West
Liberty University choir and friends, with support from the Vance Memorial
Church special music fund and the Nutting Foundation Arts & Ideas Program,
will present "Gloria!"at 3 p.m. Dec. 9 at Vance
Memorial Presbyterian Church, 905 National Road, Wheeling.
The WLU
concert choir, university chorus and chamber orchestra will be performing three
classical and beloved "Gloria" compositions by Poulenc, Rutter and Vivaldi. The
musical groups are under the direction of Alfred de Jaager, WLU's director of
choral activities, working in collaboration with Vance organist and choir
director Deborah Poldoski Barlow.
West
Liberty University choirs will be joined by students from Wheeling Park, Brooke
and Tyler Consolidated high schools for the Vivaldi work, which will feature a
total of 80 voices. The St. Matthew Episcopal Church choir will join WLU for
the Rutter and Haydn compositions, creating a 45-voice choir.
The Glorias
are beautiful sacred music based on the Bible's book of Luke telling of the
birth of Christ. Francis Poulenc, a French
composer, lived from 1899-1963. John Milford
Rutter, born in 1945, premiered his work in 1974 in Omaha, Neb. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian
Baroque composer, priest and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice in 1678.
Doors will
open at 2 p.m. with a pre-concert lecture provided by Monsignor Kevin Quirk of
the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston at 2:15 p.m.
A free will
offering will be accepted to benefit Laughlin Memorial Chapel and Wheeling Soup
Kitchen.
Seating is
limited and free tickets are available to the public by calling, WLU at
304-336-8930.
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