For Immediate Release: October 26, 2006

Contacts:
Christopher A. Sallak
Patron Services and Marketing Manager
574-284-4625 or csallak@saintmarys.edu

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Melanie McDonald
Director of Media Relations
574-284-4579 or mmcdonal@saintmarys.edu

Saint Mary’s College Music Department Presents Fall Choral Concert

NOTRE DAME, Ind.—The Saint Mary’s College Department of Music presents its annual Fall Choral Concert featuring the Saint Mary’s Women’s Choir, Collegiate Choir and Bellacappella. The performance takes place on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in O’Laughlin Auditorium in the Moreau Center for the Arts. It is free and open to the public.

The Women’s Choir is a select 40-voice ensemble that regularly commissions and performs new works for women’s voices. They have appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall three times since 1999. The Collegiate Choir performs primarily on campus, giving at least one concert per semester and performing in the annual Service of Lessons and Carols. Bellacappella is a student-run ensemble started in spring 2006 and designed to entertain audiences with popular music for all ages.

The Moreau Center for the Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary throughout the 2006-2007 season. Named in honor of the Very Reverend Basil Anthony Moreau, C.S.C., the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, the facility consists of O’Laughlin Auditorium, Little Theatre, Moreau Art Galleries, studios, workshops and classrooms. For more information about any event at the Moreau Center for the Arts, please call 574-284-4626 or visit MoreauCenter.com.

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