MCC bands, chorus to perform concerts
Submitted by McHenry County College
McHenry County College will host a Jazz Concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, and an MCC Band and Chorus spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 29. All concerts will take place in the Luecht Conference Center at MCC in Crystal Lake.
On April 25, the MCC Jazz Combo and MCC Jazz Ensemble return for their spring concert at 7 p.m. The Jazz Combo, directed by Thomas Takayama, Ph.D., will perform a variety of selections, such as “Five Brothers” and “Walkin’ Shoes,” both by Gerry Mulligan; “Look To The Sky” by Antonio Carlos Jobim; “In Walked Bud” by Thelonious Monk; and “Freedom Jazz Dance” by Eddie Harris.
The Jazz Ensemble will perform “So What” by Miles Davis, “Take Five” by Paul Desmond, “Up Jumped Spring” by Freddie Hubbard, “Blue Bossa” by Kenny Dorham and “Straight No Chaser” by Thelonious Monk.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, April 29, the MCC Concert Band, under the direction of Paige Lush, Ph.D., will include such selections as “Mars” from The Planets by Gustav Holst; “Prelude,” “Siciliano” and “Rondo” by Malcolm Arnold; “El Choclo” by A.G. Villoldo; and “English Folk Song Suite” by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
In addition, the MCC Chorus, under the direction of Steven Szalaj and piano accompaniment by Emily Jane Morlan, will perform an array of songs, with a vocal ensemble performing “The Last Rose of Summer,” an Irish Folk Song, arranged by Darmon Meader; “I Have Dreamed” from “The King And I” by Richard Rodgers, arranged by Kirby Shaw, with soloists Kathryn Madigan, and Jake Seelye.
Songs performed by the full chorus include: “Veni Sancte Spiritus,” K. 47 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with soloists Alexis Artner, Danielle Kattner, Jesse Thielsen and Anthony Colangelo; “Up To the Mountain” (MLK Song) by Patty Griffin, arranged by Mac Huff, with soloists Renn Hollander, Marianne Ling and Lindsay Tullar; and “People” from “Funny Girl” by Jule Styne, arranged by David Lantz III.
The finale, “I’m Seventeen Come Sunday,” an English folk song arranged by Percy Grainger, will be accompanied by members of the MCC Concert Band.
The concerts are free and open to the public. The college is at 8900 Route 14 in Crystal Lake. For details, call Michael Hillstrom at (815) 479-7814.