FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE							
February 23, 1995
 
Lawrence Concert Choir Presents Program "Of Love and Marriage"
	"The wildest wedding in musical history" will be re-enacted as the
Lawrence Concert Choir, under the direction of Richard Bjella, performs music
from Stravinsky's ballet Les Noces (The Wedding) Saturday, March 4 at 8 p.m. in
the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.  Prior to the concert, Professor Bjella will be
joined by Richard Yatzeck, Professor of Slavic Literature at Lawrence, to
present a lecture/demonstration, entitled "The Russian Wedding?" at 7 p.m. in
the Memorial Chapel.  The lecture is free and open to the public.  Tickets for
the concert, at $8.50 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens, are
available from the Lawrence Box office, 115 S. Drew St., 12:30-5:30 p.m.,
Monday-Saturday.  Call 832-6749 for further information, or to charge tickets
to Visa, Mastercard or American Express. 
	  Stravinsky's highly rhythmic and innovative series of "choreographic
Russian scenes," written during the war years of 1914-18 and premiered in Paris
in 1923, is scored for chorus and soloists, accompanied by a large battery of
percussion instruments and four pianos.  Lawrence faculty members Patrice
Michaels Bedi, soprano, and Kenneth Bozeman, tenor, will be joined by guest
artists Karen Brunssen, mezzo-soprano, and Richard Cohn, baritone, in the solo
roles.  Performing the four piano parts will be Lawrence faculty members Robert
Below, Christina Dahl, Kathleen Murray and Lorna Peters.  Seven Lawrence
students will perform on seventeen percussion instruments to complete the
instrumental ensemble.
	Also featured on the program will be the Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer, op.
65 of Johannes Brahms.  Two Lawrence students, Catherine Walby and Erin Fusco,
will accompany on pianos.  
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