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UDs Gospel Choir to perform at Oct. 22 Bachs Lunch
1:30 p.m., Oct. 21, 2003--The music of UDs Gospel Choir will be featured in the next program in UDs Bachs Lunch Series, which is set for 12:10-12:50 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Bayard Sharp Hall. This student group, part of the UD community for more than 20 years, has performed throughout the region.
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Composer Paul Richards presents a lecture/demonstration featuring his own compositions at the Oct. 15 Bachs Lunch. |
In the early 80s, a group of students at the University of Delaware, 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. The group, open to anyone with a love for gospel music, 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.
The popular free public series, held from 12:10-12:50 p.m. on select Wednesdays, features presentations by members of the campus community and continues through Dec. 10.
Gibbons Ruark, a member of the UD English faculty since 1968, will give a reading of his poems on Oct. 29. He is the author of a number of prize-winning poems and books of poems. About his latest collection, Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems, the noted poet and critic X.J. Kennedy said, Gibbons Ruark is a master musician; our common language, his instrument. You would have to sift through the lifes work of a great many poets to find another hundred pages nearly as fine as these.
On Nov. 5, Broadway Melodies and More will feature Broadway tunes along with Bach and Vaughan Williams in a program for voice and organ. UD music student Amanda McDonald will be joined by guest organist Rudy Lucente, an assistant organist at Wanamakers Grand Court Organ, holiday staff organist at Longwood Gardens, a member of the Philadelphia Organ Quartet and director of music at St. Rose of Lima Church in North Wales.
Tina Martin, head coach of UDs womens basketball team, will provide an insiders view of the season on Nov. 12. Martin is beginning her eighth season at UD, and last year her team finished with a 22-9 record.
UDs Taggart-Grycky Duo will perform music from the flute and guitar repertoire on Nov. 19. The duoEileen Grycky and Christiaan Taggarthas won praise from audience members and critics alike. A reviewer in the Richmond Times Dispatch wrote, Full of sparkle and personality, this duo should be heard again and again.
On Dec. 3, Trio Arundel will present a program of chamber music of various musical styles. Members of the trio are oboist Timothy Clinch, hornist Cynthia Carr and pianist Julie Nishimura.
The fall series will conclude Dec. 10 with the popular Carols for the University. This program of music for the season features the Jefferson Pipe Organ, instruments and voices, as well as carol singing by the audience. Carols for the University will be repeated at 5:15 p.m.
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