Young Catholic Musicians Prepare for Summer Tour

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"YOUNG CATHOLIC MUSICIANS PREPARE FOR SUMMER TOUR"

ST. LOUIS — The Young Catholic Musicians will preview their summer concert at 8:45 p.m. next Wed., May 24, at Epiphany Parish, 6596 Smiley Ave. in South St. Louis. The concert, "100 Years of Broadway," features some of America’s best-loved songs including "Give My Regards to Broadway," "Oh What A Beautiful Morning," "Hello Young Lovers," "Seventy Six Trombones" and "Memory". The performance celebrates the history of Broadway and the great American heritage of musical theater. The concert features a sample of just about everything from Irving Berlin’s "Anything You Can Do" - 1946 to " Do You Hear the People Sing?" - Les Miserables -

The concert in St. Louis is a preview of The Young Catholic Musicians Summer Tour that leaves for New York on June 3. During the nine-day tour the youth orchestra and choir will present concerts at the Cardinal Terrance Cook Center, the Plaza at Lincoln Center and the Little Sisters of the Poor Residence. Along the way, they will perform for local parishes at St. Timothy’s in Columbus, Ohio and St. Thomas Aquinas in Zanesville, Ohio.

The Young Catholic Musicians is in its twenty-sixth year of performing. The orchestra and choir, directed by Rev. Bruce H. Forman, includes 120 instrumentalists and singers who come from over 80 different schools. During the year these young men and women in the sixth grade through twelfth grade travel throughout the Archdiocese of St. Louis to lead congregations in sung prayer during the celebration of Mass. Their annual Summer Tour has taken them to many destinations: Washington DC, Orlando, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Denver and Toronto. This year is the fifth tour to New York for them.

A dress rehearsal for the Young Catholic Musicians summer tour concert will be open to the media on Tues., May 23 at 8:15 p.m. at Epiphany Parish.