Celebrate! Puccini & Beethoven - Choral Art Society of the South Shore Spring Concert

Choral Art Society of the South Shore, now in its 56th season, will present its spring concert, Celebration! Puccini and Beethoven, at 4pm, on Sunday, May 3, 2015, at the Scituate High School Auditorium, 606 Chief Justice Cushing Highway, Scituate.

Danica A. Buckley, Artistic Director and Conductor, is celebrating her 10th year with Choral Art Society of the South Shore. Following the concert there will be a celebratory reception to which all are invited.

The program includes Puccini’s Messa a 4 Voci con Orchestra and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, featuring pianist Sarah Tocco. The guest soloists, all young professional opera singers with careers in Boston and beyond, include Amal El- Shrafi, soprano, Oriana Dunlop, mezzo soprano, Omar Najmi, tenor, and Justin Hicks, bass. Baritone soloist Paul Frazer of Kingston, is a long time member of the chorus.

Accompanying the chorus will be the Choral Art Society Orchestra, made up of professionals from Boston, New Hampshire, and the South Shore, including Scituate High School’s Director of Instrumental Music, Sally Tucker, Flute and Steve Biagini, French Horn, Director of Instrumental Music, Deer Hill School, Cohasset.

Proceeds from each concert help fund the William T. Adams memorial scholarship, awarded each year by Choral Art Society to a high school senior from the South Shore who is going to college to major in music. In other community service, we provide outreach singing to nursing homes and hospitals.

Tickets are $20 for general admission and $18 for seniors and students. Tickets may be purchased at www.choralartsociety.org, Buttonwood Books in Cohasset, and at the door.

For more information on these concerts or any of our other activities, call 781-500-

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