Wisconsin Lutheran College Spring Concert

Our Wisconsin Lutheran College's (WLC) Concert Choir will be performing a free concert here at Faith on Sunday evening, March 7, at 7pm.

This Choir is made up of students at our Wisconsin Lutheran College, which is located in Milwaukee, WI. This college, which our Foundations program partners with, is in fellowship with our national affiliation of churches, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). Students attend WLC to receive a liberal arts education with a Christian foundation.

WLC's Concert Choir will be visiting Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, in addition to their visit here in Georgia. The Choir will present a diverse, mostly acapella program of sacred and secular choral works in original languages

Choral works include:
Knut Nystedt’s I Will Greatly Rejoice!
William Byrd’s Agnus Dei (from Mass for Four Voices)
Edvard Grieg’s Our Father

Latin settings by American composers include:
Z. Randall Stroope’s emotional Lamentations of Jeremiah
J. Aaron McDermid’s Te Lucis Ante Terminum
Greg Knauf’s rhythmically complex Gloria.

In addition, the Choir will perform Eric Whitacre’s exquisite Five Hebrew Love Songs with string quintet and Animal Crackers, choral settings of Ogden Nash’s playful verses . The program in four parts concludes with favorite hymns and spirituals, including arrangements by Harry T. Burleigh, F. Melius Christiansen, and Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory, and the Wisconsin Lutheran Choir’s signature Abide With Me, arranged by Lucy Hirt.

Dr. James Nowack, director of choral activities at Wisconsin Lutheran College since 1994, holds master of music degrees in piano performance and choral conducting from Kent State University and the University of Minnesota and a doctor of musical arts from the University of Iowa. In addition to teaching and directing at Wisconsin Lutheran, Nowack serves as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator at conferences and conventions on a regional and national basis.

Under Nowack’s direction, the Wisconsin Lutheran Choir has developed a unified voice and a respected presence in the Midwest. A disciplined ensemble of dedicated young adults from across the nation, the choir is comprised of 69 full-time undergraduate students who represent a wide variety of academic majors and minors.

If you would like more information about this choir, please visit their website at http://www.wlc.edu/choir/. A picture of the current choir is available below.