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October 28, 2009

University of Missouri School of Music’s University Singers presents Finding Our Peace

The University of Missouri’s University Singers continues its proud tradition of excellence in choral singing and nationally recognized programming, under the direction of R. Paul Crabb, with Finding Our Peace, a morning of choral music, on Saturday, November 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, in Sprague Recital Hall (Sprague Memorial Hall), at Yale University, 470 College Street, New Haven, CT. This concert is presented as a part of the Third Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization.

The University Singers, the most selective choral ensemble of the University of Missouri (MU) School of Music, is one of nine choral ensembles selected from around the country by blind audition to perform at the Third Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization, hosted by Yale University. Dr. R. Paul Crabb, Director of Choral Activities at MU, submitted recordings of the University Singers, along with a concert proposal entitled Finding Our Peace, to the selection committee. “It is an honor to be selected to perform at the conference and we are excited to have the opportunity to perform at Yale,” Dr. Crabb stated. While participating in the conference members of the University Singers will have the opportunity to attend performances, lectures, and masterclasses.

Finding Our Peace is a concert dedicated to works inspired by the struggle to find peace in the world. Featured on the University Singers’ concert is the world premiere of John Cheetham’s (b. 1939) Reveille (from Two Evocations) (2009) stressing the urgency of the message: Wake and take advantage of each and everyday. The University Singers will also perform Verleih uns Frieden genädiglich (from Geistliche Chormusik) (1648) by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). Many see the plea for peace in this work as Schütz’s reaction to the end of the Thirty Years War. Other works programmed on this concert are Nunc dimittis by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (b. 1935), Te lucis ante terminum by Levente Gyöngyösi (b. 1975) composer/faculty member at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music,Valiant-for-Truth by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), and Tomás Luis de Victoria’s (1548-1611)Super flumina Babylonis.

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