Westmont Choirs Sing Bach to Folk

The annual Spring Choral Concert featuring the Choir, Chamber Singers and Vox Lumina Women’s Chorale will be 8 p.m. April 30 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. (at Micheltorena). A free-will donation will be requested.

The Westmont College Choir and Chamber Singers, under the direction of Associate Professor Grey Brothers, will perform selections from “Five Short Choral” Works by Adolphus Hailstork, including his powerful “Crucifixion: ‘He never said a mumblin' word’,” “Three Flower Songs” by Eric Whitacre as well as works by Elizabethan sacred music composer William Byrd.

They will also sing pieces by American revolutionary-era composer William Billings, German romanticist Felix Mendelssohn and avant-garde American Charles Ives. Arrangements by Moses Hogan, Paul Halley, Bob Chilcott and Steve Zegree will complete the program.

The Vox Lumina Women's Chorale, under the direction of Laura Brinton, adjunct professor of music, will present a variety of treble pieces. The women will sing from early works such as “Domine Deus” from the Bach “Mass in G Major” and “Spring” by Karl Korte to the folk music of Czechoslovakia and France. They will also perform David Childs' “Weep No More,” adapted from the poem “Fairy's Song” by John Keats.

For more information, contact the public affairs office at (805) 565-7057 or e-mail pubaffairs@westmont.edu.