Calendar for 2012-2013

Calendar for 2012-2013

August 17 - August 22
Choir Camp - details here
Special notes:

• I will probably have us a church service to sing at on Sunday, August 19.
• We will sing on Wednesday night, August 22 at South Highland Presbyterian.

August 28, 2012
University Convocation
We sing at this 10am event.
added Saturday, July 21, 2012

September 7, 2012
Vespers Service:  A Cappella Choir
5:30 p.m. Hodges Chapel
8:00 p.m. INITIATION (added 8-13-2012)

September 30, 2012
A Cappella Choir @ Dawson Baptist Church
9:40 service, 11:00 service
added July 4, 2012

October 12, 2012
Vespers Service:  A Cappella Choir and University Chorale
5:30 p.m. Reid Chapel

October 13, 2012
9:30 a.m.  Morning Sing
Reid Chapel
added Tuesday, July 3, 2012

November 2, 2012
Vespers Service:  Samford Chamber Choir
5:30 p.m. Hodges Chapel

November 8, 2012
Collegiate Choral Festival
Montgomery, AL
Sandra Snow, clincian
added Wednesday, July 4, 2012

November 16, 2012
Fall Concert:  A Cappella Choir and Samford Chamber Choir
7:30 p.m.  Reid Chapel
deleted August 23, 2013

December 6, 2012
Christmas Collage Dress Rehearsal:  4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
added August 5, 2012

December 7, 2012
Christmas Collage Concert:  call at 7:00 p.m.

February 1, 2013
Vespers Service:  A Cappella Choir
7:30 p.m.  Hodges Chapel

March 1, 2013
Vespers Service:  A Cappella Choir
5:30 p.m.  Hodges Chapel

March 7, 2012
Perform at Alabama All-State Choir event
1:00 p.m. - Leslie Stephens Wright (LSW) Center
added July 5, 2012

April 7, 2013
Mini-choir tour
Likely leave early morning Sunday, return Sunday night.
added July 4, 2012

May 3, 2013
Spring Concert:  A Cappella Choir and University Chorale
Vespers and Vivaldi Gloria
7:30 p.m. Reid Chapel

email from Paul Hall, former faculty member

Dear Dr. Copeland:

So sorry we haven't officially met as yet but I simply had to commend you on the choir's victory in France. This is such an honor to be brought generally to the University and to the School of the Arts specifically. I hope you will rehearse all the good feelings you received from the scoring over and over again. Let them last you a long time.

I joined the faculty in 1970 and had the pleasure of having Randall Richardson, Timothy Banks and Billy Strickland in classes. Billy went on to earn his Masters degree with us and I served on his reading committee at the University of Alabama while he was earning his doctoral degree. I retired in 1995 as Associate Dean, Choir of Music Education and Director of the Graduate Program. You'll see me "hanging" on the wall of horror at the end of the hall, second floor of Buchanan Hall.

I do hope there is opportunity to meet you in the near future. My wife and I attend many of the concerts on campus, especially the Davis concerts.

A good summer to you.

Paul Hall (Ret. Prof. of Music)

email from guest at Trinitè concert

Dear Samford A Cappella Choir and conductor Philip Copeland!

Although it is only 9 days ago that we were together in Eglise de la Sainte Trinitè it seems ages ago.Why?I gather because the memory of your incredible singing belongs to a realm so far from that which daily surrounds me:It contains so much eternity !

I was very pleased,bur not surprised when I read about your success in Tours .You certainly deserved every bit of it!

The contageousnes of the joy you radiate shareing your music with your listeners is unique.The experience is not listening to someone, but having communion together.

Some words from a song by Olivier Messiaen(who used to be an organist in Trinitè)comes to my mind:  "Every word from your lips in like a tender kiss and lasts as a kiss on the soul".

I think that is what it is:

It is s t i l l there and it does not fade! Thank you!!  I hope to be able to acquaint you with some Norwegian choral music and also that I might have the pleasur of hearing you again some time!

 All the best to you from my wife and myself!

 Yours in great gratitude

 Bernt Kasberg Evensen
bernt.kasberg.evensen@gmail.com