Posted 2:57 p.m. Friday, April 10, 2015
The UW-La Crosse vocal jazz ensembles will dedicate their final performances of the year to vocal jazz arranger and music director Stephen Zegree.
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The UW-La Crosse vocal jazz ensembles will dedicate their final performances of the year to vocal jazz arranger and music director Stephen Zegree, who died in February. Zegree was a clinician at UW-Ls Vocal Jazzfest twice.[/caption]
UW-La Crosse’s three vocal jazz ensembles will conclude their busy performance seasons with a concert at 7:30 p.m.Saturday, April 18, in Annett Recital Hall, Center for the Arts. Admission is free.
Maroon and Gray, the Music Department’s 12-member mixed vocal jazz ensemble; La Capella, the 12-member female vocal jazz ensemble; and the Collegiates, an eight-member mixed vocal ensemble will perform. Music faculty members Aliyah Richling and Gary Walth direct the groups.
The repertoire will span over 80 years with arrangements of tunes such as Turk and Ahlert’s 1930’s hit “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home” and Duke Sharon’s setting of “Since U Been Gone” from the recent movie “Pitch Perfect.”
Walth says the concert has special significance because it is dedicated to the memory of influential vocal jazz arranger and music director Stephen Zegree. Zegree, who died in February, directed the Grammy-nominated vocal jazz ensemble Gold Company from Western Michigan University. He spent the last 2½ years on the faculty of the school of music at Indiana University. He authored two books on vocal jazz and created more than 70 arrangements for vocal jazz ensembles. Zegree twice served as a clinician at UW-L’s Vocal Jazzfest, most recently in 2012.
If you go—
Who: UW-La Crosse’s three vocal jazz ensembles
What: Concert
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18
Where: Annett Recital Hall, Center for the Arts
Admission: Free
The UW-La Crosse vocal jazz ensembles will dedicate their final performances of the year to vocal jazz arranger and music director Stephen Zegree, who died in February. Zegree was a clinician at UW-Ls Vocal Jazzfest twice.[/caption]
UW-La Crosse’s three vocal jazz ensembles will conclude their busy performance seasons with a concert at 7:30 p.m.Saturday, April 18, in Annett Recital Hall, Center for the Arts. Admission is free.
Maroon and Gray, the Music Department’s 12-member mixed vocal jazz ensemble; La Capella, the 12-member female vocal jazz ensemble; and the Collegiates, an eight-member mixed vocal ensemble will perform. Music faculty members Aliyah Richling and Gary Walth direct the groups.
The repertoire will span over 80 years with arrangements of tunes such as Turk and Ahlert’s 1930’s hit “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home” and Duke Sharon’s setting of “Since U Been Gone” from the recent movie “Pitch Perfect.”
Walth says the concert has special significance because it is dedicated to the memory of influential vocal jazz arranger and music director Stephen Zegree. Zegree, who died in February, directed the Grammy-nominated vocal jazz ensemble Gold Company from Western Michigan University. He spent the last 2½ years on the faculty of the school of music at Indiana University. He authored two books on vocal jazz and created more than 70 arrangements for vocal jazz ensembles. Zegree twice served as a clinician at UW-L’s Vocal Jazzfest, most recently in 2012.
If you go—
Who: UW-La Crosse’s three vocal jazz ensembles
What: Concert
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18
Where: Annett Recital Hall, Center for the Arts
Admission: Free