News release Public Information Office  SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu Spring 2004 news releases Public Information home News archive Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 4/26/05   SOUTHEASTERN, UNO CHOIRS PERFORM AT HAMMOND CHURCH APRIL 29        HAMMOND -- Choirs from Southeastern Louisiana University and the University of New Orleans will present a joint concert Friday, April 29, at Hammond’s First Baptist Church.        The free concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the church, located at 401 West Morris.        Alissa Mercurio Rowe, director of choral activities at Southeastern, will conduct the Concert Choir, the university’s premiere choral ensemble, and the Women’s Chorale, which performs music written for treble voices. Sean Wallace, UNO’s director of choral activities, will conduct the University of New Orleans Chorale.        The highlight – and finale – of the program will be the combined choirs’ performance of Mozart’s “Missa brevis in D.”  Featured soloists from the Southeastern Concert Choir are soprano Sarah Osterberger of Baton Rouge, alto Stephanie Robertson of Hammond, tenors Marshall Dean of Denham Springs and Brandon Wear of Slidell, and bass Simon Pfeil of Hammond.        The Concert Choir will open with six works, including Claude Debussy’s “Trois chansons de Charles d’Orleans” and “O magnum mysterium” by Morten Lauridsen, a west coast composer who has emerged as one of America’s finest and most loved composers for choral and vocal repertoire.        The Women’s Chorale will present Francis Poulenc’s classic of treble choir literature, “Petites voix.”        For additional information about the concert, contact Rowe at 985-549-2334 or arowe@selu.edu.