Selig Sind Die Toten

The MSU Concert Choir is the premier choral organization at Murray State University and enjoys an international reputation for excellence in choral music. Under the baton of Director of Choral Activities Dr. Bradley L. Almquist, the choir has sung invitational performances for the Kentucky Music Educators Association (1997, 2004); the Kentucky Choral Directors Association (1994,2000); the Southern Division Convention of the Music Educators National Conference (1997); the National Convention of the Music Educators National Conference (2002) and the Southern Division of the American Choral Directors Association (2002). They have toured England, Scotland and Wales (1995); Germany Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary (1998); Italy (2001); and Ireland, Wales and England (2004).

Dedicated to the study and performance of choral masterworks of all musical epochs the choir frequently appears with regional orchestras performing major choral/orchestral repertory including Brahms Requiem (2001), Walton's Belshazzar's Feast (2002), Beethoven's Mass in C Major (2003), and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (2004). In addition to standard repertory, the choir regularly commissions and/or premieres new music including Requiem da Camera (1996), Ave Maria, O Autrix Vitae (1998), and The Lamb (1999) from Buffalo composer Roland Martin; Charm Me Asleep: To Music (1998) by James Mulholland; Six Shakespearean Madrigals (1997) and Jubilate Deo by Joseph Baber (2003); and Veni, Sancte Spiritus by William Averitt (2001). During the biannual Athena Festival, celebrating music by women composers, a choral composition competition offers the choir another opportunity to perform and/or premiere new music. In 2001 the Concert Choir performed "Antiphon for a Virgin" by Tina Davidson; "Three Songs of Poems by Frederico Garcia Lorca" by Dina Smorgonskaya; and "Three e. e. cummings Poems" by Kristi McGarity. In 2003, the choir premiered "Sonnets Vanity, Loss and Rapture" by Stacy Garrop and "Shakespeare Suite" by Nancy Wertsch.

The Concert Choir is selected each fall by auditions and includes students from all of the academic colleges on campus. They regularly appear in concert on campus and frequently off campus fulfilling the university's responsibility of enhancing the cultural milieu of the entire region.

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[ladysnapey]

lol...I guess that's true. What university do you attend?

[carlispj]

What is the "M" in MSU? Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana...(You get the point).

[ladysnapey]

It's Murray, for Murray State University in Western Kentucky.

[roelant2]

The Geistliche Chor-music is written as a didactic work. Please keep up practicing! 'Selig sind die Toten'. I think the dead have turned themselves within their graves when this was performed.

[Trumscheit]

schrecklich. So ein schönes Stück so dermaßen verunstaltet ... zu undeutlich, zu laut, schlechte Qualität, ...

[Glanur2]

In my opinion, it's definately too loud...

[satBASS]

my university chamber choir sung both this and Beati quorum via at their recent concert. thats interesting, i guess great choral conductors think alike lol

[ChrisTekker]

It is definitely too loud! They sing: "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord!" and not "Gaudeamus igitur"....

[sesshyssoulmate]

too fast for my taste.