Matthew Butt of Marriottsville Performs in College Choir Concert at McDaniel College

2015 Apr 21

Matthew Butt , a senior from Marriottsville (21104-1521) 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, April 26, 7 p.m., in Baker Memorial Chapel.

The college choir presents "Distant Visions" under the direction of Margaret Boudreaux, music professor and department chair. The concert features works with historical texts and poetry reaching beyond everyday experiences. Audience participation is encouraged.

Selections include Randall Thompson's "Choose Something Like a Star," Jimmy Van Heusen's "Swingin' on a Star," and Houston Bright's "The Stars are with the Voyager," with the latter to be conducted by McDaniel senior Victoria Mansfield of Mount Airy, Md.

Other highlights are "Toward Distant Shores" by William Grant Still, "Crossing the Bar" by David Plank and the folk song, "The Water is Wide."

In addition, McDaniel junior Joshua Harding of Federalsburg, Md., makes his conducting debut on Ysaye Barnwell's "On Children," based on the poem by Kahlil Gibran, which will be juxtaposed with "The Spirit of Adventure" from the Pixar movie "Up."

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.