Skyline Singers and CC Chamber Singers in concert
The Skyline Singers will present a concert of choral music on Sunday, Nov. 12, at 3 p.m. in the Wheeler Concert Hall. The Casper College Chamber Singers will join the professional chamber choir.
According to Zachary Vreeman, DMA, choral instructor and member of the Skyline Singers, the concert program is a reflection on Veterans Day, featuring music composed by and in honor of members of the Armed Forces. The concert will begin with the 15th-century French song “L’homme armé,” or “The Armed Man,” followed by a work by Guillaume Du Fay, which uses this melody as the basis of a religious composition.
The concert will also feature works written by World War I veteran Frederick Delius and World War II veteran Maurice Ravel. Other works include madrigals by Giovanni Gastoldi and Georg Philipp Telemann, an early American song by William Billings, and a contemporary setting of the famous poem “In Flanders Fields” by Dutch composer Luc Jakobs.
Members of the Skyline Singers are all working professional musicians from Montana and Wyoming. Directed by Sheridan College Choral Instructor Robert Psurny, DMA, in addition to Vreeman, Leah Hoblit is from Casper’s Centennial Middle School. The group is comprised of three sopranos and two altos, tenors, and basses and specializes in a cappella music of the past 500 years in a variety of styles.
The concert is free to the public. Wheeler Concert Hall is located in the Music Building on the Casper College campus.