ASU Music to Join San Angelo Chorus for Joint Scholarship Benefit

SAN ANGELO, TX — Angelo State University music ensembles will join the San Angelo Chorus for a scholarship benefit concert on Thursday at Murphey Performance Hall in downtown San Angelo.

The concert, titled Faure Requiem, begins at 7 p.m. at the venue located at 72 W. College Ave. Proceeds will support scholarship opportunities for Angelo State choir and orchestra students.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $14 for students, military members and senior citizens. Tickets are available through the San Angelo Chorus.

The performance will feature the ASU Symphony Orchestra, ASU Chorale and ASU Chamber Singers performing alongside the San Angelo Chorus.

The program includes orchestral and choral works leading up to a full performance of Requiem, Op. 48 by Gabriel Fauré.

ASU Symphony Orchestra

• “Festive March, Op. 54” by Antonín Dvořák

• “Mein Sehnen, mein Wahnen” from Die tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

• “Poem for Flute and Orchestra” by Charles Tomlinson Griffes

• “Andalucía Suite” by Ernesto Lecuona

ASU Chamber Singers

• “Gitanjali Chants” by Craig Hella Johnson

San Angelo Chorus

• “Praise Him” by Craig Courtney

The concert will conclude with the combined ensembles performing Fauré’s Requiem, including the movements “Introit et Kyrie,” “Offertoire,” “Sanctus,” “Pie Jesu,” “Agnus Dei et Lux Aeterna,” “Libera me,” and “In Paradisum.”

The performance will feature a combined ensemble of 34 members of the ASU Chorale, including the 22-member Chamber Singers, along with the 48-member San Angelo Chorus and the 46-member ASU Symphony Orchestra.

The ASU Chorale, Chamber Singers and San Angelo Chorus are directed by Dr. Eric Posada, ASU director of choral activities. The ASU Symphony Orchestra is directed by Dr. Fagner Rocha, ASU director of orchestra.