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Earlham Hosts High School Choral Festival For Immediate Release: 
"Sharing choral experiences with other talented and dedicated singers and professional musicians provides a unique forum for learning and growth," says Wei Cheng, concert conductor and interim director of choral activities at Earlham. RICHMOND, Ind. — Culminating with a performance of Giacomo Puccini's Messa di Gloria, the 11th Earlham College Invitational High School Choral Festival is set for Saturday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m., in the Richmond Civic Hall Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $3 in advance at Earlham's Fine Arts Office, or $5 at the door. The first part of the festival features performances by each of the following Indiana high school choirs: Rushville Consolidated, Connersville, Indianapolis Arsenal Technical and Mishawaka Penn. Those choirs join the Earlham Concert Choir, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and soloists Randall Umstead and Ronald Berry in the featured presentation. Since the festival began in 1987, more than 3,000 high school singers have participated in the biennial event. Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Though Puccini is most famous for his contribution to the world of opera through such works as La Boheme, Tosca and Madame Butterfly, he began his musical career playing and composing church music. He was born into a family that had supplied his native city of Lucca, Italy with cathedral organists and composers for four generations. At 14 he was able to deputize for organists in the city, and he enrolled at the Instituto Musicale Pacini in 1874. It was for his graduation from the Instituto Musicale Pacini in 1880, at the age of 22, that he composed Messa a quattro voci, later called Messa di Gloria because of the relative importance of the Gloria section in the work. — EC — Contact: Denise Purcell, public affairs assistant
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