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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (April 8, 2010) – The Milligan College Concert Choir will celebrate another successful year with its annual spring concert on Friday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Milligan’s Seeger Memorial Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public.
The 26-voice choir, under the direction of Dr. David Hendricksen, will perform sacred and secular music spanning more than 400 years of choral repertoire. The first half of the program is secular music, including folk song settings by American composers Aaron Copland and Michael Hennagin, Renaissance-era madrigals, and compositions by Duke Ellington and Jerome Kern.
A highlight of the sacred second half of the program will be two contrasting musical settings of the 8th-century hymn of praise, “Te Deum Laudamus.” The choir will perform an exuberant setting by Franz Joseph Haydn and a more introspective setting by 20th-century composer Benjamin Britten. In this latter setting, Dr. David Runner will accompany the choir at the organ.
The program will also feature the conducting debut of two senior music education majors at Milligan, Kayla Jones and Lydia Parker, who will each lead the choir in a selection they have chosen and rehearsed.
For more information, call 423.461.8723 or visit www.milligan.edu/arts.