Spring Fling Concert
04/12/2024
Various music ensembles will perform fun and familiar pieces in the Spring Fling concert.
Harmonies in bloom
Bluffton University’s music groups will come together for a spring concert featuring
fun and familiar tunes at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21, in Yoder Recital Hall.
Pre-concert music will be provided in the lobby beginning at 2 p.m. A jazz combo and
senior trumpeter Caleb Gaertner, a Music major with a graphic design minor from Toledo,
Ohio, will perform. Selections include “When I Fall in Love” – a tune made famous
by Nat King Cole - and “Song For My Father” by Horace Silver. Pre-concert music will
begin at 2 p.m.
University Chorale, Camerata Singers, Concert Band will all perform a varied program
of classical music, arrangements and some pieces that are just for fun.
Chorale will perform “Song of Hope” by Andrea Ramsey. Camerata Singers will perform
the “Agnus Dei” from the Requiem Mass by Maurice Duruflé, a work they recently performed
in its entirety at the Masterworks concert. Both choral ensembles are under the direction
of Dr. Bo Young Kang.
The Concert Band program consists of selections such as “The King of Love My Shepherd
Is”- a setting of the Irish hymn tune St. Columbia. Senior clarinetist Kelly Bilen,
an Art major with a graphic design minor from Archbold, Ohio, will be featured in
an arrangement of “Oblivion,” a tango by Astor Piazzola. Other selections include
an arrangement of “Epic Gaming Themes” and highlights from “Brave.” Dr. Roy Couch
directs the Concert Band.
This event is free and open to the public.