America's Monterey Symphony Chorus will Present a Free Concert at the University of Uppsala Cathedral, Sunday, July 24, 13:00

America's Monterey Symphony Chorus will Present a Free Concert at the University of Uppsala Cathedral, Sunday, July 24, 13:00

OTTAWA, Canada, July 6/PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, July 24, 13:00, the Monterey Symphony Chorus, under the
direction of Leroy Kromm, will present eighteen different a capella works
prepared for the Chorus' tour of Scandinavia and Russia. Chorus director
Leroy Kromm is a professor of voice at the San Francisco Conservatory and a
much sought after bass-baritone soloist whose performance schedule has
taken him all over the world. The July 24 performance will take place at
the University of Uppsala Cathedral in Uppsala. The concert is open to the
public and free of charge.

The tour program includes selections from Palestrina's Sicut Cervus,
Roland de Lasso's Musica Dei Donum Optimi, Mendelssohn's Richte Mich, Gotti
, Rachmaninoff's Bogoroditse Devo, to. A highlight of the program will be
Four Scandinavian Hymns of Faith, Four American Hymns and Spirituals and
Kurt Bestor's Prayer of the Children, Henry Mollicone's Hear Me Redeemer,
and Raymond Ray's Gospel Mass.

The Monterey Symphony Chorus, a member of the Monterey Symphony
organization of Monterey, California, regularly performs major works with
the Symphony orchestra under the baton of internationally renowned music
director Max Bragado-Darmen such as Bruckner's Te Deum, Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Spring from Haydn's The Seasons
and Fauré's Requiem.

The 2005 Monterey Symphony Chorus tour includes performances at
University College in Bergen and the Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo, Norway; the
Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Denmark; the University of Uppsala
Cathedral, Sweden; the Lutheran Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, St.
Petersburg, Russia; and the Temppeliaukio Kirkko, known as the Rock Church,
in Helsinki, Finland.

Source: Arts Bureau for the Continents.

For further information: Donald Harper, E-mail: ct@abc.ca, Phone number: +1-(613)-234-3360; Photo available by e-mail

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