Conductor is Stephen Bolster, professor of music. John Courter, also a professor of music at Berea, will accompany the choir on piano and organ. William Plummer will accompany the Chamber Singers.

The first half of the program will feature English choral music and will include works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi and Ralph Vaughn Williams. The Chambers Singers will perform 19th century madrigals by Robert Pearsall and Sir Arthur Sullivan.American choral music will be featured during the concert's second half. Philip Hagemann's "A Musical Menu," is a humorous work describing several gastronomical delights. For this piece, the Chamber Singers will don special food industry-related costumes and employ food samples as props in a performance designed to leave the audience hungry for more.

Plummer will conduct the choir in a premiere of his new piece, "Alleluia," a work completed this spring. In February, 2000, he won an honorable mention award from the Kentucky Music Educators Association in the organization's student composition contest for his choral anthem "They That Trust in the Lord." The composer, a 2000 Berea graduate with a degree in piano performance, currently is employed as a part-time staff accompanist in the music department.

The choir also will perform Cecil Effinger's "Four Pastorales," for oboe and choir, featuring Nancy Clauter, oboe instructor at the University of Kentucky. The pastorales are settings of poems by Thomas Hornsby Ferril (1896-1988), who has been called the "Robert Frost of the West." Effinger was a prominent composer at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

The concert will conclude with "Rockin' Jerusalem," a spiritual by Andre Thomas.

The performance is free and open to the public.