MOUNT VERNON — The Cornell College Chamber Singers and Concert Choir will perform their spring concert Sunday, April 17, at 3 p.m. in King Chapel. Admission is free.
The concert will feature as guest performers the Chamber Choir from Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, who will open the program.
The Chamber Singers’ program includes Robert Pearsall’s “Lay a Garland,” “You Are the New Day,” arranged by Peter Knight, and Eric Whitacre’s “Sleep,” performed with the Kennedy choir.
The Concert Choir’s program includes Benjamin Britten’s “Festival Te Deum,” featuring soprano solo by Kate Redfield; “Ain’t Got Time to Die,” arranged by Hall Johnson and featuring tenor solo by Joel Foreman; and Handel’s “Coronation Anthem No. 3: My Heart is Inditing,” featuring soprano Amber Swenson, alto Jennifer Kramer, tenor Joseph Okell and baritone Whitney Thiessen.
The Chamber Singers are led by guest director Storm Ziegler, a 1994 Cornell graduate who is director of choral activities and chairman of the performing arts department at Kennedy. The Concert Choir is led by guest director Anne Lyman, who is assistant conductor of the Kantorei at the University of Iowa, where she is pursuing a doctorate in choral conducting. She is also director of music at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa City.
Accompanist on organ and piano is Lynda Hakken.
