Calling all UWSP Choir Alumni!
All alumni who sang in any UWSP choirs are invited to join us for a day of fun!
We will spend the day together reuniting with friends, rehearsing, checking out some of the homecoming activities, and finishing off with a performance for our family and friends!
Special Guest Conductor: Lucinda J. Thayer
Lucinda J. Thayer’s conducting and teaching career spanned thirty-eight years. She retired as Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities UWSP in 2018, after twenty-two years. Prior to coming to UWSP, she taught at Smith College, University of Central Florida, UWMadison, and Mary Baldwin College. In 2013 she retired from her position Music Director of the Wausau Lyric Choir, a position that she held for fifteen years.
Thayer served as a member of an international panel of judges for an international choral competition in Verona, Italy in 2006, 2008-2010, 2013, and 2019. She is a Past President of the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association. In January 2015 she was awarded the Morris D. Hayes Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association for outstanding contribution to choral music in Wisconsin. She currently lives in Charlotte, Vermont with her husband Jim Carpenter and their Golden Retriever, Dylan D. Dog.
Cost: $30
(On day of event, $40)
Coffee, Danish and Lunch included.
Music will be available once you have registered and paid.
Make checks payable to the UWSP Music Department, and in the memo write “Alumni Choir.”
Send checks to UWSP Music Department, 1800 Portage Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481
SCHEDULE
8-9 a.m. Registration
9-11:30 a.m. Rehearsal
11:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch/Free Time
1:30-5 p.m. Rehearsal
5-6 p.m. Dress and preparation for concert (black attire)
6 p.m. Informal Concert
Optional gathering at District 1 Brewing after concert.
All hotel accommodations are on your own.
La Quinta Inn & Suites, Stevens Point
Country Inn & Suites, Stevens Point
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