October 19 | 3 PM | Sursa Hall
Enjoy music about nature and finding hope, peace, and joy as Chamber Choir and Concert Choir perform! The program will include selections of South African music as a nod to the upcoming Arts Alive! event, Soweto Gospel Choir in November. You'll also hear "The Glade" by Theodore Hicks (DA student), and Mellissa Dunphy's "I Took a Walk with Joy" featuring poetry by alum Mark A. Boyle. Get your tickets today online, by phone at 765-285-8749, or in person!
Chamber Choir
Featuring composers Jake Runestad and Zanaida Stewart Robles. Chamber Choir will also perform a student composition called “The Glade” by Theodore Hicks, who is completing his doctoral studies this semester!
Concert Choir
Music by Ola Gjielo, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (honoring the 500th anniversary of his birth), Felix Mendelssohn, Jake Runestad, Melissa Dunphy, and Thabo Matshego.
Palestrina’s “Sicut cervus” and Mendelssohn’s “Wie der Hirsch schreit” form a coupling as settings of the same Psalm text (Ps 42, Like as the hart desireth the waterbrook…) in different languages and composed across a time span of roughly 250 years.
The Melissa Dunphy piece “I Took a Walk with Joy” featuring poetry by alum Mark A. Boyle.
Connecting to the campus visit of the Soweto Gospel Choir in November, Concert Choir will present Matshego’s “Ukholo lwami,” an arrangement of two traditional South African gospel songs.