The halls of the First United Methodist Church were alive with the sound of music Sunday as practice continued for the upcoming Milledgeville concert featuring opera soprano Beverley Vanessa Hill and the Grover and Lula Mae Hill Memorial Choraliers in the First International Arts Festival and Peace Tour. Hill, the dramatic soprano for the Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble in New York, is a Milledgeville native. Wade Elkins, music director at FUMC, is directing the Choraliers in this concert. The Choraliers, named in honor of Hill’s parents, are a concept that Hill uses to promote her ideas of enriching communities by bringing diverse groups of people together in song. Hill builds the Choraliers out of local talent found at each venue. The event will include singers from First United Methodist Church, Second Macedonia Baptist Church, Union Baptist City Church, Green Pasture Baptist Church, and Georgia Military College middle-schoolers. Puerto Rican baritone Rafael LeBron will be the guest artist at the May 15 concert, and he and Hill will perform a duet from Aida. The Choraliers will sing two songs, a gospel piece and an Israeli piece in Hebrew. Tickets are $8 for adults.

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Who: Beverly Vanessa Hill, Rafael LeBron and the Grover and Lula Mae Hill Memorial Choraliers What: First International Arts Festival and Peace Tour When: May 15, 3 p.m. Where: The Goldstein Center for the Performing Arts in Georgia Military College’s new academic building