Chorale To Present Concert March 29

The Bradley University Chorale, returning from its spring tour to New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis, and St. Louis, will present a concert Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m. at Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue.

The concert presented by the 32-member choir will feature one of J.S. Bach’s most powerful cantatas, “Christ lay by death enshrouded,” and a remarkable work by William Averitt, “The Deepness of the Blue,” on poems by Langston Hughes. The choir also will sing music by J.P. Sweelinck, Grzegorz Gorczycki, Morten Lauridsen, Moses Hogan, and folk-inspired pieces from Haiti. 

The Bradley Chorale has performed across the United States and Europe, winning national and international recognition. The ensemble has performed often for state and regional music educator conventions. In 2013 the Chorale toured in southern Spain, presenting concerts in Granada, Seville, Carmona, and Cadiz.

Dr. John Jost, director of the Bradley Chorale and professor of music at Bradley, earned his undergraduate and advanced degrees at Stanford University and taught in California, New York, and Haiti before arriving at Bradley in 1989. He continues to direct a music camp for Haitian youth each summer in Haiti. He is co-founder and artistic director of the Peoria Bach Festival. He has won several teaching awards at Bradley, the Harold Decker Award for outstanding choral leadership from the Illinois Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, and a service award from the Haitian Ministry of Culture.