Music Department Performance Season 2007-2008
Performance Tours
Each year Concordia music ensembles travel throughout the United States and abroad.
2008 Tours include:
The Concordia Choir - (Southwestern States, March 2008)
Concordia Wind Orchestra - (Central CA, January 2008; San Diego, April 2008)
Women’s Ensemble - (January 2008)
Concert Handbells and Spirit Bells - (Alberta, Canada and Northern States; May 2008)
See the special site for all Concordia Handbells information
The Concordia Choir - (Germany and Poland, May 2008)
Family Weekend Picnic Concert
“Dragon Fight — Heroic Music for Knights in Shining Armor and Their Fair Maidens”
Concordia Wind Orchestra
Jeff Held, director
Saturday, February 2 - 11:30 a.m.
CU Center - Free Admission
A 45-minute, interactive outdoor concert for the whole family, including activities for children ages 5-10. Picnic lunches will be available for purchase, or bring your own!
Invitational Handbell Concert Series
Dr. Herbert Geisler and Nancy Jessup, directors
Saturday, February 16 - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 19 - 4:30 p.m.
See handbells at their best in this sixteenth invitational season! In each concert, up to five of Southern California's finest ensembles join Concordia's own ringers, each ensemble performing its own favorite selections, and all joining in a mass ring.
Women's Ensemble Spring Concert - "Another Sky: Songs from the Freedom of Youth"
Joshua Chai, conductor
Friday, May 2 - 8:00 p.m.
Free-will donation
From familiar folk songs by children around the world, to new compositions written about childhood, the subject of youth continues to inspire composers with its dichotomy of innocence and mischief. Join us in a concert of expressions ranging from the serious to the whimsical.
The Concordia Choir - Spring Tour Home Concert
Dr. Michael Busch, conductor
Friday, March 7 - 8:00 p.m.
$8 general/$6 students and seniors
The Concordia Choir, under the direction of Dr. Michael Busch, presents the final concert of their spring concert ministry tour in the superb acoustics of the Concordia Center for Worship and Performing Arts.
Twelfth Annual MasterWorks Concert Series
J.S. Bach – Mass In B Minor
Concordia Master Chorale, The Concordia Choir, Orchestra
Dr. Michael Busch, conductor
Saturday, April 26, 2008 • 8:00 p.m. Sunday, April 27, 2008 • 3:00 p.m. Reserved seating: $15 general/$10 students and seniors
Concordia is pleased to announce Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor for this season’s MasterWorks Concerts. As early as 1811, C.F. Zelter commended it as “the greatest work of art that the world has ever seen.” The large vocal work embodies Bach’s lifetime of experience in expressing theological ideas through music. Occupying his efforts for an exceptional period of time, the Mass in B Minor is a compendium of all the compositional techniques of his day and is extraordinarily rich in symbolism. As such, each modern-day presentation of this monumental work is a special event.
Other special events
November 6-7 • Concordia Invitational High School Choral Festival
November 8-9 • Admissions Preview Day/Music Scholarship Auditions
December 10 • Fall Student Honors Recital February 18 • Admissions Preview Day/Music Scholarship Auditions
March 8 • Concordia Invitational Elementary School Handbell Festival
March 29 • Music Scholarship Audition Day
May 5 • Spring Student Honors Recital
For more information regarding our events, please call the Concordia Box Office at (949) 854-8002, ext. 1526, or see www.cui.edu. Box Office hours beginning Jan. 2008 are MWF, 12 noon - 4:00 p.m. and T/Th 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. When leaving a message, please indicate that your message is for the Box Office, and leave your name, phone number, number of tickets requested, and the name of the event. Ticket requests can also be emailed to music@cui.edu.