A Vocal and Art Soiree April 6, 2009

Simple Gifts
arr. Mark Hayes
Kiel Green, Tenor
Christina Daniels, Clarinet

I Don’t Know How to Love Him
Andrew Lloyd Webber
from Jesus Christ Superstar
Erin Kolb, Soprano

Summertime George and Ira Gershwin
from Porgy and Bess
Adrienne MacKay, Soprano

Danny Boy
arr. Mark Hayes
Kortney Breland, Soprano
Mr. Kenny Myrick, Flute

I Got Rhythm
George and Ira Gershwin
Trey Stiglets, Tenor

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
Andrew Lloyd Webber
from Phantom of the Opera
Amber Reid, Soprano

Battle Hymn of the Republic
William Steffe
Sebastian Brown, Bass

Love Changes Everything
Andrew Lloyd Webber
from Aspects of Love
Molly Flagg, Soprano

At Last
Harry Warren
Viola Ramsey, Alto

On My Own
Claude-Michel Schönberg
from Les Miserables
Morgan O’Neal, Alto

This is the Moment
Frank Wildhorn
from Jekyll and Hyde
George Cospelich, Tenor

I Can Hear the Bells
Marc Shaiman
From Hairspray
Britney Watson, Alto

Bring Him Home
Claude-Michel Schönberg
from Les Miserables
Trae Spears, Tenor

Finale
Arthur Sullivan
from The Gondoliers
Josh Gray, Tenor

Habanera
Georges Bizet
from Carmen
Dr. Rhonda Fisher, Soprano
Dr. Joanna Burnside, Piano

Mr. Clyde Carraway, Vocal Instructor
Dr. Rhonda Fisher, Vocal Instructor

Parallels
Parallels showcases three large wall quilts, miniature quilts, and over forty photographs by J. Marcus Weekley. Through the media of the quilt and the photograph, and the combination of the two, Weekley explores how the physical represents the spiritual. His work, and the exhibition, relishes in the textures of life, whether they are illustrated through a maple’s bark, a textile’s seams, or power lines juxtaposed against the sky. The exhibit will run from 2-24 April 2009.

From the Artist:
I’m frequently thinking of parallels: a double cheeseburger extra pickle no mayo can describe how I might feel on any Tuesday night; evening light through the trees, casting shadows on the highway can be symbolic of the way joy breaks through a day of loneliness; a quilt can be a physical depiction of a mental and spiritual state of being, an exploration of an idea or set of ideas through fabric, not only a blanket. It’s the same thing with my arts: writing, photography, quilting, each of them echoes each other.

We’re all spiritual beings, our lives represented by material things like jingling car keys, closets full of various-colored shoes, shirts, and slacks, the smells of the cafeteria and the classroom. We eat because we’re hungry, we’re hungry because we need food to live (not just food for our bodies, but our minds and souls), we live because we’re born, and we’re born because our parents got excited, and so on.

Art is deliberate, skillful representation of my life. But it’s also representation of various people’s lives. Not only that, it represents the process of living in general. And dying. I create. I transform. The old way of perception dies. Everyone does this, or can.

How are you using your imagination today? How are you encouraging others to become more?
Thank you for coming to the show.

Marcus
Perkinston, MS
February 2009

Artist’s Bio:
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, J. Marcus Weekley grew up in Wisconsin and Georgia mostly, but other states too. His mother and older brother encouraged his creativity when he was growing up, and Marcus began writing consistently when he was fifteen, he began photographing when he was sixteen, and he began quilting more consistently in 2006, though his mom taught him how earlier than that. Marcus currently teaches Language Arts at MGCCC, though he has worked at Chili’s, Blockbuster, Chik-Fil-A, a bowling alley in Germany, and too many other places to mention. His writing appears in the books from four years and Look Out Below and Other Tales, among others, and his photographs accompany the essays of Gail Folkins in Texas Dance Halls: a Two-Step Circuit. You may view more of Marcus’ work at www.flickr.com/photos/whynottryitagain2

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston Campus
Department of Fine Arts

VOCAL SOIRÉE
Malone Auditorium
Monday April 6, 2009
7:00 p.m.

MGCCC - Perkinston Campus Fine Arts Department
Gallery Opening 6:15pm
Vocal Performance 7:00pm
For more information please call 601-928-6369

Official Website: http://www.mgccc.edu