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ASCC Chorus to hold holiday concert Friday in Monroeville Begin your holiday celebration with a special performance by the Alabama Southern Community College Community Chorus' presentation of classical Christmas selections, Tidings of the Season. The presentation will take place Friday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. at the Nettles Auditorium on the Monroeville campus of Alabama Southern Community College. Guest instrumentalists for the event will be Enen Yu, Violin I, Mobile; Isabel Escalante, Violin II, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Tomas Fajardo, Viola, Gulf Port, Miss.; Guo- Sheng Huang, Cello, Mobile and Jose Cuellar, Bass, Hattiesburg, Miss. Leonard Raybon will return as the guest conductor for the event. C. Leonard Raybon, native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, is an active choral conductor, musical director, and vocal soloist and teacher. He received a bachelor of music in music education from William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Miss. After obtaining a Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowship, he received a master of arts in music from University of York, England. He earned his doctorate of musical arts in choral conducting from Louisiana State University, serving as a graduate student for celebrated choral conductor, Dr. Kenneth Fulton. Raybon began teaching in 1993 at Gautier Middle School, Gautier, Miss. In 1995, he moved to New Orleans to serve as middle and upper school choir director for the next four years at The Louise S. McGehee School. After obtaining his doctorate, he became the director of choral activities for Tulane University, where he continues to conduct such works as Fauré's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, and Bach's Magnificat. He has been a judge in choral festivals and clinician in all-parish honor choruses. Raybon is musical director and conductor for the prestigious Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre, supported for the past two years by the National Endowment for the Arts. Raybon musically directs and conducts three shows every summer. He received the Big Easy, Storer Boone, and Marquis awards for his musical direction of Pirates of Penzance in 2003. In 2005, he musically directed and conducted the unprecedented and ambitious Bernstein summer, including Candide, West Side Story, and Wonderful Town. Raybon has also musically directed for other New Orleans theatres, including Le Petite Theatre du Vieux Carré, Southern Repertory Theatre, and True Brew Theatre. As a vocalist, Raybon often performs oratorios with such organizations as The St. Louis Cathedral Choir, New Orleans; Musica Sacra, Mobile; The Baton Rouge Symphony; and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2008, he sing the baritone solos for Haydn's Theresienmesse with Musica Sacra. Raybon has also sung musical theatre roles, such as Tommy Albright (Brigadoon), and Young Joe Hardy (Damn Yankees) for Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre. He teaches voice classes and private voice at Tulane, as well as conducting three Tulane choirs. Monroeville's own Nancy Carleton will be the accompanist for the event. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Salem College in Winston Salem, N.C. She has been a featured soloist on both piano and organ in concerts through the years. She currently serves as Organist and Music Coordinator at the First United Methodist Church in Monroeville, directing three children's choirs, three handbell choirs, and an adult ensemble. She has served on the staff of "Music and Liturgical Arts Week," a Jurisdictional Music Conference at Lake Junaluska, and at Camp Quarternote, our Conference Music Camp for Elementary Children at Blue Lake. She accompanies for the Alabama Southern Community Chorus and also serves on their Board of Directors. Nancy teaches piano, voice and organ and is often called upon to accompany soloists and vocal groups not only in Monroeville, but in the surrounding area as well. Alabama Southerns', Claudia Adams has directed and prepared the concert. Claudia Adams is the Director of Music at Alabama Southern Community College, where she directs Southern Exposé. She received her bachelors in music from Birmingham-Southern College, and her masters in choral conducting from the University of South Carolina, where she served as a graduate assistant for Dr. Larry Wyatt. She also serves as the Director of the Alabama Southern Community Chorus. In recent years she has performed as a vocal soloist and conductor in Mozart's Requiem and Davidde Penitente as well as Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. Other recent choral works include Beethoven's Mass in C and Duruflé's Requiem with Berkshire Choral Festival in Berkshire, Massachusetts and John Corigliano's Fern Hill. Adams has also participated in productions of Dorothy Hindman's Louise, excerpts from Coyote Tails (under the direction of composer, Henry Mollicone), Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (Mother), Bizet's Carmen (Carmen), and Puccini's La Bohéme. Adams enjoys vocal jazz, and has spent the past five years singing in and directing various jazz ensembles in the states of Alabama and South Carolina. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association and the American Musicological Society. There is no admission for the concert.
For more information contact Claudia Adams, Director of Music, Alabama Southern Community College, at (251) 575-3156, ext. 296 or Community Coordinator, Dot Stewart, (251) 743-3001.
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