The Howard Payne University Concert Choir will present their fall program Monday, November 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of Brownwood. The choir is under the direction of Monte Garrett, director of choral activities and associate professor of music.
The concert will feature music ranging from sixteenth-century Italian madrigals to twentieth-century American motets. Composers represented on the program will include Jacob Arcadelt, Giaches de Wert, Johann Pachelbel, Maurice Duruflé, Johannes Brahms and Aaron Copland. Copland’s “Four Motets” were composed in the 1920s, while he was in Paris studying composition with Nadia Boulanger.
The works of Pachelbel and Duruflé will be accompanied by Dr. Allen Reed, organ, and a guest string quartet. The work of Brahms will be accompanied by Julia Hironaga, a senior music major from Garland, and Christopher Bell, a senior music major from Mesquite, both of whom are also members of the choir.
Garrett joined the HPU faculty in 2001. He earned both the Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Music from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, and is near completion of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his appointment at Howard Payne, he served as choral director at Cisco Junior College.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact HPU’s School of Music and Fine Arts at 325-649-8500.
Pictued is Monte Garrett
