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SHERMAN, TEXAS -- The Austin College Music Department will present a choral concert of popular, Broadway, and jazz selections as the final performance of the academic year Sunday, May 9, at 3 pm in Wynne Chapel on the Austin College campus. The concert is free and open to the public.The concert will include spirituals, film music, Broadway tunes, and vocal jazz performed by the Austin College A Cappella Choir, Austin College Chorale, the Consort, and selected soloists. Austin College's music ensembles draw memberships from the entire student body, regardless of major. A Cappella Choir and Consort members are selected by audition. The Austin College Chorale is designed to give all students the opportunity to sing and perform, regardless of prior experience. The A Cappella Choir, under the direction of Wayne Crannell, associate professor of music, is a 45-voice mixed voice ensemble that specializes not only in unaccompanied choral music, but emphasizes performance of the widest range of musical styles from traditional classical church music to world music, avant garde, and spirituals. The choir most recently toured Australia and is planning a concert tour of Spain and Portugal in 2007. Alumni of the A Cappella Choir will tour central Europe in July 2005. The Austin College Consort, also directed by Crannell, is a 12-voice vocal jazz ensemble.The Austin College Chorale, a 24-voice women's ensemble, under the direction of Austin College adjunct instructor in music Sylvia Rivers, will take its first concert tour this spring, with concerts in central Texas.Austin College, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), is an independent, liberal arts college of 1,300 students located 60 miles north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Chartered in November 1849, it is the oldest college in Texas under original charter and name as recognized by the State Historical Survey Committee.Austin College is included in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives, ranked among the "Best 351 Colleges" in the 2004 Princeton Review, and profiled in the 2004 edition of Kaplan's Insiders Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges.
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