Choral performance planned at Baker

Baker University’s music department will showcase its choral department in the annual Fall Choral Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Rice Auditorium. Admission is free.

The featured ensembles are Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, directed by John Buehler, professor of music, and University Singers, directed by David Weyhrauch, adjunct instructor.

The 60-voice Concert Choir will sing works by Andre Thomas, Randall Stroope, Steven Sametz, Franz Biebl, Knut Nystedt, Rene Clausen and Gottfried Homilius.

The 17-voice Chamber Ensemble will perform madrigals by Orlando di Lasso and John Wilbye, as well as Irving Berlin’s “What’ll I Do?” from Music Box Revue of 1924. The all-women University Singers will present Nancy Hill Cobb’s “Cantate Domino,” Samuel Barber’s “Sure On This Shining Night,” arranged by Emily Crocker, “Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains” from the oratorio “Elijah,” by Felix Mendelssohn, and Aaron Copland’s adaptation of “Simple Gifts.”

Susan Buehler, assistant professor of music, is the accompanist for Baker’s choral department.