CONWAY, Ark. (March 27, 2013) - The Hendrix College Choir under the direction of Dr. Nancy Fleming will present its spring 2013 concert Music for Royal Occasions on Thursday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Greene Chapel.
The program, which is free and open to the public, will feature four centuries of music composed for British royalty on the occasion of coronations, weddings, funerals and other celebrations.
The program includes:
- Imperial March by Edward Elgar
- I was glad when they said unto me by C. Hubert H. Parry
- Song for Athene by John Tavener
- O taste and see by Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Jubilate Deo by Benjamin Britten
- Funeral Music for Queen Mary by Henry Purcell
- “Sound the trumpet”
from Come Ye Sons of Art by Henry Purcell
- Zadok the Priest by George Frideric Handel
The choir will be accompanied by organist Ansley Fleming and brass and percussion players from the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the Little Rock Wind Symphony.
Student soloists will be Hope Coleman (O taste and see), Kathleen Combs and
Anna Nyseth and two quartets (Funeral Music for Queen Mary): Julie McCarthy, Lora Adams, Aaron Rice and Jolyon Larson; and Felicia Beeman, Tessa Caballero, Joseph Siebenmorgen and Dalton Hoose.
For more information, contact Dr. Fleming at 501-450-1248 or fleming@hendrix.edu.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the fifth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the country's "Up and Coming" liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the 2012 edition of the Princeton Review as one of the country's best 377 colleges, the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, Forbes magazine's annual list of America's Top 650 Colleges, and the 2013 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.