Saint Mary’s College Women’s Choir to tour Midwest on Spring Break

March 3, 2017 (Notre Dame, Ind.) — The Saint Mary’s College Women’s Choir will tour the Midwest over this year’s spring break, returning to campus for a Homecoming Concert on March 24. The choir will spend March 10-18 traveling to cities in Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado singing at churches and schools. The Women’s Choir is a select 30-voice ensemble that regularly commissions and performs new works for women’s voices.

Nancy Menk, choral director and music professor, has fully prepared the choir with varied challenging music. It will be primarily a program of new music for women’s voices.

“Audiences will hear new music for women's voices, both sacred and secular, most written in the last 25 years.  Composers include Americans Z. Randall Stroope, Stephen Paulus, Jake Runestad, and Gwyneth Walker, Spanish composers Javier Busto and Josu Elberdin, and French composer Francis Poulenc,” Menk noted.

 Bellacappella, the acappella group consisting of students from Women’s Choir, will perform during various concerts as well.

Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral
Indianapolis, IN
with the Indianapolis Archdiocesan Youth Choir, Angie Schott ‘13, conductor
Friday, March 10, 7 p.m.

Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Saturday, March 11, 5 p.m. Mass

Concord Trinity United Methodist Church
St. Louis, MO
Sunday, March 12, 4 p.m.

Corpus Christi Catholic Church
Lawrence, KS
Monday, March 13, 7 p.m.

Visitation Catholic Church
Kansas City, MO
with the UMKC Conservatory Singers and Concert Choir Women, Robert Bode, conductor
and the Kansas City Women’s Chorus, Cynthia Sheppard, conductor
Tuesday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.

Thomas MacLaren School
Colorado Springs, CO
Thursday, March 16, 2:45 p.m.
Concert for Students

First Christian Church
Colorado Springs, CO
Thursday, March 16, 7 p.m.

Augustana Lutheran Church
Denver, CO
with the Colorado Women’s and Men’s Chorales, Jennifer Ferguson,’06, conductor
Friday, March 17, 7:30 p.m.

Sacred Heart of Mary Church
Boulder, CO
Saturday, March 18, 5 p.m. Mass

The Homecoming Concert, to be held at 7:30 p.m. in Church of Our Lady of Loretto at Saint Mary’s, will be the big finish to the tour.

Tickets for the Homecoming Concert are free for SMC/DN/HCC students, $8 for faculty, staff, $9 for senior citizens, and $11 for adults. Tickets can be purchased on the Moreau Center for the Arts website at www.MoreauCenter.com or by calling the Box Office at (574) 284-4626.

About Saint Mary's College: Celebrating over 175 years of empowering women to make a difference in the world, Saint Mary’s College is recognized as a pioneer and continued force in the education of women. A Catholic, liberal arts institution in Notre Dame, Indiana, the College offers more than 50 undergraduate academic programs and also offers co-educational master’s degrees.