Choral Arts Series:
The FIU Women's Choir, Concert Choir and Chamber Singers.
FIU School of Music
Division of Vocal/Choral Studies
presents
An American Sampler
Music for Americans by American Composers
featuring
The FIU Concert Choir & Women’s Chorus
Directed by
Mary Adelyn Kauffman & S. Mark Aliapoulios
with
Maria Paulina Garcia, piano
W. Dan Hardin, organ
&
The FIU Brass Choir,
directed by Jim Hacker
PROGRAM
Two Madrigals
Emma Lou Diemer (b.1927)
„Spring, the Sweet Spring" (Thomas Nashe, 1567-1601)
„Love Me Not For Comely Grace" (Anonymous, ca. 1600)
Barbara Allen
Traditional Folksong,
(arranged by Ron Nelson)
Three American Folksongs
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
„Ching-a-Ring Chaw" (arranged by Irving Fine)
„At the River" (arranged by R. Wilding White)
„Zion’s Walls" (arranged by Glenn Koponen)
George Gershwin Medley
George and Ira Gershwin
(1898-1937, 1896-1983)
(arranged by Bill Holcombe)
Motown’s Finest
(arranged by Mary Adelyn Kauffman)
The FIU Women’s Chorus
Mary Adelyn Kauffman, conductor
Maria Paulina Garcia, piano
"Sure On This Shining Night" from Nocturnes Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)
"Prayer of St. Francis" Mari Esabel Valverde (b. 1987)
"Earth Song" Frank Ticheli (b.1958)
"Omnia Sol" Z. Randall Stroope (b. 1953)
The FIU Concert Choir
The Testament of Freedom Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
The God
who gave us life
We have counted the cost
We fight not for glory
I shall not die without a hope
The FIU Concert Choir
S. Mark Aliapoulios, Conductor
W. Dan Hardin, Organist
The FIU Brass Choir,
Jim Hacker, Director