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3/19/07

LAURENTIAN SINGERS PERFORM ON CAMPUS AFTER CALIFORNIA TOUR

CANTON - St. Lawrence University's Laurentian Singers will perform in concert on Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel. The event, open to the public, free of charge, follows their spring break tour, which took them to performances in the San Diego and Los Angeles areas.

A wide variety of selections from the early Baroque through the contemporary will be sung including works by de Wert, Monteverdi, Schütz, Schubert, Clara Schumann, Brahms, Steven Sametz and Frank Techeli. Also on the program will be arrangements of the Beatles songs "In My Life," "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" and "Blackbird," U2's "MLK" and the spirituals "The Storm is Passing Over" and "Ezekiel Saw De Wheel."

The Laurentian Singers, a select coeducational choir, celebrated its 60th anniversary last year. The group has won wide acclaim since the ensemble was founded in 1946. In addition to their many performances on campus and in the community, the ensemble has toured extensively throughout the eastern United States, Canada, Europe, Central and South America, Romania and the former Soviet Union. In recent years, they have toured in Puerto Rico and New Orleans, singing for enthusiastic, packed audiences and meeting with other choirs. In 2004, the Laurentians were invited to sing for U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY).

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More information: Music department Web site

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