Chamber Singers to perform ‘Blessings of Blue’ at Sheldon

calendar icon21 Oct 2014    

LINCOLN, Neb.— The University Chamber Singers will present “BLESSINGS OF BLUE”, the first concert in their Sheldon Museum of Art 2014-2015 Concert Series, on November 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sheldon Great Hall.  The event is free and open to the public.

The centerpiece of this concert will be the performance of Carol Barnett’s THE WORLD BELOVED: A BLUEGRASS MASS, featuring the Chamber Singers and Bluegrass Band. Other works of “blessing” and “blue” will include Stanford’s THE BLUEBIRD, Miskinis’ CANTATE DOMINO, Palestrina’s I VAGHI FIORI [the graceful flowers], DOWN TO THE RIVER TO PRAY [From the film, “O Brother Where Art Thou?”], Paulus’ THE ROAD HOME, and the premiere of a new work, TAKE THY REST, composed by a member of the Chamber Singers, Charlie Leftridge.