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Fall concert to feature vocal, wind and string ensembles
30-Oct-09
FREDERICK, Md.--Hood College instrumental and vocal performance groups at will present fall concerts Nov. 15 and 18 on campus.
Hood College Chamber Singers, under the direction of Brenda J. Weiser, director of choral activities, will perform Sunday, Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. in Brodbeck Music Hall. The program, "Love Around the World," will feature sacred and secular love songs that focus on the love of the divine, of country and of a beloved one. Chamber singers will perform selections from Brahms' "Neue Liebeslieder," accompanied by junior Justin Furnia and alumnus David Conway, and compositions by Z. Randall Stroope, Daniel Gawthrop, Alberto Favero and Alex North, among others.
Two selections will feature solos by Joshua Rathod, Meghan Tomlin, Emily Jackson Dunlop, Joni Hector, Ashley Birdsell, Carly Oeller and Casey Bunchman.
The Hood College Wind Ensemble, directed by Brian Hinkley, and the 12-member Hood College String Ensemble, under the direction of RoseAnn Lester, will give a joint concert Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. in Coffman Chapel. The 38 wind musicians will perform "A Festival Prelude" by Alfred Reed, along with works by Pascual Marquina and Samuel Barber. Two featured works will be "Beyond the Horizon," a new release by Rossano Galante, and "Eighty-Eight Days," a selection written by Jennifer Huntoon, a composition major at Hood.
The string ensemble's program will include the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto by J.S. Bach and "A Winter's Willow" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as works by Rimsky-Korsakoff and Kirt Mosier. Together, the ensembles will perform the Waltz from "Carousel" by Richard Rodgers.
For more information about these and other concerts at Hood, contact Noel Lester, D.M.A., concert pianist and professor of music, at (301) 696-3429 or e-mail nlester@hood.edu.