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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: AFA (American Festival for the Arts) Choral Celebra
 tion Concert\nEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/24639/AFA_A
 merican_Festival_for_the_Arts_Choral_Celebration_Concert\nEvent Date Begin
 : 2009-07-18\nEvent Date End: 2009-07-18\n\nAFA (American Festival for the
  Arts) presents the AFA (American Festival for the Arts) Choral Celebratio
 n Concert.\nJoin the AFA Mixed Chorus\, Men's and Women's Choirs and the A
 FA Madrigals as they close the 2009 Summer Concert Series at the UH Moores
  Opera House. Guest Conductor Lawrence Kaptein (University of Colorado\, B
 oulder) will lead the Mixed Chorus and members of the AFA Faculty in Whita
 ker's 'Five Hebrew Love Songs' and in Mozart's 'Regina Coeli\, K. 276' wit
 h students from the AFA Conservatory Orchestra. Lawrence Kaptein\, Guest C
 onductor\; Richard Robbins and Jed Ragsdale\, Associate Conductors.\nAmeri
 can Festival for the Arts (AFA) was founded in 1993 by Houston composer J.
  Todd Frazier to provide accessible\, high-quality music education and per
 formance opportunities for youth and to broaden the audience for both new 
 American works and the standard classical music repertory.\nTo achieve its
  mission\, AFA presents an annual Summer Music Conservatory and Concert Se
 ries. This unique and acclaimed community-based music education program\, 
 featuring faculty members drawn from the nations' finest educators\, perfo
 rmers\, composers and conductors\, has become recognized as an important a
 nnual event in the cultural life of Southeast Texas and as a model for sim
 ilar programs around the nation. A rigorous curriculum that includes large
  and small ensemble performance\, music theory/enrichment classes and priv
 ate lessons forms the core of AFA's orchestra\, jazz\, choir\, piano and c
 omposition departments.\nThe Conservatory is an inspiring\, life changing 
 experience for its students. In 2008\, AFA's thirteenth Summer Music Conse
 rvatory enrolled 332 students from 109 elementary\, middle and senior high
  schools. AFA presented twenty-one free concerts to thousands of area musi
 c lovers featuring more American works and world premieres than any other 
 area presenter. More than three out of every five students received tuitio
 n assistance from the AFA Scholarship Enrichment Fund.\n\nStart time: 4:00
  PM
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SUMMARY:AFA (American Festival for the Arts) Choral Celebration Concert
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