News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 4/9/03   SOUTHEASTERN CHOIRS TO PERFORM APRIL 14       HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University’s Concert Choir and Women’s Chorale will present their spring concert, “Choral Dances,” at 7:30 p.m., April 14, at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium.       The 20-voice Concert Choir and 16-voice Women’s Chorale are conducted by Southeastern music professor Alissa Mercurio Rowe, assisted by senior vocal performance major Patricia Ramirez of Hammond.        Guest soloists are tenor Cedric Bridges, harpist Catherine Anderson; and pianists Charles Effler, interim director of the Opera-Music Theatre Program, and graduate assistant Hristo Birbochukov of Haskovo, Bulgaria. The concert is free.       In the first half of the concert, the Concert Choir, Southeastern’s premier vocal ensemble, will perform “Choral Dances” from Benjamin Britten’s “Gloriana.” Rowe said “Choral Dances” begins Act II of “Gloriana,” which debuted at London’s Covent Garden in 1953. It vocally depicts a state visit by Queen Elizabeth I during which she is entertained by a masque, a series of choral dances in which representatives of time and concord, country girls, young rustics and fisherman all pay the queen homage.        The Women’s Chorale will sing the Serbian Gypsy dance “Niska Banja” and “Songs for Women’s Voices,” musical settings of six poems by American poet May Swenson.       Following intermission, the Concert Choir will perform “Liebeslieder Walzer (Love Song Waltzes), op. 52" by Johannes Brahms.        Concert Choir members are:       Soprano: Jacquie Brecheen, Ponchatoula; Jessica Davis, Ponchatoula; Emily Herring, Slidell; Wendy G. Kinchen, Ponchatoula; Haydee Kurr, Minneapolis, Minn.       Alto: Katie Bates, Covington; Nicole LeBlanc, Mandeville; Nikisha D. Cobb, Ponchatoula; Daveda Karanas, Mandeville; Heather Rains, Austin, Texas; Patricia Ramirez, Hammond.       Tenor: Cameron Bishop, Oak Grove; Terrance J. Ennis, Baker; Matthew Packard, Chalmette; Nelson Roussell, Chalmette.       Bass: James Flic, Kent, Conn.; Darell C. Haynes, Luling; Clifford Moore, Opelousas; Christopher Talley, Hammond.       Members of the Women’s Chorale are:       Soprano: Ramirez; Davis; Herring; Osterberger; Rachael Dantin, Ponchatoula; Erika LaBiche, Mandeville; Nicole Le Blanc, Mandeville; Danielle Petru, Bradon, Miss.; Lauren Villalobos, Chalmette.       Alto: Doris Andrews, Franklinton; Christina Babin, Prairieville; Rachel Kidwell, Mandeville; Diane Holton, Joshua Tree, Calif.; Michelle LeBlanc, Gonzales; Raquel Topey, Chalmette; Betty Turner, Hammond.       For additional information about the concert, contact Rowe at 985-549-2334 or arowe@selu.edu. Return to News Releases