The Baltimore Choral Arts Society's 2009-2010 season will sample various musical styles, from a classically proportioned Schubert Mass to the premiere of a gospel-influenced work by African-American composer Rosephanye Dunn Powell.
Popular American songs will be showcased in the season-opener Nov. 1 at Goucher College's Kraushaar Auditorium, when New York-based cabaret singer Eric Comstock joins the chorus and its music director, Tom Hall.
Choral Arts commissioned the new work by Powell, a prolific choral composer who teaches at Alabama's Auburn University. The premiere will be given during the ensemble's annual Christmas concert Dec. 1 at the Baltimore Basilica. Also for the holidays will be an audience singalong presentation of Handel's Messiah, Dec. 18 at Kraushaar.
Kraushaar will be the locale as well for a concert Feb. 28 that offers Schubert's Mass No. 2 in G major and Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna, a 1997 score that enjoys considerable popularity with choral groups and audiences.
Call 410-573-7070 or go to baltimorechoralarts.org.
Thesis exhibition at MICA
The Maryland Institute College of Art will exhibit the thesis work of 11 artists graduating in the school's master of fine arts program in studio art.
Opening June 29, the display covers an eclectic variety of expressive forms, from Sondra Peron's photographs of what she describes as "atrocity landscapes" (battlefields of the two world wars) to Leah Cooper's objects created from what she calls "urban flotsam and jetsam."
Other artists featured include Kerry Adams, Julie Benoit, Bruce Feldman, Nicole Herbert, Michael Dax Iacovone, Kelly Valdez and Katie Walberg.
The exhibit, which closes July 11, is spread out through three galleries at the Fox Building, 1303 W. Mount Royal Ave., and the Pinkard Gallery of Bunting Center, 1401 W. Mount Royal Ave. Call 410-225-2300 or go to mica.edu.
By Tim Smith
June 23, 2009
Posted By: Daniel Moss
Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 at 3:44PM
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