Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Spivey Hall Young Artists and Children’s Choir to Perform this Weekend

The Spivey Hall Young Artists and the Spivey Hall Children’s Choir will be performing this coming weekend on the campus of Clayton State University.

Performances will be held in Spivey Hall on Friday, May 16 at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 17 (3 p.m.) and Sunday May 18 (also 3 p.m.) Admission for all three shows is $20 per person.

Starting on May 16, the Spivey Hall Young Artists’ spring concert showcases the achievements of the Young Artists, who will cap off their year with a program that includes performances with the Spivey Hall Children's Choir. The Young Artists sing with spirit and beauty under the direction of Craig Hurley and are accompanied by Steven Wooddell.

Dr. Martha Shaw will then conduct the Children's Choir performances on May 17 and May 18, bringing their year and the 2007/2008 Spivey Series to a close with two wonderful concerts -- demonstrating once again why the Spivey Hall Children's Choir Program under the direction of Shaw and accompanist Judy Mason enjoys an international reputation for artistic excellence. The advanced singers of the Tour Choir, Spivey Hall's musical ambassadors, will also give a preview of selections to be performed on their upcoming annual summer concert tour.

The program for the Spivey Hall Young Artists with the Spivey Hall Children’s Choir is:

HENDERSON Psalm 100; Cantate Domino; BACH Bist du Bei Mir; Laughing and Shouting for Joy, duet from Cantata No. 15; CHILCOTT Can You Hear Me?; The Truth is Great; All Things Pass; The Gift to Be Simple; TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL, arranged by Earlene Rentz, The Turtle Dove; arrangement by Andre Thomas John Saw Duh Numbuh; LEEK Goolay-yali; TRADITIONAL, arrangement by Stephen Hatfield, Amazing Grace; RUTTER All Things Bright and Beautiful; DALEY The Lake Isle of Innisfree; CALDWELL / IVORY Hope for Resolution.

The program for both Children’s Choir performances is:

HENDERSON Psalm 100; Cantate Domino; BACH Bist du Bei Mir; Laughing and Shouting for Joy, duet from Cantata No. 15; CHILCOTT Can You Hear Me?; The Truth is Great; All Things Pass; The Gift to Be Simple; TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL, arranged by Earlene Rentz, The Turtle Dove; arrangement by Andre Thomas John Saw Duh Numbuh; LEEK Goolay-yali; TRADITIONAL, arrangement by Stephen Hatfield, Amazing Grace; RUTTER All Things Bright and Beautiful; DALEY The Lake Isle of Innisfree; CALDWELL / IVORY Hope for Resolution.

General information about the Children’s Choir is available at: http://www.spiveyhall.org/education/index.php?secID=3&subSecID=7

A unit of the University System of Georgia, Clayton State University is an outstanding comprehensive metropolitan university located 15 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta.

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