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What: Moms Weekend Choral Concert
Where: Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium
When: 2 p.m. Saturday
Admission: Free
Multiple choirs will take the stage Saturday celebrating not only Mom’s Weekend, but the coming of spring as well.
Women’s Chorale, Ohio University Singers, and Singing Men of Ohio, (SMO), are joining forces on stage, along with two a cappella groups, Title IX and Section 8.
Daniel Hall, the director of choral activities at OU, said the concert is a time for choir members to present fun, well-rehearsed songs that have developed over the school year.
“It is a great opportunity for (the audience) to see all the work (the choirs) have done,” Hall said.
Hall, in his first year asdirector, said the concert will be an optimistic show because of the emergence from a long, dreary winter into the fresh beginning of spring.
“It comes at a good time,” Hall said. “It is a mom’s day concert, but it is kind of a spring concert. A lot of the themes are hopeful and springs, and all of those kinds of nice things.”
Christian Lindsey, the graduate assistant conductor of Women’s Chorale said the selections in the concert lent themselves to showcasing each group and their progress made throughout the course of the past year.
“We want the audience to sit back and have fun,” Lindsey said. “This isn’t a ‘heady’ concert with a lot of heavy, serious music. We’ve chosen a show tune, a fun Scottish song, and a rather flashy Spanish dance piece.”
One of the concert’s selections includes a collaboration between SMO and Women’s Chorale, in which they banter back and forth in “Anything You Can Do” from the musical "Annie Get Your Gun."
Other songs include a more somber moment in “Turn Around,” a pop song that Lindsey said is about “watching a little one grow up to be a woman," and a brighter track, “America” by Leonard Bernstein, which is featured in "West Side Story"
Adam Roser, a freshman studying meteorology and a member of SMO, said that he looks forward to performing for visiting mothers.
“Since we all have formed a good relationship, we can all have an exciting time performing for those who value the arts or just want to see a great show,” Roser said.
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