Southwestern Michigan Vocal Festival : 62nd annual festival program

Recorded during a live performance at Miller Auditorium, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 16, 2000, 7:00 p.m., the 367th concert of the School of Music's 1999-2000 season.Axel Theimer, guest conductor ; Brian Rose, rehearsal accompanist and pianist ; Karl Schrock, university organist ; Festival Chorus (in the 1st-3rd, 7th-8th works) ; University Symphonic Band Brass and Percussion (in the 3rd work), William Pease, conductor ; Honors Choir, (in the 4th-6th works) ; various instrumentalists and vocal soloists.Sacred and secular vocal music for mixed chorus, in part with instrumental accompaniment.Information from performance program.Heilig ist der Herr = Holy is the Lord / Andreas Hammerschmidt ; edited by Harold Mueller (Stephen Jones, Scott Thornburg, trumpets ; Renée Goubeaux, cello ; Karl Schrock, organ ; University Chorale) -- Bogoroditse Devo = Ave Maria / Sergei Rachmaninoff ; edited by Ken Fleet -- O clap your hands / Ralph Vaughn Williams (brass and percussion from the University Symphonic Band ; Karl Schrock, organ) -- Regina Coeli, K. 276 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Brian Rose, piano ; quartet of high school directors: Mary Lou Kosty, soprano ; Laura Lekan, alto ; Gary Oegema, tenor ; David Duiven, bass) -- The blue bird / C.V. Stanford ; [words by Mary E. Coleridge] (Karen Wicklund, soprano soloist) -- Feller from Fortune / arranged by Harry Somers (Brian Rose, piano) -- Death is gonna lay his cold icy hands on me / arranged by André Thomas (Brian Rose, piano ; high director soloist: Steve Zebell) -- If music be the food of love / David Dickau (Brian Rose, piano)