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The Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society, directed by G. Roberts Kolb, will perform a program titled "The Young Mozart" on Tuesday, April 24, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center on the campus of Hamilton College. The program will feature works completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart before he was 19 years old. The featured soloists are Janet Brown, Beth Ray, David Parks, and Williams Black.

Under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb since 1981, the Oratorio Society, which numbers approximately 135 singers, is now in its 25th season.  The Oratorio Society has dedicated itself to bringing together Hamilton students, faculty, staff and their families with members of the surrounding community from a 75-mile radius, to sing great choral masterworks, accompanied by some of the finest orchestral musicians and vocal soloists in the area.

G. Roberts Kolb is the Christian A. Johnson "Excellence in Teaching" Professor of Music and Director of Choral Music at Hamilton College. A graduate of Occidental College, his postgraduate education included study at the School of Theology at Claremont, California, a master's degree in choral conducting from the California State University at Fullerton, and a doctorate in choral music from the University of Illinois.  He has been musical director of both the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble and the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble (Ithaca, NY), and is director of music at the Stone Presbyterian Church in Clinton. A member of the national research and publications committee of the American Choral Directors Association, he is a contributing author to Up Front! Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor.

 "The Young Mozart" by the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society will be performed on Tuesday, April 24 at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall. Tickets for the concert are $6.00 for the general public, $4.00 for senior citizens and students, and free for Hamilton College students. For ticket reservations or more information, call the Box Office at 859-4331.

 

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