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Celebrate Valentine's Day with the EIU Choral Ensembles' 'Songs of Love'

Romance will be in the air when Eastern Illinois University's Choral Ensembles present "Songs of Love" to wrap up the Valentine's Day weekend.

The concert, featuring the EIU Concert Choir and Camerata Singers (conducted by Richard Robert Rossi) and the University Mixed Chorus (conducted by Adam Stich), is to begin at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, in the Doudna Fine Arts Center's Dvorak Concert Hall.

They will be joined by EIU music department faculty member Katie McBain on horn for a special presentation of Libby Larsen's "Sweet and Sour Nursery Rhymes," which personifies the characters in "There Was a Little Girl," "Little Boy Blue" and "Try, Try Again."

Tickets for general-admission seating are $5 for adults and $3 for students. For tickets and information, or to arrange accommodations for persons with special needs, contact Doudna Fine Arts Patron Services (217-581-3110 or doudnatix@eiu.edu) or visit the Doudna Fine Arts Center Box Office.

The Doudna Fine Arts Center is a division of the EIU College of Arts and Humanities. For more information, please see http://www.eiu.edu/doudna.

The concert is sponsored in part by a gift from Christine Gordon.