Choir and Choral Union still accepting members
Jared Wilkes
Issue date: 1/27/10 Section: Inside Out
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Choral Union is a large ensemble that provides students, alumni, and community members with experience working with masterworks of musical pieces. Concert Choir performs for the community and on-campus activities, singing a variety of music from the Renaissance period to the twentieth century popular pieces.
Heritage Choir is an audition-only ensemble that performs a great variety of music from historic masterworks to arrangements of hymns and Christian music. They occasionally travel and sing around the greater Kansas City area and in many local churches.
"Attendance in Heritage Choir has doubled since the first rehearsal, the students are excited enough about it to tell their friends," music professor Mary Jane Wilder-Hardee said.
Students have shown more interest in the music department, mainly because of the faculty and staff.
"The instructors really care about the students and our success," sophomore Eric Newlin said.
Newlin, a music major, chose MNU because he felt that this program would help prepare him for his future career.
"I have always loved music and the professors in this department are very knowledgeable and will prepare me well for my profession in music," Newlin said.
Sophomore Karissa Wangberg shares similar views.
"It's a really inviting place and feel very at home, as well as challenged," Wangberg said. "I feel cared about; it's pretty cool."
For non-music students, alumni, or community members who want to get involved in the music program, Choral Union meets on Monday nights from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. in the choir room of the Bell Cultural Events Center.
"It's not too late to join choir and Choral Union," Leavitt said.
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