Annual Berea College Christmas Concert Sunday, Dec. 3
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11/27/06
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| The Music Department of Berea College will join with the Campus Christian Center in presenting the annual Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Union Church. At this free popular event, students, faculty, staff and townspeople gather together to celebrate the joy of the Christmas season in the beautiful, candlelit sanctuary decorated with wreaths, banners and greens. The church is located at the corner of Main and Prospect Streets in Berea. Beginning at 7:15 p.m., “gathering music” for organ and brass will be heard as people arrive.Music of the season will be performed by the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, the Women’s Chorus, the Black Music Ensemble, the Faculty-Staff Choir, the Wind Ensemble, the Jazz Ensemble, the Brass Choir, the Saxophone Quartet, the Bluegrass Ensemble and the Recorder Ensemble. Selections will include sacred settings of “Ave Maria,” “Silent Night” in German, “Love Came Down at Christmas” “O Holy Night” and other traditional carols. Secular highlights will include “Carol of the Bells,” Leroy Anderson’s “A Christmas Festival” and “Sleigh Ride,” and Mel Torme’s “Christmas Song” (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).
All in attendance are invited to join in the singing of favorite traditional carols accompanied by organ. Plan to attend this joyful and popular community-wide Christmas celebration and the reception afterwards sponsored by Berea’s Campus Christian Center in the church’s Fellowship Hall. |
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| CONTACT: Professor John Courter (859) 985-3473 |
