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November 2, 2007GUMBO STAFF REPORT
The Nicholls State University Concert Choir and newly formed men’s choir will take the stage at Talbot Theatre in November.
The Concert Choir will hold a “Candlelight Christmas Concert” on Nov. 27, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.
The musical lineup will include Christmas carols and songs – new and old, familiar and not so well known. The songs will focus on the Light of Christmas.
Dr. Kenneth S. Klaus, professor of Music, will lead the choir through the works of J.S. Bach, Fisher Tull, Hugo Distler, Felix Mendelssohn, Craig Courtney, William Dawson, Daniel Pinkham, Bradley Ellingboe, John Rutter and Norman Luboff among others.
The more familiar Christmas carols to be performed include “Silent Night,” “Away in a Manger,” “Joy to the World” and “Lo, How a Rose e’er Blooming.”
Two trumpeters will join in on Tull’s “The Seasons of Man. And J.S. Bach’s “Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light” – from his famous “Christmas Oratorio – and Dawson’s “Behold the Star” will feature NSU soprano and tenor student soloists.
Staff accompanist Casey Haynes, of NSU’s Division of Music, will join the choir on stage.
On Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m., the Talbot Theatre stage will be the site for the “Voices of Brotherhood.”
Klaus will direct the 18-voice Sinfonia Singers.
The brotherhood theme is consistent with the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a fraternity for Men in Music.
NSU’s Omicron Beta Chapter instrumental ensembles will join in on the diverse choral works for men.
The selection will include part-songs by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and Austrian composer Franz Schubert, as well as Sinfonia fraternity songs.
The choir will also perform several familiar “cowboy” tunes, including “Riders in the Sky” and “Streets of Laredo,” as well as Broadway show tunes from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.”
The men’s choir will close the show with a novelty number, “The Manly Men’s Chorus.”
