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4/17/06

UNIVERSITY CHORUS PERFORMING GILBERT & SULLIVAN

CANTON - The University Chorus of St. Lawrence University will open this year's concert season at the Edwards Opera House and celebrate the University's Sesquicentennial with "Topsy Turvy: A Gilbert and Sullivan Revue." The program will be repeated the following day on campus. The revue includes selections from The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore and Iolanthe, and the complete dramatic cantata Trial by Jury.

Performances will be:

- Saturday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at the Edwards Opera House, as a benefit for the opera house; tickets at the door are $6 per person.

- Sunday, April 23, at 2 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel at St. Lawrence; admission is open to the public, free of charge.

Throughout its 150-year history, the St. Lawrence campus has seen many Gilbert and Sullivan spectacles, beginning with an 1879 production of H.M.S. Pinafore and including a 1947 production of The Pirates of Penzance that toured to Watertown and Gouverneur. Under the direction of Barry Torres, the University Chorus will commemorate those past performances and its own presentation of Trial by Jury in 1986 with this gala revival.

The chorus will be accompanied by pianist Barbara Phillips-Farley and a small string orchestra organized by St. Lawrence String Orchestra Director Chris Hosmer. Featured soloists are Lanse Larraway and Dana Gorzelany-Mostak; other soloists include Eric Key, K. Chad Graham, Brian Watson, Michael Farley, Rebecca MacDougall, Vanessa Allen and Laura Ramsey.

The University Chorus, Canton's community chorus, is sponsored by the St. Lawrence University music department. Membership in the chorus is drawn from the local community as well as faculty, staff and students of St. Lawrence.

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