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April 7 Bachs Lunch features UDs Gospel Choir
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UDs Gospel Choir in performance at an October Bachs Lunch concert. |
1:33 p.m., April 6, 2004--The music of UDs high-spirited Gospel Choir will be featured in the Bachs Lunch Series on Wednesday, April 7. All performances in the series are held from 12:10-12:50 p.m. in Bayard Sharp Hall.
The student group has been part of the University community for more than 20 years. In the early 80s, a group of UD students interested in music and spiritual leadership performed gospel songs for the Black Arts Festival. That small initial group eventually grew into the UD Gospel Choir. Open to anyone with a love for gospel music, the group now performs up and down the East Coast, sometimes to crowds of 3,000 or more. It has received standing ovations for its renditions of such classics as This Train is Bound for Glory and Every Time I Feel The Spirit.
Other performances slated for the lunch series, all of which are free and open to the public, include:
- UD alumna, soprano Marybeth K. Miller and accompanist Nicole Aldrich Clouser, who will perform a program of folk songs from the British Isles, April 14;
- UD alumnus David Villanueva, who will showcase works by Albéniz, Bach, Chopin and Scriabin in a piano recital on the Bayard Sharp Steinway, April 21;
- Winds of Spring, which will open a three-concert mini-series, featuring the DelArte, UDs acclaimed woodwind quartet, April 28;
- Flutes and Friends, which continues the mini-series in a concert of UD flute students under the direction of Eileen Grycky, assistant professor of music, May 5;
- Horns Aplenty! which will conclude the mini-series, featuring UD horn students, directed by Cynthia Carr, UD professor of music, May 12; and
- Festival of Students, the annual grand finale and parade of students representing all areas of the Department of Music, May 19.
Photo by Kathy Atkinson
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