The 10-person Midwestern Singers performed seven different pieces during the their performance, How Great Thou Art, in Akin Auditorium, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

The seven pieces of music choir members performed in front of some 70 people included: “Sing We and Chant It,” “I Pace in Idipsum,” Es Tont ein Voller Harfenklang Op. 17  No. 1,” “How Great Thou Art,” “And So It Goes,” “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” and “Save the World/Don’t You Worry My Child.”

Both Madison Tedder, vocal education and music freshman, and Nicole Anderson, education junior, said, “And So It Goes” by Billy Joel has been their favorite piece so far.

“That was the first piece of music that we got,” Anderson said.

Tedder said the Thursday of the first week of school they met with all the Midwestern Singers for the first time.

“The first time we met, we practiced pitches,” Anderson said.

That following Tuesday is when they said they got their first piece of music for the performance. They had been working and preparing for the concert for about three and a half months.

“What goes through my mind anytime before a concert is just what will happen, will happen. Just take a deep breath, know that I’ve practiced and rehearsed these pieces a bunch, and at this point I know it or I don’t,” Nicole Anderson, education junior, said while warming up before the performance.

Jeremy Boren, art sophomore, said, “She’s playing the mess out of that piano,” during the performance of “In Pace in Idipsum” by  Johannes Brahms with Desire Graves on the horn.

At the beginning of the performance, Susan Harvey, department chair and associate professor of music, announced that the University Orchestra would not be playing because Matthew Luttrell, music associate professor, was sick. Harvey said that they would reschedule the orchestra’s performance.

The next Department of Music concert will be Nov. 16 and the Percussion Ensemble Concert will be performing in Akin Auditorium at 7 p.m.