The Lynchburg College Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will present a spring concert April 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Snidow Chapel. Dr. Jong Kim, professor of music and director of choral activities/graduate studies, will conduct the concert, which is free and open to the public.
The Concert Choir will perform Cantate Domino by Hans Leo Hassler; Jesu, dulcis memoria by Thomas Luis de Victoria; Laudate Jehovam, omnes gentes by Georg Philipp Telemann; At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners, poem by John Donne, music by Williamnetta Spencer; I Will Lift up Mine Eyes (Psalm 121); and Cantata for Tenor solo and Chorus by Adolphus Haistork; I Am in Need of Music, text by Elizabeth Bishop, music by David Brunner; I Love My Love, text by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, music by David C. Dickau; and three traditional spirituals, Witness, arranged by Jack Halloran; I'm Going Home, arranged by Undine Smith Moore; and Ride On, King Jesus, arranged by Moses Hogan.
The Chamber Singers will sing selections from Requiem, Op. 252 by Czech composer Zdeněk Lukáš, along with Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One by Healey Willan; Muié Rendéra by C.A. Pinto Fonseca (Brazil); Pregúntale a ese mar by Inocente Carreñno (Venezuela); Sleep by Eric Whitacre; Nelly Bly, music by Stephen Foster, arranged by Jack Halloran; Turn the World Around, music by Belafonte and Freedman, arranged by Robert DeCormier; All the Things You Are, music by Jerome Kern, arranged by Roy Ringwald.