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51ÉçÇø Singers and Proclamation will travel to
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 23-June 2 to perform concerts
and carry out missions work in cooperation with the South
Brazil Baptist Seminary. The trip is jointly sponsored by
Caraoca Association of Baptists in Brazil and the
Tennessee Baptist Convention, with assistance from t he
International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention. Thirty-six Union faculty members and
students will represent the university in Rio de Janeiro.
Dr. Andrew Roby, chair of the music department and
director of Singers and Proclamation, is coordinating the
trip. While in Brazil, Roby will direct the ensembles and
lead seminary workshops on choral techniques and the
choir's role in Christian worship.
Singers and Proclamation will perform in schools,
churches and public venues, and will assist in crusade
services hosted by Baptists throughout the Rio de Janeiro
area.
Elizabeth Bedsole and Dr. Terry McRoberts, professors
of music at Union, will join Roby and the ensembles on
the Brazil mission tour. They will lead seminars on
children's choir leadership and the role of the keyboard
in worship, respectively, at the seminary each day.
Bedsole and McRoberts will also serve as music leaders at
special services in several churches.
The Brazil mission tour is the third international
tour for Union's music students in the past four years.
In 1995, the select vocal ensemble Proclamation and the
Handbell Choir toured and performed throughout western
Germany. In 1997, Singers and the Handbell Choir traveled
and performed in London, England and the surrounding
area.
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