The 32-voice Bridgewater (Va.) College Concert Choir will wrap up its
spring concert tour with a performance at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 15,
in the Carter Center for Worship and Music on the college campus.
The Concert Choir and the college’s Chorale are directed by Jesse E.
Hopkins, Edwin L. Turner Distinguished Professor of Music. The concert
is a farewell for Hopkins, who is retiring at the end of the academic
year after 34 years of teaching at the college. A reception for Hopkins
will follow the concert.
Concert and reception are open to the public at no charge. In
addition to the Concert Choir, the concert will feature the 20-voice
Chorale and a student-directed Handbell Choir. The repertory will
include works from the Renaissance through contemporary classical music.
Among the pieces the Concert Choir will perform are “Ave Maria” by
Josquin Desprez, “Sing Unto God” from Judas Maccabaeus by G.F. Handel,
and “Alleluia” by Stephen Paulus. The program also includes “Gloria”
from Missa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez, “Mary Had a Baby” by William L.
Dawson, and “May the Road Rise to Meet You” by Hopkins. Selections by
the Chorale include “Easter Alleluia” by Brent Pierce, “How Can I Keep
from Singing?” by Ronald Staheli, and William L. Dawson’s “Ain’-a That
Good News.”
Hopkins, a 1970 graduate of Bridgewater College, holds a master of
music education degree from James Madison University and a doctorate in
choral music education from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He joined the Bridgewater faculty in 1977.
-- Mary Kay Heatwole is editorial assistant for Media Relations at Bridgewater College.
Source:4/5/2012 Newsline
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