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4/9/07

WORKS FROM AMERICAN OPERETTA PERFORMED BY UNVERSITY CHORUS

CANTON - The University Chorus will present American Operetta, a review of choruses from turn-of-the-century musical theater, on Saturday, April 14, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 15, at 2 p.m., in Gulick Theater at St. Lawrence University. The performances are open to the public, free of charge.

Barry Torres is the director of University Chorus; Barbara Phillips-Farley is accompanist.

American composers' musical response to Gilbert and Sullivan and Franz Lehar, operetta was the precursor of the more popular modern musical. Tuneful songs, romantic melodies, lush harmonies - many of the songs were made famous by Hollywood's singing sweethearts of the 1930's, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Among them: "Sweethearts" and "Every Lover Must Meet His Fate" (from Victor Herbert's Sweethearts); "Stouthearted Men" (from Sigmund Romberg's The New Moon); "One Alone" (from Romberg's The Desert Song); "Some Day You Will Seek Me" (from Rudolph Friml's The Vagabond King); "Toyland" (from Herbert's Babes in Toyland); "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" (from Herbert's Naughty Marietta); and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" and "Why Do I Love You?" (from Jerome Kern's Showboat).

Soloists are K. Chad Graham, Eric Key, Greg Matejcik, Karl Keller, Janet McFarland, Laura Ramsey, Juli Pomainville, Marilyn Constantine and Katherine Gleason, with guest artists Chris Hosmer on cello and Jennifer Kessler, violin.

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More information: Music department Web site

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