Contact: Andrea Ebeling, Public Relations Assistant, 920-832-6585 or andrea.ebeling@lawrence.edu
For Immediate Release
November 27, 2006
Lawrence Academy of Music Girl Choir Sings About Travel in Winter Concert
APPLETON, WIS. — The Lawrence Academy of Music Girl
Choir presents "Songs of Travel" at 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. December
9 in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel. The concert includes songs of actual travel
along with songs about other countries and cultures, songs about the journey
of the spirit, and songs about our own personal life journeys.
On the program are works by Eric H. Thiman, Charles Collins, Nick Page, Gustav
Holst, along with a Norwegian folk song, an African-American spiritual, a Cajun
French folk song, American folk songs, a French folk song, and a Taiwanese folk
song.
In addition to celebrating travel, the Girl Choir will celebrate its 15th anniversary
and the introduction of two new conductors, Karrie Been and Dan Van Sickle,
at the concerts.
Been, the new conductor for the Primo choir, has been teaching general music
for 16 years. She is currently teaching at Woodland School in Kimberly. She
graduated from Carroll College with a degree in music education and earned her
Master's degree in music education from Silver Lake College. Girls in third
and fourth grade make up the Primo choir. Van Sickle is the new conductor for
the Intermezzo choir, which consists of girls in fifth, sixth, and seventh grades.
Van Sickle graduated from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in 2004 with degrees
in choral and general music education and piano performance. He has been the
choral director at Xavier High School in Appleton for two years.
Other conductors for the performances are Karen L. Bruno, conductor of the
Cantabile and Bel Canto choirs and the artistic director of the Girl Choir program;
and Cheryl Meyer, conductor of the Allegretto choir. Girls in grades seventh,
eighth, and ninth make up the Cantabile choir, while the Bel Canto choir is
for girls in grades nine through 12. The Allegretto choir consists of girls
in grades four and five.
About 275 girls from over 50 public, private, and home schools in the Fox River
Valley participate in the Lawrence Academy of Music Girl Choir.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for senior citizens and students. Tickets are available at the Lawrence University Box Office, located in the Music-Drama Center or by phone at 920-832-6749. Tickets, if available, will also be sold at the box office beginning one hour before each performance.