The Department of Music at IUP will present a festive Sound
Choices series concert titled “Home for the Holidays” on Sunday, December 6,
2015. The concert will be performed at 3:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium of the
IUP Performing Arts Center.
This communitywide collaboration will feature all
university choral ensembles under the direction of Ryan Beeken, including the Chorale,
Chorus, and Chamber Singers. Community groups include singers from the IUP
Community Music School Children’s Choirs directed by Jessica Zelenack, Indiana
Area High School directed by Scott Salser, Indiana Area Junior High directed by
Ellen Werner, and the Calvary Chancel Choir directed by Joseph Baunoch.
Other IUP groups and performers include the Hoodlebug Brass
faculty quintet, the Legacy Brass student quintet, Hawkapella, and Crimson Chords,
with faculty performances by Mary Logan-Hastings and Oliver Lo.
In assembling the performers and the repertoire, Beeken
explained, “The holiday season reminds us to be thankful and inspires a
celebration of family and community. This first ‘Home for the Holidays’
production strives to reflect upon and remind all that regardless of our race,
religion, or other differences that ultimately, we are all the same. Through
music, diverse members of the Indiana community will come together to celebrate
the season, our community, and our humanity.”
Tickets for this event are available now online or the Lively Arts’ online ticket website. They can also
be purchased at the Hadley Union Building ticket office on the IUP campus or by
calling the HUB ticket office at (724) 357-1313. Tickets will be sold at the
door starting one hour before the performance.
Tickets are priced at $11 for regular admission, $9 for
senior citizens and groups of 15 or more, and $7 for children, students,
and I-Card holders.
For more information on this and other events within the
Lively Arts, call (724) 357-2787 (ARTS) or e-mail lively-arts@iup.edu.
Sound Choices is produced by the Department of Music and
College of Fine Arts. It is funded, in part, by the IUP Student Cooperative
Association.
