The Ithaca College Choir, under the direction of Lawrence Doebler, will present its annual concert on Saturday, March 21, at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.The Ithaca College Choir, under the direction of Lawrence Doebler, will present its annual concert on Saturday, March 21, at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.
Free and open to the public, the concert theme is "It's About Time." Music expressing the beginning of human time, time for justice, time for love, and time and fate will be presented, by composers Morten Lauridsen, John Corigliano, Behzad Ranjbaran, and others. Selections from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and traditional spirituals will be included.
For 31 years, the Ithaca College Choir, under the direction of Lawrence Doebler, has been recognized through its annual tour and many campus appearances as one of the finest and most innovative ensembles at the collegiate level.
In each of the last 30 years, the IC Choir has premiered a work that has been published by Theodore Presser as part of the Ithaca College Choral Series. They have toured extensively on the East Coast and in the Midwest, and seven years ago performed in Ireland.
The Choir has presented major concerts at the American Choral Directors Association in Providence, the Music Educators National Conference in Baltimore and Providence; Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Cooper Union in New York City; the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn; the Troy Savings Bank in Troy, New York; and the Strand Theatre in York, Pennsylvania.
In addition to the a cappella tradition, the choir has performed with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Ithaca College Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and other professional ensembles.