11/20/03

Jazz Band, Voices LMC and Concert Choir Featured in the Lake Michigan College Fine Arts Concert

BENTON TOWNSHIP, MI - The Lake Michigan College Music Department will present its annual Fine Arts Concert on Sunday, December 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the LMC Mendel Center Hanson Theater. Featured ensembles will include Voices LMC, the Concert Choir and the Jazz Band.

The Concert Choir, directed by Dan Hendrickson, will perform selections from the Alfred Burt Carols. The Alfred Burt Carols are a collection of carols that resulted when Alfred Burt, a young jazz musician, collaborated with Wihla Hutson and his father the Reverend Bates G. Burt between 1943 and 1954 in the creation of original carols which were then sent to friends as Christmas cards. The carols have delighted audiences and musicians for years. The Concert Choir will also perform "Song of Peace" by Vincent Persichetti, and the spiritual "I Got Shoes," arranged by Robert Shaw.

Voices LMC, under the direction of Dan Hendrickson, will perform a varied program of a cappella literature including Irish, Scotch, French, Czech, Spanish, German, and American folk tunes.

The Jazz Band, directed by Jim Cooper, will perform "Easy Does It" by Lennie Niehaus, "Dance of Denial" by Michael Philip Mossman, and "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Louis Prima. The Jazz Band will also perform works by Earle Hagen and Mark Taylor.

The LMC Mendel Center is located on LMC's Napier Avenue Campus in Benton Township, one mile east of interstate I-94 at exit 30. 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.