The large ensembles at the BGSU College of Musical Arts will celebrate the end of the semester with eight concerts in six days.
The concerts are all free unless noted. All are free to BGSU students with valid ID card.
All the information is from the College of Musical Arts events calendar.
First up will be the Symphonic Band and University Band Tuesday, April 11, at 8 p.m. Kobacker Hall in the Moore Musical Arts Center on campus.
The University Band will welcome the Graduate Brass Quintet to join them for Leonard Bernstein’s “Suite from Mass.”
Also, the band will feature a third grader, Heaven Campbell from Plain City Elementary School on the two pieces joined as “An American Tragedy” – “An American Elegy” by Frank Ticheli and “Into the Silent Land” by Steve Danyew.
Also on the program will be: “Life Eternal” by Rossano Galante; “Cajun Folksongs” by Frank Ticheli; “Yorkshire Ballad” by James Barnes; and the march “The Footlifter” by Henry Fillmore.
The Symphonic Band will perform “Shimmering Sunshine” by Kevin Day; “Chorale Prelude: So Pure the Star” by Vincent Persichetti; “First Light by David Maslanka.
The Global Music Showcase featuring Afro-Caribbean Ensemble and World Music Ensemble will be held Wednesday, April 12, at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall in the Moore Musical Arts Center.
The Early Music Ensemble will reach back to present the concerto in its earliest form when it performs Thursday, April 13, 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall.
The Early Music Ensemble will present a concert.
On the program will be the Vivace from Georg Philipp Telemann’s Concerto for Recorder and Horn, and the Allegro from J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, featuring Cole Habekost on violin and Dr. Arne Spohr and Ashley Mania on recorders.
The Air from Overture in B Flat Major by Christoph Graupner will feature Ricky Latham, clarinet.
Also, on the program will be “Sari Gelin” a folk song from Iran and the Caucasus Region as well as selections by Werner Fabricius, Antonio Bertali , Thoinot Arbeau , and Hieronymus Praetorius.
On Friday, April 14 at 7 p.m. The Collegiate Chorale will present a concert at 7 p.m. at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 150 S. Enterprise St.
The Chorale will welcome guest performers the Milford High School Chamber Singers who will open the concert and then join the Chorale in singing Grace Coberly’s “Homeland” to conclude the concert.
Collegiate Chorale will perform: “Selig sind die Toten” by Heinrich Schütz; “There Will Be Rest” by Frank Ticheli; “Regina coeli” by W.A. Mozart; “Love” by Michael Engelhardt; “Jubilate Deo” by Benjamin Britten; “Laudate Dominum” by Gyöngyösi Levente; “Chères” and “Chantez” by Jules Massenet; “Halcyon Days” by Melissa Dunphy; and “Twa Tanbou” by Sydney Guillaume.
Later Friday the BGSU Wind Symphony will feature Professor Solungga Liu as soloist on Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments. The 8 p.m. performance will be in Kobacker. Tickets for this performance are $8 and can be purchased here. This performance will also be live streamed.
Also on the program will be “Early Light” by Carolyn Bremer, conducted by Jonathan Waters; Liebestod, from “Tristan and Isolde” by Richard Wagner and arranged by Glen C. Bainum; “Cenizas for Wind Ensemble” by Gilda Lyons; and Aegean Festival Overture by Andreas Makris.
Lyons’ “Cenizas” was commissioned by the Mid-American Conference Band Directors Association
On Saturday, April 15, the A Cappella Choir and Volaré will perform at 3p.m. in Kobacker Hall. Tickets can be purchased here. This concert will also be live streamed.
The A Cappella Choir has programmed a series of paired pieces:
Composed by Americans born at the turn of the 20th century – “Ching-a-ring Chaw” by Aaron Copland and “The Road Not Taken” by Randall Thompson.
Husband and wife team –“Gondoliera” by Clara Schumann and “Zigeunerleben by Robert Schumann
An Italian balletto plus an English ballett makes a pair of balletti! “Amor Vittorioso” by Giovanni Gastoldi and “Sing We and Chant It” by Thomas Morley
Contemporary pieces from other places: :Tunggare” (Australia) by Stephen Leek and “Son de Camaguey” (Cuba) arranged by Stephen Hatfield.
Volaré will feature vocal soloists on two of the choir’s pieces. Anna Murcko will be featured on “Mornings Innocent” from Songs for Women’s Voices by Gwyneth Walker. Laney Mitchell will be soloist on “O Antiqui Sancti” by Hildegard von Bigen, arranged by Michael Engelhardt.
Volare will also sing: “Confitemini Domino” by Alessandro Costantini ; “Mothers of Daughters” by Diana Lawrence and Signe Hammer; “Non Nobis, Domine” by Rosephanye Powell; “Três Cantos Nativos Dos Indios Kraó.” By Marcos Leite; “What Can Lambkins Do?” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; “No Time” by Susan Brumfield; and “And Miriam Sang (Shiru L’Adonai)” by Zebulon M. Highben.
Later on Saturday the University Men’s Chorus and Alumni Men’s Chorus will perform at 8 p.m. Kobacker Hall. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased here. This concert will also be live streamed.
The concert will open with a performance by the Grove City High School Men’s Chorus.
BGSU Alumni Men’s Chorus will sing: “Sing dem herrn” by Michael Praetorius and arranged by Wallace DePue, an BGSU emeritus professor; “O Come Let Us Sing Unto the Lord” by Emma Lou Diemer; “You were Born” by Matthew Young; “I Sought the Lord” by Michael Cox featuring Andrew Pelletier on horn; “The Long Day Closes” by Arthur Sullivan and “Who’s Lovin’ You” by William “Smokey” Robinson arranged Tim Takach.
BGSU Men’s Chorus will sing “Bayasibiza,” traditional isiXhosa piece arranged by Michael Barrett/Mbuso Ndlovu; “Friendship Dance” a traditional Native American, adaptation Timothy Sarsany; “El Yivneh Hagalil,” a Hebrew folk song, arranged by Peter Sozio; “I See the Heaven’s Glories Shine” by Andrea Ramsey; “Die Nacht” by Franz Schubert; “Arrow” by Jocelyn Hagen; “When Dawn Shines” by Mishaal Surti; “Te lucis ante terminum” by Edward Higginbottom; “Domaredansen (the Dance of the Judge),” a Swedish folk song arranged by Otto Olson; “Loch Lomond,” Scottish folk song arranged by Jonathan Quick; “Ffe Mwe, Mwe Ffe” by Joan Szymko; and “Glory from Selma” by John Legend and Common, arranged by Eugene Rogers
The combined choruses will sing: “Forward Falcons,” arranged by William Baughman; “Brothers Sing On!” by Edvard Greig and arranged by Howard McKinney; and the BGSU Alma Mater by Edith Ludwig arranged by John Hyde
The Bowling Green Philharmonia will conclude the week’s series of concerts with a performance Sunday, April 16, at 3 p.m. in Kobacker Hall. Tickets for this performance are $8 and can be purchased here. This performance will also be live streamed.
The concert will feature faculty pianist Yevgeny Yontov as soloist on Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor.
The concert will open with Richard Wagner’s Overture to “Rienzi” and close with Symphony No. 2 in D by Johannes Brahms.
