Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Contact: Susan Tams, Director of Editorial Services (304) 746-2038
stams@marshall.edu
Marshall Chamber Choir, University Chorus to Perform Saturday
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall University’s Chamber Choir and University Chorus will give their spring semester concert Saturday, April 5 at 8 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Huntington. The concert is free and open to the public.
Both ensembles will be under the
direction of Robert Wray,
assistant professor of choral
music education at the
university.
“It is a very good mix of music
styles from the Renaissance to
the 20th and 21st Centuries,”
Wray said. Included on the
program will be works by
Giovanni Pierluigi da
Palestrina, Johann Sebastian
Bach, Benjamin Britten, Gabriel
Fauré, Norman Dello Joio, Moses
Hogan and Eric Whitacre. The
concert will also feature
violinists Dr. Elizabeth Reed
Smith, professor of music at
Marshall, and Korey Jividen, her
student, and
organist Yuri McCoy.
The church is located at 1015
5th Ave. in Huntington. For
further information, persons may
call
Wray at (304)
696-2399 or e-mail
wrayr@marshall.edu.
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