Getting about 60 singers together to put on a concert in their native language requires extensive group rehearsals and a lot of individual work to be stage ready.

Doing it in a foreign language? That can make it a bit trickier.

This challenge is one the Women's Chorale tackles every semester. It will perform its fall show at 2 p.m. Sunday, featuring songs not only in English, but also in other languages.

"We generally do one song in a foreign language per semester, which is cool because you get to experience other languages through singing, " President Jessica Bryson (junior-energy, business and finance) said.

The longest work the group will perform is called "The Ceremony of Carols" by Benjamin Britten, which is a Gregorian piece sung partially in Latin and partially in Old English, Bryson said.

In addition to performing this piece in two different languages, the group will be accompanied by a student harpist for the piece, which is "kind of interesting," conductor Jayne Glocke said, because the opportunity to feature different accompaniments isn't always available.

"I wanted to make sure we used these students," Glocke said.

The chance to work with a harpist was a fun experience, Bryson said.

"The sound is just really pretty. It's a beautiful instrument, and I'm really excited to perform with it. It sounds really good with the harp," Bryson said.

Because the piece called for a harpist and one was available, Vice President Jenna Irrgang (junior-secondary education) said they jumped at the chance to collaborate.

In addition to the Britten piece, the group will perform a gospel arrangement of "Amazing Grace," a piece by contemporary composer David Childs called "Weep No More" and an a cappella English madrigal by John Dowland called "Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite," which dates from the Renaissance.

In addition to the Women's Chorale, a smaller group called Cantante, made up of about seven or eight Chorale members, will perform two songs, Irrgang said.

The songs are both from two Shakespeare's comedies, As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing, Irrgang said.

The group began working on the show at the beginning of the semester, Bryson said, and the goal is to improve each time it performs.

"Our best performances are always actually during our performances, which is good," Bryson said.

Glocke attributes the success of the shows to all the hard work her singers put in throughout the semester.

"It's a very talented, wonderful group of young women. They're very serious about their music making and they do a great job," Glocke said.

The show will last for about an hour, Glocke said.

Irrgang said the unusual inclusion of the harp will be interesting for the audience to hear and the love the singers have for their art will be evident when they perform.

"It's cool because we're non-music majors," Irrgang said. "It's a showcase of students doing stuff that they really enjoy."