IHCC plans winter concert

OTTUMWA ? The Indian Hills Community College choral ensembles, under the direction of Laura Wiebe, will present a winter concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the St. John Auditorium on the college?s Ottumwa campus.

The groups will present a variety of American, English, German and Cuban works during the concert, which is free and open to the public.

The concert choir will perform ?Cantate Domino? by Hans Leo Hassler, Aaron Copland?s setting of a 19th-century American song ?Zion?s Walls,? John David?s ?You Are the New Day,? the Cuban folk song ?Son de Camaguey,? Franz Schubert?s ?Der Tanz,? Robert Hogenson?s ?Beat! Beat! Drums!? and ?Freedom Train? by Rollo Dilworth.

The Chamber Singers will sing three jazz pieces: ?Blue Skies,? ?The Look of Love? and ?Java Jive.?

Tono Bella will premiere the piece ?The Lake Isle of Innisfree? by Wiebe, and the men?s ensemble will perform ?In the Still of the Night.?

The ensembles will be accompanied by Emily Wolf, staff accompanist and piano instructor at IHCC.

Singers from the local area will include: Marissa Greenfield of Birmingham; Tyler Breeding of Fairfield; and Niccole Giberson of Packwood.