The annual fall Choral Collage at Ithaca College will take place on Sunday, October 8, at 3:00 p.m. in Ford Hall. The free concert will feature five School of Music choral ensembles in a wide range of music. Lawrence Doebler, Janet Galván, and Lauri-Robinson-Keegan will conduct.
The Women’s Chorale portion of the program will be “Still I Rise,” a program featuring the works of two contemporary female composers, Rosephayne Powell and Eleanor Daley. The Chorus, a large ensemble, will feature Mozart's “Regina Coeli” along with Ithaca alumnus Allan E. Naplan's “Mi Chamocha,” and a gospel selection, “Let Everything that Hath Breath.” The Madrigals, a small ensemble specializing in early music, will present music of Gibbons, Tomkins, and East. The choir, a select group of about forty singers, will offer music of Randall Thompson, a setting of “Shenandoah,” Chen Yi’s “Shady Grove,” and the world premiere of Persis Vehar’s “Kaddish (In Memoriam – Warren Benson).” The late composer Warren Benson was a distinguished member of the Ithaca College faculty in the 1960s.
For more information on the Ithaca College School of Music, visit their new website at www.ithaca.edu/music.
