OCR Text |
Show Wagner Chorale concert slated The Roger. Wagner Chorale will perform in Cedar City on Tuesday, March 4 under the auspices of the Cedar City Music Arts Association. The concert of the world famous 26 member Chorale will be presented in the Cedar City High School Auditorium at 8 p.m. The program to be offered with feature selections from the works of Gabriel Faure, Leonard Bernstein, Wilbur Chenowith as well as a selection "Folk Songs Around the World," arranged by Roger Wagner. Folk songs from France, Spain, Africa and the United States are included in-cluded in the production. The Chorale has toured through 29 countries, and in the summer of 1979 spent a month touring South America. The Chorale has appeared in every state in the United States. Possibly a record was set during the 1977-78 season when the Chorale's tour took them to 17 cities through 24 states and to Canada's province of British Columbia. Recordings of the Chorale, like their performances, over the entire choral repertoire, and their 50 albums feature not only contemporary composers, but 16th century church music and American folk music. One of the Chorale's recordings, "Virtuoso," "Vir-tuoso," is a Grammy winner and another "Joy to the World," is distinguished not only as a Gold Record album but also as the all-time . best selling record of Capitol Records' classical division. This program is being sponsored in part by the National Endownment for , the Arts and the Utah Council of Arts. |