MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College will mark Mozart’s 250th birthday in a spring choral concert Sunday, April 23, at 3 p.m. in King Chapel. The choirs are under the direction of Lisa Hearne, associate professor of music. Admission is free.
The Concert Choir will perform three movements from Mozart’s “Requiem,” featuring college organist Lynda Hakken. The Chamber Singers will sing Mozart’s motet “Regina Coeli,” featuring a solo quartet: junior Sarah Brungard, soprano; junior Kara Stumpff, alto; senior Joe Okell, tenor, and freshman Matt Roberts, bass.
Works by the Chamber Singers include two spirituals, “I Been in the Storm So Long,” with senior soprano soloist Erin Prall, and “Daniel, Servant of the Lord,” with soloists Justin Gohdes, senior, and Whitney Thiessen, junior. Also included are “Two Japanese Proverbs” by Gary Kent Walth, choral conductor at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, and “The Coolin,” a movement from “Reincarnations” by American composer Samuel Barber.
The 75-voice Concert Choir will perform a major work by British composer Benjamin Britten, “Hymn to St. Cecilia,” featuring four soloists: soprano Prall, alto Stumpff, tenor Okell and bass Robert Fisher.
The concert will close with a Cajun love song, “Tender Love,” arranged by Norman Luboff, and a spiritual by New Orleans composer Moses Hogan, “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel.”
