Choral Festival Final Concert

About the event

WSU Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Lori Wiest

This 5:00 pm concert in Bryan Hall Theatre will open with the Madrigal/Chamber Singers performing English Renaissance madrigals that portray the various emotions one experiences within relationships: light, playful, teasing, joyful, painful and sorrowful. Select works include “Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints” by Thomas Weelkes, “Ah, Dear Heart” by Orlando Gibbons, “A Little Pretty Bonny Lass” by John Farmer, “Weep, O Mine Eyes” by John Bennet, and “Quick, Quick, Away, Dispatch!” by Michael East. The WSU Concert Choir will perform selections connected by the theme “Celestial Voices” poetry and music that reflects its message through images of the spheres, the planets, and the sun and moon. Included will be an epic short tale of “The Boy Who Picked Up His Feet To Fly” by Joshua Shank, “Muusika” by Estonian composer Pӓrt Uusberg, “The Spheres” from Sunrise Mass by Ola Gjeilo, “The Wisdom of the Moon” by Susan LaBarr, “Cells Planets” by Erika Lloyd and arranged by Vince Peterson, and “Let All the World in Every Corner Sing” by Ralph Vaughan Williams and arranged for piano four-hands by Craig Courtney. Laura Hendrickson is the accompanist of Concert Choir.

Four choirs from the days activities will also be asked to perform on the evening concert.

This concert is open to the public and without charge.