April 15, 2002
LMC Announces Spring Spectacular Concert
(Above
Lake Michigan College Concert Choir)
(Right - Eleven member of the LMC Voices)
BENTON TOWNSHIP - The Lake Michigan College Music
Department will present its Spring Spectacular Concert on Sunday,
April 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the LMC Mendel Center's Hanson Theater.
Featured ensembles will include the Concert Choir, Voices LMC,
and the Jazz Band.
The Concert Choir will perform the Liebeslieder
Walzer Op. 52 by Johannes Brahms. The Liebeslieder Walzer or
Love-Song Waltzes are a collection of some of the most popular
songs written by Brahms. He wrote them in the earlier German
tradition of informally gathering around the piano and singing
ballads, folk songs or sacred songs. Brahms used the waltz in
this collection as a means to display an incredible variety
of rhythm and mood. One of the most striking features of the
Liebeslieder Waltzes is the accompaniment, which is set for
piano duet and which will be performed by LMC faculty members
Elfie Schults-Berndt and Paul Flyger.
Voices LMC, directed by Dan Hendrickson, will
perform a program of a cappella literature drawn from a variety
of genres including "Ave Verum Corpus" by William
Byrd, "Easter Anthem" by early American composer William
Billings, "Love Walked In" by George Gershwin and
"Ja Da" arranged by Robert DeCormier.
The Jazz Band, directed by Jim Cooper, will feature
three of his arrangements including "Now's the Time"
by Charlie Parker, "Moanin" by Bobby Timmons, and
"The I Love Lucy Theme Song by Eliot Daniel and Harold
Adamson. According to Cooper, "Now's the Time" was
one of Charlie Parker's most famous hits and the arrangement
features a tap dancer, Emily Hosinski. "Moanin," was
written while Bobby Timmons was with Art Blakely and the Jazz
Messengers. The I Love Lucy theme song is an arrangement of
the popular show of the 1960s and features Latin percussion.
The Jazz Band will also perform "Your Gone," a ballad
by pianist and LMC Professor, William Yamokosk
Tickets for the concert are $7 for adults and
$5 for students and senior citizens. Groups of 20 or more can
purchase individual tickets for $4 each. Tickets are available
through the Mendel Center Box Office at 269-927-1221.
