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                <text> 15, 2002, at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center in Orlando, Florida. The program includes short biographies on the Artistic Director Terry Thomas, and the Accompanist Genoa Minga, program notes, an outline of the show's itinerary, a list of chorus members and contributors, and a history of GALA Choruses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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                <text>Copyright to this resource is held by &lt;a href="https://orlandogaychorus.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Orlando Gay Chorus&lt;/a&gt; and is provided here by &lt;a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank"&gt;RICHES&lt;/a&gt; for educational purposes only.</text>
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                <text>Ahlquist, Karen. &lt;a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62281651" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chorus and Community&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.</text>
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