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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="">On
Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m., the University
of Notre Dame Chorale, the official
concert choir of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, will give the final
performance of its Winter Tour at </p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="A5"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: normal;">St.</span></span><span class="A5"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: normal;"> Mary Catholic Church</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="A5"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: normal;">340 North Main Street</span></span><span class="A5"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: normal;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="A5"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: normal;">Hudson</span></span><span class="A5"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: normal;">, OH
44236</span></span><span class="A5"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: normal;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="A5"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">The concert will feature traditional Christmas carols,
choral works by Byrd, Haydn, Verdi, Wagner, Handel, and Debussy, and school
songs including the <i style="">Notre Dame Victory
March</i>.<span style=""> </span>It is free and open to the
public, although donations are welcome.<span style="">
</span>The concert will last 1 hour in length.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">The University
of Notre Dame Chorale is
a mixed, 60-voice choir composed of students from all colleges of the
University.<span style=""> </span>This year, the Chorale’s
Winter Tour, the group’s primary fundraiser for its triennial international
tours, begins in Pittsburgh, with subsequent
stops in Washington, D.C.,
New York, Boston,
and Albany, NY.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">The
Chorale is accompanied on tour by concert pianist Päivi Ekroth, known as a concerto
soloist and for her performances of Vladimir Horowitz’s virtuosic arrangement
of the John Phillip Sousa march<i> Stars and Stripes Forever</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">The Notre Dame Chorale is
directed by Alexander Blachly, known internationally for his grammy-nominated
Renaissance choir Pomerium, with which he has released thirteen commercial
recordings of Renaissance choral music on the Old Hall, Glissando, Deutsche
Grammophon, Dorian, Classic Masters, and Nonesuch labels</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">.<span style="">
</span>Blachly has directed the Chorale for the past seventeen years in
concerts throughout the United States,
Italy, France, Germany,
and New Zealand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">To hear a sampling of the University of Notre Dame
Chorale in concert, please visit
<a href="http://www.nd.edu/~chorale">http://www.nd.edu/~chorale</a> and click on Sound Files.<span style=""> Questions? Please contact Megan at <a href="mailto:megan.casserlie@gmail.com">megan.casserlie@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN"></span></font></p>
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