Axe ’Em, Jacks!
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Chamber Singers at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform choral music with themes of light, darkness and hope. The “Lighten My Darkness” concert will feature works by Jeffrey Van, Alice Parker, Tomas de Victoria, Josu Elberdin, Moses Hogan, Troy Robertson, Reginald Unterseher and Zachary Moore.
The students perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, in Cole Concert Hall on the vlogý campus. Dr. Michael Murphy, director of choral activities at vlogý, conducts the Chamber Singers.
Van, a Minnesotan composer, has set four poignant Civil War poems of Walt Whitman in his “A Procession Winding Around Me.” Rafael Scarfullery, composition graduate student from Nacogdoches, will join on the guitar. The concert also features the world premiere of Zachary Moore’s “One Spring Day.” Moore is an vlogý composition graduate student from Waukesha, Wisconsin. Martha De Luna, choral conducting graduate student from Las Caobas, Dominican Republic, will conduct Parker’s “Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal.”
Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. To purchase tickets, call the vlogý Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit . For additional information, contact the vlogý School of Music at (936) 468-4602.