#96-10-15
For Release: 10-12-96
Contact: Peter Bailley

The Knox College Choir will offer their annual, free public Fall concert as a highlight of Family Weekend, Oct. 25-27, on the Knox Campus. The Choir and Chamber Singers, directed by Timothy Reynolds, will perform at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 27, Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for Fine Arts.

The choir will be joined by a string ensemble for Georg Philipp Telemann's Laudate Jehovam, Onmes Gentes which will feature Mylee Bishop, first year of Duluth, MN, on violin; Sarah Atkinson, junior of Jefferson City, MO, also on violin; Ethan Slaughter, sophomore of Las Vegas, NV, on cello; and Amber Clark, accompanist, on organ.

The Knox College Choir has toured throughout the United States, England, France and Spain. This year they will tour in Texas over spring break. The choir has released a CD of their 1995 tour.

Additional events include, on Friday, Oct. 25, a lecture by Charles Komanoff at 4 p.m., Common Room, Old Main; and a violin recital by Christina Anghelescu, permanent violin soloist of the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, at 7 p.m., Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for Fine Arts. Saturday, Oct. 26 brings a cross country meet, a football game and a men's soccer game. The final performances of the fall production of The Three Cuckolds, will be at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday in Harbach Theater, Ford Center for Fine Arts.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.