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Press Release Contact: Four College Choirs to Perform - St. Paul, Minn. – Robert Peterson, director of choral activities, will be conducting works by Mendelssohn, Nystedt, Pärt, Hassler and others at the annual choirs’ concert, 8 p.m., Saturday, December 1, 2007. The concert is in the Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, Minn. Admission is free and open to the public. The choirs that will be participating include the Macalester Choir, MAC Singers, Women's Choir and the Men’s Chorus with selected soloists. Featured works of the evening include two new settings of a Russian and a Finnish folk song. Daniel Pickens-Jones, student director of the Macalester Choir, will be conducting Véñiki (Brooms) arranged by F. Rubstov and sung in Russian. The Macalester Choir will also be previewing music being prepared for their January tour to Tokyo and Kyoto. Several works will be performed by international composers including two new Japanese choral settings. The Men’s Chorus will perform Behold Man by Ron Nelson, and a new arrangement of Not While I’m Around from Sweeney Todd. Women’s Choir will be featuring three selections from Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols accompanied by harp. The MAC Singers will perform Festival Sanctus by John Leavitt as a featured work. Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,873 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, multiculturalism and civic engagement. |
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