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    Date: 10/22/99
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   52M

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CHOIR'S FANFARE CONCERT FEATURES "VOICE FROM TEREZIN" NOV. 1
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's award-winning Concert Choir will
present a hauntingly beautiful program that gives musical voice to the Civil War and the
Holocaust. The concert is the choir's contribution to Fanfare, Southeastern's annual fall arts
festival.
     Titled "Voices of Terezin," the concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 1, in Pottle
Music Building Auditorium. Admission is free.
     The choir, which won a 1998 "Tribute to the Classical Arts" award, an extension of the
New Orleans area Big Easy Entertainment Awards, for  "Best Choral Arts Presentation," is now
directed by Dirk Garner, who joined Southeastern's music faculty in this fall.
     Garner holds a bachelor's degree in vocal performance from Illinois Wesleyan University,
a master's degree in choral conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music, and a doctoral degree in choral music from the University of Iowa. He has served on
the faculties of Albertson College of Idaho, and High Point University, North Carolina and his
choirs have been heard throughout the United States. 
     Garner also has been active as a tenor soloist in oratorio and recital and has conducted in
workshops and performances with many of the world's leading conductors. 
     Garner said the heart of the choir's Fanfare performance is "A Procession Winding
Around Me," Civil War poetry by Walt Whitman set to beautiful music by Jeffry Van. The piece
will be accompanied by guitar.
     The program's title' work is "The Voices of Terezin." "This is new music by a very 
young composer now attending the School of Music at Rice University," Garner explained. "The 
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texts are selected from the book entitled 'I Never Saw Another Butterfly,' poems which were
written by children incarcerated at the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust."
     The program also includes Stephen Chatman's "There is Sweet Music Here," with poetry
by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and "Three Epitaphs" by Rodolfo Halffter, which has Spanish texts
concerning the death of three characters in Cervante's "Don Quixote." 
     For additional information about the concert and other Fanfare events, call the SLU
Public Information Office, 504-549-2341, or send e-mail to publicinfo@selu.edu.

CHOIR JOINS FANFARE SCHEDULE   Southeastern Louisiana University's acclaimed
Concert Choir will join the 1999 Fanfare schedule with "Voices from Terezin," at 7:30 p.m.,
Nov. 1, in Pottle Music Building Auditorium. 
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