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Lincoln University will ring in the holiday season with its annual Christmas Concert on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel. The event, which is a shared presentation of the Music Department and the Lectures and Recital Committee, is free and open to the public.
The University's Concert Choir will perform under the direction of Music Department Chair Dr. William B. Garcia. Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Paula Tyler will accompany them on the organ. In addition, a guest chamber orchestra, comprised of musicians from the southern Chester County area, will also perform.
Featured music includes choral works by composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Rogie Clark, Marvin Curtis, Egil Howland and David H. William.
Founded in 1854, Lincoln University is a premier, Historically Black University that combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of students living in a highly technological and global society.
Lincoln University is ranked first in Pennsylvania and second in the nation in graduating African Americans with baccalaureate degrees in the physical sciences. Lincoln is also the only university in the Commonwealth and one of but 20 universities nationwide where 40 percent or more of its physics graduates are women.