专辑简介

The internationally acclaimed Wartburg Choir performs music from all historical periods and styles and often features premiere works of contemporary composers, including Jake Runestad, Morten Lauridsen, Ola Gjeilo, René Clausen and Stacey V. Gibbs. Choir members are chosen by audition and represent most academic disciplines on campus. The choir makes annual concert tours throughout the United State and travels abroad every three years during the colleges one-month May Term. For 80 years the choir has toured both domestically and internationally visiting over 25 European countries, Scandinavia, South Africa, and three Canadian provinces. The Wartburg Choir is the college's select a cappella choir, one of five choirs offered through the music department. In January 2014 the Wartburg Choir worked with composer Morten Lauridsen who lauded their performance of his O Magnum Mysterium as being "in the top echelon of any performance of that piece by any choir that I have ever heard."