{"id":4236,"date":"2023-04-26T14:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2023-04-26T14:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:20:19","slug":"concert-chorale-embarks-on-musical-journey-to-spain-during-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/26\/concert-chorale-embarks-on-musical-journey-to-spain-during-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Chorale embarks on &#8216;musical journey&#8217; to Spain during performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Sunday afternoon the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-communication-fine-arts\/departments\/john-m-long-school-music\/ensembles\/concert-chorale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troy University Concert Chorale<\/a> performed at the St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concert centered around a piece called Romancero Gitano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One of our guitar faculty, Dr. Robert Gibson, he has a doctorate and guitar and he approached me,&#8221; said Lecturer of Choral Music Dr. Scott Sexton. &#8220;He&#8217;s like &#8216; I have this really cool work I&#8217;ve been dying to play. Would you consider doing a choir?&#8217; The result was a beautiful collaboration. We just had a great time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the collaboration with Gibson, Sexton also said he has a personal connection with this piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My grandfather is from Puerto Rico and his grandparents were from Spain and also when I was the undergrad student at Troy University long ago, I minored in Spanish so there&#8217;s lots of Spanish cultural connections and I was happy to do a concert based on these connections.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romancero Gitano was the centerpiece at the concert. The other songs performed were also based on the Flamenco Style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We had a Mexican Renaissance piece,&#8221; Sexton said. &#8220;We had also had a Spanish piece set to Matthew chapter 18 verses 19 and 20. We end it with a really exciting Mexican folk song. The arrangement of that had lots of hand clapping and lots of fun rhythms.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sexton said he is very proud of the work the students have put in to perform these pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The students just did an amazing job,&#8221; Sexton told TrojanVision. &#8220;Not only did they sing the music so beautifully, they just really internalized it and really took the meaning to heart so it was very heartfelt. I felt very proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think was the prevailing emotion this is such a wonderful ensemble and to get to call these people my peers my friends,&#8221; said choral member Madelyn Huston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see updates and other scheduled performance times, visit Troy University Concert Chorale&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100037188643038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Sunday afternoon the Troy University Concert Chorale performed at the St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>The concert centered around a piece called Romancero Gitano.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our guitar faculty, Dr. Robert Gibson, he has a doctorate and guitar and he approached me,&#8221; said Lecturer of Choral Music Dr. Scott Sexton&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/26\/concert-chorale-embarks-on-musical-journey-to-spain-during-performance\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[5,17],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","topics-college-of-communication-and-fine-arts","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}