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The Virginia State University Concert Choir/Photo Credit: Antoine D. Williams
Conducted by Interim Director and Petersburg Native Patrick D. McCoy, the choir will sing works by Moore, Clausen, Helvey and Schubert amongst others.
PETERSBURG, VA, UNITED STATES, November 6, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Virginia State University Concert Choir carried out by Interim Director Patrick D. McCoy will current The Annual Fall Concert on Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 4 PM in Anderson-Turner Auditorium-Virginia Hall situated at 1 Hayden Drive, Petersburg, VA on the campus of Virginia State University. Accompanied by Timothy L. Hall, the choir will sing works by René Clausen, Howard Helvey, Franz Schubert, Undine Smith Moore and Moses G.Hogan, amongst others.
The Virginia State University Concert Choir first achieved musical eminence below the management of the legendary J. Harold Montague. So efficient and profitable was he in introducing and creating an a cappella custom that the choir quickly grew to become recognized on the tour circuit because the Virginia State A cappella Choir. This love for inventive unaccompanied singing was nurtured by Montague’s successors, Mozart Frazier, Aldrich Adkins, Oscar Henry, Eugene Simpson, Carl Harris and Johnnella Lucas Edmonds, who just lately retired from the college as Director of Choral Activities after a 50 12 months tenure within the division of music. In current years, accompanied repertoire was added to the packages for selection and so as to present a extra balanced publicity to nice choral literature. Past collaborations have included performances with The Richmond Symphony Orchestra within the presentation of such works equivalent to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi Ginastera’s Psalm 150, Honegger’s King David, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music and Undine Smith Moore’s Scenes from the Life of a Martyr.
Currently, the choir is led by Petersburg native, interim director Patrick D. McCoy, a 2000 alumnus of the college and a former scholar of Edmonds, having sung below her course within the college live performance choir, in addition to being amongst her former voice college students. Recently, the choir participated in a efficiency of the ‘Defiant Requiem’ at The Music Center at Strathmore below the baton of Maestro Murray Sidlin, that includes the choirs of University of VA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Longwood University, American University and Catholic University with full orchestra {and professional} soloists. Accompanist Timothy L. Hall is a two time graduate of the distinguished Westminster Choir College the place he studied organ with Joan Lippincott. He at present serves as Organist and Choirmaster at Christ and Grace Episcopal Church in Petersburg, VA.
The live performance is free and open to the general public. Reserve your free tickets at:
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Admission can also be accessible on the door.
For extra details about the live performance, please e-mail [email protected] or name (804) 524-5332.
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