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Shepherd's Department of Music to present choral concert

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Shepherd University's Department of Music will present the Chamber Singers, Men's Choir, and Women's Camerata in concert at 8 p.m. March 22 in the Frank Center. The audience will have the opportunity to hear some of the works to be performed by the Department of Music on their upcoming tour to France and Monaco in May.

The concert will include the Men's Choir, Women's Camerata, and Concert Choir performing Norman Dello Joio's "To Saint Cecilia" with brass sextet, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble in their second full semester of work, and the Chamber Singers with Eric Whitacre's "Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine." The concert will close with an arrangement of "I'll Tell My Ma" by artistic director Erik Jones.

The Chamber Singers, under the direction of Jones, is an ensemble concentrating in masterpieces of the 20th century.

General admission to the concert is $10. Admission and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The box office opens one hour prior to performance.

For information, call 304-876-5555 or visit www.shepherd.edu/musicweb.