May 5 concert celebrates the 150th anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation

Concert features Elizabethtown College choirs and jazz band

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (04/30/2013)(readMedia)-- Elizabethtown College Choirs and Jazz Band

present "Crossing Over: Spirituals and Gospel Songs Celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation Sesquicentennial" at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 5, in the college's Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The concert is free, but a free-will offering will be accepted to help support the ensembles' May tour.

The Community Chorus, Dolce Women's Chorus, Concert Choir, Sine Nomine and Jazz Band perform spirituals, gospel songs and spirituals from the mid-1800s. The concert also features Brazilian music in honor of the Concert Choir and Jazz Band's May tour of Salvador, Brazil.

Contact: Matthew Fritz at 717-361-1112

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Elizabethtown College, located in historic Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than four dozen liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education degrees. Through personal attention, creative inspiration and academic rigor, Elizabethtown College students are encouraged to expand their intellectual curiosity and are given the opportunity to become a bigger part of the world through experiential learning-research, internships and study abroad. Elizabethtown College's overall commitment to Educate for Service is fulfilled as students are prepared intellectually, socially, aesthetically and ethically for lives of service and leadership.

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