Corpus to present voice recital at Indian Hills

OTTUMWA ? Indian Hills Community College?s Department of Performing and Visual Arts will present faculty voice teacher Edward Corpus in a voice recital Sunday.

The 3 p.m. program will be in St. John Auditorium on the college?s Ottumwa campus.

The performance is free and open to the public.

Bass-baritone Corpus will be assisted in the program by Drake University pianist Nicholas Roth, who also will return to Ottumwa in March to perform in an Ottumwa Civic Music concert.

Corpus will perform both sets of Aaron Copland?s ?Old American Songs,? which include ?The Boatmen?s Dance,? ?The Little Horses,? ?Ching-a-ring Chaw? and the popular ?Simple Gifts.?

He also will be singing music of American composer Ned Rorem as well as selections from American musical theatre.

Corpus performed in Ottumwa as a soloist with the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra?s Pops Concert in September and with the Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra?s performance of Beethoven?s 9th Symphony four years ago. He and his wife Rachel Walker Corpus also presented a duet recital in Ottumwa with Michael Philipsen, IHCC pianist and director of performing and visual arts.