Cal Poly Choirs to Perform Debut Concert Nov. 4

SAN LUIS OBISPO -- The Cal Poly Choirs will perform their annual Debut Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Center's Christopher Cohan Center on campus.

PolyPhonics, an ensemble of 50 students, will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s “Psalm 100, Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle welt,” René Clausen’s “Where Charity and Love Are, God is There,” Russian composer Pavel Chesnokov’s “Salvation Is Created,” and Johannes Brahms’ “O Beautiful Night.”

The 11-voice Early Music Ensemble will perform music composed by Franz Joseph Haydn as entertainments for his friends. Songs will include “All Has its Time,” “The Old Man,” and “Harmony in Marriage.”

The 85-voice University Singers will perform David Dickau’s “If Music Be the Food of Love,” Joshua Shank’s setting of “David’s Lamentation,” composed by a 20-year-old student at Luther College, “Go and Tell John” by Lloyd Pfautsch.

Barbershop quartets O Snap and Wired-4-Sound and the a cappella group Take It SLO, as well as several solo vocalists, will also perform. The evening will conclude with the combined choirs singing Mozart’s “Hail True Body.”

Tickets are $8 to $15 and can be bought at the Performing Arts Ticket Office 10 a.m. to

5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (756-2787). Discounts are given to patrons who buy tickets to four or more Music Department events for 2006-2007.

The concert is sponsored by Cal Poly's Music Department, College of Liberal Arts, and Instructionally Related Activities program. For more information, call the Music Department at 756-2406.

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