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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 29, 1999

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Tiffany A. Kirkland (404) 364-8447
tkirkland@facstaff.oglethorpe.edu

Oglethorpe University Singers Present Fall Concert

Atlanta – The Oglethorpe University Singers and University Chorale, under the direction of Dr. W. Irwin Ray, will present their fall concert Friday, November 12 at 8 p.m. at the Miriam H. and John A. Conant Performing Arts Center.

Admission is free and open to the public.

The concert will include a variety of choral music drawn from madrigals, chansons, part-songs, motets, oratorio choruses, folk songs and spirituals. Composers of the works include Franz Schubert, Claudio Monteverdi, G.F. Handel, Benjamin Britten, Felix Mendelssohn and others.

The concert will feature the piece “Auction Cries” which uses sounds emulating an auction with texts drawn from auction advertisements found in the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette.

For more information call (404) 364-8446.

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