MEDIA CONTACT: Terri Berns
561-297-1164, tberns@fau.edu

FAU Wimberly Library, Fraiberg Jewish Music Collections, Announces Open Auditions For Judaica Choral Society

Unique Community Choir is the Only Jewish Music Chorus-in-Residence
at a State University in the Nation

BOCA RATON, FL (August 29, 2005) - Florida Atlantic University's Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collection announces open auditions for the FAU Libraries Judaica Choral Society, a community Jewish-music chorus, with a mission to learn and perform choral music specifically from the Wimberly Library Judaica Music Collection. It is the only Jewish-music chorus-in-residence at a state university in the United States.

The choral society is under the direction of Aaron Kula, FAU Libraries resident-scholar, with emphasis in music, and faculty member at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music.

The repertoire includes Yiddish theatre, folk songs, cantorial music, Jewish operettas and Broadway hits sung in various languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish and English. The chorus, with guest artists, is to perform with the popular Klezmer Company Orchestra in January, March and May 2006.

Singers of all denominations are welcome; knowledge of languages is not a requirement. Rehearsals are at 6:30 p.m., every Thursday, beginning September 8.

For new-member audition dates or additional information, contact Aaron Kula at 561-297-3742 or at akula@fau.edu.

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