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    Date: 1/15/99
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   95

ENCORE! 99 FEATURES GUEST VOCAL ENSEMBLE, TRIO
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's spring "Encore!" music series will
begin a busy month of February with back-to-back recitals by an acclaimed a cappella chorus and
an intriguing clarinet-oboe-bassoon trio.
     The Concord Ensemble, a Bloomington, Indiana-based six member male vocal group,
will blend their voices in a program highlighting the golden era of secular and sacred Spanish
music at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 1 in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. The following night, also at
7:30, the Illinois Trio will take over the Pottle stage with a program featuring the works of Villa-
Lobos, Ibert, Mozart, Francaix and Bozza.
     Tickets for the Concord Ensemble, which is co-sponsored by Southeastern's Arts and
Lectures Committee and College of Arts and Sciences, are $5 general admission and free to
Southeastern students. Tickets are available only at the door. The recital of the Illinois Trio -- J.
David Harris, clarinet; Nancy Ambrose King, oboe, and Timothy S. McGovern, bassoon -- is
free
to the public and students.
     Combining the talents of various musical disciplines, the Concord Ensemble, critics say,
"has been changing the face of vocal performance with modern, sensitive, and refined
presentations." The popularity of the performances of members Daniel Carberg, Daniel Cole,
Pablo Cor , Paul Flight, N. Lincoln Hanks and Sumner Thompson is a reflection of the close
attention to detail and accuracy of performance advocated by the singers.
     The six singers, who came together by chance while students at Indiana University, have
been described as "painters in music." The singers first united to experiment with "read through"
sessions of late renaissance and early baroque vocal literatures. In addition to  giving concerts of
early music in the midwest, the Concord Ensemble has also performed several 
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contemporary vocal works such as Libby Larsen's "Billy the Kid," and two works by Hayes
Biggs and the National Convention of the Society of Composers Incorporated. The ensemble is
regularly featured at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, where for the past two years it has
premiered several newly discovered manuscripts of sacred Latin-American colonial works, and
given a concert of Spanish Renaissance music. The singers also performed with the Philadelphia-
based renaissance wind band "Piffaro" in a performance featured live in a National Public Radio
broadcast.
     The ensemble recently was named grand prize winner of the "Dorian Records/Early
Music America Recording competition" and the "First competition in Performance of Hispano-
American Music." Additionally, the Indinapolis Catholic archdiocese featured the group in the
performance of Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus Mass," the first Latin "sung" mass since the
promulgation of the Second Vatican Council in 1965.
     The ensemble continues to perform extensively in the midwest while preparing to record
its first release for Dorian Records in 1999.
     For additional information about the Concord Ensemble and Illinois Trio and the music
department's Encore! series, call 504-549-2184.
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