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Gotham SINGS! Collegiate Showcase
Sunday, April 21, 2019
8:30 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Queens College Vocal Ensemble from the Aaron Copland School of Music performs “A Celebration of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries." This is followed by a commemoration of the centennial of the WWI armistice and Celebration of Peace with a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem. Conductor James Rodde will lead a 200-voice chorus, the Iowa State University Symphony Orchestra, and professional soloists in Vaughan Williams’s plea for peace.
Performers
The Choirs and Orchestra of Iowa State University
James Rodde and Thomas Cunningham, Conductors
Beth Deutmeyer, Soprano
Chad Sonka, Baritone
Queens College Vocal Ensemble
James John, Conductor
Emily John, Harp
Program
GRIEG Symphonic Dance No. 4
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona Nobis Pacem
MACK WILBERG Let Peace Then Still the Strife
BYRD "Iustorum animae"
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Three Shakespeare Songs
JAMES BASSI Harpsonnetts