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University of Mary Choir Ushers in Spring With Musical Bouquet at Free Sunday Concert

Presented by University of Mary

April 11, 2010

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The University of Mary Spring Choir Concert features a variety of choral music from the Renaissance through contemporary periods. The audience will enjoy a program with a set of folk songs that include a robust version of a Spanish song, “El Vito”; a Slovak folk song that translates to “Where Are My Cows”; the hauntingly beautiful American folk song, “Ten Thousand Miles”; and a clever arrangement of a Scottish folk song, “I’ll Aye Call in by Yon Town,” which concludes with the choir gradually dropping words at the end of repeated refrains. The concert, Sunday, April 11, 2010, at 3 p.m., in Our Lady of the Annunciation Chapel in the Benedictine Center for Servant Leadership building on the campus of the University of Mary, is free and open to the public. The 52-member Concert Choir will sing several selections from Carmina Burana, including “In Taberna” for men’s voices, a song listing the many people who drink in the tavern from the pope to the pauper. The Concert Choir recently performed Carmina Burana with the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra, the Bismarck-Mandan Civic Chorus, and the Central Dakota Children’s Choir. Chamber groups made up of Concert Choir members will perform four selections. Senior Jacquelyn Campbell, of Flasher, will conduct an octet singing “O occhi manza mia,” an Italian motet from the late Renaissance. Juniors Amber Hoffman and Evan Laib, both from Bismarck, will conduct “For Good” from Wicked, and “Man of La Mancha,” choral arrangements of songs from Broadway musicals. A featured piece on the program, “Saul,” by Egil Hovland, will be narrated by President Father James Shea and accompanied on the piano by Campbell. The music, for organ, choir and narrator, uses many contemporary techniques to express the account of Paul’s conversion as found in the Acts of the Apostles. Other accompanists during the concert include Julie Schwartz; Josh Johnson, Bismarck, ’13; Joel Porter, Bismarck, ’12; Obediah Bauer, Mandan, ’13; Michelle Kramer, Fargo, ’13; and Lauren Meiers, Stanley, ’11; and Campbell.