The Ithaca College Women's Chorale, under the baton of Janet Galván, will present a free concert on Tuesday, February 10. Beginning at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music, the concert will preview the performance the chorale will give in Boston on February 13 at the Eastern Division Convention of the American Choral Directors Association.
The chorale is one of two women's ensembles chosen by audition to perform at the convention. The other is the Greece Arcadia High School Select Women's Chorus, conducted by 1991 School of Music graduate Kristy Kosko, who sang for four years in the Ithaca College Women's Chorale. An additional 20 invited choirs will perform at the three-day event.
Entitled "In Remembrance," the chorale's program is dedicated to the memory of William McIver, a former professor of voice at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and Galván's longtime voice teacher. McIver died recently at the age of 60. In his honor, the chorale commissioned a piece from Francisco Nunez called "Walk Humbly before God." The work is a reflection on how a teacher's influence continues to grow after the teacher has died. Nunez has a long and friendly association with the women's chorale. The ensemble has recorded all of his treble works.
In addition to the Nunez composition, the chorale will perform "Ödi Ödi" in Tamil, a language of Asia, and "A Ma Lei A Ho," a Tibetan folk song arranged by Chen Yi, the School of Music's 2002-3 Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition. Works by Torke, Fauré, Orbán, and Hatfield complete the program.
More information on campus concerts is available at the School of Music's Concert Calendar.
Contributed by Erik Kibelsbeck
