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SSU's Community Choir to perform
'A Sunday Serenade'

April. 20, 2012

The Shawnee State University Choir, under the direction of Shirley Crothers-Marley, will present its spring concert, "A Sunday Serenade" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 29 in the Howland Recital Hall at the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts.

Stanley Workman, Ph.D., and Karen Moore will be accompanists along with Vince Shirey, a guest accompanist. Andrew Ginn will provide percussion accompaniment. Composers Mozart, Verdi, Mascagni, Borodin, Bizet, Puccini, Purcell and Donzetti will be represented.

Vocal soloists include Chad Bragdon, Maria Minter Ginn, Marjorie Hawkins, Tony Sturgeon, Valerie Webb, Rick Bender and Jeff Collins. Instrumental soloists will be Karen Moore, Stephanie Scaggs and Aidan Perry. The Lois Rase dancers will also be featured.

The concert is free and open to the public and it is sponsored by a friend of the arts, Fluor-B&W Portsmouth, LLC.


The Shawnee State University Choir will present its spring concert, "A Sunday Serenade" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 29 in the Howland Recital Hall at the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts. In the photo, front row, from left, are Jeff Collins, Tammy Diaz, choir director Shirley Crothers-Marley, Lacy Hill, Courtney Shumaker and Amanda Oyer. Second row, are Chad Bragdon, Bill Johnson, Tony Sturgeon, Vince Shirey and accompanist Karen Moore. Third row, are Valerie Webb, Stephanie Skaggs, Cynthia Hermanson and Rick Bender. Members of the choir not in the photo are Marjorie Hawkins and Danny Wells.