NEWS RELEASE DATE: April 8, 2008 FOR USE: Now CONTACT: Steve Quakenbush

MUSICAL MILESTONES III COMING UP MAY 8 AT GCCC

Concluding concert features vocal performers from eight area towns

The Garden City Community College vocal music program is planning to conclude the year with Musical Milestones III, a public concert featuring the GCCC Concert Choir and the select College Singers ensemble.

The program, conducted by Vocal Music Director J. Clayton Wright, is set for 7:30 p.m. May 8 in the auditorium of the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building. Admission is free said the night will blend the voices of students from eight Southwest Kansas communities.

The groups will present medleys from four well-known musicals, including Oklahoma, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, and Wicked.

“We’ll be staging some of these medleys with choreography,” Wright explained. GCCC English Instructor Marjorie Hall, a former dance studio operator, is developing those segments of the evening.

The concert will mark the third straight year that the department has concluded the spring term with a program of show tunes, and it will also draw on the talents of a pit band of campus and community instrumental musicians, including Matt Lobmeyer, Jason Bilberry, GCCC Piano Instructor Carolyn Klassen and Marlene Peters, all of Garden City.

The choir includes Monica Beeson, Scott City; Ashley Fairbanks, Sublette; Kristen Gee, Ulysses; Leslie Freese, Scott City; Tiffany Horner, Lakin; Victor Rincon, Deerfield; Dalia Romero, Scott City; Sami Sheppard, Johnson; and Julissa Sauzameda, Cimarron. Other choir members are Chelsie Barnes, Jason Bilberry, Radley Carter, Cody Cundiff, Chelsea Ford, Shaina Gohl, Heidi Hall, Emily Hubbard, Joshua Hutchinson, Rosio Ibarra, Daniel Pearson, Daniel Peter, Marlene Peters, Melinda Reed, all of Garden City.

The select Singers ensemble is made up of Barnes, Bilberry, Carter, Cundiff, Fairbanks, Hall, Horner, Hutchinson, Ibarra, Reed, Rincon and Sauzameda.

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