SMC Debuts New Fight Song during Collage Concert

Southwestern Michigan College’s community will hear its new fight song for the first time as the finale to the April 21 Collage Concert.

 SMC Bands alumni have been invited back to play on the debut under the direction of retired Director of Bands Dr. Jonathan Korzun.

Korzun, Director of Bands for 28 years, 1991-2019, was commissioned to compose this original work for SMC and will conduct its premiere.

This final performance event of the year takes place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the theatre of the Dale A. Lyons Building on SMC’s Dowagiac campus.

The Collage Concert is a seamless, fast-paced evening of music in a variety of genres highlighting student soloists and small groups.

Director of Bands Mark Hollandsworth said SMC’s Jazz Combo will be performing, as will the Flute Choir composed of college flutists, community members and local high school students.

A small combo will perform an original composition by guitarist Maddy Moore of Edwardsburg.

Director of Choral Activities David Carew said Select Voices will be singing a Latin jazz arrangement of The Beatles’ “Fool on a Hill,” along with Samuel Barber’s “To be Sung on the Water” (poem by Louise Bogan).

Concert Choir features the concert spiritual “Peace, Glorious Peace” and one of Mozart’s most beloved choral settings, “Ave verum corpus.”

Men sing a barbershop arrangement of The Beach Boys ballad “In