Joshua Harding of Federalsburg performs as part of the Madrigal Singers at McDaniel College

2015 Apr 21

Joshua Harding, a junior from Federalsburg, performs as part of the Madrigal Singers on Monday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., in Baker Chapel at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md. Titled "An Evening of Madrigals," the event is free and open to the public. Audience participation is encouraged.

Under the direction of music professor and department chair Margaret Boudreaux, the Madrigal Singers are the premier vocal ensemble at McDaniel College. The group performs diverse a cappella styles from Renaissance pieces to contemporary jazz vocal music.

The May 4 program, Boudreaux said, highlights "songs primarily focused on many aspects of love, both happy and sad. Many incorporate dance and adventurous rhythmic nuance into complex emotional expressions. Most of the songs are in English, both from England and contemporary American arrangements, but other languages, such as French, German, Italian and Spanish, emphasize the universality of the musical celebration of love and human companionship."

For more information, call 410-857-2599. Visit www.mcdaniel.edu 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.