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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2006
CONTACT: James Langkamp • (608) 243-4325 or Nancy Schley • (608) 243-4506

 

MATC Community Show Choir Presents Spring Super Show 2006:
The Best of the Best 25th Anniversary Show

Madison Area Technical College (MATC) Community Show Choir will showcase some of America’s best-loved songs from their many shows over the past 25 years on Sunday, May 7. The Show Choir’s Spring Super Show 2006 will feature a wide variety of songs including “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” “Just a Closer Walk With Thee,” “What I Did For Love,” “The Rose,” “Colors in the Wind,” a melody of Irving Berlin’s “A Century of Song,” and other popular selections.

The Super Show will be held in the Mitby Theater, MATC–Truax, 3550 Anderson St. at 2 p.m. on May 7. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children under 12, students and seniors, and are available at the Mitby Theater Box Office or by calling (608) 243-4000. For additional information, call James Langkamp at (608) 243-4325.

The show will include the MATC Swing Choir and The Combined Choirs of MATC and the University of Wisconsin Center–Rock County.

Founded in 1980, the MATC Community Show Choir presents concerts of popular music in the fall and spring of each year. A volunteer organization open to all who love to sing, the choir has performed at New York’s Lincoln Center as part of Irving Berlin’s 100th birthday concert and for Pope John Paul II while on a tour of Italy and Poland. Regionally, the choir performed in the Wisconsin Capitol Building and for the opening of the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison and at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee.

MATC is one of the largest of the Wisconsin Technical College System’s 16 colleges. It provides a comprehensive curriculum of technical, liberal arts and science, adult basic education and life enrichment studies and activities, as well as customized employee training. MATC offers associate degrees, vocational diplomas and certificates, and non-degree courses in more than 140 programs of study. The college serves parts of 12 counties located in southcentral Wisconsin and offers instruction through five campuses and numerous community locations throughout the district.

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Last Modified: April 11, 2006

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