Free choral concert at Indian Hills

OTTUMWA ? The Indian Hills Community College choral ensembles, under the direction of Laura Wiebe, will present a fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at St. John Auditorium.

Featuring the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and Tono Bella, the concert will include a variety of American, English and French choral works.

The Concert Choir will perform a setting of the Navajo prayer ?Now I Walk in Beauty,? the American folk song ?The Water Is Wide,? ?Cantique de Jean Racine? by Gabriel Fauré, ?Think On Me? by James Mulholland, ?Three Madrigals? by Emma Lou Diemer, ?The Song that Goes Like This? from Monty Python?s ?Spamalot? and a gospel work, ?Lily in the Valley.?

The Chamber Singers will perform the English madrigals ?Fair Phyllis? by John Farmer and ?Weep, O Mine Eyes? by John Bennet. The ensemble also will sing Andrew Carter?s setting of ?The Teddy Bears? Picnic.?

Tono Bella will perform the selections of ?This Little Light of Mine? and ?How Can I Keep from Singing.?

The groups will be accompanied by Emily Pulin, staff accompanist and piano instructor at Indian Hills.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Area students who will be signing in the various ensembles include:

Birmingham: Marissa Greenfield;

Eldon: Cheyenne Ortiz;

Fairfield: Tyler Breeding;

Floris: Jessica Hodgson;

Keosauqua: Curtis Oliver; and

Packwood: Niccole Giberson.