Texas A&M-Kingsville Concert Choir to Perform for
National Association for Music Education Symposium
Choir is first collegiate group invited to participate
KINGSVILLE (April 28, 2009) — MENC: The National Association for Music Education has invited the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Concert Choir to perform at the organization’s Southwestern Division symposium, “Music for All: Teaching Music in Urban and Rural Schools” June 15-17 in Dallas.
The Concert Choir is the first collegiate group invited to participate in the symposium, featuring primarily, urban and rural educators from the seven states of the Southwestern Division (Texas, Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma), along with other educators beyond those areas.
Concert Choir's performance will include selections performed previously by the group at their April 16 concert on campus. Among the selections to be performed will be Locus iste by Anton Bruckner, Sicut cervus by Palestrina and Quicksand Years by Rene Clausen.
In addition to performing, the Concert Choir also will serve as a demonstration choir for “Introduction to Gospel Music” at the symposium, providing support to the presenter by demonstrating musical examples discussed in the presentation.
