Cloud County Community College’s Music Department will present its Fall Choral Concert on Tuesday, November 18. The concert, which is free, will be at 7 p.m. in Cook Theatre on the Concordia campus.
The concert will feature the Cloud County Community Chorale/Concert Choir and the Cloud 9 Jazz Choir.
The Community Chorale/Concert Choir is a non-auditioned, community vocal ensemble that is open to singers from both the college and area communities. Cloud 9 Jazz Choir is an elite vocal music ensemble at Cloud. This auditioned choir consists of only nine singers divided into SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) parts.
The Jazz choir will perform the following selections: You Are The New Day, Só Danco Samba (a Brazilian jazz and samba song), Hotta Chocolatta (as recorded by Ella Fitzgerald), Weep, O Mine Eys, and It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing.
The Community Choir will perform the following selections: Siph’ Amandla, In Nocetem, Sing for Joy, Stars, Songs, and Faces – Poem by Carl Sanburg, and Your Soul is Song.
Both groups are under the direction of Christopher Langsford, instructor in music at Cloud County. He can be reached at chris.langsford@cloud.edu with questions about the event.
