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"What was whispered about in December - " Photo shows Pappy Fehr whispering to Charlie Bodie, who was the Choir president. Article: "Choir Plans Spring Tour" Touring to Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Names some of the music that will be performed. Dates are April the 23rd through the 26th.

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To Visit 3 States: Choir Plans Spring Tour

Journeying northward, the William and Mary Choir will sing in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston this year on its annual spring tour.

First stop will be Philadelphia, where the group will present a concert April 23. The following night the choir will sing in New York City, while April 25 the group will invade New England for a concert in Boston. Plans for Sunday, April 26, the final day of the tour, are still tentative.

The concerts are being sponsored by alumni of organizations of the College. A group of forty voices, out of the choir's membership of sixty-four will make the tour. Dr. Carl A. Fehr is director of the choir.

On the program for each concert will be a variety of religious music, folk songs, and operetic numbers. The performances will open with "Glory to God" by Randell Thompson, and will continue with "Komm, Jesu, Komm," a motet by Bach. This will be followed by four motets by Poulenc and by a "To Deum" by Verdi.

Concluding with opera, the choir will present the Chorus and Finale from Wagner's "De Meistersinger"; "Regine Coeli"; an excerpt from Mascagni's "Cavellaria"; and the "Coronation Scene" from Mussorgsky's "Boris Goudonov."

In its 1958 tour the choir visited Baltimore, Maryland and Wilmington, Delaware.