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Bradley University Chorale to give Spring Concert March 27

Peoria, IL (February 25, 2011) The Bradley University Chorale will present its annual Spring Concert on Sunday, March 27, at 3p.m. in the Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 Barker Ave.  Admission is $5 for adults and free for students.
 
The 38-member choir will present music by Palestrina, Gorczycki, Ola Gjeilo, Simon Sargon, Matthew Harris, Moses Hogan, and folk-inspired pieces from Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.  Featured works will include a spectacular four-choir piece by Robert Grenier from the Orthodox Church tradition, a commissioned work by rising young composer John Orfe, and a folk Mass by Haitian composer Werner Jaegerhuber.  The Chorale will have performed this same repertoire in St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, and New Orleans during its annual spring tour March 11-17.
 
The Bradley Chorale has performed across the United States and Europe, winning national and international recognition.  The ensemble has performed often for state and regional music educator conventions.  Last May the Chorale toured in Denmark and Norway, presenting concerts in the Roskilde Cathedral and other historical venues.
 
Dr. John Jost, director of the Bradley Chorale and professor of music at Bradley, earned his undergraduate and advanced degrees at Stanford University and taught in California, New York, and Haiti before arriving at Bradley in 1989.  Dr. Jost has served as principal violist in the Peoria Symphony and continues to direct a music camp for Haitian youth each summer in Haiti.  He has won several teaching awards at Bradley and a service award from the Haitian Ministry of Culture.
 
 
Program:
 
I. Psalms and Canticles
 
Chamber Singers:
Grzegorz Gorczycki: In virtute tua (In thy strength)
 
Chorale:
Ola Gjeilo: Prelude – Exsultate, jubilate (Rejoice, be glad)
Hans Leo Hassler: Verbum caro factum est (The Word was made flesh)
Robert Grenier: Come All You Nations of the Earth (for four choirs)
 
II. Confessions and Affirmations
 
G. P. da Palestrina: Super flumina Babylonis (By the rivers of Babylon)
John Orfe: Super flumina Babylonis
Werner Jaegerhuber: Messe folklorique haïtienne (Haitian Folk Mass)
Simon Sargon: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
 
III. Riddles and Rhymes
 
Chamber Singers:
Matthew Harris: Shakespeare Songs, Book I
            Hark, Hark! the Lark
Full Fathom Five
            Who Is Sylvia?
 
IV.  Fun and Games
 
Chorale:
Dickens Princivil: Pa kriyé (Don’t cry)
Juan-Tony Guzmán: El Pambiche lento (Pambiche slow dance)
Paul Rardin: Hol’ You Han’
 
V.  Prayers and Petitions
 
John Orfe: Fire, Fire
Albert Tindley/Moses Hogan: Stand By Me