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Knox College Choir Concert
May 6, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Knox College Choir presents its spring concert at
7:30 p.m., Friday, May 6 in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine
Arts, on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The concert is free
and open to the public.
Directed by Laura Lane, professor of music, the 45-voice choir will
perform works from a variety of cultures around the world, including
Haiti, Brazil, Israel, Lithuania and French Canada.
“Alélouya, Emile Desamours,” which will be sung in Creole, is a rarely
performed work from Haiti that combines the spiritual traditions and
languages of Haiti, Europe and West Africa.
Daniel Hall’s “Reflections from Yad Vashem,” featuring Knox College
student Saville Bloxam, viola, was written following the composer’s
visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, as a memorial
to children who died in the Holocaust.
“To the Mothers in Brazil: Salve Regina” is dedicated to the mothers
in Brazil who have lost their children in violence. The work features
Knox students Stevie Hawes, flute, and Dakota Stipp, percussion.
“Anoj Pusej Dunojelio” is a Lithuanian folk song featuring Knox
student Madeline Pape, alto soloist. “J’entends le moulin” is a
French-Canadian folk song that features the Choir’s accompanist Casey
Dierlam, piano.
The Knox Chamber Singers will perform “Esto Les Digo,” a Spanish song
about love; Norman Luboff’s “Much Ado About Nothings”; and “I’m a
Train,” The King Singers’ arrangement of song written from the point
of view of a train.
