Baylor's Concert Choir and Bella Voce in Virtual Concert

The Baylor University Concert Choir and Baylor Bella Voce will stream a joint concert called “We WILL Sing!” on Tuesday, April 27, beginning at 7:30 p.m. These two ensembles are conducted by Lynne Gackle, Director of Choral Activities. The accompanist is Maggie Stith, and the graduate conductors are Jenna Hernández, Will McLean, and Jon Snyder. Others taking part are organist Chase Douthit and drummer Michael Lester.
Opening the program will be the 24-voice women’s choir, Bella Voce, with “Sing a Mighty Song” by American composer Daniel Gawthrop, an arrangement by Shane Warby of Charles H. Gabriel’s “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” and “Cantate Domino” by the seventeenth-century German master, Heinrich Schütz.
Bella Voce will also perform the Robert Victor Scholz setting of “What Wondrous Love Is This,” Daniel Gawthrop’s “Sing Me to Heaven,” South African composer Michael Barrett’s arrangement of the traditional isiXhosa song “Indodana,” and two pieces by American composer Sarah Quartel: “Songbird” and “Voice on the Wind.”
The 65-voice Concert Choir will open its portion of the program with American composer Shawn Kirchner’s “Cornerstone,” American composer Eric Whitacre’s “Sing Gently,” and English composer Gerald Finzi’s “My Spirit Sang All Day.”
Also to be heard are the Concert Choir’s performances of American composer David Dickau’s “If Music Be the Food of Love” and Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen’s “Norwegian Alleluia.” The Arnesen piece was written in 2016 on a commission by the Baylor University A Cappella Choir.
This concert by the Baylor University Concert Choir and Bella Voce was pre-recorded for streaming on April 27. To join the virtual audience, click here.