Men’s Glee Club to perform

J. Ranae Ragee

Put your books down, take a break from your floats and get your tired Homecoming bones down to the Music Hall Recital Hall Sunday, Oct. 15, at 3 p.m. for some action from the men: Glee Club style.

John Kelly will direct the tradition of over a century of music-making. There will be a wide variety of the best of male chorus music, not to mention the cuties that perform this “fab” stuff.

This includes a brilliant setting of “Cantate Domino” by the Renaissance composer Hans Leo Hasser; the devotional and stirring “Chorus of the Returning Pilgrims” from Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhauser; American composer Aaron Copland’s Revivalist song, “Zion’s Walls”; two African-American spirituals: “Twelve Gates To The City” and “Steal Away”; Frank Loesser’s carefree “Standing on the Corner” from his musical The Most Happy Fella; and a surprise number that you won’t want to miss out on!

Directing the University Chorus will be James Tener, ISU vocal instructor, Dr. Robert Molison, Director of choral activities at ISU, and two ISU student directors, Kimberly Carter and Natasha Thomas. The piano accompanist for the University Chorus is Stacis Krausman.

The University Chorus will open its portion of the program with the spiritual “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel,” arranged by Ralph Hunter, “The Road Not Taken” by Randall Thompson and two selections accompanied by an ISU student string quartet: “And The Glory of the Lord” by Handel and “Ave Verum Corpus” by Mozart.

So put your Sunday “I need to get two 1,000-word essays completed” chores down and get over to ISU’s Music Hall Recital Hall for a 3 p.m. show.