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Women's Choir and Men's Choir
April 24, 2003 :: No. 213
Vance D. Wolverton a specialist in
vocal music education, conducts the Women’s Chorus and is
department chairman. Formerly at the University of New Orleans,
he was also assistant conductor of the New Orleans Symphony Chorus.
He holds degrees from the University of Iowa and Wayne (NE) State
College. He has done additional graduate study at the Peabody Conservatory
of Music (Baltimore), Drake University (Des Moines), the University
of Missouri (Kansas City) and at UCLA. He is a member of the American
Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Conference
and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In 2001 he
was awarded the Eunice Skinner Memorial Award for “Excellence
in choral music education” by the California Music Education
Association.
Jesse Knowles is director of the
Men’s Choir at California State University Fullerton. Knowles
is also director of choral activities at Troy High School in Fullerton.
As a performer, Knowles has sung with the Pacific Chorale, the John
Alexander Singers, the Angeles Chorale, and the William Hall Master
Chorale, and performed roles in: Dido and Aneas, The Abduction of
Figaro, Songs of Travel, Les Miserables and Pirates of Penzance,
along with solos in Messiah. He is a Cal State Fullerton alumnus.
| Program: |
Women’s Chorus
Saboo, In My Quiet Place and Purple Night from This Wonderful
Feeling ...... Joan Szymko/poems by Mary Whitney
Ride On, King Jesus .. Arr. by Moses Hogan
plus selections by Allen Koepke, and James Mulholland
Men’s Choir
Mass No. 2 ................... Gounod
There’s Nothin' Like a Dame from South Pacific
....... Richard Rodgers
A-Roving ........................ Arr. Norman Luboff
I Wished to be Single Again ............. Arr. John A. Rickett |
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