The “Peace Concert 2023: A Musical Celebration” is an annual concert that celebrates not just the holidays, but also peace and coming together.
The “Peace Concert 2023: A Musical Celebration” will be held in the Performance Theatre on Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Bill Adams, professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts, thought of the Peace Concert during the holidays in Florida.
“I wanted something to be a little bit broader than that. I wanted to include things that were about peace and world peace. And so we’ve always tried to do songs like John Lennon’s “Imagine” and things like that, which is all about all coming together to make
PHOTO BY DANNA BERTEL Bossa Nova Chorale rehearses with Bill Adams, professor in the Department of Communication, Media and the Arts.
the world better for everybody. That’s why it’s the peace concert.”
The concert will include a variety of music performed by the Bossa Nova Chorale, four students who will have solos and the Mako band, who will be joining the concert this fall. Some songs that will be performed include “Carol of the Bells,” a Gregorian chant mixed with Christmas carols; a piece called “Amani” (A Song of Peace), and many more.
One of the students performing a solo is Emily Bernard, junior chemistry major, who offered to sing “We Are the World.”
“It’s a really good song, considering everything that’s going around in the world right now. So I’m really excited for that and we get to sing that alongside the band,” Bernard said.
Rehearsals for the concert started in August, and as the date for the concert draws near, performers rehearse together uniting the band, choir and solo performances.
“We’ll move downstairs after Thanksgiving. We’ll move to the Performance Theatre and have our rehearsals down there, so we can get a sense of a different acoustical environment,” Adams said.
With a bigger ensemble for this year’s concert, Bernard feels rehearsals are especially important.
“It’s coming together and everybody’s really working together and giving out opinions and helping each other out,” Bernard said.
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