CONWAY, Ark. (August 25, 2014) – The Hendrix College Music
Department's Harold Thompson Recital Series presents a performance by the Choir
of Clare College Cambridge, conducted by Graham Ross, on Friday, Sept. 26 at
7:30 p.m. in Greene Chapel during Fall Family Weekend at Hendrix.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is
co-hosted by Hendrix music professors Dr. Andrew Morgan and Dr. Karen Griebling
and First United Methodist Church Conway Chancel Choir conductor Janet
Gingerich.
There will be a reception in Trieschmann Gallery, organized
by the Office of Alumni and Constituent Engagement, following the concert.
For more information, contact Dr. Griebling at 501-450-1249
or email Griebling@hendrix.edu.
- Magnificat from Chichester
Service – William Walton (1902-83)
- clap your hands together, O ye people – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
- Omnes gentes,
plaudite manibus – Christopher Tye (1505-72)
- Three Latin Motets – Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
- The dove
descending breaks the air – Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- The turtle dove – Ralph
Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
- The Twelve – William
Walton (1902-83)
- Magnificat and
Nunc dimittis (Collegium Regale) – Herbert
Howells (1892-1983)
- Three Shakespeare
Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Rejoice in the
Lamb
– Benjamin Britten (1913-76)
- The blue bird – Charles
Villiers Stanford
Founded in
1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences
education. For the sixth 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 latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools
That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's
list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For
more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.