Mark your calendars for a virtual concert featuring the musical talents of three area community colleges.
“Collaborative Hope†will premiere on Thursday, April 8, at 7 p.m. on YouTube. The pre-recorded event will feature four choirs from Rend Lake College, Southeastern Illinois College and John A. Logan College.
RLC Music Professor Sara Alstat-Sanders said how the idea came together was through personal introductions. She said she had SIC choir director Clinton Cory Garmane in class when he was a student at RLC. Garmane’s friendship with JALC choir director Carlyn Zimmermann made the final piece of the connection complete.
The collaboration between the choirs allows for a richer sound since there are able to have more members involved.
“It is a bigger and better thing if we can do it all together,†Alstat-Sanders said.
All choirs will sing “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers,†“Amazing†and “Nothin’ Gonna Stumble My Feet.â€
The choirs will then have their own individual song selections. The Rend Lake Concert Choir will perform “Set Me As a Seal,†which is a biblical text from the book Song of Solomon. The SIC Concert Choir will sing “Till We Meet Again.†The song “How Can I Keep From Singing†will be performed by the JALC Concert Choir while the JALC Chamber Choir will sing “While I Breathe, I Hope."
Brandyn McGhee will be in charge of audio and video editing.
The concert offers a great opportunity to safely enjoy music from local college students, all from the comforts of home. Other concerts from the RLC music program are to be announced at a later date.
Click here to be directed to the RLC YouTube page. For more information about the RLC music program, visit https://rlc.edu/programs-and-degrees/381-music.
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