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KU Concert Choir to perform at choral convention in Kansas City

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LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Concert Choir has been selected to perform for the Southwest Division of the American Choral Directors Association convention Feb. 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo.

KU’s Concert Choir performance will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in the Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. Paul Tucker, KU assistant professor and associate director of choral activities, will direct the 25-minute program titled “There is a Spirit.”

The Southwest Division of the American Choral Directors Association is made up of seven states: Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri, and is one of seven divisions in the United States. Of all the university choirs from the seven states in the southwest, the KU Concert Choir was selected for the coveted final performance.

Concert selections will include “Jamaican Medley,” arranged by Tucker; the late Kevin Oldham’s “Thou Art in Every Breath”; Brahms’ “Motet Op. 29 No. 2”; William Dawson’s arrangement of the spiritual “Ezekiel Saw De Wheel”; and Ben Parry’s arrangement of the Welsh folk song “David of the White Rock.”

Additionally, the choir will premier the winning composition in the Raymond W. Brock student composer competition. The composer is a student at William Jewel College in Missouri.

KU’s Concert Choir includes more than 70 vocalists who were selected before the fall 2007 term began in August. Most are KU students from many disciplines, but the choir includes a few area residents: Mark Wagstrom, bass; Megan Pasley, soprano; and Eric Chadwick, tenor. Recent KU graduates in the choir are: David MacKay, bass, fall 2007 graduate in theatre and film; Jennifer Niemann, soprano, spring 2007 graduate in music education; and Heidi Schellman, soprano, spring 2007 graduate in anthropology.

KU student choir members are listed below by hometown, level in school, major or recent degree, parents’ names (when available) and high schools.

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