Arts Quincy Magazine

MUSIC
C-SC Prepares Audio Broadcast Concerts for May
POPS CONCERT
CAMERATA 808
Release date TBA
culver.edu
Pandemic distancing restrictions have
kept Culver-Stockton College choral and
instrumental ensembles away from the
public stage, but they have not stopped
the music. Safe behind duckbill singing
masks and instrument bell covers,
and shifting between rehearsal areas
in a choreography that honors mindful
togetherness in time and space, the
C-SC Collegiate, Concert and Chamber
Choirs as well as the Wind, Jazz and
Chamber Ensembles are preparing
concerts for audio broadcast in early May.
2021 is a year for C-SC Pops, and the
choirs, all directed by Dr. Scotty Allison,
feature a large dollop of popular music
in their repertoire mix that ranges from
Josquin to jazz. Beethoven’s glorious,
“Hallelujah from Mount of Olives,” pairs
delightfully with a vocal arrangement of,
“Symphony #5’s,” opening theme titled
“Beethoven’s A Cappella 5th.” Traditional
and modern settings of the hymn, “When
Jesus Wept,” by William Billings and by
Gwyneth Walker show the power of text
to move the soul in compositions old or
new. A highlight of the audio-concert will
be the African prayer, “Indodana,” which
the Collegiate Choir coached in a virtual
seminar with Dr. Allyss Haecker, who
has sung it with her choirs for Bishop
Desmond Tutu in his home parish.
Instrumental music moves in the spring
from full forces to diverse chamber
groupings, coming together at the end
of each semester for Camerata 808,
an avant garde experimental workshop
ensemble that explores the myriad, often
quirky, ways in which sound provides
a medium for shared experiential
expression for performers and audience
alike. Drs. Trent Hollinger and Aren
Van Houzen direct the ensembles and
facilitate Camerata 808.
Although distancing restrictions do not
allow off-campus audiences, C-SC
welcomes the public to listen to audio
broadcasts of concerts on the college
YouTube channel via a link that will be
announced closer to each performance’s
release date in May.
For further information, visit culver.edu.
All concerts are presented by the Culver-
Stockton College Music Department and
appear as part of C-SC’s Academic and
Cultural Events program.
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