Music Festival 2025

Schedule

Both concerts will be webcast on Union Live. View the PDF of the program here.

Vespers Concert - Academy Choirs
Friday, January 31, 7:30 p.m.

Welcome

Brooke Bushman

Announcers  

Samantha Bowers and Reanna Sereno

Sunnydale Adventist Academy

"Great is Thy Faithfulness"
arr. Mary McDonald


"Let There Be Peace"
Douglas E. Wagner

Dakota Adventist Academy

"Let Me Walk with Thee"
Heri F. Hemy and James G. Walton


"Siyahamba"
Zulu Folk Song

Midland Diversity

"And The Father Will Dance"
Mark Hayes

Midland Choir

"Baba Yetu"
Christopher Tin, arr. Roger Emerson

Minnetonka Christian Academy

Agnus Dei with “How Great Thou Art”
Michael W. Smith, Stuart K. Hine

Offering


Mile High Academy

"Soon Ah Will Be Done"
William L. Dawson

Maplewood Academy

"O Magnum Mysterium"
Morten Lauridsen

Campion Academy

"He’s Never Failed Me Yet"
Robert Ray


"Witness"
Jack Halloran

Benediction


Festival Concert
Sabbath, February 1, 5:00 p.m.

Prelude: "Aria" (Jan Bender)

Ed Wagner, organist

Welcome/ Prayer

Yami Bazan, university president

"Climbin’ Up the Mountain, Children!" (arr. Rollo Dilworth)

"Caritas" (Elaine Hagenberg)

"Emmanuel! God With Us!" (Mary McDonald)

Offering

Steven Hutchinson

"And Can It Be?" (Dan Forrest)

"The Lord is my Shepherd" (David Nino)

World Premiere - Commissioned for the 71st Annual MAU Choral Music Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska, in Celebration of the official name change of Union College to Union Adventist University

Acknowledgements 

Ricky Little

"I Sing Because I'm Happy" (arr. K. Paden/ad. R. Dilworth)

Benediction  

Postlude: "Fanfare" (Gordon Young)  

Ed Wagner, organist

Contact us

If you have questions about Union College Music Festival 2025, please contact us at:

gail.thomas@uau.edu
402.486.2563