at 5:30pm in the Annie Hogan Byrd Theatre on the Tusculum College campus and will be open to any students (rising 3^rd through 8^th grade for the 2014/15 school year) in the Greeneville/Greene County area.

GLAWPIGT was formed by Marilyn duBrisk, Tusculum College Arts Outreach Director, when she first arrived to the area in the mid-1980’s, to promote reading and to bring great literature to life through the performing arts. For nearly 30 years this program has trained young performers and has inspired generations of students, introducing them to the magic of literature, and the importance of reading. Our current GLAWPIGT group meets weekly on Mondays from 5:30pm to 6:30pm during the academic school year at the Annie Hogan Byrd Theatre at Tusculum College. We do not meet during the summer months while school is out of session. During this time the group is trained in basic presentation skills, as well as the development of essential tools needed for performance. These include; proper breathing technique, voice placement, stage movement, character development, and improvisation, which helps develop creativity. We also work with each member of the group on individual performance pieces which the students themselves have chosen, or that have been assigned by us for them to perform. The group then performs these memorized pieces during various events and workshops throughout the year.

In order to prepare for upcoming auditions, Arts Outreach will be conducting a free workshop on Sunday, March 30, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm at the Annie Hogan Byrd Theatre at Tusculum College. The workshop will showcase our current GLAWPIGT members, and students will work directly with our group on various exercises and techniques relating to basic performance skills. We will also take this time to explain more about the GLAWPIGT program, provide information about our upcoming auditions, and answer any questions. While this workshop is in preparation for our April 14 auditions, please know that anyone who is interested in learning more about basic presentation skills is welcome, and a commitment to attend the actual audition is not required.  This workshop will be open to ANY AND ALL students in the Greeneville/Greene County area.

If your child would like to attend the workshop, please make arrangements for them to be dropped off/picked up at the appropriate times. We encourage children to dress in comfortable clothing, and ask that they DO NOT WEAR FLIP-FLOPS.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Arts Outreach office at (423) 798-1620 or by e-mail at jhollowell@tusculum.edu

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – “TAP – The Show” will bring a burst of non-stop dance energy to the stage at Tusculum College on Tuesday, March 18.

The award-winning song and dance spectacular will begin at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building. The show is part of Tusculum College Arts Outreach’s Acts, Arts, Academia 2013-14 performance and lecture series.

Matt Davenport Productions’ “TAP – The Show” explores the international family tree of tap dancing, including Irish, African and Spanish traditions, as well as contemporary urban expressions.  Wrapped in dazzling costumes and backed by a soaring orchestral score, a cast of award-winning dancers and singers travels seamlessly over decades of styles from Broadway and big band to world music and pop/rock.

Each section brings to life iconic tap moments of the past and creates brand new moments that amaze audiences. Included in this extravaganza are recreations of some of favorite Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly numbers, Broadway showstoppers, smooth and sultry soft shoe, flamenco, tribal and Irish step and more.

The production is the culmination of years researching the traditions of step dancing by writer/director Scott Seidl.  As a percussionist and dancer himself, Seidl’s interest in the expressive power in this marriage of dance and percussion was realized when executive producer Matt Davenport challenged him in 2009 to create a truly unique dance production.

Since then the show has become a perennial favorite at Hersheypark in Pennsylvania and garnered the “Heartbeat” award from the International Association Amusement Parks and Attractions.  The success of the show has led to the creation of a full theatrical version of the production for this national tour.

Tickets for the show are $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens (60 and over) and $5 for children under 12. A group discount is available for dance studios. Tusculum College faculty, staff and students admitted free with valid TC ID.  Please contact Arts Outreach for more information at 423-798-1620 or email jhollowell@tusculum.edu.