Concert Choir Performance

The Bloomsburg University Concert Choir, directed by Dr. Alan Baker and accompanied by Brian Farrell, will present their spring concert on Sunday, April 7, at 2:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, located at the corner of Main and Iron Streets in downtown Bloomsburg. Pianist Ron Stabinsky will join for selected four-hand accompaniments and Alex Ebey, clarinet, will also assist.

The concert is free and open to the public and will run toward 90 minutes in length.

Sacred selections will include Dan Forrest’s “Shalom,” Francisco Feliciano’s “Silence My Soul,” Z. Randall Stoope’s “Lamentations of Jeremiah,” Michael John Trotta’s “Ubi Caritas,” the spiritual “I Know I’ve Been Changed,” the Appalachian song “Bright Morning Stars,” and the Rollo Dilworth’s gospel arrangement of “Bye and Bye,” commissioned by the Bloomsburg University Choirs in memory of former music faculty member, Eileen Hower.

Secular works will include Eric Barnum’s “Dreams of Thee,” Susan LaBarr’s “Grace Before Sleep,” the Bosnian folksong “Niska Banja,” the jazz standards “It’s Only a Paper Moon” and “I Get Along Without You Very Well,” the Cuban standard “Son de Camaguey,” and most of Johannes Brahms’s collection of Neue Liebeslieder (Love Song Waltzes).

One remaining selection, Frode Fjellheim’s “Eatnemen Vuelie,” blends a Scandanavian folk “yoik” vocal pattern with the Scandinavian hymn, “Fairest Lord Jesus.”

The selections will include numerous short solos by  Madison Young, Caleb Hansford, Emma Bostic, William Clickard, Kelsey Sheffe, Alix Wojcik, Kaziah Cullen, Braeden Flannery, Johanna Gelbs, Gretchen Rogers, Chrissy Updike, Ryan Iannuzzi, Lydia Barton, Bex Vermuelen, Alison Grimes, and Alden Sparks.

Graduating seniors will also be recognized.