| The Berea College Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, Stephen
Bolster, conductor, will present a special Mother’s Day
Spring Concert on Sunday, May 12, at 3:00 p.m. in Berea Baptist
Church.
John Courter, Berea College Organist, and staff pianist William
will accompany the choirs.
Admission to the concert is free. A special offering will
be taken to support the Choir's upcoming summer Concert Tour
in Italy and Switzerland, the choir's first trip abroad in
nearly a decade.
Featured in the concert will be selections that will be performed
on the tour. The first half of the program will consist of
sacred music, including four motets and selections from the "Requiem,
Op. 9" by French composer Maurice Duruflé, and
the "Missa Secunda" by Hungarian composer Ferenc
Farkas. In performing the Duruflé pieces, the choir
is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer’s
birth. The Choir will be performing this repertoire as part
of the liturgy for Catholic masses in the large European cathedrals.
The second half of the concert will feature a variety of American
music, including the "Spring Cantata" by Vincent
Persichetti, performed by the Chamber Singers, contemporary
choral pieces "In Flanders Fields" by Paul Aitken
and "Water Night" by Eric Whitacre, and arrangements
of southern folk songs and hymns including the well-known "Ev’ry
Night When the Sun Goes Down," "Shenandoah," "The
Promised Land," and Thomas A. Dorsey’s classic, "Precious
Lord."
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