Concert Singers Celebrate 35th Anniversary with Best of Broadway

The Concert Singers announce
35th anniversary concerts!

The Concert Singers conclude their thirty-fifth anniversary year with a pair of spectacular spring concerts entitled “The Best of Broadway.” In contrast with their usual classical presentations, these spring ”pops” concerts will include medleys from six well-known Broadway shows: The Sound of Music, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, A Chorus Line, Bernstein’s West Side Story, The King and I and Godspell. The chorus will be accompanied by a Broadway style pit orchestra.

The first performance is on Friday evening, May 1st, 8:00 pm, at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 101 Forest Avenue, Swampscott, MA. The second concert will be held Sunday afternoon, May 3rd, 2:30 pm, at a new location: Washington Street Baptist Church, 256 Washington Street in downtown Lynn MA. Both concerts are free of charge and both venues are handicap-accessible.

Each concert will be followed by a gala reception including refreshments, accolades, and more Broadway music to the piano tunes of Bruce Meredith and vocal renditions of Mary Shaw. The 35th anniversary will be something to remember!!

William C. Sano of Salem has been music director of the Concert Singers for twenty-eight years. Sano is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, teaches for the Salem State Explorers LLI, is an active church choir organist and choirmaster, and is a former music supervisor in the Marblehead Public Schools. He also directs the popular “Season at Symphony” class in
Swampscott. The chorus’ accompanist is Margaret J. Dee, a charter member of the Concert Singers, former music teacher in Danvers Public Schools, and currently organist of Our Lady Church in Lynnfield. The fifty-five chorus members hail from seventeen cities and towns north of Boston, as well as two more from Pembroke and Plymouth MA on the South Shore!

For further information please call Margaret Oleson at 781-639-4558 or Bill Sano at 978-744-4787. Or, visit us online at www.ConcertSingersofGreaterLynn.org. Concerts are funded in part by the Lynn Cultural Council, Marblehead Cultural Council, Swampscott Cultural Council and Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation. A free-will offering at the door is greatly appreciated.