SHERMAN, TEXAS—The Austin College Department of Music will present a spring choral concert Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Wynne Chapel, featuring the Austin College A Cappella Choir, the Austin College Chorale, the Quartette, and the Consort. The concert is free and open to the public.

This final concert of the 2012-2013 academic year will be a “Pops Concert,” featuring Broadway, television, and movie music including choruses and solos from Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, the Hunger Games, Carousel, My Fair Lady, The Little Mermaid, and Working Girl. Other selections will include vocal jazz, college a cappella, and spirituals.

The choirs and featured soloists will be accompanied in some instances by Austin College music faculty Daniel Dominick and John McGinn. The concert and choirs are under the direction of Wayne Crannell, Austin College Director of vocal/choral music.

The Austin College Department of Music has a long tradition of choral performance, beginning with the A Cappella Choir. A select ensemble, the Choir performs in sacred and secular settings for the Austin College community as well as in regular concert tours throughout Texas, the United States, and the world. The Choir is dedicated to exceptional choral singing in all styles and encompasses students of all academic disciplines and includes freshmen to seniors.

Austin College is a leading national independent liberal arts college located north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Founded in 1849, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Texas operating under original charter and name, the College is related by covenant to the Presbyterian Church (USA). Recognized nationally for academic excellence in the areas of international education, pre-professional training, and leadership studies, Austin College is one of 40 schools profiled in Loren Pope’s influential book Colleges That Change Lives.