Nearly 300 singers and instrumentalists will perform Beethoven’s dramatic and exciting “Mass in C Major” on Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 22, at 3 p.m. at St. Ambrose Cathedral, located at 6th Avenue and High Street in downtown Des Moines. The concert will feature all four Drake choruses, a faculty/student orchestra, and four student soloists: Laurel Cramer, soprano; Mollie Lawler, mezzo-soprano; Trevor Ross, tenor; and Paxton Gillespie, baritone. Tickets are $17 for non-students and $7 for students and can be purchased through Friday, April 20, online or at the Drake Fine Arts Box Office by calling 515-271-3841.  If tickets remain, they will be sold at the door, beginning 45 minutes prior to the start of the concert. For further information, contact Aimee Beckmann-Collier, director of choral studies, at aimee.beckmann-collier@drake.edu or 515-271-2841.

— Aimee Beckmann-Collier, college of Arts and Sciences