Northern Michigan University's Arts Chorale and University Choir will perform their debut concert of the 2024-25 academic year at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, in Reynolds Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Twenty-four undergraduate students—primarily music majors—comprise the NMU Arts Chorale. The University Choir is made up of about 40 singers representing various areas of study across campus.
Selected works are connected by the theme of “fire and ice,” and include musical pieces based on hot and cold emotion, such as Katerina Gimon's Elements, which is a multi-movement work that uses aleatory vocal techniques, overtone singing and other effects to represent earth, air, fire and water.
“The connecting theme is hot and cold emotion and how music and art can represent things such as anger, indifference, depression, sadness, love and lust,” said Erin Colwitz, Northern's director of choirs.
Other works to be performed at the concert include The Cold Demands a Silence by Stephen Chatman, Frostbound by Marquette native Thomas LaVoy, Fire, Fire by Thomas Morley, Si Ch'io Vorrei Morire by Claudio Monteverdi, Hurt by Trent Reznor, and an arrangement of Stevie Nicks' Landslide created for NMU by Zach Neufeld.