The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Bradley Fine Arts Building.

After the combined Lakeland choirs open with the college's Alma Mater, the Frauenchor will perform Brahms' "Der Gartner" in German, the Scottish folk song "Ca' the Yowes (sung in dialect), Debussy's "Nuit d'etoiles" in French, the American folk song "Shenandoah" and "Adiemus" (from "Songs of Sanctuary) by Karl Jenkins.

The Lakeland College Concert Choir will continue a very international program with Rachmaninoff's "Bogoroditse Devo" in Russian, "El Cielo Canta Alegria" in Spanish, the popular Irish Folk Song "Danny Boy" and an African piece, "Dubula," sung in Xhosa, one of the official languages spoken in South Africa.

The choirs are led by Janet Herrick, a member of Lakeland's music faculty. Megan Pettitt, instructor of flute, will play flute and recorder with the choirs.

The concert band will perform "Overture for Winds" by Charles Carter, "With Quiet Courage" by Larry Daehn, "Liturgical Music" by Martin Mailman, "Alligator Alley" by Michael Daugherty and "The Lakeland College Fight Song" by Edgar Thiessen.

The works by Carter and Mailman represent standards in the wind band repertoire, while "With Quiet Courage" and "Alligator Alley" have been written in the last 15 years. Daehn is a Wisconsin composer whose music is popular with school bands, honor bands and college bands across the U.S.

"Alligator Alley" features the Lakeland College bassoon section. Daugherty wrote this music to represent a section of Interstate 75 in Florida that is populated by many alligators. The prominent nature of the bassoons in this work is a nod to Daugherty's daughter whom he states "plays a mean bassoon."

"I have really enjoyed working with an outstanding group of Lakeland students this fall," said Pettitt, who is in his first semester at Lakeland. "We are a diverse collection of musicians who have come together to perform great band music. This will be an exciting concert for all."

The Schilcutt Handbells will play in the gallery immediately after the band portion of the concert. They will premiere an arrangement of Aerosmith's "Dream On" by Janet Herrick. A free reception will also be held in the Bradley Theatre gallery following the concert.

The mockingbird doesn't hurt anyone; that's why you can't kill it. This riveting story of courage in the face of evil is brought to the stage with candor and passion. It will beckon you listen.

The mockingbird doesn't hurt anyone; that's why you can't kill it. This riveting story of courage in the face of evil is brought to the stage with candor and passion. It will beckon you listen.

The mockingbird doesn't hurt anyone; that's why you can't kill it. This riveting story of courage in the face of evil is brought to the stage with candor and passion. It will beckon you listen.

The mockingbird doesn't hurt anyone; that's why you can't kill it. This riveting story of courage in the face of evil is brought to the stage with candor and passion. It will beckon you listen.

The works of John Hubbard, a veteran art educator and artist, will be featured in the second exhibition of the 2009-10 Bradley Gallery season at Lakeland College.

An opening reception with Hubbard is set for Friday, Oct. 30, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the gallery, which is located in Lakeland's Bradley Fine Arts Building.

The exhibition featuring Hubbard's work runs through Dec. 11. The Bradley Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8:05 a.m.-3:50 p.m. when the college is in session.

A professor of art at Northern Michigan University for four decades, Hubbard's primary work is in papermaking, printmaking, drawing and painting.

He served for a year as vice chairperson for the Fine Arts Division of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, and from 1971-78 was gallery director at the Lee Hall Gallery at NMU.

He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Boston University and his MFA from Syracuse University.

Wesla Whitfield will bring a fun evening of Broadway tunes, movie songs and Hit Parade numbers to Lakeland College on Friday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m.

Whitfield's performance, part of Lakeland's Krueger Fine Arts Series, will be in the Bradley Theatre on the Lakeland College campus. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for non-Lakeland students and can be reserved by contacting Deb Fale at (920) 565-1536. They will also be available for purchase at the Bradley box office the night of the show.

