Here's a university concert you may watch from home
Bluffton University’s spring gospel choir and jazz concert will be streamed for viewing at www.bluffton.edu/mus starting at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 10.
At 5:30 p.m., the conductors will provide a pre-concert talk with audience members via Zoom. Visitwww.bluffton.edu/mus for more information and to access the Zoom meeting.
Under the direction of Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, music department chair, the gospel choir will celebrate this season of Easter by singing songs by Kirk Franklin, Handel’s Messiah: A Soulful Celebration and Donald Lawrence.
The group will perform to tracks created by James Vines, Terry Davis and Wesley Sellers with special assistance from Kendall Nesbitt, new adjunct professor at Bluffton, who teaches the new digital music course.
Under the direction of Dr. Andrew Liebermann, assistant professor of music, the jazz ensemble will perform the music of Oliver Nelson, Snarky Puppy and pay tribute to the late jazz arranger Sammy Nestico.
With the concert is being held virtually, free-will offerings will be taken for music scholarships atwww.bluffton.edu/givetomusic.
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