The Sinclair Choral Invitational Concert will return to Kettering Seventh-Day Adventist Church with a free performance and open invite to the entire community.
The Sinclair Community College Chorale, Chamber Choir and Women’s Ensemble will perform in company with Miamisburg High School, Stivers School for the Arts and Vandalia– Butler High School on Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.
Each of the six ensembles will perform independently, before joining together to close the concert with a performance of “Achieved is the Glorious Work” by Joseph Haydn.
Nolan W. Long, associate professor of Music and ensemble director of the Sinclair Chorale, Women’s Ensemble and Chamber Choir, said that changes made year-to-year regarding ensemble and repertoire, allow for variety and continuity.
“My goal with my students here at Sinclair is to be able to provide them educational opportunities and provide them some of the standards of the choral repertoire,” Long said. “What I strive to do is provide them some standards and help them to learn how to produce them and sing them really well. And at the same time, try to balance those standards with some things that are very contemporary, but still classical choral music.”
Long said this collaborative effort within Sinclair’s nationally accredited Music Department and the Kettering Adventist Church has come to yield several benefits since it began in 2007.
“This type of opportunity provides our students the opportunity to perform before a large audience with community involvement,” he said. “That doesn’t happen very much in many community colleges throughout the country.”
Long said the Kettering Adventist Church not only strives to reach out to the community and invite outside performances, but is accommodating with a set up that allows for sufficient parking, congregation area and concert floor space.
“I see this as not only an outreach to the community for our college as a whole, but also an opportunity for students to be able to perform in a large facility where they have to learn how to project their voices,” Long said.
Long added that performing in a different acoustical environment requires a different thought process and preparation of students and that this larger venue demands adjustments in diction, voice projection and physical presentation.
This transition won’t be new to second-year Music Education student and Treasurer of the Choral Music Association Michelle Robinson. She said that she is looking forward to performing, along with helping to lead the younger members of the group in the invitational.
“My hope is that the audience members will be able to have a delightful evening of appreciation of quality music of different ensembles throughout the entire Dayton area,” Long said.
Long and Daniel B. Greene will also be conducting at The Holiday Concert on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. at the Blair Hall Theatre.