2008 Woodie Awards
Southwest Baptist University Chorale performs fall conert following return to Bolivar
Inga Locke
Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: Gallery
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The evening began with "God's Son Has Made Me Free" by Edvard Greig, performed a capella by the whole corale. After this piece, Conductor James Tarrant, associate professor of Music explained that the next two pieces were the oldest piece, "O Vos Omnes," by Giovanni Croce, followed by the youngest piece, "Musica Animam Tangens" by Joshua Shank, to show the audience the timelessness of the sounds that the human voice creates. The two pieces flowed beautifully together, and the sounds resembled each other nicely.
Next the Chorale performed "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" composed by David Cherwien and "The Gate of Heaven" by Randall Thompson.
Following those pieces was a piece about humanity, "How Beautiful, This Finely Woven Earth" by Greg Jasperse. The Chorale echoed the voice of sophmore Brianna Eaton very well, setting up a nice background for her strong soprano voice.
The men then left the stage to allow the women to perform two songs showcasing the talent of the female population of the Chorale. They sang "A Psalm of Praise" by Jeffery L. Ames first.
This piece included solos from sophmore Traci Jackson, senior Danielle Pollock and junior Cassie Carney respectively.
The second piece, "The Poet Sings" by Z. Randall Stroope, was accompanied by senior Sara Miller on the piano.
Once the men returned to the stage the audience was awed by their voices beginning with the tenors and adding the bass to set up for senior Andrew Wessley's bass voice singing "How Can I Keep From Singing".
After this, the unfamiliar words of the East Java song "Luk luk lumbu" were a wonderful way to display senior Holly Aeschbacher's voice. Not knowing the words, the audience was forced to listen to the shear musical elements of the song.
Next "Dance of Zálongo," arranged by Carol Barnett, was sang accompanied by Miller on the piano and junior Caleb McLaughlin, using claves to set the beat, and soon the entire Chorale joined in clapping along.
The twelfth song was "Jesus Will Save" by Greg Sewell.
In "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" arranged by R. Ringwald, senior Jonathon Antle performed a solo.
His words were not only supported by the entire Chorale but especially by senior Dezi Powers voice that was a perfect compliment behind Antle's words.
To end the concert, the Chorale performed a sea island spiritual "Ask the Watchman" arranged by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory.
For this piece Miller returned to the piano, and McLaughlin played an African Drum and used chains around his ankle. Wesseley began the song with a solo leading the rest of the Chorale in the folk song.
The concert was a good length and kept the audience interested with the variations in type and origin of the music selected.
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