From Mozart to swing, ensembles celebrate spring

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Alexis Alvis and Chris Little sing a duet during the 2007
Celebration spring show. This year's Northwest show
choir performance will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, April
25 in the Performing Arts Center's Mary Linn Auditorium.

The spring concert season continues for the Northwest Department of Music with performances by the University Chorale and the Northwest Trumpet Ensemble at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 20, and the Celebration show choir at 8 p.m. Friday, April 25.

Both shows will take place in the Performing Art Center’s Mary Linn Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public.

The Trumpet Ensemble will open the April 20 performance with “Concert Fanfare” by Eric Ewazen followed by Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria” (Angelus Domini) in an arrangement by Matthew Willis and “Path of Discovery” by Erik Morales.

A varied program by the University Chorale will feature a complete rendition of Mozart’s Coronation Mass (K. 317), one of the composer’s most widely performed religious works.

The Coronation Mass is believed to have received its first public performance on Easter Sunday 1779 in the Salzburg Cathedral and was subsequently used for the Prague coronation of Emperor Leopold II of Austria in August 1791 with Mozart in attendance.

Soloists for the University Chorale performance will be Whittney Wilson and Kate Valuck, sopranos; Stephanie Estes and Amy Sweets, altos; Sam Dollins, tenor; and Andrew Rembecki and David Groth, basses.

The Northwest Trumpet Ensemble performs under the direction of Dr. William Richardson, assistant professor of music. The University Chorale and Celebration are led by Dr. Brian Lanier, assistant professor of music. Elizabeth Robbins is the chorale/Celebration graduate assistant, and Richard Boettner serves as accompanist.

“It’s a Party” with Celebration

This year’s Celebration Spring Show, “It’s a Party,” continues a longstanding and buoyant tradition at Northwest with an evening of classic pop and show tunes set off by exciting choreography and a swinging live band.

Program highlights from the Broadway stage include “People Will Say We’re in Love from “Oklahoma!”, “If Ever I Would Leave You” from “Camelot,” and “The Song That Goes Like This,” a hilarious Great White Way send-up by Eric Idle of Monty Python and “Spamalot” fame.

Other familiar tunes will include “Guys and Dolls” and the Cole Porter standard “Always True to You in My Fashion.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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