Category Archives: music

Introducing r3vrb destinations

That’s right folks… Sam George is hopping on board this train and joining the gang over on Timetable. He currently writes a local music blog, r3vrb.com. Beginning today (actually about 30 minutes ago), you’ll find his reviews about our local music scene for the upcoming weekend  on our arts and culture section.

Check out his first installment of r3vrb destinations, let him know what you think and welcome him aboard.

OK, stop sitting over here, get reading

Are you enough in the know about our local scene?

We freely admit that we’ve been slow to complete the transformation of our own arts and culture section into what we hoped it would be in the beginning (though we’re thinking that you might like the direction it’s appearing it will be going in).

A bulletin and blog post on MySpace yesterday though that made us begin to wonder about the local area’s web presence.

Which of course, leads to today’s Magic City Question.

We really want to know what you’re thinking on this one ( I think all of us websites are). Hopefully you’ll be able to give us an answer or two.

Or maybe even a suggestion or two about how to fix it.

The Syncopated Clock, Alys Stephens Center

This performance by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra is part of their Red Diamond Family Concert series, part of their 10th anniversary celebration.

Christopher Confessore will lead the symphony in a celebration of the music of American composer Leroy Anderson. The performance will include some of his most popular pieces – The Syncopated Clock, The Typewriter and Classical Juke Box.

Pre-concert festivities will begin at 1:30 p.m.

Cost: $14/adults; $7/children – purchase tickets here

Location:
Alys Stephens Center – Jemison Hall
1200 10th Avenue South (directions)

Spain Park makes Vatican Radio

No, it’s not nearly as cool as having video from their performance in Vatican City (which you really should take a look at), it is a chance to hear Spain Park’s director talk about how great an experience this opportunity to perform for the Pope was to the students and the parents that accompanied the band on the trip.

It’s also a chance to make sure folks know that this exists, since the school was identified both in the text and in the intro to the piece as Spring Park High School. Oh well… the fact that they were able to perform was most important.

So what was on the charts in 1970?

The Hits Just Keep on Comin' logoThe writer of The Hits Just Keep on Comin’ stumbled across the answer to that question when he intended to write a post about year-end countdowns. Check out this Madison, WI based blog written by a lifer in the radio business to see just what folks were listening to on WSGN on this date in 1970.

If you’re looking for a slightly more recent list of songs, check out this list of lists compiled by Shawn Avery. Just keep going to the next newest one. He found a lot of them.

We’re kind of wondering the answer to the question of what your favorite song of the year is ourselves… granted we’re still waiting for answers to our request for your vote on the biggest social event of 2007

Get Rhythm Experience, downtown library

Straight from a great little blog, here’s a fun event — the Get Rhythm Experience — to be held in the atrium of the Birmingham Public Library’s Central location downtown. And what is the Get Rhythm Experience you ask? It is a collaboration of drummers, percussionists and dancers led by John Scalici. If you’ve ever seen a drum circle around town, you’ve seen John Scalici in action. The group will perform original compositions which blend urban voices and sounds with world-beat influenced rhythms from West Africa, the Middle East and Brazil. It’s part of the BPL@Night series.

Cost: Free

Handel’s Messiah, Alys Stephens Center

The Alys Stephens Center will be filled with “the rapturous sounds of the Hallelujah Chorus” as the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Concert Chorale perform Handel’s Messiah.

Cost: $15 – $65; purchase tickets online or by calling 205.251.7727.

Location:
Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Hall
1200 20th Avenue, South (directions)