APPLETON, WIS. — Two Minnesota natives, freshman Sarah Lick of Hopkins and sophomore Leslie Sinak of Rochester return to their home state to perform as part of Lawrence University’s Cantala during a tour of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The tour is part of Lawrence University’s Focus On: Minneapolis/St. Paul 2007 events, which include a variety of activities throughout the year.
Cantala, Lawrence University’s women’s choir, is made up of 43 students along with a student accompanist. Founded in the fall of 2000, the choir performs a wide range of unique and challenging literature that includes traditional women’s literature, world folk literature, and contemporary works under the direction of Phillip Swan, assistant professor of music at Lawrence University.
Cantala performs three times while in Minnesota including a performance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 8 at Stillwater High School, 5701 Stillwater Blvd. North, Stillwater. This performance includes the Cantala with Fanfare Brass, a student brass ensemble, in conjunction with Stillwater High School ensembles.
Selections for the performance includes selections from “Ceremony of Carols,” “Regnum Mundi” by Jacob Handl (Gallus), “Kadosh/Benedictius” by Lee R. Kesselman, “Sing a New Song to the Lord” by Paul Basler, “Tantum Ergo” by Corin Overland, and more. This concert features Lawrence students, Andrew Stoll and Ryan Olsen on trumpet, Anna Suechting, horn, Katie Daugherty, trombone, Beth Wiese, tuba, Melody Ng, piano, Nick Anderson, bass, and Kyle Traska, percussion.
On Saturday, February 10, Cantala, Fanfare Brass, and Kathrine Handford, Lawrence University organist perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. at Central Presbyterian Church, 500 Cedar St., St. Paul. The group also performs at the 10:30 a.m. worship service at Central Presbyterian Church on Sunday, February 11.
All concerts are free and open to the public. There are no tickets required.
In addition to the concerts, Cantala gives two private performances for students at Stillwater High School and holds music clinics at Edina High School and Armstrong High School while in Minnesota.
For more information on Focus On events, visit www.lawrence.edu/news/focus_on.
