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DTSTART;TZID="Pacific Time (US & Canada)":20161022T080000
DTEND;TZID="Pacific Time (US & Canada)":20161022T190000
SUMMARY:Choral Festival
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DESCRIPTION: \n\nThe Vocal/Choral Music Faculty within the School of Music at WSU will host the Twenty-third Annual Educational Choral Festival on Saturday, October 22 in Kimbrough Concert Hall from 9:20 am to 4:30 pm (3:45-4:30 pm will be in Bryan Hall) and in Bryan Hall Theatre from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm for the concluding Festival Concert.  Designed to assist high school music programs in providing an early, motivational opportunity for musical growth in a non-competitive, positive learning environment, the Choral and Vocal Music Faculty at WSU work directly with the visiting high school choirs from Washington and Idaho.  Each choir has individual performances in Kimbrough Concert Hall throughout the day between 9:00 am and 3:30 pm and individualized workshops in two rehearsal rooms of Kimbrough Hall.  Directors of the ensembles also have the opportunity to meet with the WSU Music Faculty in a private consultation regarding goals and objectives for the year as they relate to their own choirs.  WSU faculty Lori Wiest, Julie Anne Wieck, Sheila Converse, Dean Luethi, and Brian Carter will serve as clinicians.  Throughout the day, the participants will also hear performances by the WSU Opera Workshop, directed by Dr. Julie Anne Wieck, and Treble Choir and Tenor/Bass Choir, directed by Dr. Dean Luethi in addition to the 5:00 pm concluding concert which will feature the WSU Madrigal/Chamber Singers and Concert Choir, conducted by Dr. Lori Wiest.\n\nThe 5:00 pm concert will be held in Bryan Hall Theatre and will open with the Madrigal/Chamber Singers performing Renaissance madrigals that portray famous women’s names of that period including Amaryllis, Cloris, Phyllis, and Flaminia.  Select works include “Thus Saith My Cloris,” “Weep, Weep Mine Eyes” and “Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis” by John Wilbye, “Though Amaryllis Dance in Green” by William Byrd, and “Phyllis, Farewell” by Thomas Bateson.  “Al turbar de’bei lumi” by female Renaissance composer Vittoria Aleotti will also be featured.  Following the performance of 4 high school choirs that will be selected by the clinicians based on their performance/workshop participation from the day’s events, the WSU Concert Choir will perform selections connected by the theme “Rhythm of Life” which includes selections from Daniel Elder’s Three Themes of Life and Love for choir and percussion, “Shall we go dance?” by Charles Villiers Stanford from his Six Elizabethan Pastorals, “I Am Not Yours” by David N. Childs set to poetry by Sara Teasdale, and the Moses Hogan arrangement of the spiritual “I’m Gonna Sing ‘Til the Spirit Moves in My Heart” featuring senior vocal performance majors Andrew Turner and Ryan Lustgarten.  Graduate student Frankie Bones, pursing a Master’s in piano performance in the School of Music, is the accompanist of Concert Choir.\n\n\n\n11 high school choirs from across the states of Washington and Idaho will be participating in the festival:  Pullman High School Treble Triad, Moscow High School Choir, Central Valley High School A Cappella Choir (Spokane), Medical Lake High School Windborne Choir, Lindbergh High School Ad Astra (Renton), Post Falls High School Women’s Choir, Royal High School Chamber Choir (Royal City), Mead High School Concert Choir and Chamber Singers (Spokane), and Moses Lake High School Women’s and Men’s Choirs.\n\nAll of the festival performance events are open to the public free of charge.  Events in Kimbrough Concert Hall will continue between 9:00 am and 3:30 pm, move into Bryan Hall at 3:45-4:30pm and the concluding Festival Concert will be held at 5:00-6:30 pm in Bryan Hall Theatre.\n\n \n\n 
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