Knox College Choir Concert November 1

The Knox College Choir performs its Fall Concert at 2 p.m., Sunday, November 1. The concert in Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, is free and open to the public.

"This concert is one of contrasts," says Choir Director Laura Lane, professor of music and director of choral activities at Knox College. "The first half comprises three a cappella works from the late Renaissance period, while the second half of the concert features only works by living composers."

The Choir will perform "Venite exsultemus Domino," by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck; "Sfogava con le stele," by Claudio Monteverdi; and "Crucifixus," by Antonio Lotti -- three works dating to the 1500s and 1600s.

After intermission the choir will perform works by contemporary composers Jonathan Dove, James MacMillan, Carol Barnett, Stephen Paulus, Josephine Poelinitz, Robert DeCormier.

"'Ring Out, Wild Bells,' by Jonathan Dove has a very challenging piano accompaniment played by our accompanist Amber Clark," Lane said. "Josephine Poelinitz's arrangement of the gospel song 'City Called Heaven' will feature soloist Devan Cameron, and Robert DeCormier's arrangement of the spiritual 'Let Me Fly' will feature soloist Michael Oelkers.

The Chamber Singers, a highly select ensemble drawn from the members of the choir, will perform the 16th-century English anthem "When David Heard," Martin Lauridsen's 20th-century madrigals "Amor, io sento l'alma" and "Se per havervi oime," and "A Haitian Noel," by Emile Desamours.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 48 countries. Knox's 'Old Main' is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.