NEW: Not Your Typical College Spring Break

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March 4, 2011
by Lisa Flanagan

While some students are flying to warmer locales for Spring Break, others are dedicated to the arts and to the fulfillment of scholarship requirements.  This was the case for me when I was on a Music Scholarship to Muskingum University in Southeast Ohio.

Each year the school’s Concert Choir and Chamber Singers would embark on a concert tour performing in churches and schools around the country.  We sometimes stayed close to the University, but the years that I really remember were those when we traveled to places where I had never been, places that required many hours of bus travel. 

I remember performing for audiences large and small, staying with host families, eating home cooked meals and getting a free day in exciting places like Chicago – at that time the biggest city I had ever seen.  It may not have been a beach getaway from a long winter semester, but we had a lot fun and made some pretty good music along the way.

Nearly 15 years later I get to play hostess to 45 college musicians near an even bigger and more exciting city!  This Sunday, March 6th, I am proud to welcome my alma mater to the Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco where my husband Terence J. Flanagan is the Interim Director of Music. The students will perform a free concert at 6:30 pm in the church sanctuary.  A program of music from the Renaissance to the Pops will include works by William Owen, Michael Praetorius, Eric Whitacre, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and more.

I hope you will consider helping us pack the house for this enthusiastic group of young singers.  Still under the direction of my former instructor, Robert Owen Jones, I am sure it will be a great evening of musical entertainment.  There is no admission charge but a free will offering will be collected. 

Muskingum University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers
Sunday, March 6th at 6:30 PM
Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco
605 Millwood Road
Mount Kisco, NY
www.pcmk.org

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