Parkland Concert Season Continues with Ensemble Performances
The Parkland Concert Band, Choir and Orchestra will perform
Parkland College’s spring concert season continues in May with three individual ensemble performances.
On Sunday, May 4 at 3 p.m., the Parkland College Concert Band will perform "May the Fourth Be with You" at the Lincoln Square Mall. Selections include "Four Scottish Dances" by Malcolm Arnold, "Folk Suite" by William Grant Still, "First Suite in Eb" by Gustav Holst, and "The Empire Strikes Back" by John Williams and transcribed by Jack Bullock. Dr. Matthew Dixon will direct the performance.
The Parkland Choir will perform on Wednesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. on Parkland’s Second Stage. Dr. Cheryl Morganson will direct the performance.
Their selections include "Pie Jesu" from "Requiem" by Gabriel Fauré, "Agony" from the musical "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim, "Su, su, su pastorelli vezzosi, SV 166" with lyrics by anon and music by Claudio Monteverdi, and "Rise" from the Justice Choir Songbook with lyrics and music by Arianne Abela.
The group will also perform "Wild Uncharted Waters" from "A Little Mermaid" (2023) with lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and music by Alan Menken, "Hey, Little Songbird" from the musical "Hadestown" by Anaïs Mitchell, "Easy as Life" from the musical "Aida" with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Elton John, and "One Moment In Time" by Albert Hammond and John Bettis.
In "Sounds of Spring," the Parkland Orchestra will perform on Sunday, May 11 at 3 p.m. at Centennial High School’s Aldridge Auditorium. The group will perform "The First Day of Spring" by Leroy Anderson, "Oboe Concertino, Op. 110" by Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, "Variations on a Shaker Melody" by Aaron Copland, "Russian Easter Overture" by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and arranged by Sandra Dackow, "(Up)Lifted” by Brian Balmages, and music from "West Side Story" by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Dr. Rodney Mueller will direct the performance.
For more information, visit parkland.edu/musicensembles.