CSB/SJU Chamber Choir to perform sacred and secular music

The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University Chamber Choir concludes its spring concert series at 8 p.m. Monday, March 9, in the Great Hall on the SJU campus, Collegeville. This is the last performance in the Music Department’s 2014–15 concert season which included 11 performances in cities throughout Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota.

Traditionally, the program features a wide variety of sacred and secular music, ranging from polyphony of the Renaissance to masterworks of the 20th century. The homecoming concert will include compositions by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Dante Aligheri, Stephen Paulus, Eric Whitacre, Charles V. Stanford, Bob Chilcott and Z. Randall Stroope.

The 48-member choir is under the direction of Axel Theimer, professor of music at CSB and SJU who has been part of the CSB and SJU Music Department since 1969. Theimer was elected to the Minnesota Music Educators' Association Hall of Fame in 2004 and received the F. Melius Christiansen Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

The performance is free and open to the public, but donations are welcome. For more information email Deb Guertin at [email protected].