April 8, 2019
TIFTON—The spotlight will be on the top vocal talent among the students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on April 16 when the School of Arts and Sciences presents its annual spring choral concert at 7 p.m. in Howard Auditorium on the ABAC campus.
Open to the public at no charge, the concert showcases the Concert Choir, the Chamber Singers, and the ABAC Singers. Dr. Susan Kirby Roe, a professor of voice and head of the ABAC Fine Arts Department, will conduct the concert. Dr. Jennifer Huang will accompany the students on the piano.
The audience will rise to its feet when the Concert Choir kicks off the evening with “The Star-Spangled Banner” followed by “Psalm 23” from “Songs of Faith.” That number will feature Timothy Fancher on the French horn.
The choir will then sing “The Moon is Distant from the Sea,” “I Am Not Yours,” and “Where Dwells the Soul of My Love,” which will be highlighted by Cierra Pineda on the flute.
The ABAC Chamber Singers will then take the stage for “Arise Beloved” followed by the ABAC Singers with “Set Me as a Seal” and “Somewhere” from “West Side Story.” Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Davis and tenor Landon Chavis will be featured in “Somewhere.”
Soprano Sydney Thomas will then be featured in “America, The Dream” when the ABAC Concert Choir returns to the stage. Alumni will join the choir for the ABAC Alma Mater to close out the evening.
The ABAC Singers have performed at Walt Disney World on the International Stage at EPCOT, two cathedrals in New York City, the World Trade Center Site, and at jazz festivals throughout the southeast each spring. They also perform for all special events at the college including commencement.
The Chamber Singers have performed Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem” with Dr. Paul Neal and his choirs at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. The group also performs and tours throughout the southeast, recruiting students for ABAC.
In the spring of 2017, the group sang at Walt Disney World at the newly renovated Disney Springs at the Waterview Park Stage and performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra and other college choirs as part of the ABAC performing arts series.
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Dr. Susan Kirby Roe, conductor
Dr. Jennifer Huang, accompanist
Star –Spangled Banner……………………………………………………………John Stafford Smith
Arranged by Darmon Meader
From “ Songs of Faith”………………………………………………..…….Paul Basler
Psalm23 Timothy Fancher, French Horn
The Moon Is Distant from the Sea…………………………………….David N. Childs
I Am Not Yours…………………………………………………………David N. Childs
Where Dwells the Soul of My Love…………………………………….David N. Childs
Cierra Pineda, flute
The ABAC Concert Choir
Arise Beloved……………………………………………………….Rosephanye Powell
The ABAC Chamber Singers
Set Me As A Seal………………………………………………………….René Clausen
From West Side Story…………………………………………….….Leonard Bernstein
Somewhere
Stephanie Davis, mezzo-soprano
Landon Chavis, tenor
The ABAC Singers
America, The Dream……………………………………………………Rollo Dilworth
Sydney Thomas, soprano
The ABAC Concert Choir
The ABAC Alma Mater……………………….. Dr. Libby Campbell and Wayne Jones
Arranged by Zoe Hobby
The ABAC Concert Choir
And Alumni
The Concert Choirconsists of students from Georgia, as well as other areas of the United States. The students attend class on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, for fifty minutes per session. From the Concert Choir, an auditioned group, the Chamber Singers, is drawn. These students are responsible for learning their music outside of their weekly rehearsals. The Jazz Choir is an additional auditioned group that meets for one hour every Tuesday and Thursday.
The Jazz Choir / ABAC Singers has performed at Walt Disney World on the International Stage at Epcot, two cathedrals in New York City, the World Trade Center Site, and each spring, at Jazz Festivals in the southeast. They perform for all special events at the college and all ABAC Graduations.
The Chamber Singers have performed Gabriel Faure’s Requiem with Dr. Paul Neal and his choirs at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. They continue to perform and tour throughout the southeast, recruiting students for the college and choir. In the spring of 2017, the Chamber Singers once again were invited to sing at Walt Disney World in the newly renovated Disney Springs at the “Waterview Park Stage” and also were privileged to perform Duruflé’s Requiem with the Albany Symphony Orchestra and other college choirs as part of ABAC Presents!
