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Mid-Winter concert
February 16, 2004
CARROLLTON, GA - Though the weather outside is still chilly, the University of West Georgia’s Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will heat up the stage with their mid-winter choral concert on Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts.
The Concert Choir will kick off the show with a tongue-in-cheek setting of Lewis Carroll’s The Lobster Quadrille by Irving Fine, followed by Rene Clausen’s Quicksand Years and Goemann’s Jubilate Deo.
The Chamber Singers will then take the stage with two settings of the Gloria, one by Franz Joseph Haydn featuring Emily Maniccia from Peachtree City as soprano soloist and an a cappella setting by Thomas Weelkes. They will then sing the two sacred works, settings of the poem In Remembrance and Psalm 117.
The featured work of the evening is Paul Basler’s Missa Kenya, a setting of the traditional mass texts with African rhythm and percussion. Instumentalists assisting the choir are UWG music faculty Ellie Jenkins, horn instructer, and Dr. Douglas Overmier, assistant professor, and student Jonathon DeLoach from Douglasville.
The concert will conclude with several shorter pieces, including folksong settings of Dashing Away by John Rutter and Savannah Red, Leonard Bernstein’s Somewhere from West Side Story and the spiritual Ride on, King Jesus set by Moses Hogan.
The concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Department of Music at 770-836-6516.
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