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Hendrix Hosts Choir of Clare College Cambridge

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