KWU
Kansas Wesleyan’s Department of Music will begin its spring schedule of on-campus performances Sunday, when the university’s choral and jazz ensembles perform in Sams Chapel.
The event gets underway at 2 p.m. and admission is free.
The Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Anne Gassmann, will perform Gloria from Mozart’s Mass in C Major, K. 317, the Sanctus from French composer Gabriel Faure’s Requiem, and a contemporary piece called The Honey Bee from The Bee and the Frog by David von Kampen.
The Wesleyan Chorale, also conducted by Gassmann, will perform Sing we and chant it by English Renaissance composer Thomas Morley, an arrangement of Louis Armstrong’s popular hit What a Wonderful World, and It’s You I Like, composed by Fred Rogers.
The KWU Jazz Ensemble, directed by Steve Lueth, will provide a selection of standard jazz repertoire pieces, including Hoagy Carmichael’s Georgia on My Mind, Summertime by George Gershwin, and Sing, Sing, Sing by Louis Prima.