The 11th annual EARTHTONES choral concert, featuring the Goshen College Chamber Choir, Men’s Chorus and Women’s World Music Choir, included choral works in many languages, cultures and countries, including works from Bosnia, Ecuador, Finland, Iceland, India, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania and more.
The Goshen College All-Campus Band shared the Sauder stage with Lavender Jazz, GC's big band, in the ensembles' Spring Concert in Sauder Concert Hall on Saturday, March 21, 2015.
The Goshen College Men’s Chorus concluded their spring break tour to New Orleans with a home concert in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall on Sunday, March 1, 2015.
Seven student winners of the 2014-15 Goshen College Concerto-Aria Competition performed arias and individual concerto movements with the Goshen College Symphony Orchestrain the 55th annual Concerto-Aria Concert on Saturday, Feb. 7 in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.
On Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, Goshen College hosted an all-day “Music for Social Change” workshop featuring the musical method “El Sistema.” The workshop was organized by Horizon Education Alliance and several partners including Conn-Selmer Inc., Elkhart Community Schools and Goshen College. The featured speaker is Karen Zorn '84, president of Longy School of Music of Bard College. El Sistema is a music education program developed in Venezuela by José Antonio Abreu and is geared toward providing music instruction to students from low-income or under-served communities.
The 2014 Festival of Carols took place on Dec. 5-7 and featured four choirs and an orchestra, along with audience participation on traditional carols, all in a concert hall festively decorated with garlands, lights and trees.
The Goshen College Symphony Orchestra (GCSO) presented a family-friendly concert featuring music inspired by the children’s book “Old Turtle,” on Friday, Nov. 21.
Goshen College Hymn Club held a hymn singing marathon in which singers sang through every verse of every song in the Mennonite hymnal.
Performing were the Goshen College Chamber Choir and Men’s Chorus, directed by Scott Hochstetler, and the Goshen College Women’s World Music Choir, directed by Debra Brubaker. Joining the GC choirs was the Bethany Christian High School Concert Choir, directed by Nathan Swartzendruber, a 2009 Goshen College graduate. All four choirs performed individually and as a mass chorus.
Date: April 12, 2014 Photographer: Hannah Sauder ’16…
