MOUNT VERNON — The Cornell College Chamber Singers will preview music for an upcoming European tour when they perform with the Cornell Concert Choir at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in King Chapel. Admission is free.
The 22-voice Chamber Singers will perform pieces that are indigenous American genres, such as spirituals and jazz. Their program Sunday includes “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,” made popular by the vocal jazz group Manhattan Transfer; an arrangement of “That Lonesome Road” by American pop artist James Taylor; and selections by German Romantic composers Robert Schumann and Peter Cornelius.
The 60-member Concert Choir will feature a program including two movements from “Solemn Vespers,” a major work by Mozart; “Make Our Garden Grow,” the final chorus from Leonard Bernstein’s opera “Candide”; “Shenandoah,” an American folk song for eight-part chorus; and the American spiritual “I Been in the Storm So Long.”
Both ensembles are directed by Lisa Hearne and accompanied by pianist Cathy Risse.
In May, select students from the Chamber Singers and Cornell’s Chamber Orchestra will take a 15-day tour of four countries, performing in Florence and Venice, Italy; Graz, Salzburg and Vienna, Austria; and Prague, the Czech Republic. The tour concludes in Munich, Germany.