MEADVILLE, Pa. – May 17, 2009 – The Allegheny College Alumni Reunion Choir will give a free public concert at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, May 30 in Shafer Auditorium on the Allegheny campus. The choir will include nearly 200 singers drawn from the classes of 1945-2011. The concert is part of the College’s Reunion Weekend, which brings alumni from across the country back to Meadville each spring.
The Reunion Choir will present a program of 11 sacred and secular works for unaccompanied choir, featuring four works by Morten J. Luvaas, founder of the Allegheny choral program and faculty member from 1928-1965. The concert will also commemorate W. S. Wright North, who taught at Allegheny from 1949 until his death in 1979.
Soloists include baritone Howard Sprout, class of 1969, of Bloomfield, Conn., and tenor David Gilson, class of 1987, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Works to be performed include “Grant Us to do with Zeal,” by Bach; “Cantate Domino” by Pitoni; “Bethlehem Down” by Warlock; “The Turtle Dove” by Vaughan Williams; “Bourree” by Bach as arranged by Swingle; “Wondrous Cool, Thou Woodland Quiet” by Brahms; “Ezekiel Saw De Wheel” by Dawson; and Morten Luvaas’s “King of Peace and Glory,” “The Pines of Home,” “Nunc dimittis” and his arrangement of the Allegheny Alma Mater.
Ward Jamison, director of choral activities, will conduct the choir. Call the Alumni Affairs Office at (814) 332-5384 with questions or for more information.
