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Michael D. Chason Director of Public Relations ABAC 30 -- 2802 Moore Highway Tifton, GA 31793-2601 Phone 229-391-5055 Fax 229-391-5056 mchason@abac.edu

IMMEDIATE MARCH 30, 2006

ABAC SPRING BAND AND CHOIR CONCERT APRIL 6

TIFTON –The Abraham Baldwin College Concert Choir and Concert Band will perform ON April 6 as part of the Homecoming 2006 festivities. The performance will take place in Howard Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. This event is free to the general public.

The ABAC Concert Choir is a 35 - member voice ensemble drawn from students across the United States to the campus of ABAC. The director is Dr. Susan Roe, Assistant Professor of Voice. The choir will perform a variety of choral music which will include Darmon Meader’s Star-Spangled Banner, Dona Nobis Pacem by W.A. Mozart, Where Dwells the Soul of My Love and The Moon is Distant from the Sea, both by David N. Childs.

Weep No More, another composition by Childs which is arranged for women, will be performed as well as Down By the Sally Gardens from John Rutter’s The Sprig of Thyme, performed by the men in the ABAC Concert Choir.

As an added bonus to the evening’s program, the 13 - member ABAC Jazz Choir will perform two well known jazz favorites; Take Five by Kirby Shaw and Dave Brubeck and They Can't Take That Away from Me by Ira Gershwin and Shaw. The Concert Choir will end the program with a performance of Wherever You Go, a choral blessing, by Douglas Wagner.

The ABAC Concert Band, under the direction of Eugene Wyles, will feature well-known selections. The Concert Band is made up of students from band programs all over the states of Georgia and Florida. The program will include the Overture from La Forza del Destino by G. Verdi, Introduction and Fantasia by Rex Mitchell, the Overture from Puccini's La Buona Figliuola scored by Eric Osterling, and Old Comrade's March by Carl Teike.

For more information on this event, please contact Don Coates, ABAC Associate Professor of Music, at (229) 391-4942.