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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 229-391-4781 mchason@abac.edu

IMMEDIATE APRIL 9, 2008

ABAC SPRING BAND AND CHOIR CONCERT APRIL 15 AT 7 P.M.

TIFTON – The ABAC Concert Band and Choir will present their annual Spring Concert on April 15 at 7 p.m. in Howard Auditorium on the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College campus.

The Concert Band, under the direction of Woody Leonard, will perform the following selections: The Star Spangled Banner, Flourish for Wind Band by R. Vaughn Williams, John Phillip Sousa’s King Cotton March, and Flashing Winds by Jan Van der Roost. The band will conclude its portion of the program by performing Hitsville, USA (40 years of Motown ) arranged by John Wasson.

The ABAC Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Susan Roe, will perform Mark Butler’s Kyrie. Butler is a noted clinician and led ABAC’s first Choral Day on Feb. 2 with the help of the ABAC Chamber Singers and Jazz Choir members. The second piece the Concert Choir will perform is an arrangement of Phillip Bliss’ It Is Well With My Soul, written especially for the ABAC Concert Choir by Vann Thornton of Tifton.

The ABAC Chamber Singers will follow by singing two Moses Hogan selections; Abide with Me and Hear My Prayer. The ABAC Jazz Choir will then delight the audience with an arrangement It Don’t Mean A Thing: The Best Of Duke Ellington by Kirby Shaw.

The evening will conclude with two original compositions from composers the choir has worked with this year: Stand by Butler and True Light by Keith Hampton.

The ABAC Concert Band and Concert Choir are made up of students from high school music programs all over the southeastern region of the United States. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, interested persons can contact the music department at (229) 391-4945.