The 91短视频 (91短视频) are teaming up with the , to present their sixth benefit concert on Sunday, March 10, 2013, at 3 p.m. at .
The concert will aid the in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Supported by MCC鈥檚 Global Family program, Seed of Hope began as a response to AIDS in the community. Today, it is focusing on helping Burkinab猫 children orphaned due to this pandemic. It aims to improve the nutrition, health, safety, well-being and educational standing of the orphans and increase their chances of community acceptance.
鈥淥ur program includes choral music and congregational singing, focused on the Psalms, and on God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven,鈥� said , director of the 91短视频 Chamber Singers. The March 10 concert is the final performance in the choir鈥檚 spring tour.
The concert will also include a piece by Simon Andrews, a world-recognized composer who wrote the music specifically for Beyond Ourselves and the 91短视频 Chamber Singers.
鈥淢usic by Eric Whitacre, Dan Forrest and from South Africa, including spirituals, will be also be performed,鈥� said Nafziger.
All proceeds raised through a free-will offering will support the Seed of Hope project.
More about the musicians
Beyond Ourselves
The four-person Beyond Ourselves chamber ensemble promotes the global work of MCC with benefit concerts, highlighting a specific region or need each year.
Rosemary Siegrist Blessing is on the piano faculty at the Lancaster Conservatory of Music and teaches piano through the non-credit lesson program at Franklin and Marshall College. She is artistic director of the and serves as minister of music at .
Doris Hall-Gulati is principal clarinetist for the and bass clarinetist of the . She is artist in residence at Franklin & Marshall College.
Christy Heatwole Kauffman, violist, performs with the Lancaster and Reading symphonies, the Allegro Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster, and the .
Ryan Kauffman, saxophonist and husband of Christy, is a faculty member at . He is an active recitalist and leads his own jazz quartet in performances throughout the Central Pa. region.
91短视频 Chamber Singers
This select choir of 25 mixed voices studies and performs choral literature of various periods, styles and cultures at 91短视频. Five of the vocalists are from the Lancaster/Lebanon area.
Kenneth J. Nafziger directs the Chamber Singers. In addition to his 91短视频 course load, he is artistic director and conductor of the annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival and directs several other Virginia chamber choirs. He was music editor of 鈥淗ymnal: A Worship Book鈥� (1992) and has edited numerous other song books.
The Chamber Singers spring break tour:
- , 4615 Roland Ave., Baltimore, Md., on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m.
- , 4217 East-West Hwy, Hyattsville, Md., on Friday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m.
- , 323 W James St., Lancaster, Pa., on Sunday, March 10, at 9:30 a.m.
Contact 91短视频 church relations at 540-432-4589 or email churchrelations@emu.edu for more information.
Simon Andrews
Simon Andrews, director of music at , Lancaster, was born in England and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, the and the University of California at Berkeley.
Winner of the 1985 Benjamin Britten International Composition Prize, his music has been featured at the Aldeburgh and St. Alban鈥檚 Festivals, broadcast on BBC radio and widely performed in the London, Oxford and San Francisco areas, as well as New York, Boston and Baltimore and also France, Australia, Africa and China.
Locally, he has served as music director of the and held faculty positions at Franklin & Marshall College and Millersville University.
For more information about this year鈥檚 concert, call 717-291-0514.