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                         Music in a Great Space
                    presents three magnificent works
                        for chorus and orchestra
                  by Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner

                                 Brahms:
                              Alto Rhapsody
                                   and
                             Song of Destiny

                                Bruckner:
                             Mass in f minor

                       Sunday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
                                   at
                      Shadyside Presbyterian Church
                        Amberson and Westminster
                      (one block off Fifth Avenue)

Three magnificent works for chorus and orchestra by Johannes Brahms and
Anton Bruckner will be performed on Sunday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. at
Shadyside Presbyterian Church as Music in a Great Space presents Three
Treasures of Romanticism.  John Walker conducts the Shadyside Chancel
Choir, the Shadyside Choral Society and Orchestra in Brahms' Alto
Rhapsody and Song of Destiny along with the major work on the program,
Bruckner's colossal Mass in f minor.

The three works on the program represent the full flowering of 19th
century Romanticism.  All three received their premiere in a period of
two years from 1870-1872.  Brahms and Bruckner explore the heights and
depths of human emotion in these passionate works for chorus and
orchestra.

Tickets for the concert are $10 and are available through the church
office at 682-4300 or at the door.

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Soloist in the Alto Rhapsody is contralto Xiu-Ru Liu.  Ms. Liu graduated
from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China in 1980.  In
1981 Beverly Sills heard Ms. Liu during a visit to China and encouraged
her to pursue her studies in the United States.  That contact led to a
full scholarship at the Eastman School of Music where she was a student
of John Maloy, Jan DeGaitani and Marcia Baldwin.  In 1990 she received
her Master's Degree and Performance Certificate from the Eastman School
of Music.  She became a citizen of the United States in 1993.  Recent
performances have included the Verdi Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony, and principal roles in Verdi's Rigoletto and Il Trovatore, and
in Mozart's Die Zauberfloete.  Last summer she toured Germany and
Austria with Opera Italiana d'Milano in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera.

Conductor of Three Treasures of Romanticism is John Walker, Director of
Music and Organist at Shadyside Presbyterian Church.  Walker holds
double masters degrees from the American Conservatory of Music in
Chicago and the Doctor of Musical Arts from Stanford University with a
concentration in Performance Practices.  A Fellow of the American Guild
of Organists, he is active as a recitalist and recording artist.