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Physical Address:
107 Jackson Street
(Corner of Center and Short Street)
Berea, KY 40404

Mailing Address:
Berea College Public Relations
CPO 2142
Berea, KY 40404

Phone: 859-985-3018
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Mother's Day Concert to benefit summer European Tour
 
May, 08 2002
 
   
The Berea College Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, Stephen Bolster, conductor, will present a special Mother’s Day Spring Concert on Sunday, May 12, at 3:00 p.m. in Berea Baptist Church.

John Courter, Berea College Organist, and staff pianist William will accompany the choirs.

Admission to the concert is free. A special offering will be taken to support the Choir's upcoming summer Concert Tour in Italy and Switzerland, the choir's first trip abroad in nearly a decade.

Featured in the concert will be selections that will be performed on the tour. The first half of the program will consist of sacred music, including four motets and selections from the "Requiem, Op. 9" by French composer Maurice Duruflé, and the "Missa Secunda" by Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas. In performing the Duruflé pieces, the choir is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The Choir will be performing this repertoire as part of the liturgy for Catholic masses in the large European cathedrals.

The second half of the concert will feature a variety of American music, including the "Spring Cantata" by Vincent Persichetti, performed by the Chamber Singers, contemporary choral pieces "In Flanders Fields" by Paul Aitken and "Water Night" by Eric Whitacre, and arrangements of southern folk songs and hymns including the well-known "Ev’ry Night When the Sun Goes Down," "Shenandoah," "The Promised Land," and Thomas A. Dorsey’s classic, "Precious Lord."

   
CONTACT:
Julie Sowell, 859-985-3028

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