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Fauré Requiem & Songs of the British Isles

The SIU Choral Union and SIU Concert Choir, accompanied by chamber orchestra, will perform the Requiem in D minor by Gabriel Fauré and various arrangements of folk songs of the British Isles, as collected by Cecil Sharp. Tuesday, April 30, … Continue reading

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Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Carols of the World

The Choral Union and Concert Choir will join with the SIU Opera and orchestra to present Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, as well as Mark Hayes’s International Carol Suites, including Carols of Eastern Europe, Carols of Western … Continue reading

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Spring concert 2023: Something Old, Something New…

… Something Borrowed, Something Red, White and Blue The SIU Choral Union and Concert Choir will be joined by the SIU Wind Ensemble for a program of Brahms’s Begräbnisgesang, Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs, and Grace Before Sleep, a newly-commissioned … Continue reading

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Vivaldi Gloria & selections from Handel’s Messiah, Fall concert 2022

This concert will once again bring the SIU Choral Union and SIU Concert Choir together with a full orchestra! The program will consist of Vivaldi’s Gloria (R589) and selections from Handel’s Messiah, and we’ll once again be joined by the … Continue reading

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Sacred & jazz works of Will Todd, Spring concert 2022

The SIU Choral Union and the SIU Concert Choir will perform works by by composer Will Todd, a contemporary English composer of choral and jazz works, including: Amazing Grace Jazz Missa Brevis The Lord is My Shepherd The choirs will … Continue reading

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I WAS GLAD: Music for Choir and Organ, Fall concert 2021

Accompanied by organist Anita Hutton on the grand Marianne Webb organ, the SIU Choral Union and Concert Choirs will perform: C.H.H. Parry’s I Was Glad Selections from Ernest Bloch’s Sacred Service Charles Gounod’s Messe Breve no. 7 in C Gustav … Continue reading

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Great Opera Choruses- Spring concert, 2020

The Southern Illinois Symphony  Orchestra will join the SIU Choral Union and Concert Choirs for this concert. April 21, 2020 7:30 – 9pm : Spring Concert, 2020 at Shryock Auditorium, SIU Carbondale Choral Union & Concert Choir, Spring 2020 Concert, … Continue reading

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A Baroque Holiday- Fall/winter concert, 2019

This concert, a week before Thanksgiving, is bound to put you in the holiday spirit, with music by several of the finest Baroque composers: Choruses from Nun Danket Alle Gott, Georg Philipp Telemann Magnificat, Antonio Vivaldi “Jauchzet frolocket” from Christmas … Continue reading

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Verdi Requiem- Spring concert, 2019

Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is unmistakably the work of an accomplished opera composer.  Trumpets sound a call to judgement in the Tuba mirum, the Rex tremendae evokes unworthiness before the King of Tremendous Majesty,  a soprano interrupts to cry out for … Continue reading

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A Celebration of Masses- Fall Concert 2018

 The sung mass has a long tradition in the Christian church, and has been interpreted in every musical era and style.  This semester’s program features one of the best-known classical masses, Mozart’s Mass in C Major, K. 317, historically called … Continue reading

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