“Swinging With The Standards: Past to Present” with the Webster University Jazz Singers

The Webster University Jazz Singers present their annual winter concert “Swinging With The Standards: Past to Present.”  The concert features selections from the Great American Songbook to Contemporary Jazz. Debby Lennon directs the Webster University Jazz Singers.

When:    

Monday, December 8, 2008, 7 p.m.

Where:            

Webster University Winifred Moore Auditorium
470 E. Lockwood Ave.

Cost:                      

$3 at the door.

More Info:           

Call 968-7032, or the Fine Arts Hotline at 968-7128.

Debby Lennon, a member of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus for eleven seasons, made her solo debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the 1992 Carnegie Hall premiere of William Bolcom’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience.” She is a frequent soloist at the SLSO Queeny Pops and Powell Hall with Bob Coleman’s Legacy Big Band and is an active free-lance artist in the St. Louis area. From 1992-1999, she recorded and performed with the nationally known a cappella octet, Pieces of 8, of which she is a founding member. Two years ago, Lennon performed as a soloist with the Space Coast Pops in “A Tribute to the Big Band Era” and in “An Evening of French Music” at the Sheldon Concert Hall. In addition to serving on the voice and jazz faculty at Webster University, Lennon serves at St. Joseph’s Academy as a vocal instructor and maintains a private voice studio.. She attended Fontbonne University and studied voice at Washington University and at the L’Ecole Hindemith in Vevey, Switzerland.

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