PULLMAN, Wash. – A free concert will be presented by choral groups at Washington State University at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 21, in Bryan Hall.
It will bid farewell to senior students, a retiree and the Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers, which will travel to South Korea in May for an international performance tour and cultural exchange. The concert also will celebrate the transformation in the fall of the University Singers from one group into two: a treble choir and a tenor/bass choir, both of which are open to all students without an audition.
The Madrigal Singers, directed by Lori Wiest, will open the concert with “Adam Lay Ybounden” by Hubert Bird; two settings of “Ave, Maris Stella,” – one by Guillaume Dufay incorporating chant and the fauxbourdon compositional style of the Medieval and early Renaissance periods and one a hymn version by Hungarian composer Lajos Bárdos; “Requiem Aeternam” by Minnesota composer Matthew Culloton; Jean Berger’s “My True Love Hath My Heart;” Hans Leo Hassler’s “Tanzen und Springen;” and Orlando di Lasso’s “Bonjour, et puis, quelles nourvelles?”
In its final performance, the University Singers, directed by Dean Luethi, will present “Ave Verum Corpus,” by W.A. Mozart, conducted by WSU School of Music library specialist William Payne Jr., who will retire in May. The group also will perform David Brunner’s a cappella “Viva La Music;” Ryan Murphy’s “Lullaby;” and Sten Källman’s arrangement of the traditional Haitian folksong “Peze Kafé.”
The Concert Choir, conducted by Wiest, will begin with Jake Runestad’s rousing “Alleluia” followed by William Averitt’s “The Deepness of the Blue,” incorporating settings of five Langston Hughes poems. The concert will conclude with “Jenny Kiss’d Me” by Eric William Barnum; “I Sing Because…” by British composer Will Todd; and “I Sing Because I’m Happy,” arranged by Kenneth Paden and adapted by Rollo Dilworth.
Contact:
Lori Wiest, WSU School of Music, 509-335-5647, lwiest@wsu.edu
