UTC Music Dept presents the Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorale
Roland Carter and Lee Harris, Directors

Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 7:30 PM
First Centenary United Methodist Church
Press Release date: 3/24/09

On Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 7:30 PM the UTC Music Department presents the Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorale Concert at First Centenary United Methodist Church, 419 McCallie Ave., Chattanooga, 37403. The concert is open to the general public and free of charge.

The Men’s Choir, directed by Roland Carter, and the Women’s Chorale, directed by Lee Harris, will perform a variety of choral music individually and combined. Additionally the two choirs will be joined by the Men’s and Women’s Ensembles from the Center for Creative Arts High School, directed by Neshawn Calloway. All of the choirs will combine to perform Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus” and Roland Carter’s “Rise, Shine for the Light Is a-Coming” with UTC graduate soloist, Varanda Bell, soprano.

Among the Men’s Choir selections for the evening is the Paranjoti “Dravidian Dithyramb”, a southern Indian style raga sung on nonsense syllables, Uzee Brown’s spiritual “John Was a Writer”, “Shenandoah” arranged by Marshall Bartholomew (celebrated composer/arranger for the Yale Glee Club), and the rousing “Let Them Hear You” from the musical Ragtime. The Women’s Chorale will perform contemporary composer Paul Ayer’s “Cantate Domino”, a setting of “The Lord’s Prayer” by Edwin Gerschefski (father of former Music Dept. Head Peter Gerschefski), Faure’s radiant “Cantique de Jean Racine” and Nick Page's "Niska Banja". Both groups will take advantage of First Centenary’s fine organ to accompany several pieces.

For further information contact the UTC Music Department at 423-425-4601 or visit our website at http://utc.edu/music.