Admission is free and the public is invited. Funding and administrative assistance has been provided by the HSU department of English in conjunction with the annual conference of the American Studies Association of Texas. According to Palmer McCown, director of Student Ministries, close to 90 HSU students will be paired with 50 senior adults from area nursing homes for a time of food, fellowship, and entertainment. Following a traditional Thanksgiving meal, the Catclaw Creek Boys will perform. Among our special guests will be Dr. Elwin Skiles, president emeritus of Hardin-Simmons University.
Admission is free.
The Chorale is under the direction of Dr. Robert Rankin Brooks, assistant professor of church music. The concert will feature four poems of Robert Frost set by Randall Thompson in Frostiana and two texts of William Shakespeare set by John Rutter. A brass and percussion ensemble under the direction of Mr. Lawson Hager, assistant professor of brass and music theory, will perform Fanare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland. The brass and percussion ensemble will join the Chorale to present Gloria by John Rutter, conducted by Dr. Loyd Hawthorne. Other composers represented on the program are George Oldroyd, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst.