NIC hosting 'Spring' concert
NIC student Sam Mirkin, left, stands onstage with NIC Adjunct Music Professor Stan McDaniel at NIC’s Choral Kaleidoscope concert on March 5 at the Boswell Hall Schuler Performing Arts Center on NIC’s Coeur d’Alene campus.
Photo courtesy NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE
Spring will be celebrated at a special North Idaho College concert next week.
The North Idaho College Music Department is performing a Voices of Spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30 at the Boswell Hall Schuler Performing Arts Center on NIC’s Coeur d’Alene Campus.
The concert is free and open to the public.
The Cardinal Chorale, under the direction of NIC Adjunct Professor of Music Stan McDaniel, will perform a mix of light selections appropriate to the season. Two Renaissance madrigals from Italy will open the program, “All Ye Who Music Love” by Baldassare Donato and “I Delight in All Your Beauty” by Giovanni Gastoldi.
The performance will also feature the Frank Ahrold arrangement of the familiar sea chanty “A-Roving” and Damon Meader’s setting of the Scottish folk ballade “The Sky Boat Song” with a solo performance from chorale member Gabrielle Symons.
The concert also features Canto de Sorensen, an auditioned second- through fifth-grade choir representing Sorensen Magnet School of the Arts and Humanities, under the direction of Charlene Bibb. Canto de Sorenson will perform a setting of the Welsh folk song “The Ash Grove” by Thomas Oliphant, and “Razzle, Dazzle” by Fred Ebb and John Kander.
The Chorale will return with Kirby Shaw’s lush, jazz-tinged setting of the Rogers and Hammerstein standard “It Might as Well Be Spring” from the musical “State Fair” followed by “We Are the Music Makers” by Allan Robert Petker. Soloist Shawna Cook and the combined choirs will end the concert with “A Parting Blessing” by J. Jerome Williams.
For more information, contact NIC Adjunct Music Professor Stan McDaniel at stan.mcdaniel@nic.edu.