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USA Opera Theatre Details Preparation for “The Pirates of Penzance”

Article and photos by: Milena Mata | Contributor | mm1934@jagmail.southalabama.edu Directing, conducting, designing, building, sewing. Almost one year of work for two performances.  The USA Opera Theatre performed “The Pirates of Penzance” on April 22 and April 24. “The Pirates of the Penzance” is a comic operetta written by Arthur Sullivan and William Schwenk Gilbert.  The process of working on a production of this size … Continue reading USA Opera Theatre Details Preparation for “The Pirates of Penzance”

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USA Wind Ensemble Performs Welcome Concert for All-State Festival

Article and photo by: Milena Mata | Contributor | mm1934@jagmail.southalabama.edu Honorable musicians collaborated with the USA Wind Ensemble to perform a welcoming concert for the All-State Festival for the first time in six years at the Saenger Theater on April 8. The concert was only one hour long, but it was packed with several performances to honor the high school participants of the All-State Festival … Continue reading USA Wind Ensemble Performs Welcome Concert for All-State Festival

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A Place of Musical Opportunity

by Stephanie Huynh | Contributor | smh2026@jagmail.southalabama.edu Photo by: Lauryn Gunn | Photographer Flute. Oboe. Clarinet. Bassoon. USA Faculty members Andra Bohnet, Amy Selkirk, Kip Franklin and Kristina Nelson took to the stage on March 9 for their first woodwind quartet recital together.  Held in the Laidlaw Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, it was the fiftieth concert of the 2021-2022 academic year. They played pieces … Continue reading A Place of Musical Opportunity

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