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National Endowment for the Arts Presents Great American Voices at Fort McCoy, November 15
November 15, 2005 Washington, D.C. - The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the United States Army, presents a performance of opera and musical theater for military personnel at Fort McCoy in Sparta, Wisconsin, on November 15. The performance is part of the NEA's Great American Voices Military Base Tour: Unforgettable Melodies from Opera & Broadway, which celebrates the best of American arts by bringing professional performances of opera and musical theater to 39 military bases nationwide. The concert will feature performers from The Minnesota Opera Company, who will sing selections from popular operas such as Bizet's Carmen, highlights from classic American musicals including West Side Story, and songs from Grapes of Wrath, a new Minnesota Opera commission. Great American Voices Military Base Tour is presented in coordination with the Department of Defense and OPERA America. Great American Voices Military Base Tour is made possible by The Boeing Company. The Minnesota Opera Company performs for Fort McCoy The Minnesota Opera Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, will perform Great American Voices on November 15 at 7:00 p.m. at Building 905 at Fort McCoy in Sparta, Wisconsin. This performance is free and open to the public; for more information contact the Fort McCoy MWR office at 877-864-4969. Educational resources In addition to the military base tour, the NEA also has produced a compact disc with opera and Broadway excerpts and commentary, to be distributed to audience members and teachers at participating schools. For the latest tour information and sample educational materials, visit www.greatamericanvoices.org. Great American Voices Military Base Tour is the latest in a series of groundbreaking partnerships between the NEA and the Department of Defense. The Boeing Company also made possible the NEA's Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. This initiative has brought distinguished writers to 16 domestic military bases and offered an open call for writing submissions to troops worldwide. The initiative will result in a federal archive of troop writings and an anthology to be published in 2006. As part of the largest tour of Shakespeare in American history, the NEA presented the Shakespeare in American Communities Military Base Tour, which brought performances by four Shakespeare companies to 18 military bases. For more information on these and other NEA programs, visit www.arts.gov. About Boeing Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest combined manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft. With additional capabilities in rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, rocket engines, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems, the company's reach extends to customers in 145 countries. In terms of sales, Boeing is one of the largest U.S. exporters. About the National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts – both new and established – bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases. National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal
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