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The Music Department at MCTC will present a short lunch time concert on September 20th at 12:00 noon in the Helland Student Center Multi-Purpose Room (H 1002) on the MCTC campus. The event is free and open to the public. Members of the music faculty are experienced performers, in a variety of styles from jazz and blues to folk and classical. This melding of musical traditions will create an eclectic and engaging event. Hope to see you there!

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Join MCTC music faculty members Liz Pauly and Sarah Greer along with the MCTC Choirs in a session designed to leave you humming a new tune. By the time you leave this session you will have learned several fun songs made to be sung in community, participated in group improvisations, and learned some breathing, posture and stretching exercises to help calm and relax yourself.

Singing for Stress Relief
Student Success Day
Date: September 14, 2016
Time: 11:00 – 11:50 a.m.
Location: MCTC Campus, Helland Center, H 1002

VocalEssence will be presenting Four Saints in Three Acts – an opera with libretto by Gertrude Stein and music by Virgil Thompson.

The accordion is an important part of this particular score, so Dee will be heavily featured on these performances. For more information, click the link below.

http://www.thecowlescenter.org/calendar-tickets/vocalessence

The Minneapolis Community and Technical College Vocal Ensemble has been invited to join the award winning vocal ensemble Cantus as part of Cantus’ 2015-2016 season. The Vocal Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Pauly will be featured on the upcoming concert Would You Harbor Me? – a concert centered around themes of crisis, homelessness, resilience, isolation, belonging and community.

Cantus, a nine-voice full-time professional ensemble, began as a student led organization at St. Olaf College in 1995 and transitioned into a professional ensemble in 1999. They have been described as “the premier men’s vocal ensemble in the United States” (Fanfare Magazine). In 2009 they won the prestigious Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence from Chorus America, and have performed with such notable organizations as The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Pops. Cantus is one of only two professional classical all-male vocal ensembles in the United States, and the only professional vocal ensemble led entirely by its members.

“It is an incredible honor for the Vocal Ensemble to have the opportunity to sing with Cantus.” says their director, Liz Pauly. “They are fantastic musicians and incredibly creative in their approach to choral music. We are all very excited to be working with them.”

The concert, Would You Harbor Me?, will be on Thursday, April 7, 2016, 7:30 pm. The location will be Antonello Hall, MacPhail Center for Music – 501 S 2nd St in Minneapolis. Tickets can be purchased directly from the Cantus website [cantussings.org] or by calling 612.435.0055.

For more information, contact Liz Pauly. Email: Elizabeth.pauly@minneapolis.edu. Phone: 612-200-5278.

Join MCTC music faculty members Liz Pauly and Sarah Greer along with the MCTC Choirs for a session designed to help chase away the winter blues. By the time you leave this session you will have learned several fun songs made to be sung in community, participated in group improvisations, and learned some breathing, posture and stretching exercises to help calm and relax your winter-weary body.

Singing for Stress Relief
Time: 11:00 -11:50 a.m.
Location: Helland Center Multi-Purpose Room (H 1002)
Date: February 25, 2016 – Student Success Day

Wow – we’re going to have to say “we knew him when”. Our own Alex Richter’s video “I Know, I Know” got a mention in City Pages’ “This Week’s Five Must See Minnesota Music Videos”.

To quote the article, “There isn’t much out there on the Drake-sounding mood-makers, but the mysterious group has been releasing a sequence of video that reveal, at the very least, that they have chops good enough that the particulars aren’t so important.” Amen to that – way to go Alex.

I Know, I Know

You can find more Solana on SoundCloud.

The MCTC Yellow Ribbon Steering Committee recently shared a brief video thanking the MCTC Choirs for singing the National Anthem at a flag raising ceremony commemorating veterans on November 10.

The choirs sang The Star Spangled Banner at MCTC’s Veterans’ Day event November 10, 1915.

Minneapolis Community and Technical College will present an Early Winter Concert featuring the MCTC Concert Choir and Vocal Ensemble Friday December 11 at 7:30 pm in the Whitney Fine Arts Theater, 1424 Yale Place, on the MCTC campus in downtown Minneapolis. The concert, directed by Dr. Elizabeth Pauly and accompanied by Christopher Wolter will feature the choirs’ characteristic blend of European art music with folk and traditional music from across the globe.  From Stephen Paulus’s gorgeous A Savior from on High to Frode Fjellheim’s Eatnemen Vuelie (recently made famous by the Disney animated film Frozen) this is a concert not to be missed.  Joining the choirs will be guest artists percussionist Ricardo Bennett,  flautist Julie Johnson, guitarist Christopher Becknell, accordionist DeeAnna Langley and bassist Paul McFarland. A reception in the Fine Arts lobby will follow immediately after the concert. Light refreshments will be served.  Children are welcome.  Admission to this concert is free, but the choirs ask that you bring a non-perishable food item which will benefit MCTC students in need.

Want a flier to post or share with friends? Click here: MCTC Winter Concert 15

This is an event not to be missed. Krista Tippett hosts a live event in Loring Park this Thursday evening in Loring Park from 7-9. The event is free but you will need to make a reservation to guarantee admission. Featuring ethnomusicologist Sowah Mensah, percussionist Marc Anderson and composer Chris Beatty. For more information and to make reservations, here is the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/your-audio-selfie-mapped-by-music-tickets-19425013739

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