An unprecedented collaboration of nearly 100 musicians will perform an original arrangement of music from “The Prince of Egypt” composed by sophomore Jonathan Edelblut, the songmaster for Mu Alpha.
The medley features soloists from Mu Alpha men’s music fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Sigma Alpha Iota women’s music fraternity, and the Hillsdale Camerata, and will be performed at 8 p.m. on March 12 in the McNamara Rehearsal Hall of Howard Music Hall.
According to Edelblut, Mu Alpha’s songmasters have wanted to perform music from “The Prince of Egypt” for a long time, but logistics prevented them from doing so.
“The idea of doing music from ‘The Prince of Egypt’ has been a dream of songmasters past,” he said. “People have been wanting to do something like this for a long time, but the answer was always, ‘this is too hard, we can’t do this, it’s impractical.’ I would agree with them, but I sort of started this by saying, ‘no, I think we can do this.’”
Edelblut then made the possibility into a reality, arranging the entire composition himself, which took 20 hours. He also worked with leaders of the other music organizations to coordinate rehearsals, which began at the beginning of the semester.
The composition combines the songs “Deliver Us,” “The Burning Bush,” and “The 10 Plagues” from the 1998 DreamWorks film, “The Prince of Egypt.”
The six-and-a-half minute composition features vocal soloists senior Hannah Carroll, senior Matt Sauer, sophomore Jonathan Henreckson, and several instrumental soloists.
According to Edelblut, the medley will be the centerpiece of the concert.
“Other members are doing certain acts related to that, but the highlight of the concert will be the large-scale collaboration,” he said.
