November 21, 2025 • 4 mins
In this episode of Arrow on the Air, we speak with Lily Goodman, a Senior member of the Southeast Missouri State University Choir, who is performing in the upcoming Southeast Choirs Concert: 'A Festive Celebration'. That concert will be on November 25th at 7:30 p.m. in the Bedell Performance Hall.The University Choir, Chamber Choir, and Choral Union combine forces with brass, piano, and string quartet for a concert to ring in the holiday season. The choirs will present some familiar favorites as well as other masterpieces from the choral canon, including Arvo Pärt’s glorious Magnificat and Dan Forrest’s arrangement of Angels We Have Heard on High.Lily Goodman says it's been an incredible experience working with what she believes is the largest choir for the University in several years. Their large numbers and balanced sections have allowed them to prepare eleven different pieces for the concert, enabling them to highlight the specific sections of their choir in pieces dedicated to Tenor, Bass, or soprano-alto works.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to this episode of Arrow on the Air. I'm
your host el Tinseley, and today in the studio we
have Lily Goodman, a member of the University choir. If
you don't mind go ahead and introduce yourself for us.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Lily Goodman. I am twenty one and a senior
vocal music education major, and I am going to be
talking about the choir concert today.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay, so starting right off with that, tell me a
little bit about this concert. What's the musicality, like, what
are you going to be performing.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So normally we do a concert with the whole orchestra
around this time, but just because of some scheduling things,
that is not what's happening this year. But we're still
going to have a brass quintet and some other instruments,
so we got to do some pieces we wouldn't normally
get to do that have specific arrangements like that with
specific instruments. So that's been a lot of fun. We
(00:50):
haven't got to meet up with the instruments yet, but
we should be within these next few days, and that's
always really exciting because suddenly it's like, oh, the pieces
make sense, the things are coming together. We've got some
percussion stuff, lots of things about like winter and the.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Cold, and it's the celebration of the seasons, right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, yes, very Christmas, Eve, wintry, all the fun. I
love it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I love this time of year. What's it been like
preparing for that concert.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's been a tough one because right now we have
the biggest choir we've had in a while, and it's
pretty evenly split. Yeah, thank you. It's pretty evenly split
with tenors and basses and sopranos and altos, which has
been super cool. But it also means that we're able
to do some more intense stuff because there's more people,
were also able to do more stuff. In general. I
think we have like eleven or twelve songs on this concert.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Which is more than we do are right, It's a
lot to prepare.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, we have a song that's just the tenors and basses,
and then just the sopranos and altos and a bunch
of stuff together, a bunch of stuff with the Choral Union,
the Community Choir. That's exciting. It's always good working with them.
But it's definitely been a lot of music to sink
our teeth into. But I think it's been fun. I've
been having a good time. I think there's a good
variety of things, some foreign language, some English, some happy
(02:05):
upbeat stuff, and some more like atmospheric, super tight chords
and everything, and so it's been really interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's been a lot of fun awesome. Are there any
challenges in particular that you'd like to know or anything
about your kind of process for creating music.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, we have. We actually have a few different pieces
that just have their own things. There's always that thing.
We have a couple that are like really long phrases
and really long notes, and so working that all together
and trying to make sure everyone's moving at the same
time when you have sixty people is kind of hard,
especially because they're also difficult chords and some difficult notes stuff,
(02:44):
and so we still have some music in our hands.
We got to make sure we're looking up and following
doctor Lamont and trying to just all be locked in together.
We have a Eric Whittaker piece where the chords, in
typical Eric Whitaker fashion, are super tight and funky and
clashy and.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I kind of esthetic crunch.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's really really beautiful, but it definitely is like we're
having to so deeply lock in and be listening to
each other and just trying to be this one unit
that's super in tune with each other to make it
what it can be and not just a bunch of
people singing notes.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Right. Could you remind me of those concert dates for
our listeners.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, the concert is on November twenty fifth at seven
point thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, wonderful. I always like to open up the floor
to my guests. Is there anything about your just student process,
It doesn't have to be bad the concert or anything
that you may want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, I think that we have a really fantastic choral
program here. We have a fantastic everything with the music program.
But yeah, I love river Camp. Yes, everything's awesome, but
I love this choir program with all of my heart.
