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St. Olaf Chapel Choir, Orchestra to present spring concert

By Tom Vogel
April 29, 2007

Boe Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

The St. Olaf Chapel Choir and St. Olaf Orchestra spring Oratorio Concert will feature an eclectic selection of pieces, featuring brass fanfares, flowing romantic melodies and contemporary tonalities. The performance will include such works as William Walton's "Coronation Te Deum" (originally written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953), which will feature the new Holtkamp organ played by John Ferguson, the Elliot and Klara Stockdal Johnson Professor of Organ Music; Mendelssohn's "Psalm 42," a seven-movement work structured like a Bach cantata, with Tracey Gorman, Instructor in Music Voice, as soprano soloist; Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard," a work commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, also featuring Gorman; and the world premiere of Assistant Professor in Music Theory and Composition Justin Merritt's "Fire Sermon."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.