G Sharp In Concert
If music clubs, like club sports, existed, the six-member men’s a cappela ensemble G Sharp would be at the top of the list. Conceived by members of the Gustavus Choir in 2011, G Sharp has become a fixture on Gustavus campus. A popular fixture. On Friday, May 4, G Sharp brings its classic, close harmony to the Atrium in Beck Hall. The performance is open to the public at no charge and begins at 7:30 p.m.
Friday’s program by G Sharp demonstrates the wide variety of compositions written or arranged for close harmony male voices and shows off both the ensemble and the solo voices of the members of G Sharp. The selections range from Palestrina’s 16th Century Sicut Cervus to Cyndi Lauper’s 20th Century Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. The rest of the program fills in the intervening centuries and a number of musical genres. It includes classics like Tchesnokov’s Salvation is Created, a Cantus arrangement of There’s a Meeting Here Tonight, Norah Jones’ Don’t Know Why, the classic Johnny Cash Ring of Fire, Smokey Robinson’s Ooh, Baby, Baby, Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On and an arrangement by Samuel Grace ’11` of the Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher tune Rainbow Connection.
While it may be cliche, it’s appropriate: There is something for everyone on this program.
The members of G Sharp are tenors Wesley Baish ’13, Ben Batz ’12, Kevin Clark ’12 and basses Chris Gough ’12, Gabe Hanson ’14, Joe Turner ’13.
Join G Sharp for its first full public concert in the Atrium of Beck Hall, Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. As the title of their opening selection proclaims: There’s a Meeting Here Tonight!
Don’t miss it!