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Seasonal concerts blooming all around

Choral groups offer singing salutes to Broadway, the military and the United States.

By JORGE SANCHEZ
Published April 8, 2005

Community choral groups and the Citrus Community Band will perform their spring concerts this weekend.

The Sugarmill Chorale presents a "Salute to Broadway and A Tribute to Our Armed Forces" during its concert at 3 p.m. Saturday at Curtis Peterson Auditorium in Lecanto.

The 40-voice chorale will perform Broadway classics such as as Jerome Kern's All The Things You Are from Very Warm for May; You'll Never Walk Alone by Rodgers and Hammerstein from Carousel; Let Me Entertain You from Gypsy and The Music of the Night from the Phantom of the Opera.

Also featured will be a number of patriotic songs such as You're A Grand Old Flag; Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor; This is My Country; God Bless The USA and Distant Land.

Tickets for the concert are $6, available from all chorale members or by calling 382-5865.

Prepaid tickets will be held at the auditorium box office for pickup the day of the show. Curtis Peterson Auditorium is on the campus of Lecanto High School, 3 miles south of State Road 44.

The Citrus Springs Community Chorus presents an American Patchwork at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Citrus Springs Community Center, 1570 W Citrus Springs Blvd.

Among the selections will be a celebration of the Florida lifestyle in a duet by Johnny and Ginny Hucks, along with Georgia On My Mind and a Carolinas Medley.

Lois Burnet and Pat Falcone will pay a musical tribute to New York with a medley of Broadway songs. Then, the men of the chorus will salute the Old West and Alaska, while Joe Kelble sings I Left My Heart in San Francisco and Helen Harrison sings the Hawaiian Wedding Song. The program culminates in a patriotic salute. Free admission.

The 40-member Citrus Community Band performs a concert at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Beverly Hills Recreation Association, 77 Civic Circle. Included will be special selections by the Jericho Brass and the German Band. The $5 admission includes coffee and cake.

The Citrus County Jazz Society meets for its monthly jam session at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Hampton Room at Citrus Hills Golf and Country Club, 509 E Hartford St. The session features jazz and Dixieland performed by local musicians. Admission is $5. Call Ken Lattin at 344-4526 in you want to perform.

Jorge Sanchez covers arts and entertainment in Citrus County. Call 860-7313 or e-mail sanchez@sptimes.com

[Last modified April 8, 2005, 00:33:18]