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What: Maureen McGovern with VocalEssence.
When: 4 p.m. next Sun.
Where: Fitzgerald Theater, 10 E. Exchange St., St. Paul.
Tickets: $20-$35. 612-673-0404.
Web: www.vocalessence.org.
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When VocalEssence envisioned this event, "The Joy of Spring" must have seemed the perfect title for an early April concert. In the cold slap of reality that has been March, it might be more apt to reach back to Maureen McGovern's lyrical first stroke: "There's got to be a morning after."
Nonetheless, spring is the theme when McGovern sings with the VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers next Sunday at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. The program stretches from Renaissance madrigals to Broadway hits.
McGovern, who has earned the moniker "The Stradivarius Voice," first appeared with VocalEssence in 1999, when she sang the lead in a semi-staged version of "Of Thee I Sing." She was in the Twin Cities most recently in February 2006 with the national tour of "Little Women" at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. She has appeared several times over the years in the Pop Series at the Minnesota Orchestra.
McGovern's list of credits reveals a distinguished and varied career, even if she might have been pigeonholed in the 1970s as the "Disaster Movie Thrush." Following up "The Morning After" from the "Poseidon Adventure," she sang "We May Never Love Like This Again," the theme for "The Towering Inferno" in 1974. (Not to be confused with Seals & Crofts' "We May Never Pass This Way Again.") She has done Broadway, classical and popular concerts, 25 albums, film and television.
In the VocalEssence concert next Sunday, McGovern will sing solo sets including "It Was Just One of Those Things," "Blues in the Night" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
