University Chorus Performs ‘Voices in Harmony’ Concert

By: Jivanto van Hemert
Posted In: News

While so much of our lives are based on competition, Salve Regina University and Bryant University students were not competing, but instead singing together in harmony.

On Saturday, Nov. 13 Salve Regina’s music department joined with Bryant University’s Chorus to perform the seventh annual “Voices in Harmony” choral concert. Beginning at 8 p.m., the performance featured an assembly of “our friends, colleagues, and fellow music lovers on stage and in the audience for an evening of excellent classical, traditional, popular, and contemporary vocal music,” said Flo St. Jean, the choral director of Bryant University.

This event highlighted the work of both choral programs. First, there were Salve performances by the Salve Regina University Chorus, Madrigals ensemble and the student run A Cappella groups “Cliff Notes” and “Pitches with Attitude.”

Bryant University’s chorus then performed, followed by Bryant’s A Cappella ensemble “The Bottom Line.” After the two Universities performed separately, they joined in a combined presentation at the end of the concert.

There were a variety of songs performed, including “Ave Maria,” “Somewhere over the Rainbow,” and “Let the Beat Control You.” Salve’s A Cappella group “Cliff Notes,” evoked laughter with their performance of the Black Eyed Peas song “I Got a Feeling.” This year’s performance also featured selections from the Vivaldi “Gloria” which Salve’s music department will be performing in the December choral concert.

Don St. Jean, the Salve choral director, said his favorite aspect of the concert was, “the element of collaboration that music brings to it [the concert. In a society that places much on competition between groups and individuals, here are two universities coming together corporately to share in the joy of making music.”