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Antoinette Martin
  • Cape Coral, Fla.

Antoinette Martin of Cape Coral, Fla. Performs in College Choir Concert at McDaniel College

2013 Nov 4

Antoinette Martin, a Freshman from Cape Coral, Fla., performs in the annual College Choir Concert at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md. The performance, which is free and open to the public, takes place Sunday, November 24, 7 p.m., in Baker Memorial Chapel. McDaniel's 57th annual tree lighting ceremony follows the concert.

The college choir presents "A Choral Banquet" under the direction of Margaret Boudreaux, music professor and department chair, with David Kreider serving as accompanist. In addition to music from all over the world, the concert features several familiar carols during which audience participation is encouraged.

According to Boudreaux, "Since this program takes place the weekend before Thanksgiving, we are presenting a focus on the joys of agathering together' for a joyful feast. Themes include food, of course, and also the longings for family and community that are the reasons we set time aside for such feasts throughout the year."

She added, "On one end of the spectrum, we have a splendid baroque setting by Pachelbel of the Thanksgiving hymn aNun danket alle Gott (Now thank we all our God),' complete with brass ensemble. On the other end, we'll present the more adown to earth' look at feasting by P.D.Q. Bach in the choral movements from aThe Seasonings' with slide whistles and kazoos. In between, we have both serious and satirical settings by Palestrina, Mendelssohn, and contemporary composers such as Ysaye Barnwell, John Rutter, Eric Whitacre, and others."

For more information, call 410-857-2599. Visit www.mcdaniel.edu/music for information about the college and the music department.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 Colleges that Change Lives and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.