11/18/05
Lake Michigan College Fine Arts Concert to
Feature Chichester Psalms
BENTON TOWNSHIP, MI - The Lake Michigan College
Music Department presents its Fine Arts Concert on Sunday, December
4, at 7:30 p.m. in the LMC Mendel Center's Hanson Theater on
the Napier Avenue Campus. Featured ensembles include Voices
LMC, the Concert Choir, and the Jazz Band.
Voices LMC, directed by Daniel Hendrickson, will
open the program with a cappella selections of the Christmas
motet "O magnum mysterium" by Francis Poulenc and
"Alleluia" by will James. Voices LMC will also perform
madrigals by John Farmer and Sir Charles Sedley, a sea chantey
by Robert Sund and a Jamaican song by Larry Farrow.
According Hendrickson, a highlight of the program
will be the Concert Choir's performance of Leonard Bernstein's
Chichester Psalms. In 1965, the Cathedral of Chichester in Sussex,
England, commissioned Bernstein to write the piece for its annual
music festival.
Set in the Hebrew, the language in which the Psalms
were originally written, the three movements contain the entire
texts of Psalms 108, 23, and 131 and part of the texts of Psalm
100, 2, and 133. The first movement is a joyful celebration
of worship while the second movement portrays the discord between
the faithful and the faithless. The third movement is a statement
of humility to God that ends in quiet joy on the text "Behold
how good, and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together
in unity."
The work features a counter-tenor solo in the
second movement performed by Kenneth Bond, a sophomore music
education major. The orchestration for this chamber version
of Chichester Psalms includes organ, performed by Sue Sweet;
harp, performed by Meg Rogers, and percussion, performed by
Mark Churchill.
The Jazz Band, directed by Jim Cooper, will close
the program with performances of "Chameleon" by Herbie
Hancock, and "Sophisticated Ladies" by Duke Ellington.
The band will also feature performances of arrangements of "Killer
Joe" by Jim Cooper and "End of Time" by Tim King
who plays both bass and tenor sax in the band.
Individual concert tickets are $7 for adults,
$5 for senior citizens and students and $4 each for groups of
20 or more. Tickets may be purchased at the Mainstage Box Office
at 269-927-1221.