And doctor Lamont is one of the most fantastic people
I've ever gotten to work with. And I would just
(03:58):
highly recommend to any students music major or otherwise to
come over there join us. See what we're doing is
a really great time. We have tons of people in
the room that are not music majors, so it's definitely
not some elite little society. And like I said, we
have the choral Union, which is great. Anybody to not
even just SEEMO students, so literally anyone could come have
(04:19):
a part of this experience and get to know what
that's like, which is really.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Awesome, awesome. Thank you so much for speaking with me. Yes,
thank you, beautiful testimony. Thank you for listening to this
episode of Arrow on the Air. I'm your host, Ella Tinsley,
and I will see you next time.
Welcome to this episode of Arrow on the Air. I'm
your host el Tinseley, and today in the studio we
have Lily Goodman, a member of the University choir. If
you don't mind go ahead and introduce yourself for us.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Lily Goodman. I am twenty one and a senior
vocal music education major, and I am going to be
talking about the choir concert today.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay, so starting right off with that, tell me a
little bit about this concert. What's the musicality, like, what
are you going to be performing.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So normally we do a concert with the whole orchestra
around this time, but just because of some scheduling things,
that is not what's happening this year. But we're still
going to have a brass quintet and some other instruments,
so we got to do some pieces we wouldn't normally
get to do that have specific arrangements like that with
specific instruments. So that's been a lot of fun. We
(00:50):
haven't got to meet up with the instruments yet, but
we should be within these next few days, and that's
always really exciting because suddenly it's like, oh, the pieces
make sense, the things are coming together. We've got some
percussion stuff, lots of things about like winter and the.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Cold, and it's the celebration of the seasons, right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, yes, very Christmas, Eve, wintry, all the fun. I
love it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I love this time of year. What's it been like
preparing for that concert.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's been a tough one because right now we have
the biggest choir we've had in a while, and it's
pretty evenly split. Yeah, thank you. It's pretty evenly split
with tenors and basses and sopranos and altos, which has
been super cool. But it also means that we're able
to do some more intense stuff because there's more people,
were also able to do more stuff. In general. I
think we have like eleven or twelve songs on this concert.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Which is more than we do are right, It's a
lot to prepare.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, we have a song that's just the tenors and basses,
and then just the sopranos and altos and a bunch
of stuff together, a bunch of stuff with the Choral Union,
the Community Choir. That's exciting. It's always good working with them.
But it's definitely been a lot of music to sink
our teeth into. But I think it's been fun. I've
been having a good time. I think there's a good
variety of things, some foreign language, some English, some happy
(02:05):
upbeat stuff, and some more like atmospheric, super tight chords
and everything, and so it's been really interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's been a lot of fun awesome. Are there any
challenges in particular that you'd like to know or anything
about your kind of process for creating music.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, we have. We actually have a few different pieces
that just have their own things. There's always that thing.
We have a couple that are like really long phrases
and really long notes, and so working that all together
and trying to make sure everyone's moving at the same
time when you have sixty people is kind of hard,
especially because they're also difficult chords and some difficult notes stuff,
(02:44):
and so we still have some music in our hands.
We got to make sure we're looking up and following
doctor Lamont and trying to just all be locked in together.
We have a Eric Whittaker piece where the chords, in
typical Eric Whitaker fashion, are super tight and funky and
clashy and.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I kind of esthetic crunch.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's really really beautiful, but it definitely is like we're
having to so deeply lock in and be listening to
each other and just trying to be this one unit
that's super in tune with each other to make it
what it can be and not just a bunch of
people singing notes.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Right. Could you remind me of those concert dates for
our listeners.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, the concert is on November twenty fifth at seven
point thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, wonderful. I always like to open up the floor
to my guests. Is there anything about your just student process,
It doesn't have to be bad the concert or anything
that you may want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, I think that we have a really fantastic choral
program here. We have a fantastic everything with the music program.
But yeah, I love river Camp. Yes, everything's awesome, but
I love this choir program with all of my heart.
And doctor Lamont is one of the most fantastic people
I've ever gotten to work with. And I would just
(03:58):
highly recommend to any students music major or otherwise to
come over there join us. See what we're doing is
a really great time. We have tons of people in
the room that are not music majors, so it's definitely
not some elite little society. And like I said, we
have the choral Union, which is great. Anybody to not
even just SEEMO students, so literally anyone could come have
(04:19):
a part of this experience and get to know what
that's like, which is really.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Awesome, awesome. Thank you so much for speaking with me. Yes,
thank you, beautiful testimony. Thank you for listening to this
episode of Arrow on the Air. I'm your host, Ella Tinsley,
and I will see you next time.
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