News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Janelle Woolley Date: 8/4/03   SLU UNIVERSITY CHORUS AND NORTHSHORE CHORALE SEEKING MEMBERS        HAMMOND -- Choral singing at Southeastern Louisiana University is not just for music majors. Faculty, students and area residents who enjoy singing are invited to join the University Chorus and the Northshore Chorale.       The non-audition choirs, which combined their voices in popular concerts each semester,  will begin rehearsals later this month, said conductor Alissa Mercurio Rowe, director of choral activities at Southeastern.       Rehearsals are scheduled from 7-9 p.m. each Tuesday, beginning August 26, in the Music Annex choral room        “The University Chorus and the Northshore Chorale present diverse programs of high musical standard,” said Rowe. “The purpose of the choirs is to experience diverse music as a group at very high standards and to use this music as a vehicle of our expression.”       She said the fall semester musical selections will include Buxtehude’s cantata “Rejoice, Earth and Heaven,” African carols, and standard holiday carols.         “The members of this ensemble invest a great degree of energy and commitment and the hard work has definitely paid off,” Rowe said. “In 1998 the combined choirs’ performance of the Bach “B Minor Mass” won the New Orleans Classical Music Award for best ensemble performance.”       For more information, contact Rowe at 985-549-2334 or arowe@selu.edu. Return to News Releases