The Ames Children’s Choir will be closing the semester with a performance celebrating spring and young talents.

On Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m., 35 children from the Ames area, under the direction of Iowa State Music Professor Sylvia Munsen, will end the semester with a performance in the Recital Hall of the Music Building.

The group will perform several songs by well known composers accompanied by instruments including piano, cello, violin, harp, piano, guitar and flute.

A major portion of the concert will feature an arrangement by Munsen and Malewicki of the best known works of Irving Berlin, which will feature narration by group members Hope Okere, Hannah Polashek, Kristine Koehler, Alexandra Sibley Rundle, Brea Peterson and Meredith Stuart.

Some of the songs featured in the tribute feature the specific talents of the children in the group. “I Love a Piano” features Andrea Martin, “Easter Parade” with Anna Duple and Levi Reeves, “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” with Derek Martin and “Anything You Can Do” with Gabrielle Hunter and Martin.

The other pieces, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Simple Melody,” “Blue Skies” and “God Bless America,” will feature the entire ensemble.

The other half of the concert will also feature several soloists on the American Folk Song “Shady Grove,” including Hunter, Peterson, Sean Farrar, Brian Foster, Megvan Greulich and Sarah Bessier.

Other songs will include “Art Thou Troubled” by Handel, “Wir Eilen mit Schwachen doch Emsigen Schritten (We Hasten o Jesu from Cantata No. 78)” by J.S. Bach and “Feed My Lambs” by Natalie Sleeth.

They will also be doing arrangements of traditional tunes, including Lee Kjelson’s version of Cesar Franck’s “Panis Angelicus,” Ed Harris’ rendition of Franz Schubert’s “The Trout” and Luigi Zananelli’s version of the American folk song “The Water Is Wide.”

Featured instrumentalists will include Andrew Choi, violin; Edward Carbey, violoncello; Kristen Maahs Fallon, harp; Michael Tammaro, guitar; and Mindy Radke and Julie Anderson on flutes.

The concert is free and open to the public.