WMU Chorale presents 'Heights and Depths'

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The Western Michigan University Chorale will present a concert, titled "Heights & Depths" at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 16, in in the Nazareth Center's Holy Family Chapel, 3427 Gull Road in Kalamazoo. The event is free and open to the public, and the building is accessible to all.

WMU's acclaimed choral ensemble is conducted by Kimberly Dunn Adams. The concert also will feature an instrumental ensemble of student and professional musicians, featuring University Organist Karl Schrock.

About the concert

The concert repertoire was picked to illustrate the highs and lows of love, life, death and beyond. The program will open with Johannes Brahms’ "Warum" from his Op. 92 quartets, which describes music rising to heaven and drawing the stars down to earth. Also featured on the concert is Joseph Gregorio’s "Love, Thricewise," an award-winning piece that takes the listener on a lover's journey—from infatuation through heartbreak into good-humored acceptance. The final piece on the first half of the program is Knut Nystedt’s "O Crux," a dramatic motet evoking the radiance of the stars.

The centerpiece of the concert will be J.S. Bach’s Cantata 131, "Aus der Tiefe," based upon the text of Psalm 130, a penitential psalm also known as the "De profundis," or "Out of the depths, I cry to you, O Lord." The cantata will feature soloists Joel Snyder and Max Wagner.

For more information about the concert, visit wmich.edu/music or call (269) 387-4667.

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