Whitfield inhabits that indeterminate zone where jazz and cabaret meet. Trained in classical music and opera, Whitfield has toiled for more than three decades to become one of the most gifted performers breathing life into that exquisite body of music known collectively as the Great American Songbook.

Based in San Francisco, Whitfield now spends much of her time in New York, working such noted rooms as the Algonquin Oak Room, Le Jazz Au Bar, The Metropolitan Room and Joe's Pub at New York's Public Theater. She has also appeared in concert at NY Town Hall, Avery Fisher and Carnegie Hall.

Working with her husband, pianist/arranger Mike Greensill, the two released their 19th recording "Message From the Man In The Moon" in December of 2007, and their first as a duo. Along with several well-known tunes, the song list also features the rarity, "I've Found My World In You" written by Neil Sedaka and included at his personal request.

Together Whitfield and Greensill conduct scheduled Master Classes at Notre Dame De Namur and Napa Colleges in California and throughout the country, as well as teaching privately.

Whitfield and Greensill have garnered numerous national television, radio and written media credits including, All Things Considered, Fresh Air with Teri Gross, People Magazine, CBS Sunday Morning, New York Times Sunday Magazine, DownBeat Magazine profile and a feature in 'O' Magazine.

Greensill is resident piano player and side-kick on Sedge Thomson's weekly Public Radio show to the world, West Coast Live. He can also be caught playing jazz and singing in many a San Francisco saloon.

As an arranger, Greensill has had the opportunity to write for big bands and symphony orchestras including the Boston Pops and the San Francisco Symphony. He has also had the pleasure of accompanying such diverse vocal talents as Rita Moreno, Margaret Whiting, Broadway stars Lillias White and Franc D'Ambrosio and jazz singers Madeline Eastman, Ann Hampton Callaway and Opie Bellas.

Mike's latest CD, "The Mike Greensill Trio 'Live at the Plush Room'", is available on-line at Amazon.com. His writing and arranging for the Kronos Quartet can be found on Wesla Whitfield's CD "September Songs" on HighNote Records.

Dig a little deeper, and this classic Harper Lee novel is a tale of how a young girl and her brother refuse to learn hatred and in so doing learn to make their corner of the world a better place.

"To Kill a Mockingbird," the timeless story about courage in the face of evil, will be staged by Lakeland College Theatre at the end of October.

arrator of this new adaptation is Scout as an adult.

Through the innocent eyes of this girl, we see how she makes sense of the horrors of racism, but we also see through the eyes of the grown woman how the compassion she learned from her father, Atticus (David Neese), has healed many wounds.

Performances are scheduled for Oct. 29-31 at 7:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m. matinee on Nov. 1 in the Bradley Fine Arts Theatre. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $5 non-Lakeland students.

Lakeland College Theatre director Charlie Krebs said while many have likely read the story - maybe years before in school - the themes remain poignant.

"While the subject matter is difficult and reminds us of a difficult chapter of our history, the story is beautifully rendered for the stage," Krebs said. "The lessons of the story go beyond compassion to courage, loyalty and standing up for what's right in light of overwhelming odds.

"If you look beneath the obvious, you will discover this play is not about hatred, but learning compassion in the face of hatred. Scout learns a great lesson from Atticus that you never really know a person until you walk around in their skin. When Atticus makes his son Jem (Tyler Allen) read to Mrs. Dubose, despite the horrible names she calls his father, Jem learns about her disease and what real courage is."

Actors in Lakeland's production will employ the Laban Effort System as they embrace impulse-based acting. Krebs said he is thrilled with their work.

"The acting by these Lakeland students is magnificent," Krebs said. "They are working hard to create superbly realistic acting that steers away from being dramatic and looks for the power of truth in simple moments. The actors have to speak in a southern dialect for hours at a time in rehearsals in order to make the accent sound realistic."

The scenery will be very symbolic. The entire set will be made to look old, beaten, weathered and colorless, much like the mindset of Macomb, Ala., in 1935.

This production continues the growing interest in theatre at Lakeland. Krebs, who is in his third year at the college, has already announced that the spring musical will be a production of "Chicago," set for March 25-28.

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