2025 Spring Concert

Mistress of Ceremonies: One of Linda’s proudest achievements is being a founder of the Liverpool Community Chorus. Linda was co‐editor, along with Sharon Fulmer, of the Liverpool‐Salina Review weekly newspaper at the time. Now retired from her position as a tenured professor at SUNY Oswego, where she taught creative writing and journalism, she is active as a volunteer facilitator of memoir and poetry writing classes at the Baldwinsville Library and other sites. Linda continues to work in journalism; her byline appears on articles about music
and the arts at Syracuse.com/The Post‐Standard.

Liverpool School of Dance:  Owned and operated by Mary Condlin, this organization, which began with Mary's mother, the late Joan Condlin, has accompanied the LCC on various occasions from the beginning.   Mary's dancers amplify the LCC choral experience by adding the beauty of ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, and pointe to the performance. 

Director: Joe Spado has taught music at Liverpool Middle School, won two Syracuse Area Live Theater (SALT) awards for best actor and is currently teaching music at Huntington and HW Smith PreK-8 schools.  He also assists withe HW Smith musical.  Spado has been a part of the chorus in many capacities.  Currently in his second appointment as Director, Joe has also contributed to the chorus as a Tenor, Soloist, and Bass player.  In 2012 Spado was recognized as an  individual who had excelled in the areas of Art, Music, Theater, or Dance and was inducted in the Liverpool Central School District Fine Arts Hall of Fame.

Accompanist: Gloria Card has been with the chorus since 1980 with minimal pause.  Serving as an Alto for many years, she now holds the chorus' accompanist role.  With only five years of piano lessons (age 9-15) she is mostly self taught.  She credits her talent to various mentors she has had through the years, particularly Dan D'Agostino.  She has been the organist for her church for the past 61 years and in 2010 was inducted in the Liverpool Central School District Fine Arts Hall of Fame.

Guest Director: Dan D’Agostino the third director of the Liverpool Community Chorus, graduated from Liverpool High School, earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Certificate of Advanced Study from Syracuse University’s School of Music. He holds honorary degrees in the Arts from the University of Madrid and the University of Mexico. Dan directed several choruses at Liverpool High School, including General Chorus, Concert Chorale, and Rock Ensemble. Dan was the Coordinator of Fine Arts for the Liverpool Central schools. He directed the Ars Nova Chorale, the Syracuse Chorale, LeMoyne College Choir and prepared choruses for Christopher Keene and the Syracuse Symphony as well as a guest conductor of All State and All‐County Music Festivals throughout New York. Dan was one of the first inductees into the Liverpool Central Schools Fine Arts Hall of Fame in 2003.