The OU School of Music will hold a virtual concert featuring the Womenâs Chorus and the Menâs Glee Club April 17.Â
The concert, conducted by Associate Director of Choral Activities David Howard, will feature two pieces â âChichester Psalmsâ by Leonard Bernstein and âRejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30â by Benjamin Britten.Â
Howard said students are enjoying preparing each piece.Â
â[The pieces] are fun, and they re beautiful,â Howard said. âOne of the pieces is by Leonard Bernstein, who wrote Westside Story, so there s a lot of West Side Story flavor in that music. The other piece sets a poem by an 18th century poet who was brilliant, but also a little bit manic. The composers captured it very well, and it s very youthful and rhythmic.â
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The University of Oklahoma School of Music will present a spring concert with the OU Womenâs Chorus and Menâs Glee Club at 7:30 p.m. April 17. The event will be available for public viewing free of charge via live stream at the time of the event.
The OU concert includes music for chorus, pipe organ, harp and percussion and will feature two 20th-century works, Chichester Psalms by American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein (sung in Hebrew) and Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30 by Benjamin Britten.
Featured faculty soloists are Adam Pajan, organist, Gaye Leblanc-Germain, harpist, and Benjamin Holmes, percussionist. Guest soloist is Ian Thomas Howard, 11. He will sing the solo in Psalm 23 in the second movement of the Chichester Psalms.