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For Immediate Release
November 25, 2002
INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED NEBRASKA WESLEYAN
UNIVERSITY CHOIR PLANS WINTER TOUR STOP AT ST. MARK’S
LINCOLN, Neb. – The critically acclaimed Nebraska
Wesleyan University Choir will perform a concert of literature that
is culturally and ethnically diverse mixing early and contemporary
classic repertoire, during its upcoming annual winter tour.
The tour begins January 7, 2003, and includes a
final performance at O’Donnell Auditorium on the Wesleyan
campus on January 19th. The tour also includes performances in Nebraska,
Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Kansas. The
tour concerts will feature pieces by Mozart as well as several ethnic
selections featuring African, Nigerian, Australian, and Tibetan
rhythms and melodies.
“We have put together an interesting variety
of music,” said Dr. William A. Wyman, director of the University
Choir. “The program really illustrates global diversity and
our many different cultures.”
The program begins with excerpts from Mozart’s “Coronation
Mass.” Written for the Dome Cathedral in Salzburg, Austria,
the mass was sung in its entirety by the Choir with the Lincoln
Symphony Orchestra this fall.
The second half of the tour’s program will
include the selections from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Selections
will include an African processional titled “E Oru O,”
a Nigerian folk song titled “Let Your Voice Be Heard,”
which will be sung by the men in the University Choir. The song
includes a children’s clapping game, and the same selection
is performed by the professional male vocal ensemble “Cantus.”
Other selections will include the piece “Walking Song,”
written by Ben Allaway, an Iowa composer. The song is dedicated
to the Dahli Lama and includes both vocal and instrumental sounds
of Australian, African and Tibetan cultures.
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