The MSU Concert Choir and Chamber Singers is hosting a Lasagna Dinner and Fall Homecoming Choral Showcase Concert on Thursday, October 17 at First Baptist Church, 123 East Main Street, Morehead.
Guests can eat from 5:30 – 7:00 with the concert beginning at 7:30.
The lasagna dinner will include salad, bread, desserts and drinks (sweet and unsweet tea, lemonade, and water). The proceeds will go to support Concert Choir’s concert tours.
To reserve tickets, leave a message with Brooklyn Ison at (859) 200-4428. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for students. You can receive a free ticket if you donate a lasagna for the event. Please call the above number to notify the choir that you are cooking.
Following dinner, the Jazz Vocal Ensemble, Black Gospel Ensemble and Chamber Singers will join Concert Choir for the Homecoming Choral Showcase Concert. Admission to the concert is free.
Concert Choir will begin with three exuberant pieces: William Billing’s “I am the Rose of Sharon,” Craig Hella Johnson’s “Let the River Run,” and the first movement of John Rutter’s Gloria. They will also sing Eric Barnum’s beautiful “Afternoon on a Hill.”
The all-men Chamber Singers will perform two lively early music pieces, two songs by English composers and two spiritual arrangements. Dr. Eric Brown, assistant professor of voice, will join the men for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “I got me flowers” from Five Mystical Songs. The men will also perform the King Singer’s arrangement of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s “The Long Day Closes.” Spiritual arrangements include “Steal Away” and “Little Lamb.”
The Vocal Jazz Ensemble will continue with “Killer Joe” arranged by Ron McCurdy, “Over the Hill is Home” by Alvin Chea and Cedric Dent, and “Meet the Flintstones” arranged by Dave Barduhn. The Black Gospel Ensemble will close the concert with “Jesus, I Love You” by Jason Nelson, “Love Theory” by Kirk Franklin and “Do Not Pass Me By” by Douglas Miller.
