Southeastern Louisiana University's award-winning Concert Choir will present a hauntingly beautiful program that gives musical voice to the Civil War and the Holocaust. The concert is the choir's contribution to Fanfare, Southeastern's annual fall arts festival.
Admission is free.
Garner holds a bachelor's degree in vocal performance from Illinois Wesleyan University, a master's degree in choral conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a doctoral degree in choral music from the University of Iowa. He has served on the faculties of Albertson College of Idaho, and High Point University, North Carolina and his choirs have been heard throughout the United States. Garner also has been active as a tenor soloist in oratorio and recital and has conducted in workshops and performances with many of the world's leading conductors. The piece will be accompanied by guitar. I Never Saw Another Butterfly,' poems which were written by children incarcerated at the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust.