University Chorale to present spring concert April 24, Tower Choir to perform April 27

Two Northwest Missouri State University choral ensembles will perform their spring concerts this month.

The University Chorale will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24, and the Tower Choir will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Both concerts are in the Mary Linn Auditorium at the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts and are free and open to the public.

Dr. Adam Zrust, an assistant professor of music, conducts both choirs.

“The concert will have something for everyone and will leave the audience wanting more,” Zrust said.

University Chorale will sing a range of repertoire from around the world, including “Rasa Nusantara,” a set of Malaysian folk dances; “Nda Wana,” a South African welcoming song; and “Bogoroditse Devo” from Sergel Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil.”

Tower Choir is singing two extended works, including “Les Chansons des Roses” by prolific American composer Morten Lauridsen, and “This is How You Love” by married couple Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy Tackach, who were in residency at Northwest earlier this spring as part of a Missouri Arts Council grant award.

The University Chorale is open to all Northwest students and community members. It presents one concert each semester, and its repertoire ranges from classical to gospel, and contemporary to Broadway. There is no audition requirement for membership.

The Tower Choir is an audition-based choral ensemble for Northwest students that is consistently invited to state conferences. The ensemble performs concerts for high schools, colleges, universities, churches, institutions and organizations throughout the region.