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Music from Venice to be featured at St. Olaf Early Music, Collegium concert

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November 1, 2000

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? "Music from Venice" will be featured at the fall concert of the St. Olaf College Early Music Singers and Collegium Musicum on Sunday, Nov. 12.

The concert, free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. in Urness Recital Hall, Christiansen Hall of Music. The program will feature works of great Venetian composers of the 16th and early 17th centuries, including Adrian Willaert, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi.

Most of the featured composers were organists or chapel masters for the great church of Venice, the Basilica of San Marco.

The Early Music Singers is an ensemble of 16 singers that focuses on music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. The Collegium Musicum performs on instruments of the period. Both groups are directed by St. Olaf music faculty member Gerald Hoekstra.

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 of approximately 256. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in number of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.