Events

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Transylvania University Choir joins choirs from Centre College, Berea College and Asbury University, along with a full orchestra to present two performances of Johannes Brahms’ “Ein Deutches Requiem” (“A German Requiem”) at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 9, in Haggin Auditorium at Transylvania and at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 10, in Newlin Hall in Centre’s Norton Center for the Arts. There will be an optional short lecture before each performance, at 7 p.m. The lecture on April 9 will be in the Coleman Recital Hall in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center at Transylvania. The lecture on April 10 will be in the Vahlkamp Theater in Crounse Hall at Centre. To reserve concert tickets, which are $15, call the Norton Centre Box Office at (877) 448-7469; tickets may be picked up at the door the evening of each performance. Completed in 1868, “A German Requiem,” Brahms’ longest work for orchestra and the work that first brought him to wide recognition, is both within and outside the long tradition of requiems by composers such as Mozart, Verdi and Berlioz. Not only did he not use the standard Latin texts from the Mass for the Dead, but he also wrote a requiem for all people and especially for those who mourn a loved one’s death; in one letter he referred to it as “a human requiem.”  Though not traditionally religious, Brahms knew the Hebrew and Christian scriptures through Martin Luther’s

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Poet Cecilia Woloch will speak at Transylvania’s Cowgill Center, room 102, Monday, April 12, at 4 p.m. This event, the fourth annual writing, rhetoric, and communication lecture, is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. Woloch is the author of five collections of poetry, including “Sacrifice,” a 2001 BookSense Selection; “Late,” for which she was named 2004 Georgia Author of the Year; and “Narcissus,” winner of the 2006 Tupelo Press Snowbound Prize. Her poems have been published in translation in German, French and Polish. She is a lecturer in the creative writing program at the University of Southern California and the founding editor/publisher of Fortunate Daughter Press and founding director of both the Summer Poetry in Idyllwild (Calif.) and of the Paris Poetry Workshop, France’s longest running English language writers’ workshop. A celebrated teacher, Woloch has won several fellowships and prizes and has conducted poetry workshops for thousands of children and young people throughout the United States and around the world. She has also conducted workshops for professional writers, educators, senior citizens in Elderhostel programs, prison inmates and residents at a shelter for homeless women and their children. As a Transylvania student, Woloch majored in English and drama and her poetry was published in the “Transylvanian,” the university’s literary magazine. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery presents “Our Eclectic Minds: Transylvania University Senior Exhibition 2010.” The exhibit opens at 5 p.m. on April 2 and runs through April 23. Regular gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. weekdays, and the gallery will be open for the Lexington Gallery Hop Friday, April 16, from 5-8 p.m. An opening reception for the artists will be Friday, April 2, from 5-8 p.m. The work of nine graduating art majors will be showcased in the exhibit. Kristy Marie Allison Kristy Marie Allison, Mount Olivet, Ky., is a member and previous philanthropy chair of Alpha Omicron Pi and is the leader of PB&J Club, a volunteer effort provides food for the homeless each week. Allison plans to attend graduate school for a master’s in architecture with an emphasis in historic preservation.  For “Our Eclectic Minds,” she will be exhibiting artwork she has created through her years at Transylvania. Denise Estelle Brown Denise Estelle Brown is a painter, poet, writer and stage performer from Harlan County, Ky. She has done portrait work as a freelance artist and has exhibited at Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery. One of her oil paintings was recently purchased by Lexington’s Joseph’s Hospital, for its new women’s hospital. Her art work can also be seen in an outdoor exhibit as part of the downtown revitalization project that includes the historic Lyric Theatre. Brown hosts a monthly poetry reading called “22 Nights” at Third Street Stuff Coffee Shop

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s student-run Theatre Guild will present Neil Simon’s classic coming-of-age play, “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” April 1-3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lucille C. Little Theater. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the Little Theater box office prior to each show. The play, with its mix of comedy and drama, is set in the Brighton Beach area of New York, in 1937 and tells the story of Eugene Morris Jerome, a Polish-Jewish teenager who experiences puberty, sexual awakening and a search for identity as he deals with his family, including brother Stanley, parents Kate and Jack, his aunt Blanche and his cousins Nora and Laurie. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.