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Music department to host October 26 fall choral concert

ISSUED: 18 October 2018
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens

SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — The Shepherd University Chamber Singers, Camerata Soprano/Alto Choir, and Aries Tenor/Bass Choir will present a Fall Choral Concert on Friday, October 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Frank Center Theater.

The Camerata will perform works by Joni Jensen, Marques L. A. Garrett, Peter Anglea, and Shepherd music major, Samantha Vaughn. The Aries fall concert will feature two rich harmonic, classical pieces, Pablo Casals’s “O Vos Omnes,” and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s arrangement of the Scottish folk tune “Loch Lomond.” The singers of Aries are also preparing Billy Joel’s “The Longest Time.”

The Chamber Singers will perform works by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Johannes Brahms, Anne Barry, and Jester Hairston. This performance will feature student conductors Nicholas Acquino, Ilynn Brennan, Nathan Strite, and Samantha Vaughn.

Tickets for the Fall Choral Concert are $15 general admission; $10 for senior citizens, faculty, staff, Shepherd alumni, and those age 18 and under; and free for Shepherd students with a valid Rambler ID.

For more information call 304-876-5555 or visit www.shepherd.edu/music.

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