Penn State's Oriana Singers will present its annual fall campus performance at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, in Esber Recital Hall on the University Park campus. Highlights include selected movements from Hugo Distler's 25-movement set "Der Jahrkreiss" (The Circle of the Liturgical Year) and three compositions incorporating texts by William Shakespeare. The choir is conducted by Jayne Glocke and is joined by collaborative pianist Svetlana Rodionova. Erik Clayton serves as guest organist. A small chamber choir of Oriana Singers members, Discantus, will also perform. Discantus is conducted by Willa Taylor Choral Intern Grace Watson-Martin, a senior music education major.
Tickets are $4.99 general admission and $2 students. No advance ticket purchase is available. Ticket sales begin 45 minutes prior to the concert in the lobby. Cash only.
This concert is available on livestream at Penn State School of Music.
Conducted by Jayne Glocke, Oriana Singers is a treble choir composed of sixty women representing a wide variety of majors at University Park. Repertoire includes music written for treble voices from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century: madrigals, motets, part-songs, folk songs, musical theatre, and music by female composers. The choir has performed by audition at conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. Since 2005, Oriana Singers has performed major choral works including "Symphony No.2 in C Minor" (“Resurrection”) by Gustav Mahler, "Ein deutsches Requiem" by Johannes Brahms, "Symphony No. 9 in D Minor" ("Choral") by Ludwig van Beethoven, the Verdi "Requiem" and the Poulenc Gloria. They have also appeared in Penn State Opera Theatre's opera gala performances and the production of "Hansel and Gretel." In addition to its two campus concerts per year, the choir also regularly appears on the School of Music's annual Mosaic concert. Enrollment is by audition with the conductor. Discantus, a female chamber choir of eight to 14 voices, is composed of members of the Oriana Singers. The repertoire includes Renaissance madrigals arranged for treble voices as well as folk songs, spirituals and popular songs. Enrollment is by audition with the conductor and current membership.