by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC
The Kansas City Kansas Community College Choral Department is preparing for its final concert of the season.
The KCKCC Spring Choral Multimedia Showcase is at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 4, at Trinity Community Church, 5010 Parallel Parkway in Kansas City, Kan. Admission is free and open to the public. However, donations will be accepted.
“People should come to this concert, because it’s rare to find a vocal concert that combines video, audio, and lighting to create an overall effect, based on the theme of the music,” said John Stafford, director of choral activities at KCKCC. “The music comes from a variety of different areas including Russian Church music, music about recent events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, environmental music, biblical stories and many more.”
The spring concert will feature a variety of choral music, expressing the joys and sorrows of the human experience. Music will be by Eric Whitacre, Jake Runestad, Mike Engelhardt, Stacey Gibbs, Anders Edenroth and Daniel Elder. Multimedia aspects will be combined with the choir performance in the form of video and audio elements. Some of the video will feature animation designed by students from the KCKCC Art Department.