The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music will present an Afternoon of Choirs on April 24 and an Evening of Choirs on April 26.
Afternoon of Choirs will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall and will feature University Chorale, Varsity Chorus and Big Red Singers. The concert will also be available via live webcast. Visit the Glenn Korff School of Music website the day of the performance for the link.
Evening of Choirs will take place at 7:30 p.m. at First Plymouth Congregational Church located at 2000 D. St. in Lincoln.
Both concerts are free and open to the public.
University Chorale will perform the Midwest premiere and second performance of Dorothy Rudd Moore’s “Voices from the Light.” The work was written for the Harlem Girls Choir and premiered in 1997. The text by the composer is inspired by several Black poets including Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. The choir will be joined by faculty soloists Jamie Reimer Seaman and Suna Gunther and student instrumentalists for a string quartet with oboe.
Chamber Singers will celebrate Black composers. The featured work will be “Requiem” by Phillip McIntyre.
“This work for choir, alto solo, clarinet and organ has likely never been performed outside of Virginia, Maryland or Washington, D.C, where McIntyre lived and worked,” said Marques L.A. Garrett, assistant professor of music in choral activities. “It is a combination of the spiritual ‘In Bright Mansions Above’ with traditional Latin text and biblical texts.”
The choir will also premiere Edward Margetson’s “A Few More Years Shall Roll,” which has only existed in manuscript form since he penned the song in 1947. Additional works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Rosephanye Powell, R. Nathaniel Dett, and others will be performed.
