Ithaca, NY--On Sunday, April 17, the Ithaca College Choral Union and Symphony Orchestra will give a free Ithaca performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," a work the ensembles will perform two days later at New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The Ithaca concert will begin at 4:00 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music. Lawrence Doebler will conduct.

Composed of the choir, women's chorale, and chorus, the choral union totals 350 student performers. Professor of music education Janet Galvan prepared the chorus and women's chorale; Doebler prepared the choir. Faculty soloists Deborah Montgomery-Cove, Carl Johengen, and Randie Blooding will also be featured. In addition, the overture to Samuel Barber's "The School for Scandal" will be played by the symphony orchestra under the baton of Jeffrey Grogan.

Although the Ithaca performance is free, seating in Ford Hall is limited and tickets will be required. They will be available only at the door. In case of overflow, live video coverage of the concert will be available in the Hockett Family Recital Hall. Tickets will not be required for seating in the Hockett venue.

The Lincoln Center performance will be held in Avery Fisher Hall at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19. Tickets are $40 for adults and $20 for children 12 and under. Tickets can be purchased from Center Charge Tickets at (212) 721-6500 or online at www.lincolncenter.org.

Ithaca College's connection to Lincoln Center goes back to the early 1970s, when the School of Music sponsored seven different concerts at that venue. A 1992 concert featured five world premiere performances of compositions commissioned by the School of Music to celebrate the College's centennial. The most recent Lincoln Center performance was given in 2002 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Karel Husa, who taught composition at Ithaca College from 1967 to 1986 and is the Kappa Alpha Professor of Music Emeritus at Cornell University. At that time, the wind ensemble and symphony orchestra honored Husa's birthday by playing some of his most memorable works.

The Ithaca College School of Music offers some 300 free concerts each academic year. More information on these performances is available by calling (607) 274-3717 or visiting www.ithaca.edu/concerts.