The University of Findlay’s Concert-Chorale will present “One World: the Choral Music of Mark Hayes” at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 5, in Winebrenner Theological Seminary.
   
Tickets are free but required. Tickets are available in advance from the UF Box Office; call 419-434-5335. Tickets also will be available at the door.
   
The 70-voice Concert-Chorale will present 14 pieces by Texas composer and arranger Mark Hayes. The group is under the direction of Micheal F. Anders, Ph.D., professor of music. Sharon Vaas is the accompanist.

Hayes is an internationally known writer, and his vocal and instrumental writing is widely acclaimed and performed across the nation. He is well known for his unique choral settings which draw from such diverse styles such as gospel, jazz, pop, folk and classical to achieve a truly ‘American sound.’ His personal catalog, compiled over the last 31 years, includes well over 650 published original compositions and arrangements.

Among the featured compositions on the concert are arrangements of six traditional spirituals: “Go Down Moses,” “Dry Bones,” “Steal Away to Heaven” (with “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” and “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”), “Wade in the Water,” “Here’s One” and “Witness.”

Also featured will be a set of American folk songs: “Billy Boy,” “Shenandoah/He’s Gone Away,” “Some Folks,” “Home on the Range” and “Oh! Susanna.”

The concert also will conclude with a dramatic setting of “America, the Beautiful” with narration by UF theatre major Tom Lalonde.

Featured soloists are Luther Mayfield, Lisa Ragland, Tyler Jacobs, Kevin Subler and Robert Braylock.

The University of Findlay is a comprehensive university with a hands-on approach to learning located in Findlay, Ohio, approximately 45 miles south of Toledo.