A HYMN FESTIVAL entitled “And His Name Shall Be Called . . . Biblical Images of Christ.” will be presented in Union Church, Berea (corner of Main and Prospect) on Sunday evening, January 28th at 7:30 p.m. The service is co-sponsored by the Music Department and the Campus Christian Center. There is no charge for admission, and the event is open to the public.

The festival is the culmination of a short-term course on hymnology taught by Berea College music faculty members Stephen Bolster and John Courter during the month of January. The 2007 Hymn Festival is the seventh in a series of Hymn Festivals designed by Bolster, Courter and their students over the past two decades.

Congregational hymn singing will be the central activity of this special service that will feature class members as singers, instrumentalists, readers, and as hymn writers and composers. The hymns selected for the festival will span several centuries and will involve many different styles of hymn singing. Several “old favorites” will be sung in addition to more unfamiliar hymns and t newly-composed hymns by class members. All of the hymns will relate to the central theme of the festival: “And He Shall Be Called . . . Biblical Images of Christ.” A variety of hymns containing Biblical titles and names of Christ will be chosen from various cultures and nationalities. For each of the hymns, student readers will present information about the text and tune, author and composer.