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Early Music Singers and Collegium Musicum perform fall concert on Friday, Nov. 9

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November 8, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? The Early Music Singers and Collegium Musicum, under the direction of St. Olaf College music faculty member Gerald Hoekstra, will present a concert on Friday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. The concert, free and open to the public, will be held in Urness Recital Hall, Christiansen Hall of Music on the St. Olaf College campus.

The concert program is entitled "Music circa 1500: Josquin and his Contemporaries," and will feature music of Josquin des Prez and other Franco-Flemish composers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, such as Obrecht, Agricola, Ninot le Petit, and van Ghizeghem. A variety of types of music will be performed, including lively French chansons, laments, Latin motets and instrumental music.

The Early Music Singers is an ensemble of fifteen select singers who devote their efforts to performance of early historical choral music. The Collegium Musicum performs on instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as viols, recorders, crumhorns, shawms, and sackbuts.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Carole Engblom at 507-786-3315 or leigh@stolaf.edu.