News Release from Northwestern Michigan College 1701 E. Front St., Traverse City MI 49686 Contact: Paul Heaton, 231 995-1019, email: pheaton@nmc.edu Date: April 21, 2008 News Archive

NMC choral groups to perform April 27

TRAVERSE CITY – Northwestern Michigan College’s Chamber Singers and Grand Traverse Chorale will perform a joint concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27 at the First Congregational Church of Traverse City, 6105 Center Road.

The Chamber Singers will perform the “Holocaust Cantata,” which premiered in at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17, 1998.

All the songs in the work were found in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archives and were written by prisoners in Polish while incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Cello soloist is Liz Bert, principal cellist for the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. Readings, based on survivor interview transcripts and historical data, will be performed by Matthew Marek, Joseph VanWagner, Lauren Browning, Ashley Thorington and Justin Drabek, all NMC student thespians.

The Grand Traverse Chorale will perform “Frostiana”by American composer Randall Thompson. Commissioned in 1958 for the two-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Amherst, Mass., the work features the poetry of Robert Frost, including “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

Both ensembles are directed by Mark Puchala and accompanied by Margaret Hollyday.

General admission seating is $8. Seniors ages 62 and older and children ages 12 and younger are $6. Tickets will be available at the door.