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Coming Music Events
| UPCOMING EVENTS FOR 2007 - 2008 |
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Saturday, September 29 at 8:30 AM
Chancel Choir Retreat
University of Michigan, Flint
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Sunday, November 4 at 4:00 PM
All Saint's Day Concert
Mozart: Exultate Jubilate
Fauré: Requiem
Chancel Choir with Guest Soloists
First Presbyterian Festival Orchestra
Mark Riddles, conducting
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concert is part of our church’s celebration of All Saint’s Day. U of M soprano Lenora Green
will be featured in Mozart’s sparkling motet which concludes with his wildly popular Alleluia!
The Fauré is one of music’s most confident, serene, and soothing settings of Christian
belief in the life everlasting. Kevin Starnes will be featured as baritone soloist. Morgan
Hungerford – a member of our Cantus Choir, will sing the work’s exquisite setting of Pie
Jesu. The concert is free. Call Jaime Powell at the church to make reservations for child
care. This is a wonderful opportunity to invite a friend, neighbor, or co-worker to visit our
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Sunday, December 2 at 4:00 PM
A Festival of Christmas Music
The Carolyn Mawby Chorale
(ticket purchase required)
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Sunday, December 9 at 4:00 PM
A Feast of Carols
Festive settings of beloved carols and seasonal
anthems.
Featuring choirs, organ and
orchestra with audience participation.
Join us for this family event!!
Mark Riddles, conducting
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Sunday, March 9 at 4:00 PM
Twentieth Century Sacred Sound
Janácek: Otcenáš (The Lord’s Prayer)
Britten: This Ae Night
Hovhanness: The Holy City
Adams: Christian Zeal and Activity
Hanson: Concerto for Organ, Harp and Strings
Chancel Choir with Guest Soloists
First Presbyterian Festival Orchestra
Brenda Portman, organ
Mark Riddles, conducting
The Music Ministry of First Presbyterian Church offers an interesting
concert opportunity with its program, 20th Century Sacred Sound. The
concert will feature the church’s Chancel Choir and Festival Orchestra
under the direction of Mark Riddles. Featured solo artists are
tenor, Shawn McDonald and organist, Brenda Portman.
The 65 minute concert will begin and end with two highly programmatic
works while the three pieces between present vocal settings
of scripture, sermon and prayer. Whereas the compositions employ
20th century rhythmic and harmonic languages, they also were
intended for the worshipping public. That is to say the programs choral,
orchestral and vocal works are up-to-date but accessible to the ear
of the typical listener. The Holy City by Canadian/Armenian composer
Alan Hovhaness will open the program. Imaginatively scored
for trumpet, harp, chime and strings, the work is an evocation of Jerusalem
the city considered holy to three of the the world’s great religions.
Hovhaness blends aliotoric and Indian
techniques with
strong trumpet solo writing reminiscent of the cantoral tradition of the
Armenian Church. The piece takes us to this ancient city with a deep
sense of reverence and a profound sense of The Holy.
Christian Zeal and Activity is a 1976 work by minimalist composer
John Adams. In it, Adams presents two concepts of time – one
very slow and the other more urgent. The first he addresses with a
glacially slow rendering of the hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers over
which is heard a fragmented, scrambled and mixed recording of a
revivalist’s telling a scriptural story of miraculous healing. The piece
is very quirky but deeply felt. With it, Adams persuasively conveys
the coexistence of time and eternity, the simultaneity of God’s remoteness
and pleading imminence.
Slovakian composer Leos Janácek’s setting of The Lord’s
Prayer is an 18 minute setting for tenor soloist, choir, organ and harp.
Janácek’s use of native Slovakian modes and tonalities well serve this
great prayer with a deep reverence and urgent muscularity. University
of Michigan tenor Shawn McDonald, will be the featured soloist.
This Ae Night is a song extracted from Benjamin Britten’s Serenade
for Tenor, Horn and Strings. It sets a medieval apocalyptic
blessing in a rip-snorting 20th century fugue!<>br>
The concert will conclude with American composer
Howard Hanson’s lush and lyrical Concerto for
Organ, Harp and Strings.
Brenda Portman will be brilliantly
featured in this work. The depth and breadth of
the concert will make clear that 20th century church music
was served by composers of great craft, great caring
and great faith.
The concert is offered at no charge with
child care provided by reservation. For information call 810.234.
8673.
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April 20 through 27
50th Annual Choir Festival
The Jubilee year of this great festival will be expanded in a week-long celebration
featuring educational events, guest artists and premieres of commissioned works.
The week will culminate with a Festival concert Saturday, April 26th at 7:00pm and
special Festival Worship Services the morning of Sunday, April 27th.
The Chancel Choir, the School of Choirs
First Presbyterian Festival Orchestra
For more information Click Here.
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March 16 through 23
Music of Holy Week
The choirs, organ and First Brass and Percussion Ensemble will help express the
solemn joy of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Easter morning.
The Chancel Choir, the School of Choirs
First Brass and Percussion Ensemble
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Sunday, April 27 at 4:00 PM
50th Annual Choir Festival Sunday
The 50th year of this musical highlight
of the Flint community!
The Chancel Choir, the School of Choirs
First Presbyterian Festival Orchestra
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Saturday, May 17 at 8:00 PM
Made in America
Carolyn Mawby Chorale
sings music of America.
(ticket purchase required)
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