The Berea College Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will present a concert at Berea Baptist Church at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 2, featuring music from the group's recent Spring Concert Tour. The 60-voice choir is conducted by Dr. Stephen Bolster. Gale Heard will accompany the group on organ and piano.

The concert program will include a variety of sacred and secular works. On the first half of the program the choir will perform sacred music of Handel and Haydn and a set of contrasting pieces appropriate for the Lenten season. Beginning with "Jesus, dulcis memoria," a Gregorian chant, other selections include three very different settings of the communion text "O sacrum convivium" from the Renaissance, Baroque and 20th century and "I am the Resurrection and the True Life," an antiphonal arrangement that will be performed by double choirs at either side of the church. The program's first half will conclude with the well-known passion hymn "When I survey the Wondrous Cross."

Lighter selections of madrigals and folk songs make up the second half of the program. The Chamber Singers will open with three amorous English Renaissance madrigals. "Minoi, Minoi" and "La'u lupe," lighthearted Samoan folk songs also about love (sung in Samoan) and two settings of the American folk hymn "How can I keep from singing?" will be performed by the choir. The concert will conclude with Harry Belafonte's rousing setting of the Carribean tune "Turn the World Around."

Since 1980, under Bolster's direction, the choir has toured extensively in the eastern U.S. and in Canada. During January 1994 performed in several eastern European countries.

Bolster is professor of music and chair of the music department at Berea, where in addition to directing the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, he teaches voice and choral conducting. Heard also is on Berea's faculty and is instructor of music.

Admission to the concert is free and open to the public.