Joplin Sesquicentennial
Fri, Apr 14 2023 to Sat, Apr 15 2023
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Event Details
| Type of event: | Festival |
| External website related to this event: | https://celebratejoplin.com/celebration-chorus |
| Venue: | TAYLOR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Missouri Southern State University 3950 Newman Rd, Joplin, MO 64801 |
| Description: | On April 14-15, 2023, Ragtime music will be celebrated in the Taylor Performing Arts Center on the Missouri Southern State University campus. The music of Joplin native son Percy Wenrich and other Missouri contributors will be featured. Friday, April 14th Following an all-day Acapellooza - The Art of Acapella Singing in the Barbershop Style youth vocal clinic, involving 200 area high school students, there will be a free evening concert with performances by two international Champion quartets, Quorum and Duly Noted. The song selection will include music from two genuinely American forms of music -Ragtime and Barbershop.Featuring new and unique arrangements from Wenrich's song catalog, the concert will also showcase many barbershop quartets from Joplin and the surrounding area in a mass chorus of barbershop-style singers, both men, and women, plus the songs the students studied during the clinic, all under the direction of Jeff Veteto of Springfield’s Show-Me Statesmen Chorus. The event will be held in the newly renovated Taylor Performing Arts Center on the Missouri Southern State University campus. Showtime will be 7:00 p.m. All seating will be General Admission and free to the public. Saturday, April 15th Percy Wenrich, “The Joplin Kid” tribute to Ragtime.The evening event will be in Two Acts. Act One: A tribute to the music of Percy Wenrich will highlight some of his most famous songs. Selected songs for the evening include“Moonlight Bay,” “When You Wore a Tulip,” “Red Rose Rag,” “Where Do We Go from here,” “Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet,” “Rainbow,” “L’Inconnu,” and many more well-known compositions. The music of fellow Missouri Ragtimers Scott Joplin, James Scott, ** Eddie Kuhn, and ‘Ragtime Bob” Darch will also be honored. Steve Spracklen and Robin Braun will respectively portray Percy and his wife, Dolly Connolly, in song and vaudevillian stick in the fashion the famous couple was known for in the early 1900s. Two: Many Percy Wenrich songs were composed in Four Part Harmony. His music was a perfect fit for Barbershop Quartets. Two world-class quartets, Quorum and Duly Noted will perform a selection of songs, concluding with a “Celebration Chorus” comprised of local and regional barbershoppers, plus an additional large community chorus… audience participation patriotic finale. This special Percy Wenrich Ragtime Tribute is a Joplin Sesquicentennial Event. The event will be held in the newly renovated Taylor Performing Arts Center on the Missouri Southern State University campus. Showtime will be 7:00 p.m. Limited Reserve seating is available for $15, and General Admission seating is free. |
