Hamilton, NY — The music of Mozart, Haydn, and Mendelssohn will fill Memorial Chapel as the Colgate University Chorus, Chamber Singers, and Women’s Chamber Ensemble present their spring concert on Sunday, April 16, at 3:30 p.m. These vocal ensembles will be joined by the Colgate Festival Orchestra, organist Sar-Shalom Strong, and a quartet of soloists: Lauralyn Kolb, soprano; Beth Ray, mezzo-soprano; David Parks, tenor; and Timothy LeFebvre, bass. The concert, under the baton of G. Roberts Kolb, choral director, is free and open to the public. For more information about the concert series or about the Chenango Summer MusicFest June 15 to 18, call the Colgate Concertline at 315-228-7642.
The Women’s Chamber Ensemble will sing a set of three motets for women’s voices and organ (Veni Domine, Laudate pueri Domini, and Surrexit pastor bonus), which Mendelssohn composed in 1830 for a convent of nuns in Rome. The Chamber Singers, solo quartet, and orchestra will perform Mozart’s timeless Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339. Two Haydn works performed by the University Chorus and Festival Orchestra will complete the afternoon’s program: the Te Deum that Haydn wrote for the Empress Maria Theresa and the Missa Sancti Bernardi, better known as the ‘Heilig’ Mass, the first of the six great masses that Haydn wrote in his last years.
Founded in 1819, Colgate University is a nationally ranked, highly selective, residential, liberal arts college. Situated on a rolling 515-acre campus in central New York State, Colgate University attracts motivated students with diverse backgrounds, interests and talents from all over the United States.
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