A More Convenient Season honors unsung Birmingham voices
Composer Yotam Haber draws on Birmingham Civil Rights Institute oral histories to create a three movement work titled A More Convenient Season. A 100 voice choir will perform with archival clips and testimonies from Henrietta Tripp Pamela Walbert Montanaro Denise McNair and Isreal Grant among others ahead of a September premiere by the Alabama Symphony.
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16Th Street Baptist Church
Yotam Haber
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Alabama
Henrietta Tripp
Martin Luther King Jr
Birmingham
100 Voices
Haber
Tripp
King
Alabama Symphony
Pamela Walbert Montanaro
Montanaro
Deenie Drew
Willa Adams
Pamela Walbert
Fred Shuttlesworth
Walbert
Denise McNair
Mother Takes Her Children to a Museum
A mother narrates taking her four children to a local museum for Cub Scout cultural arts, balancing family interests with a strict rule that the 9 year old must view every exhibit to earn an arrow point. The piece blends parenting reflections with a practical outing plan.
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Robbie
Mity
Museum Field Trip Turns Into Nude Exhibit
A mother recounts taking four children to a museum for a family day only to discover it features numerous nude artworks. She and her kids tour every piece while a Cub Scout sign off sits in the back of her mind. The husband praises her parenting as art.
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Dents
Henrietta Tripp
Tripp
Zion Hill Missionary Baptist
16Th Street Baptist
King
Robbie
Thad
Hoffman-Hoffman Engagement Planned for Audra and Jared
Audra Hoffman of Garden City to wed Jared Bogard son of Lansing and Scott City families. Audra holds a social work master from Newman University and works as an oncology social worker in Topeka. Jared, a flight nurse and paramedic, studied at Garden City Community College and Garden City High School and works at EagleMed and Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The couple plans to marry October 25, 2013 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Lawrence.
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Michael
Connie Hoffman
Garden City
Audra Hoffman
Jared Bogard
Wendi Bogard
Lansing
Denny
Connie Kuhn
Scott City
Garden City High School
Fort Hays State University
Newman University
St. Francis Cancer Center
Topeka
Garden City Community College
EagleMed LLC
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence
Corpus Christi Catholic Church
Who's New Ella Faith Stevens
Ella Faith Stevens is the daughter of Dr. Corbin and Heidi Stevens of Scott City. Born August 5 2013, she has siblings Makaela Brinlie and Sawyer and comes from a family with grandparents and great grandparents named in Scott City.
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Ella Faith Stevens
Corbin and
Heidi Stevens
Scott City
Makaela
Brinlie
Sawyer
Larry and
Judi Valgamore
Rick Stevens
Jim and
Jan King
Raymond Crist
Holcomb
Herb Stevens
Margie Stevens
Marthanell Turley
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Shuttlesworth
Bethel Baptist Church
Berkeley
Calif
Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor
Birmingham News
Jefferson County Board of Education
King’s Jail
Isreal Grant
Grant
Ala
Jane M. Choate
Robert Fulghum
Re Oe P
Sopo DJ
Katie Roemer
Chance Bezona
Chelsea Seeker
Adam Price
Vanesa Yglesias
Landon Nagy
Lauren Deaver
Adam Laundsen
Ashlea Wolking
Jason Cogan
Bridal Register
North Main
Niet
Revid
Kevin Manning
NASA
Finney County Public Library
Walnut
Fou
Finneylibrary.org
Cali Schweer
Bryan Hatanville
Garden
Petersen Printing
Harry
Taylor Plaza
Groom & Bridal Registry
Tami Ricke
John Lawson
Amy Koerperich
Adam Fuller
Betsy Koons
David Gilchrist
Dali Schweer
Emily Frost
Alex Walking
Bistorer
Facebook.com
Wharton
Whartons
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