For Immediate Release

Contact: Barbara K. Laskin or Doug Stone
October 4, 2004
(651) 696-6203

Four College Choirs to Perform in the
Annual Macalester Music Department Choirs' Concert
Saturday, December 4, 2004, 8:00 pm

St. Paul, Minn. - Robert Peterson, a member of the Macalester College Music Department faculty since 1998, will be conducting works by Bach, Barber, Brahms, Palestrina, Lauridsen and others as he makes his debut as director of choral activities at the annual choirs' concert, 8 pm, Saturday, December 4, 2004. Marjorie Merryman, Harry M. Drake Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Fine Arts and Music Department chair, will direct the Women's Chorus. The concert is in the Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students.

Participating choirs and soloists include the Macalester Choir, MAC Singers, Women's Choir, Men's Chorus, Elizabeth Everson and Nick Nolte. Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes will be featured.

Peterson was the director of choral activities at Edina Senior High School in Minnesota for over 20 years and has also taught at the University of Minnesota and American high schools in Munich, Brussels and Tokyo.

Macalester is a private, national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,845 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, diversity and civic engagement.

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