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Knox College Choir Sings at Wildwood Presbyterian Church

The Knox College Choir will perform Thursday March 20, at 7:30
p.m., in the sanctuary of Wildwood Presbyterian Church.  Admission is
free.  The 52-member choir, directed by Laura Lane, professor of music at
Knox, will perform a wide variety of songs, including sacred works,
contemporary music,and folk songs from Haiti, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia and
Cuba. The tour program will conclude with Didn' My Lord Deliver Daniel,
a spiritual arranged by Stacey Gibbs.



The Knox College Choir is the premier choral ensemble of the college. 
Under the direction of Dr. Lane, the choir performs three formal concerts
annually on the Knox campus. The Choir tours annually, with regular European
tours. In March 2013, the choir performed for the third time in Carnegie Hall.
In March of 2015,
the Choir will perform in Italy. 



Wildwood pastor Greg Bostrom and Director Laura Lane have been friends since
their high school days in First Presbyterian Church, Wheaton, Illinois. 
Greg promises "a wonderful evening of music.. Laura's choir has sung at
WPC before, and never failed to enchant the audience.  And the singers are
always a great group of young people!"



The choir's concerts present a broad range of
repertoire, from Renaissance motets to major works by Bach, Mozart, and Brahms;
from world music to new and commissioned works by living American composers.
The choir has worked with many talented composers and guest conductors,
including Abbie Betinis, Dale Warland, Rollo Dilworth, Timothy Stalter, Ruth
Watson Henderson, Thea Musgrave and the late Moses Hogan. In May 2014, the
Choir will give the world premiere of a new work written for the Choir by
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi.



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