2015 ACDA Michigan MALE CHORAL FESTIVAL Program

2015 ACDA Michigan Male Choral Festival
Saturday, March 21, 2015
9:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m.
Dawson Auditorium
Adrian College
Adrian Michigan


PROGRAM

Presentation of the Colors
Color Guard from the Adrian Am-Vets Post 1957
The Star-Spangled Banner, John Stafford Smith
Richard D. Mathey, director

Adrian College Men’s Choir (Adrian, Michigan)  — 24 singers
Thomas M. Hodgman, director
Phillip Clark, piano

Credo, John Gibson (Shawnee Press, C322)

Terminus Nancy Hill Cobb (Santa Barbara Music SBMP)

Michiana Male Chorus (Mishawaka, Indiana)– (17 singers)
Bill Soderberg, director
Miriam Houk, piano

You are so Beautiful, Arr. Greg Gilpin with The Wind Beneath My Wings (Alfred CHM01059)

Who are the Brave? Joseph M. Martin (Warner Bros SV9216)

 

The Combined Flint and Norton Male Choruses (Flint, Michigan) — 30 singers
Matthew J. Packer, director (Flint)
Dan Hill, director (Norton)
Cathy Watson, piano

Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Adapted and Arr. Ed Lojeski (Hal Leonard 08330754)

Over the Rainbow, Harold Arlen, Arr. Mark Hayes (Alfred 27336)

 

Chiaroscuro Community Men’s Chorus (Adrian, Michigan) — 23 singers
Susan Matych-Hager, director
Alan Ballenberger, piano

If Music be the Food of Love,  David Dickau (Plymouth PJMS301)

A-Roving, Arr. Norman Luboff  (Hal Leonard 08500589)

 

Ball State University Statesmen (Muncie, Indiana) — 81 singers
Andrew Crow, director
Renae Timbie, assistant director
Joey McNamara, piano

Ave Maria, Jacob Arcadelt (ECS Publishing No. 526)

Blow Ye the Trumpet, Kirke Mechem (Hal Leonard 5048 1989)

 

MASSED CHORUS PERFORMANCE
Richard D. Mathey, director
Alan Ballenberger, piano
When I Think Upon the Maidens, Folk Song,  Arr. Gary Lewis (garylewispress@me.com)

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Adrian College Music Department, Ann Konz, executive director, and the Choirs
ACDA Central Division
Virginia Kerwin
Carillon Women’s Chorale
Chiaroscuro Community Men’s Chorus

ACDA Michigan Male Choral Festival Planning Committee
Susan Matych-Hager, chairperson
Thomas Hodgman
Matthew Packer
Karen Nevins