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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Carrie Marrett, Director of Marketing
May 7, 2008
Phone: (812) 425-5050
KILL DATE: May 18, 2008
EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC CHORUS PRESENTS
SPRING CHORAL CONCERT 2008
Evansville, IN - The Evansville Philharmonic Chorus will present its annual Spring Choral Concert on Saturday, May 17 at 8:00 p.m. at St. John's United Church of Christ located at 314 Market Street in Evansville. The evening's program will feature uplifting songs from Mozart, Handel, Schubert and many more.
The Spring Choral Concert will begin with Exsultate Deo (Lift Your Voices to Jehova) by Allesandro Scarlatti followed by Handel's O Praise The Lord With One Consent. The Chorus, under the direction of Maestro Joseph Eunkwan Choi, will then sing My Heart Is Offered Still To You by Orlandus Lassus; Hark, I Hear The Harps Eternal arranged by Alice Parker; and De Profundis (O, I Cry Unto Thee) by Christoph W. von Gluck. To close the first half, the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus will perform Palestrina's O Bone Jesu (O Holy Father).
Following intermission, the second half of the concert will begin with Franz Bieble's version of Ave Maria featuring soloists from Evansville Philharmonic Chorus: Lee Thomas, Soprano; Melissa Bethel, Alto; and Adam Shoaff, Tenor. The Chorus will then perform The Saints Bound for Heaven. Richard Sidener, who has performed with the Chorus all of its 30 years, will be featured soloist on Poor Wayfarin' Stranger. Guest soprano Darla Diltz will join the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus for W.A. Mozart's "Laudate Dominum" from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K. 339 and Schubert's The Omnipotence (Die Allmacht). The concert will come to a close with Cesar Franck's Psalm 150.
General admission is just $11 per person. Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling the Evansville Philharmonic Box Office at (812) 425 - 5050 or ordering online at http://www.evansvillephilharmonic.org/. Tickets may also be purchased at the door on the night of the performance. Funding for this concert is generously provided by Mrs. Marcia Kreyling.
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