CSB/SJU Music Department to host Homecoming Concert Crawl

The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University's annual Homecoming Concert is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, beginning in the Great Hall of SJU.

This year's concert will be organized as a "concert crawl" and will be moving to different locations on the SJU campus throughout the event.

The performance begins in the Great Hall with excerpts of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat," sung by the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University Chamber Choir. In celebration of Bach's son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's 300^th birthday, the Amadeus Chamber Symphony will perform "Symphony #3 in F."

The concert will move to the Stephen B Humphrey Theater. SJU graduate Michael Veverka '69 will be the piano soloist in the performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Concerto #12 in A." Veverka was a piano student of Willem Ibes and was the first non-music major to complete a recital in his senior year. He was also a member of the Men's Chorus and toured with the choir throughout the United States and Austria. He currently works as a diagnostic radiologist at a level one trauma center in Tillamook, Oregon.

The night concludes with performances in the Saint John's Abbey and University Church. The Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Women's Choir, Men's Chorus, Chamber Choir and Kim Kasling, professor of music at CSB and SJU, will perform three musical selections including Gabriel Faure's "Pavane," Cesar Franck's "Psalm 150" and Ralph V. Williams' "Antiphon."

This concert has become an integral part of SJU's Homecoming Weekend activities and opens the orchestra's and choirs' 2014-15 season.

Tickets are $13 for adults and $8 for students, faculty and staff with a CSB and SJU ID. Tickets are available at the Benedicta Arts Center Box Office.

This event is sponsored by the CSB and SJU Music Department and Amadeus Chamber Symphony.