Amber Colgrove, a voice student at Southeast Community College, will give a solo graduation recital at 5 p.m. March 28 in the Truman Center Gymnasium on SCC’s Beatrice Campus.
The recital is free and open to the public.
Colgrove is in SCC’s Office Professional program and is scheduled to graduate in June. She is a graduate of Tri County High School.
Colgrove, who lives just outside of Beatrice, has studied with Dr. Ken Hoppmann, director of music at SCC, and Karen Eisenhauer, adjunct music instructor at SCC. Colgrove will be performing songs from her two years of voice lessons at the college.
The mezzo soprano, which is the middle vocal range for women and is comparable to the baritone range among men, will sing “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind” by composer Thomas Arne and written by William Shakespeare; “O cessate di piagarmi” (O no longer seek to pain me), by Alessandro Scarlatti; three songs about singing: “How Can I Keep from Singing” by Robert Lowry, “Moon, Sing” by Jon Washburn, and “The Singer” by Michael Head.
Also on the program are “Ich Steh’ an deiner Krippen hier” (Beside Thy Cradle Here I Stand) by Johann Sebastian Bach; and a medley from the musical “Les Miserables:” “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own” and “In My Life.” The selections were composed by Claude Michel Schonberg and written by Herbert Kretzmer.
The performance also will include “Fair, if You Expect Admiring” by Thomas Campion, “Singin’ the Blues” by Donna Rhodenizer and “Climbin’ Up the Mountain,” an African-American spiritual, by Patsy Ford Simms.
Colgrove is the office manager at D’Andrea Realty in Beatrice.