A special chapel service honoring Professor Richard Veale, will be held at College Place United Methodist Church, 4801 Colonial Drive. The service will take place from 1:00 – 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, January 31.
 
Professor Veal will be remembered by those who worked and studied with him during his thirty-eight years of service at Columbia College. The Columbia College Choir will perform. This will be a time to remember and celebrate how Richard Veale touched so many lives with his remarkable talent, generosity, and passion for teaching.
 
Richard Veale spent the past thirty-eight years of his life dedicated to teaching the students of Columbia College. During his career he performed in 24 operas, four operettas, 10 musicals and more than 500 concerts delighting audiences everywhere.

Beyond Columbia College, Veale’s influence on the state’s music and theatre scene was profound. Veale sang as one third of the Palmer, Veale, Gibson Trio who entertained with the music of Broadway and performed throughout the state of South Carolina for over four decades. Veale was profiled in the July/August 2006 issue of Columbia Metropolitan Magazine, where he was described as a “vital presence on the Columbia music scene for nearly four decades.”  The State newspaper, reviewing “Babes in Toyland” once wrote, “Any show that has Richard Veale singing in it has just about ‘got it made.’”
 
A lyric tenor and actor, Richard also sang with the SC Philharmonic Orchestra, the USC Concert Choir, the USC Opera Workshop, the Town Theatre, the Sandlapper Singers, the Palmetto Mastersingers, the Columbia Choral Society, the Columbia College Opera productions and the South Carolina Educational Television network, and with orchestras in Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Michigan.

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