Singers Needed for New Chorale

North Andover, MA (August 19, 2008) – Merrimack College is currently recruiting singers for all sections of a new chorale group. There is no audition required, and it’s open to Merrimack students, alumni, staff, faculty, and members of surrounding communities.

The new Merrimack College chorale will be dedicated to the Augustinian values of truth, justice, peace, beauty, understanding, and love – concepts Merrimack embraces as a Catholic college in the Augustinian tradition.

Rehearsals will be held on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. starting September 10, 2008 in Austin Hall on the Merrimack College campus.

The chorale will perform two major concerts a year – one of which is scheduled for December 5, 2008 in the Rogers Center for the Arts at Merrimack to benefit the Augustinian Mission in South Africa. Singers will perform a variety of seasonal music including Benjamin Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols”; Mao Tsur; and “How Lovely are the Messengers” by Felix Mendelssohn.

For more information, contact Monica Steele, director of Merrimack College Chorale, at (978) 430-7922 or e-mail monica.steele@merrimack.edu.

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