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orchestra on stage — Students and Dr. Stephen Coker, associate professor, far left, and Daniel Alfred Wachs, associate professor, center, rehearse for Sholund Scholarship Concert.

If you need a lift of inspiring music, take in Saturday’s Sholund Scholarship Concert, the Conservatory of Music’s biggest concert of the year.

We visited a rehearsal and the music sounded superb.

The program for this year’s Sholund is “Sacred Music of the Great Italian Opera Composers,” featuring the Chapman University Choirs and Chapman Chamber Orchestra with Stephen R. Coker, Ph.D., associate professor, College of Performing Arts, Conservatory of Music, conducting. The program will include Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Mascagni’s “Regina coeli” from Cavalleria rusticana and Verdi’s “Va’, pensiero” from Nabucco.

The concert is at 4 p.m., May 8, in Memorial Hall. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for seniors and students. Proceeds from the concert benefit an endowed music scholarship named in memory of the late Edgar Sholund, a past chairman of the music department. For more information about this event, or the many other performing arts events this month, visit COPA’s web site
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