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Young@Heart Chorus

Tuesday, APRIL 17 • 7 pm

The Moore Theater
$15 • Dartmouth students $5

Young@Heart on NPR's Morning Edition

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The Young@Heart Chorus is no rest-home sing-along. Darlings of the media from TIME to The Daily Show and a sensation at European festivals, these surprising octogenarians take a “walk on the wild side,” melting hearts and blowing minds. With their live band, they create a knock-your-socks off, “profound, haunting drama, a musical celebration of life on the edge of losing it...gripping...musical theatre” (Sunday Telegraph). Comic but shrewdly ironic, they belt out loaded lyrics of the Beatles, Stones, Clash and OutKast: “What a drag it is getting old!” “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Transformed by age but still the same, the Massachusetts- based chorus triumphantly asserts its final passion, “Forever Young!”

Cosponsored by the Dartmouth Community Medical School with support from a generous contribution from the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation.
Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

“Your mouth falls open in delighted incredulity even as your throat is wrestling with a lump of golf-ball proportions...All in all, it's the best night out of the year.”

The Independent, London

RELATED EVENTS

Post-performance discussion with company members, The Moore Theater

READING THE ARTS: HOP AT THE HOWE BOOK DISCUSSION
FULL MEASURE: MODERN SHORT STORIES ON AGING, edited by Dorothy Sennett
Wednesday, April 11 • 12 noon
Murray Room, Howe Library • Free
A discussion of Full Measure, an anthology of stories by great contemporary novelists illuminating the diverse aspects of growing old. A limited number of books are available for checkout from the Howe library. For more info, call 603.643.4120 or visit howelibrary.org.

LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION: YOUNG@HEART CHORAL EXCHANGE
Monday, April 16 • 5:30 pm
Collis Common Ground • Free
Young@Heart partners with Dartmouth a cappella groups to discuss arrangements and performance techniques. For more info, call Hop Outreach at 603.646.2010.

YOUNG@HEART: A MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Tuesday, April 17 • 12 noon
Faculty Lounge • Free
Bring your lunch and see excerpts from this heartfelt documentary made for British television by Walker George Films Ltd. Director: Stephen Walker, UK. For more info, call Hop Outreach at 603.646.2010.