FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4/12/07

GREENVILLE, IL – The Greenville College Choir, Chorale and Chamber Singers will be joined by the Greenville Community Orchestra for a spring concert on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. The concert will take place in the James E. Wilson Recital Hall in the newly renovated Whitlock Music Center on the Greenville College campus.

Program Overview and Performers
Three settings of the historic Christian worship service known as the mass will be presented. The Chamber Singers will sing selections from the “Mass for Four Voices” by English composer William Byrd (1543-1623). The combined choirs and community orchestra will perform movements from Franz Schubert’s “Mass in G Major.” At the conclusion of the program, pianist Tom Stampfli (chair of the college Music Department) and student musicians Mickey Denner (drums) and Jason Chatterton will join the choirs for Robert Ray’s “Gospel Mass.” Ray, a pianist and composer, is currently professor of music at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. A number of student vocal soloists will also perform and Dr. Jeff Wilson, associate professor of Music at Greenville College, will conduct the concert.

Greenville College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with more than 1,450 traditional undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree completion students. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, the college is located in Greenville, Ill., 45 miles east of St. Louis.

CONTACT:
Jeffrey Wilson
Associate Professor of Music
Greenville College
Phone: (618) 664-6561
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