Spring choral concert Sunday, April 26
MOUNT VERNON – Cornell Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will present their spring choral concert on Sunday, April 26, at 3 p.m. in King Chapel. The ensembles are directed by associate professor of music Lisa Hearne.
The concert, which is free to the public, will open with “African Celebration” for women’s chorus. The featured men’s chorus piece is Pablo Casals’ “O vos omnes” on the biblical lamentations of Jeremiah.
Chamber Singers will present two choruses from Handel’s Messiah, accompanied by pianist Joyce Strabala. Other selections include pieces by Fauré, Britten, and Haydn, and a vocal jazz arrangement of “Fields of Gold” by Sting.
Concert Choir selections include Erb’s “Shenandoah,” Poulenc’s “Exultate Deo,” and the dramatic narrative “Saul” on the conversion of St. Paul, featuring college organist Lynda Hakken and narrator Natalie Kropf, a sophomore from Wilton, Conn. The concert will close with African-American composer William Dawson’s “Ezekiel Saw de Wheel,” with tenor soloist Alexander LeFebvre, a sophomore from Caledonia, Minn.