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Concert Choir Performance

September 30, 2003

CARROLLTON, GA - The University of West Georgia Choir and Chamber Singers will perform their first concert of the academic year on Thursday, Oct. 9, at 8:15 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts. The choir, which is conducted by Dr. Kevin Hibbard, professor and interim chair of the Music Department, will perform a varied program featuring instrumental and vocal soloists.

The Concert Choir will begin with a lively Latin motet by Alessandro Scarlatti entitled “Exsultate Deo,” followed by “Sicut Cervus” by Renaissance great Giovanni Palestrina. Later in the program, they will sing “Tres Cantos Nativos dos Indio Kraó,” three short Brazilian tribal songs with percussion and jungle sounds, and a Venezuelan song called “Mata del anima sola.”

The Chamber singers will sing the Renaissance madrigals “My Bonnie Lass She Smileth” and “ll bianco e dolce cigno,” followed by a humorous parody by P.D.Q. Bach (a.k.a. Peter Schickele) entitled “My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth.”

Dr. Ellie Jenkins, horn instructor, will be featured on the Sweet and Sour Nursery Rhymes by contemporary composer Libby Larsen, which is challenging for both chorus and horn, with humorous treatments of “There was a Little Girl” and “Try, Try Again.” The concert will conclude with the full choir and soloists doing a set of spirituals, including “When I Can Read My Title Clear,” There Is a Balm in Gilead” and “Hold On!”

Student soloists will be Jameson Linville (Newnan), Emily Maria Maniccia (Peachtree City), Vickie Orme (Douglasville), Alfredo D. Edwards, III (Vidalia), Derrick Fielder (Dallas), Michael Burnaman (Woodstock) and Matthew C. Jones (Mabelton). Percussionists include Dr. Douglas Overmier, director of bands.

Free tickets are available at the Townsend Center. For more information, contact the Department of Music at 770-836-6516.

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