University of Alabama Women’s Chorus


The mission of the UA Women’s Chorus is to provide students, both majors and non-majors, with a choral experience that will be rewarding and life enriching. The Women’s Chorus is committed to the performance of choral music repertoire at its highest level. It is designed to provide the background, training, and experience, when coupled with prerequisite coursework in other areas needed for those wishing to enter the choral, voice, or music education fields. The ensemble experience may become a forum for the synthesis of component parts of a complete music education. The choral art is a medium for communication between people, and it is the development of this expressive communication that is at the heart of the philosophy that guides this ensemble.


Conceptual Framework - University of Alabama Women’s Chorus Choral music at the University of Alabama is committed to the performance of choral music repertoire at its highest level. The purpose of the Women’s Chorus is to provide students, both majors and non-majors, with a choral experience that will be rewarding and life enriching. It is designed to provide the background, training, and experience, when coupled with prerequisite coursework in other areas needed for those wishing to enter the choral, voice or music education field. The ensemble experience may become a forum for the synthesis of component parts of a complete music education. The choral art is a medium for communication between people, and it is the development of this expressive communication that is at the heart of this philosophy.


Marvin E. Latimer Jr. is currently Associate Professor, Head of the Music Education Department, and Assistant Director of the School of Music at the University of Alabama. He received a BME and MME from Wichita State University and a PhD in Music Education from the University of Kansas. Dr. Latimer taught secondary choral music in Wichita, Kansas and served as Assistant Professor of Music Education at Wichita State University prior to his appointment at Alabama. In addition to his work in education, he has been active as Church Choir Director, Community Choir Director, Performer, Music Theater Director and Producer, Technical Director, and Scenic Designer. He has published research in numerous journals and is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international music conferences and symposia. Dr. Latimer is Past President of the Alabama Choral Directors Association and Chair of the Organizational History Subcommittee of the ACDA Research and Publications Committee.


Friday, 7:30 PM BJCC Theater


Concert Program


Lasciate i monti, from L’Orfeo . .........................................................................................Claudio Monteverdi (1586–1643) ..................................................................................................................................................................Andrew Minear, arr. .................................................................................................................................................................................Manuscript


Dixit................................................................................................................................Johann Michael Haydn (1737–1806) .....................................................................................................................................................................Martin Banner, ed. ...................................................................................................................................................................Lorenz Corporation


Romance ...................................................................................................................................Claude Debussy (1862–1918) ........................................................................................................................................................................Alan Raines, arr. .............................................................................................................................................Alliance Music Publications, Inc.


Ständchen (Op. 135) ..................................................................................................................Franz Schubert (1797–1828) ..........................................................................................................................................................................Ryan Kelly, ed. .................................................................................................................................................Choral Public Domain Library


There Will Come Soft Rains .............................................................................................................Kevin Memley (b. 1971) .....................................................................................................................................................................Pavane Publishing


The Thing with Feathers ...................................................................................................................... Amir Zaheri (b. 1979) .................................................................................................................................................................................Manuscript


Sing You Home ................................................................................................................................................................Innes ........................................................................................................................................................................Leslee Heys, arr. .................................................................................................................................................................................Manuscript


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