Ithaca College

  The Choral Collage is the first choral concert of the academic year.  Featuring the Ithaca College Chorus, the Ithaca College Madrigal Singers, the Ithaca College Women’s Chorale, and the Ithaca College Choir, the concert is the culmination of many collaborations – both within the School of Music and across campus.  

The concert is the result of collaboration with the theatre department, collaboration with dancers, collaboration with the art department, and collaboration with faculty, community,  and student guest artists.

The Chorus is singing a program with a theme of the “Beautiful Earth,” including a Sotho Folk Song and compositions by Giacomo Puccini, Ola Gjello, Rene Clausen, and Stacey Gibbs.  The Madrigal Singers will also sing a Sotho Folk Song in addition to works by William Byrd and Matthew Harris.

The Women’s Chorale will present a program called "Expanded Palette" which includes two works by pioneers in widening the spectrum of sound in women’s choruses.  They will sing Gustav Holst’s Hymns from the Rig Veda with harp and Sih’r Khalaq by Jim Papoulis.  The Choir will present a program called “At the Intersection of Art, Love, and Imagination.”   All compositions have texts that deal with night- the stars and the moon.
They will sing works by Johannes Brahms, Randall Stroope, Joan Szymko. Szymko's composition is based on the words of Marc and Bella Chagall.  Laura McCauley, senior,  will also sing  “Song to the Moon” from the opera Rusalka (same plot as Little Mermaid).  The concert is Saturday, October 10, at 7:30 pm in Ford Hall in the Whalen Center for Music.