The performance is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. The program will feature choral and brass music of a variety of time periods and styles, including highlights from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, a song cycle the choir performed February 9 in Hickory with the Western Piedmont Symphony. Other selections include music by Rosephanye Powell, Florence Price, Harry Belefante, Orlando Gibbons, Michael Costello, Susan LaBarr, Darin Lewis, Eslon Hindundu, Dan Forrest, and F. Melius Christiansen.
The A Cappella Choir is directed by Dr. Ryan Luhrs and accompanied by Jeana Neal Borman. Dr. Christopher Nigrelli conducts the LRU Brass Ensemble. Senior music majors Sydney Weaver ’24 and Kristen Turner ’24 will also lead the choir in performance.
Founded in 1935 by St. Olaf Choir alumnus Kenneth Lee, the Lenoir-Rhyne A Cappella Choir is Lenoir-Rhyne University’s flagship choral ensemble. The choir performs frequently, including an annual fall concert, A Lenoir-Rhyne Christmas, and spring tour. In May of 2023, the choir traveled to Spain and performed in Toledo, Seville, Grenada, and Madrid. In 2019, the choir traveled to Ireland and presented concerts in Galway, Belfast, and the Dublin area. Other recent events include a hymn festival tour and capstone worship event commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation (2017), a spring tour to Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina (2018), joint performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (2018), Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo (2020), and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (2024) with the Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra, performances with the National Lutheran Choir (2020, 2024), and fall concert with the Hickory Choral Society (2022). Current director Ryan Luhrs began leading the A Cappella Choir in 2016 and is the ensemble’s fourth director, he follows the tenures of Paul Weber (1999-2016), E. Ray McNeely (1971-1999), and Kenneth Lee (1935-1971).
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