Events

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transy on Broadway will present the hilarious “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts, May 6-8 at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. This love-happy music revue holds the record as the second-longest running off-Broadway musical and uses a series of scenes to explore themes of dating, love, marriage and children. The cast of four—first-year Alyson Cox, sophomore Joseph Underwood, junior Matt Elmore and senior Kathy Shewmaker—plays more than 40 roles in a collection of scenes and songs scaling the spectrum of male/female relationships. Senior Elizabeth Guy directs the show, senior Michelle Franzetti is the musical director and junior Ashley Stafford has choreographed the musical numbers. Reserve tickets ($10) for this hit musical by calling (859) 233-8141 from 1-4 p.m. Tickets, if still available, can also be purchased at the box office prior to each show. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transy Boys A Cappella (TBA) will perform Wednesday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the William T. Young Campus Center, on Transylvania’s campus at the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street. The performance is free and open to the public but tickets are required. Concert attendees will also receive a free copy of TBA’s debut CD. Tickets can be ordered online at http://tbamayshow.eventbrite.com. Ticket confirmation will be sent from eventbrite.com to the reserver’s e-mail address and directions and further information will be sent two weeks prior to the show. The show will showcase the repertoire TBA has developed over the years, and includes selections for music-lovers of all ages.  Performances will range from “Amazing Grace” to “Who Put the Bomp?” to Paul Simon’s “Loves Me Like a Rock.” TBA will be one of the local acts performing downtown during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games this September. “Our being asked to perform at the Equestrian Games speaks to TBA’s increasing notoriety and credibility in Lexington,” said senior Kris Olson, who sings bass and is the booking agent for TBA.  “The new CD will be a phenomenal public relations tool, as well.  Thousands of people from around the world will visit Lexington this September, and we will have the chance to showcase TBA’s sound to a growing audience.” For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

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.