The Knox College Choir, directed by Laura Lane, professor of music, presents its 2018 Fall Concert at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, November 4, in Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The concert is free and open to the public.

The concert features works by Russian, Italian, French, Estonian, American, and Haitian composers. It includes "Autumn Landscapes," by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, about various aspects of nature in the early fall, and "Veniki," a traditional Russian folk song known as a "tongue-twister" because the text is meaningless and exists solely to express the sounds of the words.

"Hymne au Soleil," by the French composer Lili Boulanger, will showcase soloist Meghan Mohn, mezzo-soprano, and two pianists, Casey Dierlam and Mary Harlan, on the challenging and complex piano accompaniment.

Another selection, "Super flumina Babylonis" by Palestrina, is "one of our all-time favorite Renaissance motets," said Lane. "It's a difficult work due to its imitative polyphony, independence of the four parts, constantly changing mode and deeply expressive melodies."

Fall 2018 Concert Program

Si ch’io vorrei morire ~ Claudio Monteverdi

Super flumina Babylonis ~ Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Bogoroditse Devo ~ Sergei Rachmaninoff

Hymne au Soleil ~ Lili Boulanger; Meghan Mohn, mezzo-soprano, Casey Dierlam and Mary Harlan, piano

Sugismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes) ~ Veljo Tormis

Sure on This Shining Night ~ Morten Lauridsen; Casey Dierlam, piano

Veniki ~ Russian folk song

Works Performed by the Chamber Singers:

Hor che la vaga aurora ~ Vittoria Aleotti

Die Nachtigall ~ Felix Mendelssohn

Noèl Ayisyen (A Haitian Noel) ~ Emile Desamours

Knox College Choir
Fall 2018 Concert

Soprano
Ellie Baird, section leader
Eliza Dehlin
Cordelia Frese
Gabrielle Jacques
Sarah Schierbeek
Jessica Beckman
Sophia Bowley
Maggie Decker, section leader
Julia Fugger
Mari Hockett
Gwen O’Connell
Anna Rhodes
Emily Wallace
Moya Woods

Alto
Lydia Allen
Teagan Moore
Eleanor Phan
Katerina Sasieta
Sarah Smith, section leader
Ingrid Wasmer
Stephy Austin
Monica Cardoza
Rachel Ditty
Amanda Espinosa
Kaitlyn Hrivnak
Sarah Lohmann
Meghan Mohn, section leader
Abby Spengler
Madeline Swift

Tenor
Julian Bowens-Robinson
David Petrak, section leader
Noah Zand, section leader
James Cook
Alex Heston
Tanner Nelson
Ben Lambert
Einar Pielar

Baritone
Nico Colangelo
Alex Crawford
Ben Dolezal
Eddy Freeman
Alex Gallo, section leader
Jasper Morgan
Emeka Nkuku

Bass
Ajay Gustafson
Gabe Ochoa, section leader
Ibrahim Sakrani
Jared Smith
Tom Trudeau