The Arkansas State University-Beebe Department of Music will present the Singers and Chamber Singers in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6 in the Owen Center theater on the Beebe campus at 1102 West College Street. The concert is free admission and open to the public.
The ASU-Beebe choirs, under the direction of Mary Jo Parker, interim director of choirs and assistant professor of piano/accompanist, will also welcome to the stage the Beebe High School Mass Choir and Chamber Choir directed by Sam Holtcamp.
In addition to performing several pieces individually, the choirs will combine to close the concert with “Awake the Harp,” from “The Creation,” by Franz Joseph Haydn, and “City Called Heaven,” arranged by Josephine Poelintz. Additional selections will include works by Jennifer Lucy Cook, David Dickau, Moses Hogan, Morten Lauridsen, Astor Piazzolla, Andrea Ramsey, John Rutter, Alessandro Scarlatti, Franz Schubert, Ludovico Viadana and others.
ASU-Beebe offers an Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree with an emphasis in vocal music or instrumental music, theater, graphic design or creative arts enterprise. This degree is a comprehensive two-year curriculum designed specifically for transfer toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
For more information, contact Mary Jo Parker at (501) 882-4410 or mjparker@asub.edu.
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