Dr. Thomas M. Hodgman, Director of Choirs thodgman@adrian.edu

                   

 

The Adrian College Choir - Showcase Concert 2005

 

Listen to the Adrian College Choir

and Lenawee Community Chorus with

The Adrian Symphony Orchestra

Performing excerpt from Beethoven's "Choral Fantasie"

April 21, 2007

Craig Terry, piano

Soloists:

Gerianne Ditto, soprano (senior, BM in Performance)

Mackenzie Fader, soprano (junior, BA in Musical Theatre)

Kelly Fox, alto (senior, BA in Musical Theatre)

Tom Pavlovich, tenor (junior, BME in Music Education)

Nicholas Fuqua, baritone (freshman, BA in Musical Theatre)

Ben Rosebrock, bass (senior, BME in Music Education)

 

 

Read about the College Choir's most recent concert in the Daily Telegram:  http://www.lenconnect.com:80/homepage/x1041575120

 

 

Students at Adrian College have the opportunity to sing in the College Choir and the Chamber Choir. Singers may also choose to participate in Opera Workshop, Musical Theatre Workshop, and the annual musical theatre stage production.  Our choirs are made up of students from across the campus, including music majors as well as students from almost every other department. Many students take private voice lessons as part of their college arts requirements.  The choirs regularly go on tour and perform throughout the year for special events and concerts.

 

The Adrian College Choir consists of 80 men and women who sing a wide variety of song literature including cantatas, octavos, gospel and folk songs, and World Music. Recent large works with orchestra include the Faure "Requiem", the Lauridsen "Lux Aeterna", and Beethoven's "Choral Fantasie".  In 2006, The College Choir performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In May 2007, the choir traveled to Jamestown, Virginia where they performed as a part of America's 400th Anniversary Celebration at Jamestown Anniversary Park and took part in a CBS Television Special. The College Choir has been invited to perform at the Pre-Olympics Music Festival in Beijing, China celebrating the 2008 Summer Olympics.

 

GET INVOLVED:  Research in 2007 shows that almost three-quarters of today's business executives (73%) were involved in some type of music program while in school. Just over three quarters (77%) recommend their children get involved in music at their schools and just under half (47%) support music programs by donating money. Cumulatively, the longer that executives participated in music programs, the more successful they became in life.