The St. Olaf Choir will wrap up a successful eight-state, 19-city winter tour with a "home" concert Sunday, Feb. 18.

The concert, free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. in Boe Memorial Chapel. John Ferguson, Elliott and Klara Stockdal Johnson Chair of Organ and Church Music at St. Olaf, will accompany the choir.

The internationally acclaimed, 75-voice St. Olaf Choir, conducted by Anton Armstrong, is performing 20 concerts in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.

The tour started Jan. 27 and included a historic joint concert with the St. Olaf Orchestra in San Antonio, Texas­-the first joint tour performance for the two ensembles.

The Choir will perform works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Thomas Weelkes, Conrad Susa, Moses Hogan, Gyorgy Orban, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and F. Melius Christiansen, who founded the St. Olaf Choir and introduced a capella singing to American choral music.

The program includes, "Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt" by Bach; two pieces by Ferguson, "A Song of Thanksgiving" and an arrangement of "Lord of the Dance"; "The Shepherds Sing: Three Mystical Carols" by Susa; "Prayer" by Kenneth Jennings; "When David Heard" by Weelkes; "Cantate Domino" by Sweelinck; an arrangement of "Here I am, Lord" by Ovid Young; and an arrangementof "My Soulıs Been Anchored in the Lord" by Hogan.

The St. Olaf Choir has toured annually since 1912, when it was founded by F. Melius Christiansen. A 1920 tour to major music centers of the East Coast sowed the seeds of the ensemblesıs national reputation, establishing its a capella style of singing as a primary element in American choral music.