ORANGE CITY, Iowa—Jordan Stone, a student at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, is a member of the college’s A cappella Choir and will perform in churches and schools in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota March 26–29.
The three-part concert will begin with sacred selections, including a powerful setting of “Amazing Grace.” The choir will also perform settings from the Psalms and “Prayer,” which was written from a prayer by Mother Teresa.
Section two of the concert will feature virtuosic choral works, including the women performing “Eatnemen Vuelie,” a Norwegian tune from the soundtrack for the Disney movie “Frozen,” and “Blue Tail Fly,” which the men will perform. “Hee-oo-hm-ha” will feature a tenor yodeler, and “Bohemian Highway” is a musical “duel” between the alto section and the rest of the ensemble.
The concert will conclude with a selection of spirituals and gospel music as well as the choir’s traditional final hymn, “Beautiful Savior.”
Stone is a freshman and is majoring in religion at Northwestern College. She sings soprano in the choir. Stone is the daughter of Dane and Jody Stone of Dell Rapids.
The 43-member A cappella Choir is directed by Dr. Thomas Holm, professor of music at Northwestern and conductor of the Sioux County Oratorio Chorus. The ensemble has performed across the U.S. and in Europe.
Northwestern College is a Christian college of more than 1,200 students in Orange City, Iowa. Rated the nation’s eighth-best baccalaureate college by Washington Monthly and a top-10 Midwestern college by U.S. News & World Report magazine, Northwestern provides an education committed to academic rigor and a Christ-centered worldview.
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by Tamara Fynaardt, fynaardt@nwciowa.edu, 712-707-7115