Inspirare, a women’s choir organized by Dr. Ann Small of the Stetson University School of Music, will present its second concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24, in the Lee Chapel in Stetson’s Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.

Women singers from across Volusia County, as well as Stetson faculty and staff, have joined together to participate in this project. Inspirare is part of the Stetson Community School of the Arts. Auditions were not required. Donations ($20 suggested) will be accepted at the door.

Women’s choirs are ideally suited for music about spiritual and romantic love. Small has chosen classical and contemporary pieces to express these subjects. The program will include sacred and secular music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, American composer Randall Thompson and some secular favorites from Scotland and Ireland.

A professor of music education at Stetson, Small is an internationally known scholar and conductor. Her children’s choirs, also part of the Stetson Community School of the Arts, have performed across the United States and in Scotland and Canada. They also participated in a worldwide school of music event sponsored at Disney World by the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators’ National Conference.

Inspirare means to breathe and to inspire. To learn more about this group, contact Small at [email protected], or call Stetson’s School of Music at (386) 822-8950.