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USNA MEN’S GLEE CLUB TO PERFORM IN BEAUFORT, S.C.

The internationally-acclaimed U.S. Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club will perform in Beaufort, S.C. Sunday, Nov.11, at 6 p.m. as part of their Veteran’s Day Tour.

The concert, A Salute to America’s Heroes, will be held at the Parish Church of St. Helena in Beaufort, S.C. The concert is free and tickets will be available through the Parish Office at the Church. Doors open at 5 p.m.

The Men’s Glee Club is the largest and most active of the Naval Academy’s musical organizations and regularly travels around the country representing the Naval Academy and the naval service. Glee Club has received national acclaim for recent collaborations performing masterpieces of choral-orchestral literature with some of the nation’s leading symphony orchestras to include Charlotte, Columbus, Phoenix, Nashville and Portland, Maine. A recent collaboration with the Women’s Glee Club and the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra of Mahler’s Second Symphony received rave reviews statewide. A ten-day visit to Chile and Argentina in 2009 garnered international acclaim from ambassadors and state department officials.

“We are excited to be able to bring our midshipmen to perform in such a historic venue,” said Dr. Aaron Smith, the chairman of the Naval Academy’s Music Department, and the director of the Men’s Glee Club. “We are honored to participate in the Tricentennial of the Parish Church of St. Helena. Performing a concert on Veteran’s Day to honor those who have served our country will have special meaning to our midshipmen. All of them will be serving our country as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps upon graduation and commissioning from the Naval Academy.”

In addition to the concert in Beaufort, the Men’s Glee Club will appear in concert Saturday Nov.10, at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Hilton Head Island.

Founded in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy today is a prestigious four-year service academy that prepares midshipmen morally, mentally and physically to be professional officers in the naval service. More than 4,400 men and women representing every state in the U.S. and several foreign countries make up the student body, known as the Brigade of Midshipmen. Midshipmen learn from military and civilian instructors and participate in intercollegiate varsity sports and extracurricular activities. They also study subjects like small arms, drill, seamanship and navigation, tactics, naval engineering and weapons, leadership, ethics and military law. Upon graduation, midshipmen earn a federally funded Bachelor of Science degree in a choice of 23 different subject majors and go on to serve at least five years of exciting and rewarding service as commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps.

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