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December weekends are filled with holiday music, and choral music fans, especially, have full calendars and choices to make!
The Wheatland Chorale will sing Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and more at 8 tonight (Friday, Dec. 12) at Neffsville Mennonite Church, 2371 Lititz Pike, and 4 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 140 E. Orange St. (Also Saturday in […]

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Tapestry, a four-woman singing group that sprang from Boston’s lively early-music scene in 1995, sang of heaven and its inhabitants, beauty and light — and darkness, too – at Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center Sunday evening in a program titled “In the Company of Angels.” Soprano Cristi Catt and mezzo-sopranos Laurie Monahan, Daniela Tošić and Carolann Buff […]

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A benefit concert for Burma cyclone relief will be held 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 7, at Highland Presbyterian Church. Area singers and choral groups will perform Faure’s Requiem, the Dona Nobis Pacem from Bach’s Mass in B Minor and more. Simon Andrews, Highland’s director of music, will lead. All proceeds will go directly to Burma […]

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Sacred Harp singing is not a spectator sport. This living tradition of community singing, “part educational, part social, part religious,” as Tom Tucker, who is helping organize a singing 3-5 p.m. Saturday, May 17 at the Lancaster Friends Meetinghouse, 110 Tulane Terrace, puts it, is meant for participation. “Don’t worry about whether you consider yourself a singer,” Tucker […]

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 It sounds very springy: The Wildwood Chorale of Harrisburg Area Community College will present a free concert, “In Nature’s Realm,” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, at the Rose Lehrman Arts Center at HACC’s Harrisburg Campus.
Tina Bakowski, assistant professor of music, will direct. The program includes “Tres Cantos Nativos” by Marcos Leite, “I am the Rose […]

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In Windsor Forest, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 1929 set of five choral pieces, was not familiar to Rob Upton, artistic director of the Wheatland Chorale, when two members of the chorale introduced him to the work. His reaction? “Where has this been all my life?” That’s what Upton told the audience at the April 27 Wheatland […]

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It’s pretty unusual for a musician to get started in his or her teens, but Jennifer Higdon, who was honored by the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra with its annual Composer’s Award, didn’t really get started in music until she was 15, as she told the audience at Friday night’s performance. That’s when her mother bought her […]

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