Dr. Thomas M. Hodgman, Director of Choirs thodgman@adrian.edu

The Adrian College Choir - Showcase Concert 2005

Listen to the Adrian College Choir

and Lenawee Community Chorus with

The Adrian Symphony Orchestra

Performing excerpt from Beethoven's "Choral Fantasie"

April 21, 2007

Craig Terry, piano

Soloists:

Gerianne Ditto, soprano (senior, BM in Performance)

Mackenzie Fader, soprano (junior, BA in Musical Theatre)

Kelly Fox, alto (senior, BA in Musical Theatre)

Tom Pavlovich, tenor (junior, BME in Music Education)

Nicholas Fuqua, baritone (freshman, BA in Musical Theatre)

Ben Rosebrock, bass (senior, BME in Music Education)

Read the recent newspaper article about the College Choir's 2008 tour to Beijing, China where they performed as part of the 2008 Summer Olympics Music Festival.

Read about the College Choir's April 2008 concert in the Daily Telegram:  40th Anniversary Concert

Students at Adrian College have the opportunity to sing in the College Choir and the Chamber Choir. Singers may also choose to participate in Opera Workshop, Musical Theatre Workshop, and the annual musical theatre stage production.  Our choirs are made up of students from across the campus, including music majors as well as students from almost every other department. Many students choose to take private voice lessons as part of their college arts credits.  The choirs regularly go on tour and perform throughout the year for special events and concerts.

The Adrian College Choir consists of 100 men and women who sing a wide variety of song literature including cantatas, octavos, gospel and folk songs, and World Music. Recent large works with orchestra include the Karl Jenkins, "Armed Man: A Mass for Peace", the Lauridsen "Lux Aeterna", and Beethoven's "Choral Fantasie".

During the summer of 2008, the Adrian College choir traveled to Beijing, China, where they performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the TanJien Symphony Orchestra in the Forbidden City Concert Hall. The choir also performed in Shanghai where they received standing ovations from their Chinese audiences. These concerts were the finale performances for the 2008 Summer Olympics Music Festival made possible by Kingsway International. (pictures)

Members of the Adrian College Choir at the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, 2008.

In 2006, The College Choir performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In May 2007, the choir traveled to Jamestown, Virginia where they performed as a part of America's 400th Anniversary Celebration at Jamestown Anniversary Park and took part in a CBS Television Special.

View a list of works sung by the choirs at Adrian College at:

 http://www.hodgmanchoirs.net

GET INVOLVED:  Research in 2007 shows that almost three-quarters of today's business executives (73%) were involved in some type of music program while in school. Just over three quarters (77%) recommend their children get involved in music at their schools and just under half (47%) support music programs by donating money. Cumulatively, the longer that executives participated in music programs, the more successful they became in life.