Saturday, April 23, 2011

MCTC Music Department presents A Spring Choral Concert


Minneapolis Community and Technical College will present a Spring Choral Concert featuring the MCTC Concert Choir and Vocal Ensemble Friday April 29 at 7:30 pm in the Whitney Fine Arts Theater, 1424 Yale Place, on the MCTC campus in downtown Minneapolis. The concert, directed by Liz Pauly and accompanied by Christopher Wolter will include compositions and arrangements by Ernani Aguiar, Jan Sandstrom and Charlie Parker among others.  Songs will be sung from all over the world, in languages ranging from Japanese to French.  Special Guest - percussionist Tom Reimer of Zoo Animal. A reception in the Fine Arts lobby will follow immediately after the concert. Light refreshments will be served.  Children are welcome.  Admission to this concert is free, but the choirs ask that you bring a non-perishable food donation that you may deposit in the marked bins outside the theater.  Food donations will go to the Hennepin County Emergency Food Network. 

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Guerilla singing Minneapolis MCTC April 13

A student at MCTC just happened to have his video camera with him and caught the choirs in one of their random singing events. Check it out.

Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong | Video on TED.com

Composer Eric Whitacre describes how he went from pop star aspirations to choral composer extraordinaire and documents his experimentations with Virtual Choirs in this wonderful TED talk. 

Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong | Video on TED.com