10/12/2011
 

UW-Stevens Point student voices present 'Fall Choral Collage'

The Fall Choral Collage, a concert featuring three choirs of the Department of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, will be performed Wednesday, Oct. 19.

The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Michelsen Hall in the Noel Fine Arts Center, featuring the Women’s Choir, conducted by Professor Judy Bond, and the Concert Choir and Choral Union, both conducted by Professor Lucinda Thayer. Piano accompaniment will be provided by Mary Ellen Mitchell of Stevens Point.

As part of the Music Department Scholarship Series, tickets are $7 for the public, $4 for senior citizens, $3 for youth and free the day of the concert for students with a UWSP ID. Tickets are available at the Information and Tickets Office in the Dreyfus University Center, online or by calling 715-346-4100 or 800-838-3378. Visa, MasterCard or Discover are accepted. Tickets may also be purchased at the door if seats are available.

The Women’s Choir will sing “Gate Gate,” a joyful and upbeat setting of a Buddhist mantra, arranged by Brian Tate, “Old Abram Brown” from Benjamin Britten’s “Friday Afternoons,” “Old Joe Clark,” a traditional American folk song arranged by Mary Goetze, and “Hail Holy Queen” from “Sister Act,” arranged by Marc Shaiman and Roger Emerson. “Hail Holy Queen” will be conducted by student conductor and senior music major Nathan McReynolds.

The Concert Choir will perform “Exultate Deo” and “Sicut Cervus” by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, “Io Piango” and “Ov’e Lass, Il Bel Viso” by Morten Lauridsen, “A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square” by Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin, and “Swimming Over London” by The King’s Singers, featuring a solo by Jared Martin. They will also perform “My Flight for Heaven” by Blake Henson in memory of Theresa Kroes, a former member of the Concert Choir who died in a car accident in June. 

The combined men of the Concert Choir and Choral Union will sing “Down in the Valley” arranged by George Mead. The Choral Union will sing “Let Their Celestial Concerts Unite” by George Handel, “I Walked the Boulevard” by Eric Whitacre, “Loch Lomand” arranged by Jonathan Quick and “Sing Unto God” by Paul Fetler.