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The Poets Sing at Columbia Baptist Church Nov. 2, 2009 The Lindsey Wilson choral ensembles will present "The Poets Sing: Musical Settings of Distinguished Poems" 7onCT Monday, November 2, 2009m at Columbia Baptist Church, 201 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY The concert is free and open to the public By Duane Bonifer, LWC Director of Public Relations Several years ago, Gerald L. Chafin's research in choral literature led him down an interesting path. Chafin, who is Lindsey Wilson College associate professor of music and director of choral programs, began collecting musical settings of distinguished poetry. "By this, I mean well-known poems penned by the classical poets and were set to music years later," Chafin said. Monday night, the community can hear "the poets sing." The Lindsey Wilson choral ensembles will present "The Poets Sing: Musical Settings of Distinguished Poems" 7pmCT Monday, November 2, 2009, at Columbia Baptist Church, 201 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY. The concert is part of the 2009-10 Lindsey Wilson Cultural Affairs Series and will feature the Lindsey Wilson Concert Choir and the Lindsey Wilson Singers. The concert is free and open to the public. Variety of poems set to musical arrangement The Novenber 2 concert will feature a variety of poems and poetry set to musical arrangement. "Yes, all choral literature is by definition set to a text," Chafin said. "However, usually a composer crafts a composition in something of a chicken-versus-egg game Which came first -- the text or the music? Interestingly, there is evidence in both directions." In the case of the music to be presented by the Lindsey Wilson Concert Choir, all the texts were created first. They will perform: "Hold Fast Your Dreams," by Louise Driscoll; "Things That Never Die," by Charles Dickens; and "Anyway," which is attributed to Mother Teresa and appears on an engraving on the home for children in Calcutta, India. "I especially have enjoyed teaching the Charles Dickens text," Chafin said. "Dickens has the most name recognition from his novels. But his poems are consistent with the focus of his novels. Dickens is a champion of the weak, the outcast and the oppressed." Voice student Anna-Catherine Hook of Louisville, KY, will sing Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." "While working on my research, I found more musical settings of this poem than any other poem I reviewed," Chafin said. LW Singers will craft own tone-poems Rather than singing specific poetry written and later set to music, the Lindsey Wilson Singers will craft their own tone-poems: "Who Knows Where the Wind Blows," "The Forest," "Lightning" and "The Storm Is Passing Over." "Four words form the basis of our interpretation of nature: wind, forest, lightning and storm," Chafin said. The Lindsey Wilson choral ensembles will present "The Poets Sing: Musical Settings of Distinguished Poems" 7pmCT Monday, November 2, at Columbia Baptist Church, 201 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Programs Gerald L. Chafin at chafing@lindsey.edu or (270) 384-8084. This story was posted on 2009-10-30 09:00:26
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