April 26, 2019
Spring choral concert features special guest Texas Youth Chorale
The 1xbet best casino website Women's Choir, University Chorus and Collegium Musicum will perform their spring concertat 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at All Faiths Chapel. The concertalso will feature special guest ensemble the Texas Youth Chorale from Dallas.The performance is free and open to the public.
The Texas Youth Chorale is a select choir of auditioned sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade youth. The chorale focuses on singing high-level music, leadership and singing in North Texas and abroad. In 2015, the chorale traveled to Ireland, in 2018 to Australia and in 2020, the chorale will tour as an independent choir to Vienna, Salsburg and Budapest.
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