Please join us on Wednesday, April 20th, for a presentation by IU Women’s Head Basketball Coach Teri Moren, entitled “Holding Court.” Doors open at 11:30AM, lunch will be served at noon, and the program will begin at 12:30PM. Lunch will be provided by our hosts, the women of Alpha Chi Omega, and we will have some spring surprises up for silent auction. Free parking will be available in the Alpha Chi Omega house lot.

Tickets to our luncheon are $25.00 each.

The class is taught by Carli Astell who has been teaching yoga since 2002. Her classes consist of ashtanga inspired hatha yoga, and vinyasa yoga I and II. In her class the goal is to have fun, be free, and spread love. The class is great for beginners and practiced yogis alike. All levels are welcome and encouraged.

Parents and teachers from across the Monroe County Community School Corporation (MCCSC) are encouraged to join experts from various organizations for a robust discussion on challenges and solutions to democracy and equity issues in our schools.

BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (“CHORAL”)

Philharmonic Orchestra & Oratorio Chorus

Carl St. Clair, guest conductor
Betsy Burleigh, chorus master

Mathilda Edge, soprano
Annie Chester, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Marks Maughan, tenor
Rafael Porto, baritone

Repertoire
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 (“Choral”)

Livestreaming!
WFIU will broadcast this concert live on 103.7 FM and streaming on their website, indianapublicmedia.org/radio.

Proceeds from this concert will go to support the Five Friends Masterclass Series.

About the Artists

Carl St. Clair (conductor)

Music Director of the Pacific Symphony for more than two decades, Carl St. Clair has become widely recognized for his musically distinguished performances, innovative approaches to programming, and commitment to outstanding educational programs. The largest ensemble formed in the United States during the last forty years, the Pacific Symphony owes its rapid artistic growth to Mr. St. Clair’s astute leadership. Influenced by his close association with Leonard Bernstein, his commitment to the development and performance of new works by American composers is evident in the wealth of commissions and recordings by the Symphony. During the orchestra’s first European tour several years ago, they consistently played to packed houses with rave reviews.

Most recently, Mr. St. Clair has been named Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica. Now in its 73rd season, the orchestra is a well-established regional and national orchestra serving the entire country. In the U.S., Carl St. Clair has conducted the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the symphonies of Atlanta, Detroit, Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Montreal, Nashville, San Francisco, Sarasota, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver, to name a few. Worldwide engagements include numerous orchestras in Europe, South America, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Japan. Festival appearances include Schleswig-Holstein, Pacific (Japan), Round Top, Breckenridge, Wintergreen (Virginia), Tanglewood, and the Texas Music Festival in Houston.

Mr. St. Clair has also been general music director and chief conductor of the German National Theater and Staatskapelle in Weimar, Germany (the first non-European to hold this position); general music director of the Komische Oper in Berlin; and principal guest conductor of the SDR/Stuttgart, where he successfully completed a three-year recording project of the complete Villa-Lobos symphonies.

(Photo by Marco Borggreve)

Betsy Burleigh (chorus master)

Betsy Burleigh is associate professor of choral conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

She comes to the Jacobs School from Boston, where she held the posts of music director of Chorus pro Musica and artistic director of the Providence Singers (Rhode Island). She also serves as music director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, a position she maintains, where she prepares the chorus regularly for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. She has led the Mendelssohn in its own concert productions, including performances of Brahms’ Requiem, Bach’s B Minor Mass, and Rachmaninoff’s Vespers. In 2009, she took the Mendelssohn Chamber Singers, a select sub-chorus of 32, to sing an invited performance at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Burleigh served as assistant director of choruses for The Cleveland Orchestra from 1998 until 2009 and as chorus master for Cleveland Opera from 2002 to 2006. She also was director of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus for eight years.

As guest conductor, Burleigh has led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Akron Symphony, the Canton Symphony, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. Theater engagements have included music direction at Opera Cleveland and the Cleveland Public Theater. Also active as a clinician and festival conductor, she recently led Cincinnati’s October Festival Choir in Haydn’s Theresienmesse.

Burleigh’s conducting has been critically acclaimed; her 2012 Chorus pro Musica performance of Haydn’s Creation was praised in the Boston Globe as an “expansive, poetic reading,” and in the Boston Phoenix as “a stirring and elegant, lilting and expansive performance.” Her 2010 Chorus pro Musica rendition of Orff’s Carmina Burana was praised as being both “nuanced” and “hair-raising.” She won the 2000 Northern Ohio Live Achievement Award for best classical/opera performance and conducted the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus on an Emmy Award-winning concert for the 9/11 Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

She has prepared choruses for Manfred Honeck, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Jan Pascal Tortelier, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Andrew Davis, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Anton Coppola, Jane Glover, Jahja Ling, Nicholas McGegan, John Nelson, Yuri Temirkanov, and Franz Welser-Möst, among others.

From 1994 to 2010, she was coordinator of Choral and Vocal Music at Cleveland State University, where she achieved the rank of full professor.

Burleigh’s career began in Boston, where she was music director of The Master Singers, the Longy Chamber Singers, and the Cambridge Madrigal Singers, and held teaching positions at Tufts University, Clark University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She holds a doctorate in choral conducting from Indiana University, a master’s degree in choral conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a bachelor of music education degree from Indiana University. She is an enthusiastic grower (and consumer) of heirloom tomatoes.