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UK Libraries Advisory Board Member Writes Cantata:

Angela Rice has written an original cantata, “Thy Will Be Done,” a piece composed by setting her favorite scriptures to music. The Bluegrass Opera will debut “Thy Will” 2 p.m. Sunday, March 18 at Central Christian Church, and at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary Church. Both performances are in Lexington.

You can find more information here: http://www.centralkynews.com/winchestersun/news/ws-artist-draws-on-her-faith-to-pen-cantata-20120312,0,6707316.story

Angela has spent more than 25 years working as a community volunteer. In addition, she co-founded, directed, and taught at the Ashland School of Music, and served on the Lexington Philharmonic Board as Vice-President of Education. She also was a founding member of the University of Kentucky's fund-raising organization, The Friends of Music. Angela served as an Executive Board member for the UK Opera Society and chaired the UK Opera Theatre Workshop for two consecutive years.

Through UK Libraries in 1990, Angela established a special endowment fund to provide a collection of books and materials on Child Development, named in the honor of her daughter, Ellen Rice. Since 1991, Angela has been a member and a past President of the UK Libraries National Advisory Board.

This past year, Angela became co-owner of Blackfish Golf and Hunt Club in Winchester, Kentucky. Angela is married to N. Thomas Rice, a radiologist at Central Baptist Hospital and enjoys time with her three children and two dogs.