The Fairfield University Glee Club with Festival Orchestra will present its annual Pops concert, "Made in the 80s," on Monday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
Under the direction of Dr. Carole Ann Maxwell, "Made in the 80s" will feature popular and Broadway tunes composed or made popular in the 1980s sung by the Glee Club and selected soloists.
Galen Tate will accompany and the Rev. Charles H. Allen, S.J., is the chaplain.
The Fairfield University Glee Club is a mixed chorus of 100 undergraduate and graduate students continuing a 58-year legacy of musical excellence on campus and abroad. The choir has performed at Carnegie Hall, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Westminster Cathedral in London, the Aula Paolo VI at the Vatican and the U.S. military academies at West Point and Annapolis.
Dr. Maxwell, director of Choral and Liturgical Music for Fairfield University since 1980, is also the artistic director and conductor of The Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut and a chorus master of The Greater Bridgeport Symphony. She has conducted choruses for the Prague Radio Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Yale Opera Ensemble.
Dr. Maxwell was guest conductor of the Gregg Smith Singers at the Adirondack Music Festival, principal conductor of both the National Pastoral Musicians Convention and the National Council of Churches Workshop on Christian and Jewish Relations. She has shared the stage with jazz icon Dave Brubeck and the Dave Brubeck Quartet, opera legends Sherrill Milnes, Marilyn Horne and Renee Fleming, and composers Stephen Schwarz, Stephen Sondheim and Charles Strouse.
Tickets are $10, $6 for students. For tickets, call the Quick Center box office at (203) 254-4010 or toll free at 1-877-ARTS-396.
Posted On: 04-01-2005 10:04 AM
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