The Fairfield University Glee Club offers "The British Invasion" at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts

The Fairfield University Glee Club offers "The British Invasion" at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts

The Fairfield University Glee Club presents "The British Invasion," its annual Pops Concert, on Tuesday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

Under the direction of Carole Ann Maxwell, D.S.M., the program offers a lively look at some of the greatest songs from across the Atlantic, including hits by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen and Broadway titan Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The Glee Club is a mixed chorus of more than 90 undergraduate and graduate students continuing a 59-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. The Quick Center appearance comes just weeks after the touring choir finished a memorable European tour with stops in Florence and Rome, Italy.

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 chorus master of The Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra. She has conducted choruses for the Prague Radio Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Orchestra, the Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra and the Yale Opera Ensemble.

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. For the second year, she has been named one of the distinguished conductors at the celebrated "Messiah Sing-In" at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.

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. For more information, visit www.quickcenter.com.

Posted On: 03-31-2006 10:03 AM

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