The conductor, former Lexington Public Schools music teacher Bob Lague, has chosen two majestic and timely pieces—Randall Thompson's The Testament of Freedom and Gwyneth Walker's Sweet Liberty. Typical of a "pops" format, the second half of the program is much lighter in tone, with choral highlights from the Broadway shows, Chicago and Jersey Boys, and several short pieces, among them O My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and Rollo Dilworth's arrangement of the traditional spiritual, Shine on Me.
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