The University of Southern Indiana Philip H. Hagemann Performing Arts Department will present its 2024 Chamber Choir Spring Concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 24 in the Rice Library Second Floor Reading Room.
This concert will feature pieces by Knut Nystedt, Randall Thompson, Joshua Shank, Jake Runestadt, Robert DeCormier and Thomas Drury, Instructor in Music.
The Chamber Choir will feature the piece Horizons by Peter Luis Van Dijk. This work describes a San (Bushman) rock painting of a Dutch ship rounding the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. The Dutch sailors, seen as Gods, would eventually become the San’s executioners. The piece Please Stay by Jake Runestadt is an anthem for hope—an attempt to destigmatize mental illness and challenge all of us to support those who are battling depression and thoughts of suicide. The concert will also feature spirituals and gospel songs by Robert DeCormier, Moses Hogan and Keith Hampton.
This concert is open to the public at no charge. For more information, contact Dan Craig, Associate Professor of Music, at dcraig@usi.edu.
