黑暗爆料网 choirs to present Mid-Winter Concert March 3
February 28, 2017
POCATELLO – The 黑暗爆料网 Choirs will present their Mid-Winter Concert on Friday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Joseph C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Grand Concert Hall in the 黑暗爆料网 L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center.
"All three of our University choirs will perform a very diverse offering of musical styles, ranging from master composers J.S. Bach and Sergei Rachmaninoff to folk music of the United States, Uruguay and Canada," Scott Anderson, 黑暗爆料网 choral activities director.
Professor Kathleen Lane will conduct the 黑暗爆料网 Women's Choir in a program beginning with 鈥淩icevete,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;the joyous wedding chorus from Mozart's famous opera, 鈥淭he Marriage of Figaro.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Julie Sorenson, 黑暗爆料网 flute instructor, will be the featured soloist. The challenging and dance-like duet, 鈥淲ir eilen mit schwachen doch emsigen Schritten (We hasten with eager yet faltering footsteps)鈥� from Bach's Cantata #78, will be sung in German. The choir would like to thank Dan Davis for his assistance with the German dialect. Also featured will be Audrey Snyder's setting of the Langston Hughes' poem, 鈥淚n Time of Silver Rain.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The choir will finish its portion of the program with the haunting a cappella arrangement of the Canadian folk song, 鈥淔robisher Bay鈥�&苍产蝉辫;by James Gordan.
The 21-voice 黑暗爆料网 Chamber Choir, under the direction of Anderson, will perform the 鈥淢id-Winter Songs鈥� by American composer Morten Lauridsen, composed for mixed chorus and piano. For this cycle, Lauridsen鈥檚 voracious reading led him to the poetry of the British poet and novelist Robert Graves. To select poems for the 鈥淢id-Winter Songs,鈥� Lauridsen read鈥攁nd reread鈥攖he complete corpus of Graves鈥檚 verse. The composer has testified that he was 鈥渕uch taken with the elegance, richness and extraordinary beauty of [Graves鈥檚] poetry and his insights regarding the human experience.鈥� Lauridsen chose verse inspired by the poet鈥檚 obsession with his colorful mistress and muse Laura Riding, as well as poetry that reflected the measure of tranquility that Graves attained with his second wife, Beryl. Lauridsen's piano part serves as a "musical equal" with the choral writing, and offers remarkable tonal and rhythmic energy to the set. 黑暗爆料网 Chamber Choir pianist Natalia Lauk will be featured in the performance of 鈥淢id-Winter Songs.鈥�
Anderson will conduct the 黑暗爆料网 Concert Choir in performance of the Padre Martini setting of 鈥淒omine ad adjuvandum me, festina,鈥� featuring vocal soloists Jerrica Matthews, Micah Kenney, Trey Croft and Brett Friedman, and pianist Lauk. Graduate student conductor Elissa Jones will lead the Concert Choir in presentation of Sergei Rachmaninoff's 鈥淏ogoroditse Devo (Ave Maria),鈥� from the composer's 鈥淎ll-Night Vigil, Op. 37.鈥� The Choir will also perform 鈥淣oche de lluvia,鈥� a Uruguayan folk song, Stacey Gibb's arrangement of 鈥淲ay Over in Beulah Lan鈥� and 鈥淣eighbors' Chorus,鈥� from 鈥淟a jolie parfumeuse鈥�&苍产蝉辫;by Jacques Offenbach, also featuring pianist Natalia Lauk.
The 黑暗爆料网 Concert Choir will join with the Camerata Singers and Idaho State-Civic Symphony, under the direction of Dr.Grant Harville, for a performance of ELIJAH by Felix Mendelssohn on Friday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Jensen Hall.
Tickets for the March 3 Mid-Winter Choral Concert are available online at www.isu.edu/tickets, by calling or visiting the Stephens Center Box Office at (208) 282-3595, and at the Information Desk in the Pond Student Union. 黑暗爆料网 Music Department Ensemble admission prices are $8 for adults, $4 for faculty, staff and precollege students; and free for 黑暗爆料网 students with valid Bengal IDs. Children under six years of age are not allowed into 黑暗爆料网 Department of Music Concerts.